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		<title>Reset. Heal. Energise &#8211; 3 Day Vegetable Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diggy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your body is not designed to live off highly processed food and sugars. You are not meant to live off Mcdonalds, Burgerking and other fast food joints. You came from the land, or the jungle or the beach where the only food available to you was raw. It grew on trees, or in the ground. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your body is not designed to live off highly processed food and sugars.</p>
<p>You are not meant to live off Mcdonalds, Burgerking and other fast food joints.</p>
<p>You came from the land, or the jungle or the beach where the only food available to you was raw. It grew on trees, or in the ground. You had to catch it, kill it and roast it on an open flame.</p>
<p>Your body is strong, very strong. It can take a lot more than you think, but it has a limit. </p>
<p>You can get away with poor exercise and poor diet for many years, especially when you are young. Eventually&#8230; your body will begin to protest and those poor habits over the years will take their toll in the form of serious health issues.</p>
<p>Ideally you should live a raw food diet and avoid 90% or more of processed food. Realistically a total raw food diet is not that enjoyable and it is not always possible. </p>
<p>There is something that you can do besides exercise regularly and enjoy a balanced diet. From time to time you can take a few days to cleanse your system, heal and re-energise yourself.</p>
<h2>3 Day Vegetable Fast</h2>
<p>Every couple of months, take a few days (3 days, 4 days or even an entire week) where you eat only vegetables and drink only water. The point of this is that you give your body a break from processed foods, artificial ingredients and sugars while at the same time nourishing it with all sorts of vitamins, minerals and roughage.</p>
<p>It does take a little bit of discipline to do, but it is way not as hard as doing a Lemonade Fast (up to 7 days on only self-made lemonade). If you think you are going to cave in and snack on processed food, just empty your fridge and fill it with vegetables and salads. </p>
<p>The results are pretty cool. I did a small 3-day vegetable fast recently and it left me feeling clean, healthy and I really felt a noticeable difference in energy (much more). Here are some suggestions of what you can eat for meals and also as small snacks during the day.</p>
<p><strong>Salads</strong><br />
<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/salad.jpg" alt="Healthy Salad" title="Healthy Salad"></p>
<p><strong>Avocados</strong><br />
<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/avo.jpg" alt="Healthy Avo" title="Healthy Avo"></p>
<p><strong>Steamed Mixed Vegetables</strong><br />
<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/mixed-veg.jpg" alt="Healthy Vegetables" title="Healthy Vegetables"></p>
<p><strong>Baby Corn / Cherry Tomatoes / Sugar Snap Beans for snacks</strong><br />
<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/cherry-tomatoes.jpg" alt="Healthy Tomatoes" title="Healthy Tomatoes"><br />
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<h2>Words of Advice</h2>
<p>The first day or two is the hardest because your body is so used to the sugar and processed foods you normally eat. As soon as you get through that initial period the cravings for junk food become less and less.</p>
<p>You should know that you can live entirely off a raw food diet, so there is no need to fear going hungry or suffering from malnutrition. In fact, you will get many more nutrients from the vegetable diet than your usual diet.</p>
<p>Neither will you feel weak from eating only vegetables. You will very likely have a lot more energy. I read somewhere that 30% of your energy goes to digesting food. Vegetables are very light and easy to digest, so not only do you get more nutrients from your food, you also have to use less energy to digest it.</p>
<p>So go ahead, give it a try. Start tomorrow and eat only vegetables and salads. Drink only water. See how you feel after those 3 days, and if you feel the same massive refreshing, cleansing and energising effect as I did, consider doing this every 2 or 3 months.</p>
<p>Take care of your body and it will take care of you!</p>
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		<title>6 Ways To Kill Procrastination And Enhance Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diggy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Productivity is one of the most important skills that one can learn to improve their life. It doesn&#8217;t matter what you want to do, whatever it is, you need time for doing it, and here&#8217;s where productivity comes. You can literally achieve whatever you want if you&#8217;d have enough time, and that&#8217;s why knowing how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Productivity is one of the most important skills that one can learn to improve their life. It doesn&#8217;t matter what you want to do, whatever it is, you need time for doing it, and here&#8217;s where productivity comes. </p>
<p>You can literally achieve whatever you want if you&#8217;d have enough time, and that&#8217;s why knowing how to manage your time is so important. When talking about getting things done, my goal is to maximize the amount of time that I spend doing things that I love and minimize the amount that I spend on activities that I don&#8217;t like.</p>
<p>This is different from trying to work as much as possible for the sake of it. Your goal should be to achieve more with less, not the other way around. </p>
<p><strong>Below are six tips that you can use to improve your productivity and kill procrastination. </strong></p>
<p>You can use them both for working on the stuff that you love, so that you can do more of it, or you can use them to complete the work that you must do anyway but you probably don&#8217;t like.</p>
<p><strong>1.) Have a trusted system. </strong></p>
<p>If you want to kill procrastination and enhance productivity, the first thing that you need is a system that you can trust. </p>
<p>As you&#8217;ll see, with the word system I&#8217;m not referring to some boring schedule that you must follow everyday, instead I&#8217;m referring to some basic rules that are simple to follow but which will improve your productivity dramatically. </p>
<p>With a system that you can trust I&#8217;m also referring to a set of tools that are important for keeping track of all your stuff. You need a calendar for registering your appointments, and you need a notebook for writing down ALL your ideas and the things that you have to do. </p>
<p>You can start with pen and paper or you can use an electronic device. What&#8217;s important is that you have these tools always with you.</p>
<p><strong>2.) Plan. </strong></p>
<p>Some people think that having a productivity system means knowing exactly what you&#8217;re going to do at any given time during the day. I tried to do that, it didn&#8217;t work. </p>
<p>Today I plan my days in a different way. When I wake up the first thing that I do is checking my calendar for any appointments that I may have. I also make a list of all the things that I must complete today as well as a few others that I&#8217;d like to do today. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll be working on those tasks, I just know that those are the things that I want to do. Planning my activities like this works because this way my days are flexible. </p>
<p>If I had planned to work on a specific task at a specific time, then I couldn&#8217;t do anything else at that time, even if it was more important, otherwise the whole system would screw up.</p>
<p><strong>3.) Prioritize.</strong></p>
<p>If your planning doesn&#8217;t involve knowing when you&#8217;ll be working on a certain task, you need a good prioritization method to be sure that at the end of the day you&#8217;ve worked on your most important tasks. </p>
<p>This is how I prioritize my tasks:<br />
First, I take my today list that I created before and I assign a number between 1 and 3 to each task. The number 1 means that I must complete the item today, no matter what. The number 2 means that the deadline is soon, and the number 3 means that there&#8217;s no really a deadline for that task. </p>
<p>At this point I also write down an estimation of how much time I need for completing each task, so that I can have an idea of how many hours of work I have, and eventually delete some of my not so important tasks. </p>
<p>I learned this system from a time management book for programmers and it has helped me tremendously so far. It&#8217;s very important to know which tasks must be completed before others and this system helps you to do that.</p>
<p><strong>4.) Do it now. </strong></p>
<p>You know what tasks you have to do today, and you know which ones must be completed before others. Now what? </p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s time to work on them. </p>
<p>Start from the tasks that you marked with a 1 and make sure that you complete all of them before moving to a 2 task. </p>
<p>Start from the easier tasks if you want to gain motivation but don&#8217;t spend much time thinking about them, just do them. When you&#8217;re not sure if you should do something right now, remember that it&#8217;s always better to do it now rather than later.</p>
<p><strong>5.) Automate your recurring tasks. </strong></p>
<p>Chances are that there are a few things that you must do over and over again. </p>
<p>For example each day I have to submit something like 20 articles to various websites as a part of my internet marketing challenge. Since I already have the articles written this process would only take me 20 minutes.</p>
<p>However I recently developed a program that does 90% of the job for me. Now I spend less that 5 minutes per day while still accomplishing the same thing. </p>
<p>Even if you&#8217;re not a programmer, I&#8217;m sure that there are a lot of activities that you can automate. I highly recommend that you analyze each of your tasks to see if you can automate them.</p>
<p><strong>6.) Eliminate. </strong><br />
The final step to improve your productivity is to eliminate all the low value activities that are not important for you. Is what you are doing right now really important? Maybe you could stop working on low value activities and focus your energies on working on stuff that really matters to you. I ask myself questions like this all the times and I&#8217;ve found that they help me to stay focused on what&#8217;s important for me.</p>
<p>In this post I offered an overview of how a good time management system looks like. Note that each of us is different and needs an unique way to manage their life. However, this system is general and can easily be adapted to many situations. Don&#8217;t be afraid to experiment. </p>
<p><em>Oscar Del Ben writes about <a href="http://www.freestylemind.com">personal development</a>, productivity and motivation at FreestyleMind.com. If you&#8217;ve liked this post, check out his blog for more articles.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diggy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This is a guest post by John from Highlife2b.com Happiness is a messy term, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s just a feeling; an emotion. Yet when most of you think of what you want the most of in life, all you can stand to muster is happiness. Why? Why is capturing an emotion the most important [...]]]></description>
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<p>Happiness is a messy term, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s just a feeling; an emotion. Yet when most of you<br />
think of what you want the most of in life, all you can stand to muster is happiness.</p>
<p>Why? Why is capturing an emotion the most important thing to do in your life?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll tell you why; because it&#8217;s easy. Think back to all the times you&#8217;ve been asked about<br />
what you want to do with your life. If the word &#8220;happiness&#8221; was anywhere in there, be<br />
afraid. <strong>People put emotions in place of logic when they&#8217;re confused. </strong></p>
<p>This is something most of us can&#8217;t control. (It&#8217;s like being in love. We know it doesn&#8217;t<br />
make sense, but it feels so right.)</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve been trained to think that you should be constantly shooting for something<br />
intangible. You&#8217;ve been brainwashed into believing that dreams were something you only<br />
thought about while you did unremarkable work during the day.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve been pressured by society into internalizing that what you ultimately want in life<br />
has to be unreachable and incomprehensible. Unbelievable and impossible. Your dreams<br />
were to remain as they are.<br />
</br><br />
</br></p>
<h2>The &#8220;dream&#8221; is dead</h2>
<p></br><br />
I&#8217;m giving you permission to crush your dreams, right this second. I know what you&#8217;re<br />
probably thinking:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Crush my dreams? Are you insane?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>No, I&#8217;m just practical. You&#8217;re dreams aren&#8217;t real. They won&#8217;t ever be real. <strong>What&#8217;s<br />
real is action and that&#8217;s what you should strive to achieve.</strong> The dream of you<br />
sitting on a beach with passive income rolling in every hour can be achieved. Just not as a<br />
dream.</p>
<p>The problem with dreams is that they&#8217;re just images based on emotion. When you dream<br />
of becoming a singer, you don&#8217;t see the images of yourself practicing hours every day<br />
just to hit that high note. You don&#8217;t see the rejections by countless record companies. You<br />
don&#8217;t see the depression that comes after failing hundreds of times.</p>
<p>You only see what you would feel after you&#8217;ve gone through all the challenges. Of<br />
course, it wouldn&#8217;t be a very good dream if it was so close to reality. That&#8217;s where my<br />
next idea comes in.<br />
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</br></p>
<h2>Action is something you can touch</h2>
<p></br><br />
Throw out the word &#8220;dream&#8221; and take up the word &#8220;action&#8221;. Like I said, action is real.<br />
It&#8217;s what you can touch. It&#8217;s quantifiable. You can go anywhere with it—even the places<br />
you&#8217;ve only coveted in your dreams.</p>
<p>But action alone won&#8217;t get you to where you want. <strong>Actions are just vehicles.</strong> You need to have the mind to tell them where you want to go. There&#8217;s a lot more<br />
to action than meets the eye, so I&#8217;ve compiled a few textual schematics to help you build<br />
your dream from your reality.<br />
</br><br />
</br></p>
<h2>The 3 essentials to go from emotional confusion to practical clarity</h2>
<p></br><br />
You&#8217;ve given up on the dreaming thing and now you&#8217;re ready to take on cold, hard reality.<br />
Well, more power to you! To get there, you&#8217;ll need the right tools. I&#8217;ve got them listed<br />
below to show you how:</p>
<p><strong>Action &#8211; the vehicle</strong></p>
<p>Without this part, you&#8217;re beyond screwed. How are you going to get where you want<br />
to go without any concrete mode of transportation? Action is what drives us forward.<br />
But what can work for you can just as easily work against you. Sometimes you get this<br />
feeling like your actions are switching gears and running on autopilot; this is called a<br />
habit. And when it gets like this, it can be tough to regain control.</p>
<p>This is why action alone isn&#8217;t enough to get you where you want to be. With the threat of<br />
your actions turning into bad habits, it&#8217;s imperative that you use the right fuel.</p>
<p><strong>Motivation or enthusiasm &#8211; the fuel</strong></p>
<p>Your actions could easily veer off into the ditch of bad habit country. When that<br />
happens, take it as a sign that the fuel you&#8217;re using is boredom. When you lose interest<br />
in productive actions, they start to slip into the habit of checking e-mail, random web-<br />
surfing, and other time-sucks.</p>
<p>If you want your actions to be effective and stay on course, pick the right fuel;<br />
<strong>the fuel of motivation</strong>. When you&#8217;re motivated to be productive,<br />
there&#8217;s nothing standing your way. You don&#8217;t have to find ways to waste time or keep<br />
yourself busy. You&#8217;re just doing what you have to do simply because you want to do it.<br />
Even when the work is piled extremely high, you&#8217;ll keep barreling through. Action +<br />
motivation = a force to be reckoned with.</p>
<p>Now comes the big question we&#8217;ve all been waiting to be answered. <strong><em>Where<br />
are you headed?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Practical result &#8211; the destination</strong></p>
<p>Your actions are laid out in front of you. You&#8217;ve got plenty of fuel to keep you going<br />
for months, years even. What lies ahead for you beyond the horizon is now of your own<br />
choosing. Where do you want to go?</p>
<p>It seems we&#8217;re back where we started. Most of you chose to go to a little place<br />
called &#8220;happiness&#8221;. Now that you know that you can never get there, what&#8217;s the next best<br />
spot to aim for? It&#8217;s actually quite simple.</p>
<p>What we all really want in life, what we&#8217;re all working for and sweating for, day in and<br />
day out is actually <strong>more action</strong>. But they&#8217;re not the type of actions that<br />
take you places. They&#8217;re the type of actions that create happiness and joy. You may not<br />
believe it, but sitting on the beach and making passive income isn&#8217;t happiness. Neither is<br />
buying expensive luxuries. Why do you think most retired people end up going back to<br />
work?</p>
<p>They have all the money they&#8217;ll ever need to survive and yet they settle for working as<br />
cashiers and clerks and secretaries. They just want to do something. And when you ask</p>
<p>them what they did for a living, they&#8217;ll tell you that they weren&#8217;t cashiers. They had real<br />
professions. They owned companies and lead movements; they did what they enjoyed.<br />
This brings us to an astonishing truth:</p>
<p>The destination is not happiness. <strong>The destination is doing what you love.</strong></p>
<p>The man who runs his business until he&#8217;s no longer physically able, that is happiness. The<br />
woman who sings her lungs out until she can&#8217;t even muster a screech, that is happiness.</p>
<p>The person who keeps working for little to no pay, trying to make that one problem go<br />
away&#8230;that is happiness.<br />
</br><br />
</br></p>
<h2>I have given all I know; the rest is on your own</h2>
<p></br><br />
You have been fooled. The destination is action. I&#8217;ve given you the basics, but the<br />
specifics are yours to fill in. Only you know what you love. If not, you&#8217;ll find it one day.<br />
While you&#8217;re busy chasing happiness, you&#8217;ll get a sudden impulse to sing or dance or<br />
write while on the job.</p>
<p>And then you will stand up and say, <em>&#8220;Yes&#8221;</em>.<br />
</br><br />
</br><br />
<em>John is the author of HiLife2B, where he inspires you to <a href="http://hilife2b.com/blog/" target="_blank">do what you love</a> and go beyond perspective.<br />
You can download his free e-book, <a href="http://hilife2b.com/blog/101-maxims-free-ebook" target="_blank">101 Maxims to Break the Mold and Conquer Your World</a></em>.<br />
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		<title>The Process Of Writing, Creating and Launching an Ebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking about creating your own ebook at some point? Then this post is a must-read!</p>
<p>I spent 3 months writing, creating and launching my very first and very cool ebook Upgrade Reality and today I&#8217;m going to share what all went into the process of creating your own ebook.</p>
<h2>The Beginning</h2>
<p>As with any story, I&#8217;m going to start this one at the beginning.</p>
<p>After a few months of blogging and understanding how the blogging world works, I had a plan to create and release my own product at some point in the future. </p>
<p>My target was to launch when I roughly had around 2000 readers with the thought that this would justify all the time and effort that went into creating my own product. I expected to get a conversion of about 2-5% which would be 40-100 sales off my launch.</p>
<p>As time went on and I started gaining readers, I started thinking about what I could offer my readers that they would be willing to pay for. </p>
<p>Since my blog was about self improvement, I wanted to create some sort of relevant guide that could help people improve their life in some way or another. </p>
<p>I wanted the guide to be enjoyable, easy to read, very useful and total value for money. Above all, I really wanted this guide to be in my own style, something different and something unique to what was out there already.</p>
<p>After some rough planning and brain-storming, I settled on the idea of creating a guide about overcoming fears, limiting beliefs and personal obstacles to get the life you dream of living.</p>
<p>Everyone has their own personal problems in various areas but many of those problems are shared by millions of people across the world. Things like lack of confidence, low self-esteem, unhappiness, negative emotions, fear of failure, not having the social life you want, being out of shape etc.</p>
<p>Somehow I wanted to put that all together in a single guide that would become a handbook for improving your life and take the form of an inanimate mentor.</p>
<h2>The Planning Stage</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m a very logical person and like to plan things out as much as possible, so that is what I did before starting to work on my ebook.</p>
<p>After I had the rough idea of what I wanted to create, I spent a few days putting all my thoughts and ideas on to paper, each time adding, editing and refining what exactly I wanted.</p>
<p>I had 3 different sections of my planning.</p>
<ol>
<li>The Intention and Execution of My Ebook</li>
<p>This is where I asked myself a whole lot of questions like:<br />
What is the purpose of this ebook, how would I describe it in one sentence?<br />
Who is this ebook targeted at and why will it help them?<br />
How long is it going to be roughly?<br />
How long am I going to take to write it and prepare the launch?</p>
<li>The Skeleton of My Ebook</li>
<p>This is where I started jotting down all my thoughts and ideas of what I wanted to include in the ebook. I wrote down all topics I wanted to cover, ideas of what I wanted to include and ways to present it.</p>
<li>The Launch Strategy</li>
<p>This is where I did some research about launching ebooks and wrote down a rough plan about the launch. I wrote down what mediums I was going to use and what sequence I was going to market it in.
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<h2>The Actual Writing and Creation</h2>
<p>The result of my planning stage was that I decided that I wanted to create an ebook of between 40 000 and 50 000 words in length.</p>
<p>I set myself the goal of 6 weeks for the writing of the ebook and 2 weeks for refining and final editing before I sent it off to the designer. After that I had set myself the goal of 1 month to prepare the launch and create the sales page and marketing articles.</p>
<p>My goal for creating the ebook in 6 weeks meant that I had to write almost 1000 words every single day, 7 days a week.</p>
<p>1000 words doesn&#8217;t sound like a lot, and it&#8217;s actually not that much to do on a daily basis. However, when you have normal work and you need to write regular articles for your blog AND write 1000 words a day, it does tend to become a little much.</p>
<p>I started off very enthusiastically the first 2 weeks, writing more than 2000 words a day. After those 2 weeks I was pretty sick of writing so much every day. It felt like a chore and I still had so far to go before my ebook would be finished.</p>
<p>The next weeks I seriously slacked off, sometimes not even writing for 3 days in a row. </p>
<p>I knew I had to finish what I started and I was not going to back out. To cut a long story short, I finished writing the ebook and editing it within the 8 weeks I set as a goal for myself. Phew! Finally Done&#8230;or so I thought.</p>
<h2>The Finished Result</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m lucky to have great connections with many bloggers and readers who happily wanted to give me feedback on my rough draft. I sent my draft to about 15 people to get some feedback and impressions.</p>
<p>I received many useful and constructive criticisms about things that I should change, add or things that could be structured better.</p>
<p>Another few days of editing and taking all the feedback into consideration and I was finished with the final copy, ready to be polished and created by a professional designer.</p>
<p>NOTE: I suck at design to didn&#8217;t even bother to attempt formatting the ebook nicely. I sent my Final copy off to <a href="http://www.charfishdesign.com">Charfish Design</a> who did an excellent job of creating a beautiful ebook, cover to cover. Upgrade Reality consists of 122 pages and each page was formatted and styled amazingly. Covers were created and all sorts of logos and images were sent to me. All for just $300, which in my opinion is really worth it.</p>
<h2>Preparing The Launch</h2>
<p>In my planning stages for the launch I made the decision that I was going to make a big hype about my ebook.</p>
<p>In the month that I set for myself to prepare the launch I did the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>On My Own Blog</strong>
<p>I prepared 4 blog posts for announcing the launch of my ebook on my own blog. I posted these articles on my blog in a sequence of 1 month before the launch, 1 week before the launch, 72 hours before the launch and the actual launch.</p>
<p>These articles were just to create anticipation and let my readers know what I was up to and what was coming their way.</p>
<p>In these articles I also created a section where I told readers if they opted in to my Aweber list (A new list I created for the ebook) that they would get notified 24 hours before the official launch and have the chance to buy one of 50 copies for 37% less.</li>
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<li><strong>Connecting With Others</strong>
<p>I decided that my price was going to be $27 which I thought was very reasonable and what you normally pay for a book in the store. I created an affiliate program so that anyone who promoted my ebook would get $17 per sale (63% of the sale which is a great incentive).</p>
<p>I sat down and made a list of all the bloggers that I have connected with in the past and sent them a personal email telling them about my new ebook. I attached a copy to the email and I let them know about my affiliate program.</p>
<p>The more people exposed to Upgrade Reality, the more people get a chance to buy and read it and use it to improve their lives (and make my affiliates and myself happy with sales).</li>
<li><strong>The Sales Page</strong>
<p>I decided to create the sales page on a new domain instead of just posting it on my blog.</p>
<p>My reasons for that were that I could create a sales page as it should be, with no ads or distractions on the page. Only the information about Upgrade Reality and the link where someone could purchase it.</p>
<p>Additional benefits are that I could easily use PPC advertising to drive traffic towards it, I could get the new domain to rank for different keywords than my blog, the sales page is timeless and not related to a launch date and the fact that I could potentially sell the product and sales page separately if I wanted to.</li>
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<h2>The Launch and The Results</h2>
<p>So now that you know all the work that went into creating Upgrade Reality and preparing the launch, you probably want to know how it went and how many sales I made.</p>
<p>Just over 60% of all the people on my discount list bought their copy of Upgrade Reality within the first 24 hours. When I sent the broadcast to the list I made about 5 sales in the first 5 minutes. That was exciting to see!</p>
<p>The next day when I officially announced my ebook on my blog, I made about 2 dozen sales and a couple more from affiliate.</p>
<p>Within the first few days after the launch I made just over $1000 which I found fantastic! However, keep in mind that I spent about $500 on creating the product plus all the time and effort I put in. </p>
<p>In all honesty creating my ebook was a heck of a lot of work and the sales were much less than I had expected. But I don&#8217;t regret it at all. I am very happy with the final result of Upgrade Reality and think it is an amazing guide for people to improve their lives. I would do it all over again I had to.</p>
<h2>My Advice To You</h2>
<p>After having gone through this entire process of creating and launching my first ebook product, I have a few words of advice to give to you if you are planning on creating your own product.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Build Your List</strong>
<p>One thing I really regret is that I did not start building an email list with Aweber since the beginning of my blog. I have 2000 subscribed readers but only 200 of them are on Aweber and the rest are all on RSS. With Aweber you can build a much more personal relationship with your readers and the fact that you send them emails which they see in their inbox versus RSS feeds which many people skip.</li>
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<li><strong>Mentally Prepare Yourself</strong>
<p>Creating a decent product is going to take you at least 1-2 months if not longer. Before you start you need to mentally prepare yourself for the amount of work involved, and decide that you are not going to give up before you finish, no matter what.</li>
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<li><strong>Study Successful Products &#038; Launches</strong>
<p>If you want to make sure that your product is going to be a success, spend a lot of time studying successful sales pages, marketing campaigns and similar products. Try to see what made those products so successful and use the same strategies.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Final Words</h2>
<p>I hope that you enjoyed reading my experience with creating your own product and that I&#8217;ve given you some good advice for when you start creating your own product.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in purchasing my ebook Upgrade Reality you can do so HERE.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is one error in thinking, one wrong mindset, that I label as the biggest mistake you can make in life. That mistake is one that you have made before and possibly are even making on a daily basis. That&#8217;s a pretty bold claim for me to make but read on and you can see [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is one error in thinking, one wrong mindset, that I label as the biggest mistake you can make in life. That mistake is one that you have made before and possibly are even making on a daily basis.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a pretty bold claim for me to make but read on and you can see why I am so confident that you likely belong to the majority of people who make this mistake regularly.<br />
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<h2>Would have, Could Have, Should Have</h2>
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<li>&#8220;If I hadn&#8217;t taken the bus to work this morning I would have not gotten into that fight.&#8221;</li>
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<li>&#8220;If only I had more courage, then I could be the world&#8217;s best public speaker.&#8221;</li>
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<li>&#8220;I should not have bought those shoes and spent more money than I could afford to spend.&#8221;</li>
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Would have&#8230;Could have&#8230;Should have</strong></em></p>
<p>Spending emotional time and energy wishing for things to change that will never change. What an incredible waste of time, energy and potential.</p>
<p>Have you said any of these three things before? Do you say them on a regular basis?</p>
<p>I know I used to do that a lot, as much as on a daily basis. Not only is it a waste of time and energy, it is really frustrating. You end up being really harsh on yourself and beating yourself up metaphorically. You feel like an idiot that you did not do what you should have done and the result is a poor self-esteem and a deep level of unhappiness.<br />
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Life is about making choices and not looking back. </strong></em></p>
<p>All you ever have in life is this moment right now, easier referred to as the present moment. In the present moment, you make all your decisions and choices. You do not make any decisions or choices in the future or in the past, it always happens in the present moment. All you can do is make the best possible decision you can make at the time and make peace with whatever consequences arise from it, both good and bad.</p>
<p>Learn from your bad decisions and bad judgments, but do not carry them with you in your heart for the rest of your life. They weigh you down and mostly cause great stress and unhappiness.<br />
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<h2>Avoid Making The Biggest Mistake in The World</h2>
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There is absolutely zero point in wishing that you would have made a different choice, or that you should have made a different choice and that things could be different, except if you enjoy torturing yourself and feeling miserable.</p>
<p><em><strong>All the wishing in the world is not going to change anything.</strong></em></p>
<p>This fact makes it easy to avoid making this huge mistake of &#8216;Would have&#8230;.could have&#8230;should have&#8217;. Just don&#8217;t do it. Do not allow yourself to think these thoughts.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that these thoughts will always surface, especially if you have been embracing them and have been conditioned to think them every day of your life for the last years. I still get them on a regular basis.</p>
<p>However, there is a difference to how I approach these thoughts.<br />
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<strong>How To Deal With &#8216;Would Have&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>Every time you get a thought of something that &#8216;would have&#8217; been better or different if you had made a different choice, don&#8217;t entertain that thought at all. Banish it from your thinking immediately. </p>
<p>&#8216;Would have&#8217; is a destructive way of wishing that the present would be different if you had made a different choice in the past. As you know you cannot change the past, so there is zero point is spending time and energy trying to do that.</p>
<p>However, what you can do with the &#8216;Would Have&#8217; thought is to use it to learn from for the next time. If you see that a certain choice would have resulted in something that you want, then the next time that circumstance appears again you will know what choice to make. For example &#8220;taking that road would have resulted in me skipping the traffic lights&#8221;. Now you can use that knowledge and take the road next time in order to miss the traffic lights.<br />
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<strong>How To Deal With &#8216;Could Have&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>&#8216;Could Have&#8217; is a totally useless thought. It is pretty much the same as day-dreaming but a negative version.</p>
<p>The word &#8216;Could&#8217; gives possibilities and is constructive for creativity and planning. The words &#8216;Could Have&#8217; is wishing the past was different and as you now know, it is impossible to change the past.</p>
<p>There is nothing to gain from &#8216;Could Have&#8217; and as soon as you notice this thought, don&#8217;t allow it to stay in your thoughts. Stop thinking it and banish it from your thoughts. Pay no attention to it at all.<br />
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<strong>How To Deal With &#8216;Should Have&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>&#8216;Should Have&#8217; are two words that can really cause you to beat yourself up (metaphorically) and put you under a great amount of stress. What you may not consciously realize is that every time you think or say &#8216;I should have X (replace X with whatever it is that you should have done)&#8217;, you are criticizing yourself for your decisions or lack of decisions.</p>
<p>If you use &#8216;Should Have&#8217; as a way of learning from your wrong decision is order to do it right the next time, then it is useful and good to have in your thoughts. For example &#8220;I should have ducked when he threw that left hook&#8221; and the next time anyone throws you a left hook punch you will instinctively duck.</p>
<p>If you only use &#8216;Should Have&#8217; as a way to highlight your faults and poor decisions without doing anything to correct those faults or poor decisions in the future, you are being very destructive and creating mass stress for yourself which will result in frustration or low self-esteem or both.<br />
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<h2>To Sum Up</h2>
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&#8216;Would Have, Could Have and Should Have&#8217; are very destructive ways of thinking. These words cause you to wish the past was different, that you acted differently or made different decisions to result in a better today.</p>
<p>There is a way that you can take advantage of these destructive thoughts. All you need to do is analyze them to see if you can learn from them. If there is something that you should have done in a situation that would have given better results, then learn from it and do that something the next time the situation comes up.</p>
<p>If you analyze a &#8216;Would Have&#8217;, &#8216;Could Have&#8217; or &#8216;Should Have&#8217; thought and you see that you can&#8217;t learn anything from it and it is just destructive because you cannot change the past, then stop thinking about it. Don&#8217;t entertain those thoughts and don&#8217;t allow them to take up your emotional energy.</p>
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		<title>E-BOOK LAUNCH &#8211; Get The Life You Really (Really) Want, with &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<h2 style="color: #42629B;">Ladies and Gentlemen, Readers and Friends,</h2>
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<strong>&#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; &#8211; the ebook you have been waiting to get your hands on for so long is finally here!!</strong></p>
<p>&#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; is a complete 122-page guide to help you overcome all your own fears, limiting beliefs and personal obstacles. Every word is written by me personally and I guarantee that you will get value for your money! </p>
<p><img src="http://www.upgradereality.net/images/guarantee.jpg" align=right style="padding-left:10px"><strong>If you for any reason feel that &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; is not worth the price you paid for it, you have 30 days from the date of purchase to let me know. </p>
<p>I will then refund your complete purchase price and let you keep your copy of &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; for free.</strong><br />
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<h2 style="color: #42629B;">All 50 &#8216;Early&#8217; Copies Are Sold Out Already!</h2>
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It&#8217;s absolutely incredible. A few weeks ago I announced that I would be selling the first 50 copies 24 hours before the official launch at a discounted price, and beyond my wildest expectations, all 50 copies were sold in the last 24 hours!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry about it though, the official launch price as of today is still a steal at $27. You are getting incredible value for your money, and that is the way it&#8217;s going to stay for a while.</p>
<p>You get to learn, you get to gain knowledge and above all, you can use my book to improve your life and make changes for the better. With the help of &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; you will be able to change the things in your life that hold you back so that you can become completely satisfied with how you live each day from now on.<br />
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<h2 style="color: #42629B;">What &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; &#8211; the eBook is About</h2>
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Many of you who regularly read this blog will already have a good idea what &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; &#8211; the eBook is about. You have likely already read numerous articles with details and teasers about the book, but here is a very vague summary of some of the content.<br />
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<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/check.gif"><strong>Get Happy</strong> &#8211; One of the most important things of life is to be happy. You can have all the money, the status and the fame in the world, but it all means nothing if you are not happy. Through &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; you will learn the simple secrets, tips and mindsets to being happy almost all of the time. When you are happy, not only is your own life more enjoyable, but the lives of all those around you are made better too.<br />
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<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/check.gif"><strong>Get Rich</strong> &#8211;  You will learn practical and smart ways to handle your savings and you will learn some mindsets that will allow you to build our own empire. You will likely not get rich overnight and you will get no guarantees, but you do get very useful and practical advice to help get to where you want to be financially.<br />
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<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/check.gif"><strong>Get Healthy</strong> &#8211; How you eat and how you exercise have a tremendous influence on your health and well-being. You will learn how you can easily eat healthy and exercise right so you have much more energy, get sick less often and enjoy life more. If you are overweight or even obese, a proper diet and regular exercise will get you back in shape.<br />
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<img src="http://www.upgradereality.com/images/check.gif"><strong>Get Confident</strong> &#8211; A lack of confidence and low self-esteem are obstacles that hold many people back from reaching their goals in life. You learn how to build serious confidence and healthy self-esteem with anything that you do. This will help you to enjoy life more, not be afraid to believe in your own ideas and decisions and to do what you have been scared of doing all along. Confidence is a very important part in making friends, doing business and having healthy relationships.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align:center"><strong>Limited Offer:</strong> Get &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; Now For </h2>
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<p align=center><font size="7" style="color: red; text-align:center"><b>$27</b></font></p>
<p align=center><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=776471&#038;c=single&#038;cl=126697" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.upgradereality.net/images/paynow.jpg" alt="Buy Now" title="Buy Now" width=300></a></p>
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<h2 style="color: #42629B; font-weight:bold">What Others Say About &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;</h2>
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You may be wondering why this post is so short and lacks detail about what exactly you will get from &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; when you buy it. </p>
<p><strong>There is a reason for that. </strong></p>
<p>The &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; ebook has its own home page that goes into incredible detail. If you&#8217;d like to read more about &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; and what it consists of before you order your copy (instant download), you can do that by clicking on the link below.<br />
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<h2><a href="http://www.upgradereality.net">Click Here for the Official &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; eBook website with all the details and order page</a></h2>
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Alternatively, you might already have a good idea of what you can expect from &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; and you can order your copy by clicking the &#8216;Add to Cart&#8217; button on the image below.</p>
<p>(&#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; is an e-book in .pdf format. This means that after you purchase your copy securely with your credit card or through Paypal, you will get a download link instantly and have your copy of &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; within minutes.)<br />
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<h2 style="text-align:center"><strong>Limited Offer:</strong> Get &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; Now For </h2>
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<p align=center><font size="7" style="color: red; text-align:center"><b>$27</b></font></p>
<p align=center><img src="http://www.upgradereality.net/images/arrow.gif" style="padding-bottom:80px"><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=776471&#038;c=single&#038;cl=126697" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.upgradereality.net/images/paynow.jpg" alt="Buy Now" title="Buy Now" width=300></a></p>
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<p>Thank you for your support, without you I may have never written &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;.<br />
As always, I am here if you want to <a href="http://www.upgradereality.com/contact">contact me</a>.</p>
<p>Cheers<br />
Diggy</p>
<p><strong>P.S. </strong>I&#8217;ve never asked you for any form of compensation and you are not bombarded with ads on the odd 150 Upgradereality.com articles because I want my articles to help make a difference to your life. If you have been reading my blog articles and enjoy them, you can show your support and say thank you by purchasing a copy of the &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; ebook. It&#8217;s really awesome and you&#8217;ll love it.</p>
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		<title>72 Hours Until &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; Is Up for Grabs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diggy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a Month of Waiting It&#8217;s Almost Available! I am of course talking about my spectacularly awesome ebook &#8216;Upgrade Reality, which is the most comprehensive piece of writing I have ever created about overcoming fears, personal obstacles and limiting beliefs so that you can get the life you dream of living. One of my favorite [...]]]></description>
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<h2>After a Month of Waiting It&#8217;s Almost Available!</h2>
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I am of course talking about my spectacularly awesome ebook &#8216;Upgrade Reality, which is the most comprehensive piece of writing I have ever created about overcoming fears, personal obstacles and limiting beliefs so that you can get the life you dream of living.</p>
<p><strong>One of my favorite sayings is, &#8220;Your perception of reality is reality&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p>What it means is that the way that you perceive things to be, is the way that the universe treats you. If you believe that you are a loser or that you are not good enough for someone, or not smart enough to be successful or that life is stressful and miserable&#8230;then that is most likely how your life will be.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that just by positive thinking your world is going to magically change and that by thinking of having your own Ferrari parked in your garage that it will suddenly appear. But&#8230;the combination of positive thinking, having positive intentions and <em><u>taking action</u></em> to get the life you dream of living&#8230;that combination is going to give you an incredible life.</p>
<p>In &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;, you will get my personal experience, knowledge and practical solutions about overcoming many common fears, obstacles and limiting beliefs that you most likely have or are still experiencing in your own life. Besides the fact that you will get in-depth information and solutions about <em>over 30</em> different topics, you will also get all the inspiration and motivation you need to overcome any personal obstacle that is preventing you from living the life you want to live.<br />
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<h2>Upgrade Reality will Teach You</h2>
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<li>How to be more confident</li>
<li>How to be more creative</li>
<li>Smart ways to handle money and savings</li>
<li>How to become good with the opposite sex</li>
<li>How to eat healthy and exercise enjoyably</li>
<li>How to be truly happy</li>
<li>The concept of gratitude and acceptance</li>
<li>How to handle and eliminate all negative emotions</li>
<li>And much, much more&#8230;</li>
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<h2>Just 72 Hours Until &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; is Released</h2>
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Be strong, 72 hours and counting. As soon as Upgrade Reality is officially released on Monday morning you can order your copy and download it instantly:)<br />
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diggy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was challenged by Dragos Roua to what is called a &#8217;7 Links Challenge&#8217;. The challenge idea originally came from Darren Rowse at Problogger.net. So here it is: 1. Your First Post The first published blog post on Upgrade Reality is in fact a post called The Power of Raw Food. Short and sweet [...]]]></description>
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Today I was challenged by <a href="http://www.dragosroua.com/the-7-links-challenge/" target="blank">Dragos Roua</a> to what is called a &#8217;7 Links Challenge&#8217;. The challenge idea originally came from <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2010/07/17/7-links-for-bloggers/" target="blank">Darren Rowse</a> at Problogger.net.</p>
<p>So here it is:<br />
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<h2>1. Your First Post</h2>
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The first published blog post on Upgrade Reality is in fact a post called <a href="http://www.upgradereality.com/the-power-of-raw-food">The Power of Raw Food</a>. Short and sweet but still relevant.<br />
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<h2>2. A Post You Enjoyed Writing The Most</h2>
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<a href="http://www.upgradereality.com/be-true-to-yourself-tyler-durden-style">Be True to Yourself &#8211; Tyler Durden Style</a>. Fight Club is my favorite movie of all time and I&#8217;ve seen it more than 10 times. I really enjoyed writing this post about the very true principles and lessons that you can take from Fight Club and apply to your own life. </p>
<p>Sometimes I just feel we are all so much like Ed Norton&#8217;s character in the movie, following a system of social conditioning. We trade our time doing things we hate so we can make enough money to buy stuff that we don&#8217;t need. Sometimes I just feel like letting go of all the rules and regulations and be like Tyler Durden.<br />
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<h2>3. A Post Which Has Great Discussion</h2>
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The most commented blog post on Upgrade Reality is one that I wrote as one of the first articles I published called <a href="http://www.upgradereality.com/this-is-what-its-like-being-a-hot-girl">This is What It&#8217;s Like Being a Hot Girl</a>.</p>
<p>It went viral on Stumbleupon (A social network) and received around 30 000 views in 2 days. Unfortunately at the time my site looked like a mess and I didn&#8217;t even have a subscribe option. I was still clueless as to how the blogging world worked at that stage.<br />
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<h2>4. A Post That You Wish You’d Written</h2>
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Written by my friend Glen, <a href="http://www.pluginid.com/expression-not-impression/">Expression not Impression</a> is a post I can really relate to. It&#8217;s still one of my favorite posts on his former personal development blog Pluginid.<br />
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<h2>5.A Post With A Title You’re Proud Of</h2>
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<A href="http://www.upgradereality.com/minimalist-lifestyle">Minimalism is the New Consumerism</a>. Not only do I like the title, I really enjoyed writing this post about minimalism and what I beleive is the best way to apply minimalism to your every day life.<br />
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<h2>6. A Post That You Wish More People Had Read</h2>
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One of my earlier posts that I wish more people would have read is <a href="http://www.upgradereality.com/the-timing-is-never-right">The Timing is Never Right</a>. It contains a good message and inspiration to stop waiting for the perfect moment and act right now to get the results you want to achieve.<br />
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<h2>7. Your Most Visited Post Ever</h2>
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Without a doubt the most visited post on Upgrade Reality is <a href="http://www.upgradereality.com/a-dogs-purpose-from-a-6-year-old">A Dog&#8217;s Purpose (from a 6 year old)</a>. It was about a story I received via email one day with a very strong message about the beauty of life that I wanted to share with my readers.</p>
<p>Thanks for the challenge Dragos <img src='http://www.upgradereality.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diggy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, Readers and Friends, In exactly 1 week from today you will be able to have your eyeballs absorb and enjoy the content from my long-awaited ebook &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;! Get Happy. Get Rich. Get Healthy. Get Confident. &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; is a complete guide to help you overcome all your own fears, limiting beliefs [...]]]></description>
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<h2>Ladies and Gentlemen, Readers and Friends,</h2>
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<strong>In exactly 1 week from today you will be able to have your eyeballs absorb and enjoy the content from my long-awaited ebook &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;! </strong><br />
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<h1 style="color: red; text-align:center"><b>Get Happy. Get Rich.<br />
Get Healthy. Get Confident.</b></h1>
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<h3 style="color: #42629B; text-align:center">&#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; is a complete guide to<br />
help you overcome all your own fears, limiting beliefs and personal obstacles.</p>
<p><u>Get the life you dream of living!</u>.</h3>
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I&#8217;m so excited to finally launch it that I&#8217;m practically walking around my room in circles counting the hours until the launch date!</p>
<p><em><strong>Not only will you get 122 pages of mind-blowing content, ideas, stories and inspiration how you can overcome fears, limiting beliefs and personal obstacles and get the life of your dreams&#8230; You get to learn (in great detail) about more than 30 of the most common fears, limiting beliefs and obstacles that I have personally experienced and overcome .</strong></em></p>
<p>I have planned this ebook for over a year and I&#8217;ve slaved away at creating and writing it for the last few months, only to create a finished product that will benefit everyone who buys it. I really want to help you improve your life, even if you only use one paragraph out of the 40 000 words that I wrote, as long as that one paragraph changes your life to how you want your life to be, then it was totally worth all the effort.</p>
<p>I know what it&#8217;s like to live in a shadow of your full potential. How frustrating it is to see others doing better than you when they have absolutely no intellectual or genetic advantage over you. I know what it&#8217;s like to spend so much time wishing things would be different, but they never change by themselves. I know what it&#8217;s like to feel like a failure and like your life has no real purpose or value. I&#8217;ve been there, done that and got the T-Shirt. Having gone through all these things, I want to share my experience and knowledge with you. I want you to get the same results as me but with half or less than half the difficulties. I want you to get the life you dream of living, and that is the purpose of &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; &#8211; my ebook.<br />
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<h2>My Unconditional Promise</h2>
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You get an <em>unconditional</em> 30 day refund policy when you purchase &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;.</p>
<p>I want you to know that you can trust me and that you are not wasting your money on a book that you get no value out of. If you feel that for whatever reason &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217; &#8211; my ebook, does not provide value for you or you feel that I have not put in enough work and effort into making a resource that can help you improve your life, then all you have to do is send me an email and you will get your full purchase price back, and on top of that let you keep your copy of &#8216;Upgrade Reality&#8217;.<br />
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<h2>A Big Thank You to These People</h2>
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I want to personally thank the following people for giving me feedback and helping me finalize various parts of my ebook and promotion campaigns. They have definitely helped me create a fantastic end-result for you as the reader.</p>
<p>Charlie from <a href="http://www.charfishdesign.com" target="blank">Charfish Design</a>.<br />
Matt from <a href="http://www.HealthyLifestyleDesign.com" target="blank">Healthy Lifestyle Design</a>.<br />
Annabel from <a href="http://www.getinthehotspot.com" target="blank">Get in the Hot Spot</a>.<br />
Kim from <a href="http://www.mindsetsuccesscoaching.com" target="blank">Mindset Success Coaching</a>.<br />
Eric from <a href="http://www.edenjournal.com" target="blank">Eden Journal</a></p>
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<h2>A Super Special Bonus Just for You</h2>
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		<title>Why I Could Give You $1M and Your Financial Situation Wouldn&#8217;t Change</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This is a guest post from Glen Allsopp. I have never accepted guest posts on Upgradereality and Glen had the same policy on his blog, but he made an exception for me once, so I am returning the favor. (and because Glen is a great writer). Did you know that most lottery winners end [...]]]></description>
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<em><strong>NOTE:</strong> This is a guest post from Glen Allsopp. I have never accepted guest posts on Upgradereality and Glen had the same policy on his blog, but he made an exception for me once, so I am returning the favor. (and because Glen is a great writer).</em><br />
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<p>Did you know that most lottery winners end up in back in the same financial situation within a few years of their win? There are a few reasons for this such as spending money carelessly and not knowing how to deal with such big change, but there&#8217;s another reason for this surprising fact that I want to talk about today.</p>
<p>Based on our upbringing, our environment, and the people we spend time with, many of us have an idea of what we can expect to get out of life and the types of achievements we can make. As these things can and do have a huge influence on us, they unconsciously stop us from advancing past this conditioning.</p>
<p>Whenever we come into a large sum of money, there&#8217;s a good chance that we&#8217;ll spend it on the things we need or want. That&#8217;s not inherently a bad thing. However, wants and needs are not the only reasons. <strong>There&#8217;s a good chance that the conditioning of your past and those around you makes you believe that you aren&#8217;t &#8220;supposed&#8221; to have such wealth, so you spend it on things in order to go back to normal and return to your comfort zone.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just the area of money where this happens. Think about times where you may have been on the verge of success in sports or academics, only for things to unexpectedly go wrong at the last minute. You may even find that despite your gains in the areas of skill and knowledge, you haven&#8217;t moved that far up the career ladder in recent years.</p>
<p>Of course, there are times when life genuinely does get in the way and things are out of your control, but if you&#8217;re like a lot of people, you may notice your financial situation has been very similar for a number of years, and that can&#8217;t just be down to external factors.</p>
<p>The main reason psychologists believe that most lottery winners fall back into their previous wealth levels is because they have an ingrained belief about the value they&#8217;re worth, so they unconsciously fall back into their prior life situation. It&#8217;s not instant, but it does happen.</p>
<p>Now that you&#8217;re aware that you may have ingrained beliefs about your true worth that are holding you back, you can do something about them. This should help you when you finally do win the lottery and help to ensure that you don&#8217;t blow all of your cash, but more realistically it should help you climb the corporate ladder, keep more of the money you do make, and help you find limiting beliefs in other areas of your life that may be holding you back.</p>
<h2>Become Aware of Your Success Limits</h2>
<p>A good way to move past your current success limits is to identify them. As of this moment, you may not be sure whether you actually have any. After all, if I asked if you wanted me to give you a million dollars, I&#8217;m sure you would say yes.</p>
<p>I encourage you to think back to your financial situation over the past few years and see if it has remained at a similar level. Sure, there will be ups and downs along the way, but there&#8217;s probably a constant where you end up.</p>
<p>Look at how your parents handled money and see if you can see yourself taking similar actions with yours.</p>
<p>How do your friends deal with money? Their actions have a huge influence on where you expect yourself to be financially. Research has shown time and time again that we&#8217;re never far from the wealth levels of our closest friends.</p>
<h2>Find Logical Reasons to Eliminate Limiting Beliefs</h2>
<p>While awareness is the first and perhaps most important step to getting past your success limits, you also need to look at any limiting beliefs you may have about money or other areas of your life. If I did really give you that million dollars, would you feel like you deserve it. Would you feel worthy of having so much wealth?</p>
<p>Why? Why not?</p>
<p>Realise that you&#8217;re not cut from a different cloth to the thousands of people that find themselves as new millionaires each year. Read autobiographies and interviews of successful people to find that many of them didn&#8217;t come from the greatest background. You&#8217;ll also find most rich people are not obnoxious jerks which is a common view many people have, which is also probably holding you back financially.</p>
<p>Follow stories from people who started out with a poor or typical background and worked their way up to financial success. You&#8217;ll see that this has enabled them to become more giving in their day to day lives.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;re aware of your success limits which are probably fueled by limiting beliefs then it&#8217;s your job to find logical reasons why they don&#8217;t deserve to exist, so you can move past them.</p>
<h2>Surround Yourself with Successful People</h2>
<p>Although a lot of people are happy with their current social circle, you may have to broaden your horizons if you want to take your life situation to the next level. I know this isn&#8217;t a very nice thing to read, and it feels a little uncomfortable typing it out, but it&#8217;s very true.</p>
<p>To put truth to this statement, consider whether you&#8217;re in the same financial league as the people you spend most time with. There&#8217;s a good chance that you&#8217;re not far from them. Coincidentally, since I&#8217;ve started making a lot more money, I&#8217;ve found that the people I associate and spend more time with are also very successful in this area of their lives.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not telling you to ditch your social circle, but definitely look to expand your network. It can be hard to see how much influence the people in your life have until you spend time with those who are doing well financially and see that they just &#8220;rub off on you&#8221;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve you&#8217;ve made it to the end of the post, then I take back what I said in the title. Just donate some of that million to charities for me.</p>
<p><em>Glen Allsopp recently sold a popular personal development blog and now writes for ViperChill, a site which covers </em><a href="http://www.viperchill.com"><em>viral marketing</em></a><em> and helps people to make money online. </em><br />
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