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Any sport where you place an unusual demand on your muscles is going to result in strains and “pulled muscles”, and soccer is no exception. The good news is that this usually is not severe, and you will be able to get back out on the field. Be aware that the muscles are going to be very stiff and sore for two to five days afterwards, making movement uncomfortable; however, getting these muscles loosened back up will go far in relieving the pain, and you may find that by the end of the day you barely feel those muscles that were screaming at you when you rolled out of bed.

To this end, a warm shower will help to loosen the muscles. The best thing you can do for them after that is to stretch your way through the pain. Although it is going to feel like the torments of hell when you attempt to get these muscles to work you will find that once you have loosened them back up you are able to move much more easily. If you have a severely strained muscle attempt to avoid overdoing it, however; while a little stretching will help to loosen it back up, overdoing it will just result in your injury becoming more uncomfortable and taking longer to heal. Your body will be able to tell you what it can and cannot handle. Applying a muscle rub intended for over-extended muscles such as BenGay can provide some relief as well; although the smell will be enough to make you want to run from the room the benefits to your aching muscles are innumerable.

There are a few exceptions to this rule. The number one severe muscle related injury suffered by soccer players is a pulled hamstring. Be very careful; although your hamstrings are probably going to ache when you first begin to play due to the fact that they are not used to the demand you are going to be putting on them it is possible to severely injure your hamstring and make walking impossible. As you can well imagine, that puts playing soccer right off the list! If you have injured your hamstring and the pain exceeds that which you would expect from a pulled muscle talk to your coach or physician; a single game (or even a single season) is not worth the misery that will be visited upon you if your hamstring is not given the opportunity to heal properly.

Another exception to the rule are strained ligaments and tendons. Ligaments are the fibrils that connect your muscles to the bone, and they are often damaged when you are playing a sport such as soccer that places heavy demands on the muscles. A strained ligament or tendon will need proper time to rest and recover in order to ensure that it heals properly and you are able to come back to the game in fit, fighting form. A doctor will be able to confirm whether or not you have an injury more severe than a simple pulled muscle; if you are in more pain than a pulled muscle would warrant be sure to get it checked out, and abide by your doctor’s decision.

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Every one of us wants to be successful, but we often rely on luck and chance to achieve our goals. The best example in this case is someone who wants to get rich but only has one alternative: playing the Lotto. Of course, there are chances of becoming rich over night, but how likely is it that this will actually happen? Creating a realistic plan in order to achieve the desired results is vital in any case, no matter how high or low your hopes are.

The safest way to do this is by taking successive steps and gradually increasing your chances of reaching your ideal. Try to think of a metaphor and compare your desires with a professional swimming competition. The first thing you need to do, in order to have chances of winning the race, is to make sure you are not afraid of the water. Before you even consider entering the race you have to eliminate your fears. They are the ones holding you back, but be careful, some of your fears might save you from getting hurt or failing.

Once you are convinced that your goal is worth fighting for, you have to start the hardest stage in you plan: preparation. You cannot expect to win a professional swimming race when you don’t even know how to swim. Start with the basics and never skip any steps out of desire of reaching your goal faster. The experience and knowledge you are skipping will probably come back and hurt you later on. Prepare by taking gradually increasing steps. Swim half a lap first, and then move on to a full lap. Your skills will progress each time and you will soon beat your own lap records every time you enter the swimming pool. It might take days, weeks or years to prepare for the “race”, depending on what your goals are. The main thing is to enter the race feeling confident in your own success and having all the skills that would allow you to win.

Taking steps one at a time and keeping your plan realistic gives you two important benefits. The order and precision of a plan brings confidence. You don’t feel like you are reengaging each new issue on a day-to-day basis.

Organizing your strategy reduces the chances of making wrong moves or taking less efficient decisions. Secondly, having a sound plan has many psychological benefits and your subconscious mind worries less, giving you more energy to concentrate on what’s important. You are creating a pattern in your awareness that accepts success and integrates it in your plan. When both you conscious and your subconscious mind believe in your chances of reaching a goal you benefit from a power of concentration and focus that eliminate outside interference and let you follow the shortest path to success.

Even though chance may still play an important role in your quest to reach your ideal, having a realistic plan let’s you change the “unlikely” into “possible”.

Self improvement as a goal is wonderful for people everywhere. However, to actually reach these self improvement goals, some success tips can sure come in handy. So here are some tips to help you reach your goals.

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Think about it for just a second: Six million visitors each and every day and all of them are there with at least an inkling to buy something. Yep, ripe for the picking if you were to think in such terms but clearly a very prime marketplace to sell goods of just about any kind—right?

What if you didn’t like the idea of the whole online auction for “gendy used” goods? What if you happen to live in some small dorm room or cramped duplex with barely enough room for your things—let alone some online business! What if you hated antiques and the thought of restoring old furniture was positively repulsive? Does this mean e-Bay is not for you?

Drop-Shipping

Indeed, if ever there were proof positive that the Internet is the single greatest invention of all time, then dropshipping would be that proof In truth, an e-Bay business built around any particular niche of used items or collectibles will hit a glass ceiling when it comes to revenue. Yes, you could expand and buy a warehouse, hire a bunch of people to scour for items in your niche to refurbish and sell on e-Bay .. but, this would be an exception and not the rule.

If you really want to go beyond that $700 and create a sustainable e-business with growth potential but don’t have much in the way of capital or work space, then dropshipping may be for you. Essentially, drop shipping allows you to buy products at wholesale prices and then sell them on your website at retail prices. The real beauty of drop shipping is that you don’t even have to worry about shipping or packaging the product—the wholesaler does that for you.

People on e-Bay are not necessarily looking for an item to bid on or even something that is “gently used”. The common factor that seems to reel most visitors into the site is the urge to find a great deal on something. Drop shipping permits you to sell goods at rock bottom prices that contain your company logo and address—without the expense or labor commitment involved with doing so yourself.

The key to succeeding with drop shipping is successfully driving traffic to your site while continually looking for better deals on other products in your niche that you can market. E-Bay presents one marketing option for you and you can pass on the listing fees to the customers and create “Buy Now” ads. Car lots, appliance stores, and thousands of other “brick-and-mortar” businesses advertise their products on e-Bay. Drop-shipping gives you access to wholesale prices and the ability to own an online retail business without having to sacrifice your living room in the process.

Naturally, not all wholesalers offer drop-shipping so you need to do your homework and research any potential companies offering products in your marketing niche. However, by tapping into the massive marketplace afforded by e-Bay and using drop shipping to cut down on start up costs, labor, and the expenses related to shipping —you can certainly expand well beyond that initial $700 in 7 days and become a true force on the Internet and grow your e-business and web presence.

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Putting the cart before the horse?

Writing for the web isn't a case of collecting your ideas and then putting them online – and blog posting especially is a hidden and deceptively simple looking 'art form' all of its own.

Before you actually write one word of content though you need to think about what you're going to say. You should have your keywords organised into some sort of coherent list – and you should be weeding out the ones you're not interested in using. Once you've done that, you need to sit down and plan down your blog. You need to plan at least 20 posts and choose some sort of posting schedule.

Once you've planned your content, you can start writing your posts. In the case of WordPress, you can queue your posts as you are writing them, giving you the additional advantage of being able to post series and have them ready to go, without losing your flow. If you're using blogger, you should still write your posts as you can then simply copy and paste them into your blog on the day you want them to go live.

We always recommend that you stay at least three posts ahead of your posting schedule – that way, if you hit a dry spot, or find yourself too busy to post; you've still got 'emergency' content on tap, till you can re-evaluate.

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Using color therapy, or “chromatherapy”, is a unique way to treat a variety of ailments, including, but not limited to, sleep problems. Chromatherapy involves being exposed to color in various ways. Being shown colored lights, visualizing and meditating on a color, being massaged with colored oils, and wearing specific colors can help treat both physically and emotionally caused sleep problems.

Chromatherapy has a long history. Ancient Indian beliefs practiced chromatherapy in Ayurvedic medicine, where it was believed that colors corresponded to parts of the body, emotions and spiritual aspects of life. They believed that each of the charkas, areas of energy in the body, linked to a color.

Ancient Egyptians used chromatherapy by breaking up the sunlight with specially created lenses. They built solariums where they practiced chromatherapy.

Chromatherapy as we know it was developed in the late 1600’s when scientist Sir Isaac Newton proved that light is a mixture of color from the full range of color we can see.

Modern-day color therapy came about when Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt penned his Principles of Light and Color. In this publication he outlined how color therapy could be used to treat a variety of maladies, include sleep difficulties.

The 1940’s were a time of experimentation with color therapy. During this time, Russian scientist S.V. Krakov experimented with chromatherapy and determined that when he separated light spectrum’s wavelengths it had an impact on the nervous system. For example, he found that red light increased blood pressure and impacted the adrenal glands. White light and blue light were found to be relaxing. This groundbreaking information is still used today by color therapy practitioners.

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For many years, the way to finance real estate was to make a 20% down payment, and get a loan for the remaining 80%. Of course you could make a higher down payment, but 20% was typically the minimum. Luckily, this standard has changed.

There are now several finance options available to the real estate investor. One popular way to finance your purchase is to have a second mortgage. The buyer makes a 5% down payment, and borrows the remaining 15%, usually at a higher interest rate, on a different loan.

Even though it’s nice to invest less on a property, the higher interest rate isn’t the only drawback. Usually, if the buyer does not meet the 20% minimum, they are required to get costly private mortgage insurance (PMI).

You are able to remove PMI when the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio reaches 80%. This is achieved by paying down the second mortgage and appreciation of the property value. This does not happen often because the property is usually sold or the buyer refinances before PMI can be removed.

For creative investors, other financing sources exist. Manufacturers of homes in planned developments are often willing to provide financing to early buyers.

Another risky and rather complicated way of financing a property is called ‘sub2’ which stands for ‘subject-to’. This type of deal is when the seller gives you the deed to the property, the loan stays in place, but the buyer never legally takes over the loan, just the payments. There are many different versions of this kind of transaction. Because of the complexity and risk, this method of funding an investment is not recommended for beginners.

You can also consider forming a limited partnership to finance your real estate investment. There are many different arrangements on this method. Some types involve each person in the partnership contributing in a portion of the cost, usually 50% each. However, sometimes the profit is distributed relative to the original amount invested. Another arrangement is that one half of the partnership contributes the capital, and the other half provides the needed services, such as repairs on a home that needs to be fixed. There are many different variations of this method.

Government loans are available to low income investors, or buyers who have served in the military. These programs are usually only available for primary residences.

Did you ever think about buying a home on a credit card? This is another method of financing your real estate purchase, although it's usually not recommended. Obviously, the interest rates on most credit cards are substantially higher than loan rates. Another drawback is that lenders determine your creditworthiness based on your outstanding debt, and if you use credit card cash advances to cover the 5-20% down payment that you need, you’ll probably get turned down for a loan. This is also true for money borrowed from friends or family, unless you can show that the money is truly a gift.

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By carefully paying attention to other people’s body language, you can see their hidden signs about how they are feeling at that moment. If you know the different body language signs you can monitor your own portrayal to make sure your body is saying what you want it to say.

Being able to read her body language when you are talking to her for the first time will help you detect if she is really into you, or just waiting for you to go away and leave her alone.

Knowing how to read someone’s body language will make you more comfortable around them. If you know what she’s thinking and feeling, you can more easily plan what to do or say next. The only alternative to reading body language is to resort to verbal cues only, and reading between the lines of what someone is saying is often difficult, if not impossible.

Put yourself at an advantage by secretly learning what different movements, postures, and actions mean in body language. It will relax you because you will have the inside scoop on what she’s feeling.