What Will You Retire To?

“Retirement”… Time To Do Life Your Way

Are you a seasoned retiree, looking for “more”? Perhaps you’re newly retired (sooner than expected?). Or are you merely planning ahead?

Whatever stage you’re at, retirement allows you to do life your own way. It’s a time of empowerment, redirection, opportunity. It’s a time to…

  • Re-evaluate goals and ambitions
  • Explore interests
  • Tap into (under-recognized?) strengths
  • Invite challenge
  • Revel in freedom
  • Enjoy life… your way!

You’ve invested in others for so long. Now it’s time to invest in yourself. Relax, of course. Reinvigorate, too. And realize your dreams, finally.


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How to Make Money on Craigslist – Fast, Easy And Free!

Do you want to know how to make money on Craigslist? Well, it is pretty simple. In fact, it is considered as one of the easiest ways to make money online. Craigslist is a classified website which is known as one of the most famous sites in the world. It does not require any experience or money to make it in this venture. In order to make money on Craigslist free of charge, you have to explore the “for sale” category. There you will find a section known as “free stuff.” In this sector, people give their unwanted stuff away for free. All you need to do is pick them up, and sell them again on Craigslist.

Here are a few steps on how to make money on Craigslist.

1. Register first for a Craigslist account for free. This step will only take a few seconds to be completed.

2. Next, search for free items which are in good condition in your local Craigslist. Most of the time owners will place them on their driveway. However, it is always polite to contact the owner if you are going to pick them up.

3. Third step on how to make money on Craigslist is the most difficult of all. You have to improve the condition of the items. For instance, clothes with stains should be washed thoroughly in order to make them look better.

4. Buyers want to see pictures of what they are buying. Thus, you have to take pictures and post them on Craigslist. If possible, take pictures on different angles in order to provide customers with a better view.

5. The fifth step is enlisting your items on Craigslist. Log in to Craigslist and enlist your items on the “for sale” category. You have to make sure that you enlist your items on the right category. For instance, pants and blouse should be enlisted under the “clothing and accessories” category.

In addition, add a good description of the item if it has special specifications that will surely capture the interest of consumers. Keep in mind to always include you phone number and email address for people to contact you easily.

6. Now that you have finished listing your item, you can go search for new items and do the above steps over and over again. Eventually, you will know which items sell faster and easier and which items do not.

If you are looking for the best way to make money from home or make money online I would suggest you search the term How to Make Money on Craigslist an find my website http://www.yourprofitjackpot.com/ on page 1 of Google. Or you can just click the link, I think the other way is more fun though.

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Massage Therapy For All: Simple Massage Techniques For Beginners

Massage therapy can do well to every part of the body. It has been used for so many years to relax and sooth pain and muscle tension. Anyone who wants to learn these massage techniques might be intimidated at first. It is a bit hard to picture one doing and performing professional massage therapy without formal training. But fortunately, there are simple massage techniques that one can easily master. One can truly wow his or her friends and family with these skills.

SIMPLE MASSAGE TECHNIQUES FOR THE HEAD:
- Open up the fingers of both hands until it looks like the tentacles of an octopus. Gently lay all the fingers on the top part of the head. Firmly and carefully execute circular motions on the scalp. Focus on a certain part of the head and stay there for a minute. After which, move along until all the angles of the head are covered and massaged. This is great for severe headaches, migraines and brain freeze.

- Completely and tightly close all fingers. Carry out mild and soft long strokes on the head. Start with the forehead and implement the stroke down to the back of the head.

SIMPLE MASSAGE TECHNIQUES FOR THE SHOULDERS:
- Open up the fingers of both hands until it looks like the tentacles of an octopus. Place both hands on one shoulder. Gently squeeze the shoulder. Work it from the neck to the tip of the shoulder’s ball. Do this to both shoulders.

- Slightly close the fingers but not in a way that the fingers stick together. Stroke from the top part of the back of the head and separate both hands when heading to both shoulders. Designate the left hand to the left shoulder and the right hand to the right shoulder. Do this to 10 – 15 times.

SIMPLE MASSAGE TECHNIQUES FOR THE ARMS AND HANDS:
- Open up the fingers of both hands until it looks like the tentacles of an octopus. Place both hands on one arm. Gently squeeze the arm all the way to the hand. Make sure to this both on the top and bottom part of the arm and hand. Do this to both arms and hands.

- Perform long and placid strokes from the shoulder blade down to the hands. Do this to both arms and hands.

- When one gets to the hand, use both thumbs to do circular motions on the back of the hand. Use the other fingers to firmly poke the palm of the hand. Do this to both hands.

SIMPLE MASSAGE TECHNIQUES FOR THE BACK:
- Densely close both hands and position the hands on a lateral position. Do karate moves first on the top part of the back near to the back of the neck.

However, it is crucial to remember not include the back of the neck in this massage. This can kill the person.

- Execute long strokes from the back of the neck all the way down to the waist. Do this in a way that each angle of the back id affected by the touch.

Massage therapy can do wonders for the body. Learn these basic massage techniques and wow the family and friends tomorrow!

I write for TIR Massage Stone about performing hot stone massage therapy and obtaining a proper hot stone massage kit.

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Why Breathing Is So Important

Breathing is essential

You need to breathe fresh air all the time. It is essential for your survival. You can well live without food for a few weeks. Many people do this in a willingly act to abstain from food, called fasting. You can also survive without water for some days (which won’t be so good for your health). But without fresh air you will die after a few short minutes, or at least your brain will suffer severe damage. The reason for this is that the body, especially the brain, needs huge amounts of oxygen to function. And furthermore the body has no mechanisms to store oxygen.

So the oxygen in the air is absolutely necessary for your life. Fresh air is life energy. You breathe in to supply your body with fresh energy. And you breathe out to free your body of carbon dioxide.

Luckily we usually don’t need to pay attention to our breathing as it works totally automatically.

Breathing under pressure

If you’re under pressure your natural breathing changes. As part of the “fight or flight” response you breathe faster, not so deep. Or you may have the feeling not to be able to breathe at all. If this happens sometimes there’s no need to worry. It is an all natural reaction of the body.

But it’s all too common in our modern world to have high stress levels over a longer period of time. So your body will experience these changes in breathing quite often. Therefore your body’s supply with fresh air will be slightly lower than necessary. What follows are the typical stress symptoms like muscular tension, headache, problems to fall asleep or depression.

Breathing to relax

Fortunately your breathing is a body function you can control easily. And so it is easier to calm down and relax as you may think. Simply find the time to do the following easy exercise:

Just sit down.Close your eyes.Watch as your breath flows in and out of the body.Pay attention to where you feel the breathing.Can you feel the breath at your nose as the air flows in and out of the nose?Can you feel your breast or belly move up and down as you breathe in and out?Just watch your breath flow in and out and do nothing else for at least 3 minutes.This easy exercise helps you to calm down and relax in a short span of time.

Another easy method to calm down fast is the seven-eleven breathing method.

Thomas writes about relaxation on http://www.qigongtom.com/

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7 Secrets to Creating Compelling Content

Let’s face it.

If we’re not creating compelling content, no one is reading it (or listening or watching it as the case may be.)

As business people, that doesn’t mean our content has to be trendy, hip or fast-paced, though in some cases, that may help. The most important thing is that the people we want to target like our content are compelled to act on it.

What is it then, that makes content compelling? And how do we use that knowledge to create compelling content?

Here are seven tips – some of them you may know. But are you using them?

#1 – Know What Your Audience Wants

Here’s where your market research comes in handy. If you haven’t done any, even basic keyword research can help you out here. Your research into your target audience will tell you things like where your audience is, and what they’re looking for, if successful.

#2 – Create Into Your Customer’s Content Vacuum

Once you know where they are and what they want, on some level, creating will appeal to them is as simple as being where they are with the information they most desire.

This doesn’t mean you have to give away all your best solutions. Just solve one problem they have that’s related to your product or service.

#3 – Infuse Your Content With Emotion

It’s no secret that humans are social beings. An integral part of social being is connecting – and not much creates that instant feeling of belonging than knowing that someone else feels what you’re feeling. It’s even better when you share a feeling that they have for the same reason.

#4 – Make it Cross-Platform

More consumers are connecting through mobile than ever before, and that’s worldwide, not just in the United States. Creating something worth sharing is just the first part. Next, you’ve got to make sure that everyone can access it.

#5 – Leverage the Theory of Star Deflection ™

Star Deflection ™ is a completely made up term. It’s shorthand for a technique we developed at my company for deflecting the attention we get in our marketing efforts back out at another chosen entity.

For our purposes here, it’s the act of making your customers, clients, peers, audience, employees or other deserving people the stars of your content instead of the company or publisher. Bloggers are particularly good at this. You’ll see them get an endless stream of attention for their writing and expertise, and then observe them putting the spotlight on a customer they helped, or a peer they believe has a valuable insight.

Why does this work? Attention is scarce these days. Providers of attention are even scarcer. If you can give that to people, the very act can provide more for yourself.

#6 – Be an Information Buoy

Why is attention scarce in the first place?

Because we’re drowning in a sea of information. The firehose shoots data at us in ever-increasing speeds. Just sorting out what pieces of raw data qualifies as useful information can be a full time job.

Thus began the rise of the curator as a popular and valuable person. Go beyond curating and provide insight into a special niche of the news. Be the one that others cling to in order to rise above the level of noise in their incoming news stream.

#7 – Invent News, Don’t Just Report On It

Where does news come from? Journalists? Bloggers? PR companies? Industry experts?

How do they get the news? Press releases? Eyewitnesses? Twitter?

What’s stopping you from creating the news? I don’t mean just repeating whatever just happened at Google, or even providing intelligent opinion and analysis of that news. Those are great tactics.

But if you have the option of actually being the original source of a news story, even if you have a small budget, there’s nothing stopping you from actually turning events, knowledge and discoveries you’ve made into news.

If you want to be seen, to be heard, to have customers come to you instead of always paying to hunt them down, creating the content they want to consume is a key part of your marketing strategy. Not only can it save you money gaining new customers, it can help you keep existing customers when they see that you care enough to address their most pressing concerns.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul is a website promotion specialist at Leveraged Promotion. Now that you can create compelling content, she invites you to come and learn how to get your content discovered in search and social media. Or you can call her office at 702.508.8468 for a free strategy session.

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