A long time ago, I read Rogue Warrior.  It was a true story about this guy who was a Navy SEAL, and one thing that always stuck out in my mind about his experience with the SEALS is when these guys weren’t killin’ and trainin’, they were out sunnin’ – as in sun bathing.  Now these guys weren’t doing it for their looks.  They were doing it for their health.

You ever notice how tan people just look healther?  That’s cause they typically are.   There was a time parents made their kids go out and play.   Sometimes they would actually say, “Go out and play!”  and sometimes they would say, “Go out and get some fresh air and sunshine!”

I’m always telling my two youngest, ages 6 & 8, that they need to get out and get some “fresh air and sunshine” because I know that will help them stay healthy.  It works for me.  I can’t remember the last time I got a flu shot or the flu.  I think I the last time I got the flu was when I got the shot – hmmm…

When my kids get a cold here in Hawaii, it usally doesn’t last long.  Right now, they’re in the mainland with my wife, visiting friends.  It’s 49 degrees where they’re at.  It’s a cool 69 degrees where we live on Oahu, at night.  Anyways, I think my son has had a cold for over a week since he’s been in the mainland.

If he were here, I’d take him to the park for some, you guessed it – fresh air and sunshine.

If you live in a place where you can’t get much sunshine, particularly during the winter, you should move to Hawaii.  Or start taking vitamin D.

Vitamin D does for you what sunshine does.  Strengthens your bones and boosts your immune system.

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If you ask them if they would like to be rich, of course they would probably say yes – if they didn’t have time to think about it.  If they thought about it, they would probably say no.

Deep down inside, they’re afraid of money, distrusting of it, maybe even hate it.  Why?  Because they’re life is bombarded with negative input about money or people with a lot of money.

Have you ever heard any of these:  Money is the root of all evil.  Money’s not everything.  Money cant buy happiness.  We’re broke, but we’re happy.  Rich people are crooks, or stuck up, or materialistic,  or selfish…?  I could go on and on.

With all this crap in your head, how can you have good feeling about money or rich people?  And with all the bad feeling brought about by these beliefs, who would want to be rich?  This bad programming will not allow you to become something you hate.

What can you do about it?

Putting money in the right perspective is a good start.

Here’s a good article by Robert Ringer that show what happens when people don’t get they right programming before they suddenly come into a lot of money.

The Curse Of The Lottery by Robert Ringer

The story 20/20 did on Jack Whittaker, winner of $315 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery in 2002, was heavy, to say the least. (Since he opted to take a one-time payout, Whittaker actually received “only” a little over $113 million after taxes.) His is yet another in a long line of tales about people who suddenly find themselves immensely wealthy – and subsequently miserable.

The first reality of newfound wealth that Whittaker was confronted with was an endless parade of people with requests for money. Some folks didn’t even bother to ask for a handout in person. They just sent letters – 50,000 of them! – telling him they needed some of his green stuff.

Whittaker forked over about $50 million before he came to his senses. But when he backed away from his role as year-round Santa Claus, the moochers became angry. A number of them even threatened him.

When their threats failed, many of the good folks in West Virginia started suing Deep Pockets Whittaker for a variety of alleged torts. (He’s counted about 400 legal claims against him since he won the lottery.)

Confused and intensely unhappy, Whittaker began carousing, drinking, and propositioning young gals in strip clubs. His wife of 44 years threw him out, and, after giving away millions, he found himself with no friends.

But there was one glowing light in his life – his beloved granddaughter, 17-year-old Brandi. Whittaker gave her four new cars and an allowance of $2,000 a week. It was a real-life Beverly Hillbillies saga, only played out in West Virginia instead of California.

As one might have predicted, having that kind of cash in her pocket led Whittaker’s granddaughter to drugs. Soon after that, in September 2003, her boyfriend, Jesse Tribble, died of a drug overdose in Whittaker’s home. Then, a little over a year later, Brandi, too, was found dead of an overdose.

Stating the obvious in his tearful 20/20 interview, Jack Whittaker said, “Money is not what makes people happy.” Of course, every half-sober, mature adult already knows that. But it’s also important to understand that money doesn’t automatically saddle a wealthy person with unhappiness.

Money, contrary to the popular aphorism, is not “the root of all evil.” And, in fact, that’s not what the source of those words – The New Testament (Timothy, 6:10) – actually says. Rather, it states, “For the LOVE of money is the root of all evil.” (My emphasis.)

What makes money (and, I would suggest, fame) appear to be evil is the way some people react to it. From Marilyn to Anna Nicole to Britney, it’s as though money is a demon that brings certain people to their knees.

It seems to me that the trouble begins when people who find themselves with instant riches relate to it in a way that causes them to reflect on that age-old question, “Is that all there is?” And the answer to that question is always, “No, that is not all there is.” As Jack Whittaker discovered, money cannot buy friendship, money cannot buy love, and money cannot buy a meaningful purpose in life.

I think the reason we see so much of the lost-soul syndrome among Hollywoodites is because the odds of achieving success in the world of glitz and glitter borders on the same odds as winning the lottery. When you’re suddenly making $10 million to $25 million for memorizing someone else’s words and mouthing them in front of a camera, it’s not difficult to understand why it might have a detrimental effect on your psyche. In all honesty, I’d probably feel guilty, too, if I got paid that kind of money just for pretending to be someone else for a few weeks. (I’d take it, of course, but I’d feel guilty.)

This, I believe, is what causes so many celluloid stars to desperately search for meaning in half-baked causes, redistribution-of-the-wealth politics, or adopting needy children halfway around the world (when they could do just as much good by adopting needy children right in their own hometowns). To paraphrase Richard Bach in The Bridge Across Forever, when you suddenly come into a lot of money, it’s like being handed a glass sword, blade first. You had better handle it very carefully while you take the time to figure out what in the heck you’re supposed to do with it.

Bach should know. He went from journeyman writer to author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (which was then the biggest-selling non-fiction book of all time) to bankruptcy! In other words, he’s been there. He took the bait and grabbed the glass sword by the blade.

If you are fortunate enough to one day find yourself the recipient of great wealth, heed Bach’s warning about money. Handle it carefully. And before doing anything foolish, ponder long and hard what it’s for.

Even better, start pondering that right now. By doing so, you not only will be ready for the glass sword if and when it makes its appearance, but, should it never get around to showing up, life without money will be much more meaningful to you.

My heart goes out to Jack Whittaker. May he find meaning in his travails with his windfall fortune… and a meaningful purpose in his life.

This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, the Internet’s most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.

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Got a time machine? Because all the stuff we’ve done to the atmosphere, it’ll be tough to get just clean water today, even if it’s fresh from the clouds. Where do you think that water comes from?

Down here where there’s a lot of crap. Remember “Evaporation” in school?

You would think with all the technology today, they could filter all the bad stuff out. Did you see the news recently? They found a bunch of drugs – like anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones in the drinking water supplies of more than 40 million Americans!

I guess that’s one way to save on pharmaceutical insurance.

And this is treated water!

I’m glad we have our own water purifier!

Maybe it’s pure, but is it Perfect?

Apparently not.

There’s a company called Electric Aquagenics Unlimited, Inc. (EAU) that’s come up with a ‘Super-Bionic’ Water. What’s so special about it?

Are you kidding? It’s “faster, stronger, better.”

Not just purified, but also mineralized, oxygenized, electrolyzed, pH-ized, and just about any other “ized” you can do to water – and it still be water.

I know there’s a lot of talk about your body being too acidic these days, and all the problems that causes. Everything from acne to athletes foot, coughing to cancer, dizziness to diabetes. Just google ‘acidosis’.

So I guess if you’re suffering from just about anything, you’re probably willing to try just about anything.

Even bottles of bionic water. Even if it cost 6 million dollars.

So here’s my plan. I’m going to sell this stuff. If I can make 1%, that would be down payment on a mansion, I think. If they’re making it $2 a bottle, it’s gonna take awhile…

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a. The Internet

Has the internet changed your life? It’s changed the whole world! And even though no one person can legitamately take credit for it, Al Gore sure tried.

But the US started developing the net way back in 1957, after the Soviets launched Sputnik. Al would have been nine years old. Now, that’s an impressive science project. Mine was mold…at least that’s what my Mom said that stuff was.

We finally completed the invention of the net in 1969. So what? Who knew except the US military? But 20 years later…

… Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents something that really did change our lives. Before he came along, about all we might have done on the internet is email. So what did Sir Tim invent? The World Wide Web, or better known as www, is credited to him alone. I wonder if that’s how he got the “Sir”.

No wonder Time magazine picked him as one of the most important people of the 20th Century!

So how has the www changed your life? A source for information and entertainment, great savings of time and money, more effecency at work (or not), but…

Have you found a way to monetize it yet? Get paid – make money on the www?

I have! The www has made true business ownership a reality for me. 24 – 7, 365 – And with no inventory, employees, or bosses. No brick-n-mortar store, and no going door-to-door.

Thank you Sir Tim!

How long are you going to just waste time surfing the net, when you could be surfing the beaches of the world? All it takes is time and money. And we can help you make both!

Is it just me, or does that strike anyone as unintentionally, ironically, funny?

If I wrote a book on fasting, the chapter on foods and meals you could eat would be about…uhmm, one page long. And I might even be able to write that chapter with one word. The the word, “Nothing”. I guess I could stretch it out to two words – “Absolutely nothing”.

Ok, to make it worth your time to read it, and my time to write it, I could make it longer. I could list all the foods you shouldn’t be eating when you’re fasting. And charge you $4,000 for it because it would be equivalent to the Encyclopedia Britannica – vol A-Z.

Since when has everything become so complicated?Honestly, does everything that’s important have to be hard to understand? Could this be just a conspiracy to make doctors, lawyers, and engineers rich?

Well, a bunch of scientist, after my own heart heart, have had enough too. Maybe they’re old, and trying to get into Heaven before they die. Or maybe they’re tired of trying to compete for the the high dollars these brainiacs from India are making over here.

I don’t know why, but they’re choosing to simplify taking care of yourself with proper nutrition….riiiight.

I know – I know; that’s like the guys who write all those ” ‘Something Hard To Do’ For Dummies” books. Those books that look like the New York City yellow pages, both in color and thickness.

That’s the kind of book, guys like me run from.

I don’t get it. If I was going to write a book for dummies, it would be very thin, and have lots of pictures. Really. That’s the kind of book I would think an idiot could really sink their eyes into.

I wouldn’t run from a book like that. I would run to it. Ok, so I’m not a rocket scientist. Who’s buying all those Dummies’ books?!

Anyways, about these scientists…they’re trying to make nutrition easy.

Think they can do it? You be the judge. Dumb It Down!

Then get some here if you’re a Real Man.

And get some here if you’re a Lady.

It’s guaranteed, so what have you got to lose? Except some weight!

But if the human body is actually 70% water, that’s probably not something you want to mess around with – getting enough water, I mean. But did you ever think about the quality of the water you’re drinking?

Safe drinking water is just one of those things I think we take for granted, like when you’re trying to catch an elevator that’s closing and whoever is inside will help you by holding open the door for you because…it’s down-right embarrassing if you don’t do anything to help. And they make it. I know because I’ve been there. I was the guy in the elevator that just stood there like an idiot. Talk about being at a loss for words. I just stood there and stared into space. Then when I heard his heavy breathing, I said, “Is someone in here?”

Anyways, back to the water; it’s just one of those things you don’t think about until a lawsuit comes up.

Recently, our local paper reported “a federal judge will decide on penalties against the city after a ruling that partially sided with three environmental groups saying the city’s waste-water system had repeatedly violated the federal Clean Water Act. ” We’re talking about penalties of up to hundreds of millions of dollars in the lawsuit!

The paper said a judge ruled a wastewater treatment plant released levels higher than the authorized limit of a bacteria called enterococcus 1,603 times. The city had also released levels exceeding permitted limits of biochemical oxygen demand and total suspended solids 218 times and a pesticide called dieldrin three times. They also violated the permit 1,578 times by not building a disinfection facility for four years after their deadline.

It’s no wonder so many people are sick around here!

Instead of getting sick and suing, people should just get a good water treatment system…

and then join a class action suit!

It’s the same stuff that makes the water you drink taste nasty. Particles of matter.

Now, if the stuff you’re smelling is coming from food you’re cooking, then it shouldn’t be harmful, because you’re going to be ingesting it anyways…

But if the stuff you’re smelling smells like chemicals or toxic – nothing you would eat or drink, then maybe you shouldn’t be smelling it either. Because it’s going in your body baby!

How do you feel knowing the stuff you’re breathing in could be particles of matter that probably isn’t doing your body any good?

My friends just opened a nail salon. I don’t know about you, but I can barely stand it when my wife is doing anything with her nails that involve polish.

Here’s the irony….I could pass gas (not that I would) down stairs of our house, and she could be upstairs on the other end, and you know what? She would smell it – and probably gag.

We keep our kitchen trash in a closet. If my son lets it sit long enough without emptying it (not that he would), you know what? My wife would smell it – and probably gag.

But when she’s doing her nails, or my daughter’s, it’s truly amazing, but it’s like they’re totally oblivious to the smell! I don’t get it.

Maybe it’s a male/female thing, but I have absolutely no idea how women stand the stink while they’re doing their nails. What’s even more amazing is, when they go to a nail salon and endure the smell for the duration of their visit – not just while their nails are being done.

And most amazing of all, how do the ladies who work there…work there?

I think one of the best things a nail salon (or hair salon – have you ever smelled the stuff they put in their hair?!!!), could do is get a good air treatment system that could limit the amount of particles going into your lungs.

I think my friends could make a lot more money. Their nail salon would probably be the safest one to go to. And the safest one to work at.

And maybe even the only salon men would go to…