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Is your life everything that you have always wanted it to be? Are you the person you want to be? Are you where you thought you would be in your career and in your relationships?

If you?re anything like most people then the answer to these questions will be a resounding no. Even those of us who are generally happy for the most part will often find that our lives never panned out quite the way we thought they would, or that we aren?t quite as accomplished as some of our friends.

Many of us seem to struggle with simple things in life, whether that is getting out of the bed in the morning with enough energy to be productive, whether it is maintaining our relationships, or whether it is finding that sense of purpose.

Many of us have the occasional creeping feeling of doubt that makes us question whether we?re really on the right track. Maybe life is just „okay? but you don?t feel like it?s really going anywhere. Maybe you don?t feel like you have a „purpose? as such.

Meanwhile, we all know people in our lives who do just seem to have it all together. They?re in great shape, they?re charismatic and driven and they?re usually pretty wealthy as well! They have stunning partners, perfect families and somehow they just make the rest of us look… disheveled…

While those few people seem to be successful in everything they do, we struggle hard to stay afloat and to keep the house clean, to get to the gym and to keep in touch with friends. This means we have no time to work on developing ourselves or to take our lives to that next level. Perhaps you struggle to know what that next level is? Maybe you don?t know what it is you really want from life in the first place?

Perhaps the issue is that our expectations are set too high, maybe as a result of the media? But wouldn?t it be amazing if you could live the life that you?ve always wanted and if you could make your life everything you ever dreamed of. Wouldn?t it be incredible if there was a real „limitless pill? that could help you to

start making the very most of your life and to seize the day and create opportunities?

I?m here to tell you that it is possible. That all the things you have dreamed of can become a reality and that there?s no reason you can?t become the ultimate version of yourself. The key is in understanding what it takes to become your best and to having the motivation, drive and skills necessary to make it happen.

Look, if you know there are people out there that have their lives up together, then you know it must be possible. If some people seem to have found their calling and their purpose, you know they probably started out in the same boat as you. They just had the skills and the know-how to find their way eventually.

Even if none of your friends have it all together, just look at people in the media. Sure, some of that is artifice, but the fact remains that Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) is a real guy. A guy who looks sharp, is in incredible shape, is brimming with personality and is incredibly wealthy.

Then there are people like Arnold Schwarzenegger who have accomplished insane things in their lives, like Hugh Jackman, like Michelle Obama, like Will Smith, like Tina Fay. These are people who aren?t just attractive, wealthy, funny or successful… they?re all those things.

And to the rest of us, they come across like superhumans!

The good news is that all of this can be learned. It starts with you. It starts with accepting responsibility and no longer blaming circumstances or other people for your lack of success or the way you feel.

In business, there is a commonly used term called a „force multiplier?. A force multiplier is anything that can be used to help you get more work done with the same amount of time and effort.

The most obvious example of this would be a hammer. If you hit a nail with a hammer then the force that you employ will be multiplied several times so that the nail will be driven into the substrate. If you had used the same amount of force with your fist, then you would have a different result. Likewise, a forklift truck or even a computer can similarly be thought of as a force multiplier.

But you are the ultimately force multiplier. If you want to achieve any goal, you need to exert effort and the outcome will depend on how skilled, how motivated and how well presented you are. If you are a more capable individual, then everything you do will have a more profound impact on the world around you.

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People go through their lives continuously taking on different challenges each day. Whether it is in school, at work, or at home, there are many things that always come up and cause too much stress on a person. He might simply have too much to do and not have an opportunity to get enough rest. There are instances when a person handles a task on a tight schedule, feeling that time is never on his side.

In both situations, it can get scary to think about what can happen, and it can be even harder to think about failure. There is no need to feel this way anymore. Sometimes, things happen, and there is no choice but to wait until the last minute.

Whether this is because an assignment is due in the morning or if there is too much to do in one day, learning how to work faster for your own benefit is the best way to go.

Procrastination is a harsh term that gets thrown around and disrespected. The truth is that everyone does it, and everyone wishes that they could figure out how to complete their work faster while still providing the highest quality. This book will guide you through all the positive and negative results that come from procrastination. It will also show you better ways on how to complete an assignment after postponing it for so long.

Either way, you should be able to find success by reading this book. Read through the chapters and take down some notes. After you read through the final chapter, you will have a full understanding of what procrastination does to a person, why it happens, how it can benefit you in the long run, and how to help yourself to work quickly and efficiently.

Chapter 1: The Science Behind

Procrastination

People will always say how bad procrastination is before ever truly realizing why it happens. It is a natural approach which people rely on at the last minute. It is about how they will continually agree to take on another assignment before finishing the previous one. This is not about responsibility and whether the person can complete tasks or not. It is about wanting to take on a challenge and finish more assignments than the person next to them.

This is a common scenario especially in the workplace where employees will compete to keep their jobs. Sometimes, the only way to do this is to take on more assignments and finish them faster. Whether they were turned in at the last minute or not, they take on more assignments just to impress their managers. People question

themselves whenever they push back an assignment another day or even another week. Sometimes, an assignment that is due the next day will continuously be pushed back because people keep switching their focus throughout the day.

The Brain of a Procrastinator

This happens because a battle between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex occurs in the brain. The limbic system controls the amount of pleasure and relaxation that a person will naturally feel. The prefrontal cortex controls the amount of planning that the mind must go through. Simply put, when a person chooses to push back an assignment by either an hour or a day, the limbic system is taking over the prefrontal cortex. This situation often happens as people like going through the constant cycle of waiting until the last minute.

The reason the limbic system continues to be more in control and overpower the prefrontal cortex is because it is one of the older and more dominant parts of the brain. This system automatically runs through the process of strengthening itself more often than any other part of the brain. It is one of the first systems which develop inside the brain, responsible for keeping a person away from carrying out unpleasant actions.

For example, when a child looks at a flame, he might get curious and want to touch it. The limbic system tells his brain not to touch the flame because it will hurt him. This system does not focus on the damage that would be inflicted but the amount of pain that would be felt.

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LESSON 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO EMAIL MARKETING

If you run a business, a website or a blog and you want to increase your audience as well as increasing engagement, then the single most effective way to do that is with email marketing.

If you listen to pretty much any top marketer, then they will almost always tell you this. They will almost always say that the most important aspect of their marketing – the thing that led to their success – was email.

And there?s a very good reason for this. Or ten…

Email marketing allows you to reach your audience in an incredibly direct manner. Unlike other forms of marketing, you?ll actually be able to reach your audience directly in their inboxes without having to go through any third party. That means that you?re not reliant on a platform like Facebook or Twitter, or at the mercy of potential changes to policies that could render your messages unheard. It wasn?t that long ago that Facebook made the decision to change its system so that only a small percentage of posts from pages got through to followers.

With email, your messages are going directly to the users. That means that nothing can prevent you from reaching them and you know that 100% of everything you send is going to reach the recipient.

It means that you don?t lose your long list of subscribers if Facebook decides to inexplicably delete your account (this happens – in fact it has happened to me) or if they decide to delete their accounts.

This is a relationship that is directly between you and the subscribers. But that?s only touching the very surface of what makes Email marketing so useful.

As you?ll see in the rest of this report, there are many, many more advantages to email marketing and tons more reasons why you should invest more time and more energy into email marketing.

By the end of this report, you?ll understand precisely what makes email marketing important and you?ll hopefully be hyped to dive into the rest of the course to find out how you can make it work for you.

First, a Few Stats

First, let?s take a look at a few stats which perfectly illustrate just how impressive email marketing really is and how it is transforming business…

For example, did you know the following figures?

- Email marketing has a ROI of 4,300%
- 91% of consumers check email daily (most people check it much more!)
- When surveyed, companies say that email marketing is more profitable than: PPC, content marketing, display advertising, mobile ads, social media marketing, direct marketing, affiliate marketing…
- 66% of US consumers aged over 15 have made a purchase as a direct result of an email campaign
- 1/3rd of consumers say that they open their emails on the basis of the subject line alone
So, what does all this tell us? Why are these stats the way they are?

Firstly, let?s consider the ROI. The reason that ROI is so high for email marketing is actually because the cost of entry is so low. ROI is „return on investment?, the amount of money you make versus the amount of money you spent in order to make it!

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Chapter 1: Introducing Instagram

Instagram is often described as being ‘Twitter’ with images and this is largely a fair description of what the social media platform does and how it works. But to say that that is all Instagram is would be a big disservice. Instagram is actually an incredibly powerful tool, a highly nuanced platform and something that deserves a big place in every single internet marketing campaign.

And now, Instagram has added to its roster of capabilities even further with its awesome ‘stories’ function. Instagram has gone from being an indispensable and highly underused tool for engaging with an audience and establishing authority, to being something even more powerful – an opportunity to bring your fans along with you and to let them feel like they’re really a part of your brand.

In this book, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at Instagram and at how you can use it, along with all of its most modern features, in order to build massive trust and influence and have a huge impact on your audience. At the same time, we’ll be taking a more in-depth look specifically at Instagram Riches. You’ll see why this is an incredibly important addition from a marketing perspective and how you can start using it right away to make the biggest impact possible.

Why Instagram Matters

Instagram will often be relegated to ‘afterthought’ in a number of internet marketing campaigns. If you have an ebook or a blog to promote, then there’s a good chance that you will have thought long and hard about how you’re going to handle your SEO and how you’re going to dominate Facebook; but won’t have given much consideration at all to how you’re going to kill it on Instagram.

This of course is a big mistake, as you will learn in this chapter.

In fact, you only need to take a look at how other brands are treating Instagram in order to see why it’s such a big deal…

And what you will find when you do look into this, is that an awful lot of money is spent on Instagram. There are countless brands that are spending large amounts of cash investing in influencers, or becoming influencers themselves. Many particularly savvy individuals have even managed to make a full-time living on Instagram by getting high paying sponsors to support their channel.

Brands are willing to support channels in this way because they know what a massive impact Instagram can have on an audience. Instagram is not only impressive in terms of the numbers but also the engagement and the way it is able to ‘sell a dream’. Like they say: a picture tells a thousand words. Add some impressive filters and your word count goes up big time!

Instagram in Numbers

And while you might not think of Instagram right away as one of the ‘main’ social media channels… well, you should really think again! Instagram actually has an incredible 500 million users, which is 1 million more than last year! That makes it the second largest social media platform just behind Facebook – it is actually bigger than Twitter!

What’s more, is that Instagram is growing faster than the majority of other platforms. It does appear to be somewhat slowing down in the growth department but it is still a juggernaut with incredible momentum when compared with other platforms.

Instagram also has more monthly advertisers than Twitter and engagement is also particularly high. Instagram has over 500 million active monthly users and those users have shared over 40 billion photos in total. That’s 95 million photos and videos each day!

Instagram also has some other very appealing statistics behind it. For instance, it is one of the very best platforms for reaching women. In fact, 31% of all American women use Instagram (compared with 24% of all American men). This is a great opportunity for brands that are marketing their goods to women then and it also has a particularly international audience – with 80% of users being outside the US.

A survey conducted by Iconosquare in 2015 revealed that 70% of users have at some point sought out a brand to follow on Instagram. 62% have followed brands they love and 41% are open to marketing messages and discounts. 65% of users also reported that they found it flattering when a brand liked their post.

All this engagement sounds great on paper but it’s even better when you compare it with other platforms. Instagram – according to research firm L2 – actually has 18 times more engagement than Facebook or Twitter.

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Introduction

At some point, you might have been interested in the notion of making money online. It’s an appealing concept after all – being able to earn money from the comfort of your own home, or even abroad!

So, you type in ‘Make Money Online’ and what do you find?

Usually, it’s tips on how to sell eBooks, advice on how to earn

money as an affiliate and tips on how to get to the top of Google. Often by essentially spamming Google until you get there…

Most of what you find won’t be terribly ambitious in other words. And in fact, a lot of it isn’t even going to be the kind of work you’re
likely to be very proud of, let alone passionate about.

But that’s not what making money online has to mean. Making money online can also mean becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Mullenweg or Steve Jobs.

The internet provides us with an absolutely incredible tool that is right now changing the world and changing the way we live and work. If the only part you want to play in that is to sell an eBook on losing weight (that’s not factually accurate), then you are preparing yourself for failure.

Worse, you’re preparing yourself for success that’s so modest as to be incredibly dull and frankly depressing.

Opportunity is knocking and it’s up to you whether you want to take that opportunity to do something incredible or just to try and spam people. I know what I’d rather do.

But of course, it’s easy to understand why so much of the information out there is geared toward con artists and ‘get rich quick’ schemes (that don’t work). It’s because the idea of creating a truly game changing service or product is highly daunting. It’s because most people have no idea how to go about finding a truly innovative new idea, let alone how to bring that to market.

There are only so many true visionaries in the world. There are only so many Elon Musks out there.

This is not something that can be taught.

Except… is it?

As you’ll learn in this book, it is not possible to force someone to have a good idea. I can’t promise that after reading this book, you are going to have a breakthrough that changes the world for the better and makes you rich in the process.

But what I can provide are some tricks and strategies that you can use in order to increase your chances of coming up with those amazing, game-changing ideas.

Read on and you’ll discover how to help yourself think like a truly innovative entrepreneur. And more importantly, you’ll learn how to implement those ideas and actually take action on them.

Because there are plenty of ideas in the world, it’s executing said ideas that is the challenging part!

What You Will Learn in This Book

In this book, you’re going to discover how to come up with truly innovative ideas and then execute them in a way that capitalizes on their full potentially.

Again, I can’t guarantee that you’re going to have the next big idea. But what I can promise you is that you will be increasing your chances of having that breakthrough several fold just by reading the ideas that follow…

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We all want to be satisfied, even though we know some people who will never be that way, and others who see satisfaction as a foreign emotion that they can’t hope to ever feel. However, whenever it comes to being content and living a life free from want and worry, it’s actually much easier to do so that you think.

Even though our wants and desires are physical, the life of contentment we seek starts in our minds.

By using strategies such as taming our inner critic who always seems to push us towards lack, to learning to love yourself by controlling what goes in your heads and hearts, there are a wide variety of mental strategies that can help you become more content, and be satisfied with where you are.

Now, this does bear repeating as it is one of the main themes of the book: Satisfaction does not equal stagnation, and it is perfectly healthy to be content, and still have the desire and the means for growth. But you can never build abundance out of lack and discomfort, so in order to properly grow, we need to reach the middle ground of being satisfied with where we are.

Along the way, this book contains exercises and examples to help get you into a life of contentment, so you can start living that style of life right away without any issues. If you keep an open mind and understand what this book is trying to tell you, then you will be 100% ready to become more content, regardless of what your situation might be.

Chapter One: Understand Satisfaction Is A Mindset

Have you ever met someone with an insane desire to succeed with something? They might strive to get perfect grades in every single class, might want to get a perfect body, or go on dozens upon dozens of dates just to find ‘the one.’ These people seem to have it all, and yet for every victory they gain, they want to climb another mountain. For every step forward their feet take, their minds are already three steps ahead into the future.

You also might have met people who aren’t growing, but still have a desire. They want the dream body, the amazing grades, the perfect romance, and if the world would just give it to them they could make the most of it! These are the people who want to be satisfied and want their lives to improve, as long as someone else does the work for them and simply hands them the result. They live ten steps in the future while their feet haven’t moved an inch.

Still you probably have met people with no desire to succeed more than they already have. They have their life and while it might not be perfect or everything the world tells us we should want, it’s good enough. They might strive for small goals or want to make tiny improvements, but they really don’t care either way. If things go well, then they go well, and if things dip a bit, then they are just thankful the pendulum didn’t swing too far in the wrong direction.

All three of these types of people have one thing in common driving how they behave in life. It isn’t wealth, education, opportunity, their home life, or the hand that life ended up dealing to them. It actually isn’t anything physical at all, it’s their level of satisfaction, how they use it, and their mindset around it. What Does It Mean To Be Satisfied?

The dictionary defines satisfaction as “the fulfillment of one's wishes, expectations, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this.” All of us are satisfied every single day, especially when it comes to basic needs. When we are hungry, thirsty, or tired, we eat, drink, and sleep until we don’t need anymore. Too little of these needs and we feel bad and act badly towards others, while too much of these needs can throw our bodies off.

However, whenever we get just enough to where we don’t need anymore, we can be satisfied and go about our day. Satisfaction is something that keeps us content, where we are fine with where we are and we don’t need to have any more. But the level of satisfaction isn’t the same for everyone, and in fact it is a mindset that is different for each person.

What satisfies one person might not be enough or might be too much for someone else. That’s why people with a growth mindset for example are almost never content to rest on their laurels and want to seek out the newest challenges. However, for people without a growth mindset, they would be satisfied with any one of the things a high achiever could do and likely wouldn’t feel the need to do anymore.

Since satisfaction is a mindset, that means you can choose to be satisfied right here and now. You don’t need anything special, but of course that is easier said than done. Still, the idea that you can choose to be satisfied and content about anything, should be empowering to you. The situation that you are in doesn’t get to determine your level of happiness anymore, but instead that job falls to your mind and your mindset.

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There has been a lot of talk about the Metaverse in recent years, with tech companies, gurus, and business owners all speaking about the limitless power it can give. It's supposed to revolutionize the internet, and that breeds quite a lot of excitement and worry from certain people and groups. With Facebook recently rebranding itself into the company „Meta? and redefining their commitment to building the Metaverse soon, the word is on people?s lips more than ever.

However, the Metaverse is an area that is surrounded in confusion as well. What is it? Who owns it? What can you do with it? These are all questions that people are asking, and asking in much louder voices given the recent news.

Thankfully, this Ebook will help you out, as we are going to lay out step by step what the Metaverse is and why exactly you should care about it. We want to make sure that you are armed with the answers to these hard to answer questions and that our book can cut through the misinformation about the complexities of the Metaverse.

So read on, and by the end of this book, you?ll wonder what there was to be confused about in the first place!

Part 1: What Is the Metaverse?

Chapter 1: Understanding the Metaverse

The desire and ability to go into a video game, virtual world, or even into the internet itself hasn?t been anything new. From “Wreck-It-Ralph Breaks The Internet” to “Ready Player One”, we?ve seen this trope in countless fiction mediums. The idea that the internet is a virtual world in it of itself, one where people can encounter one another, make interactions with themselves and the world, and even affect the real world with their choices in the digital one.

If you think of it like a massively expanded virtual world, where players don?t just control avatars on a screen with a mouse and keyboard, then you?ve got the right idea. Instead, the person accessing the metaverse is their avatar, and they can move around, speak, and travel the virtual world as easily as they can in the real world.

It will also connect the virtual world and the real world to make the pair closer than ever before. For example, have you ever seen in Science Fiction where a character might wear goggles that give them a heads up display of their surroundings? They can look at people and instantly gain access to public information about them, or do the same with buildings or items. With the metaverse, we might have that technology too.

The Metaverse might seem a little confusing, but with a little bit of open mindedness and understanding, you?ll know just what this place is, so let?s start with a simple definition, shall we?

Definition

The Definition that most people can agree on is this one. The Metaverse is a set of virtual spaces where you can create and explore with other people who aren't in the same physical space as you. Think of it like a video game MMO world. In games like Final Fantasy or World of Warcraft, players from all over the world log into servers. Their avatars are visible in game, and they can interact with one another, participate in events, and even drive the game?s economy.

The Metaverse is going to be like that, only instead of going into a video game world, you would be logging into a world similar to our own. The Metaverse will be like one huge shopping mall, where you can log into different servers that are all owned by different companies. Imagine logging into Amazon?s virtual world and ordering all your packages with simple gestures. You won?t need to take out your phone, but instead put on a headset.

Additionally, the Metaverse will be able to support your Avatars. Whether you want to buy real life items to put in your virtual room, or just have an avatar that reacts to your movements and body language, your virtual manifestation of your avatar will be just as important to the metaverse as the worlds you inhabit.

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Being weird is not actually a liability. You can be weird and be successful with ease. There are many famous and well-known people who have embraced weirdness and have made it their own with great results. This is the power of being weird and being happy with your weird self.

If you want to be sure that you are being weird with all of your heart, you need to be fine with knowing that you will be different from the other people that you engage with on a daily basis. There are many people who are weird and just use it as fuel for their personal growth and you need to try and be this person for your mental health on a daily basis.

If you are looking for ways to inspire your journey into acceptance of your weirdness, you need to check out these stories of people who were weird and made it the reason for their success in life.

1. Milton Hershey

If you were told about someone who owned a candy company, you would automatically assume that they were not weird at all and were insanely happy just eating chocolate all day. This was not the case for Milton Hershey, who was actually a bit different and who did not always get along with people with whom he interacted. His unique vision for candy-making was not met with a lot of positive reactions and he had to return to his family farm and work on his recipe alone to get it right.

This journey into embracing his own unique vision made him a success and he was able to craft the candy that would be the backbone for a vastly successful, multi-million-dollar company that is still around today. Being weird is not always a problem when you are a creative person and letting other people ruin your creative vision through doubt can just harm you in the long run. The story of how the Hershey Company came to be should show you how much you can benefit from sticking to your own personal goals and dreams in the face of derision and criticism.

Creators who make new products and craft items that they are told cannot be made are almost always people who are considered to be weird. There is something in the social fabric that we weave that makes us want to identify people who go against the grain of the expectations of others as being odd or offbeat in dangerous ways. Being willing to struggle to create something that you can envision is a skill that weird people often have in spades and their fortitude over the years has led to hugely successful careers and the formation of wildly successful companies that are still around today.

If you have been worried about being weird or different and how it might impact your ability to get a job you love or open a business, you need only look at the story of Milton Hershey and how he managed to overcome criticism and a lack of support to found one of the biggest companies that have ever made candy in the world.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

While famous for many reasons these days, Mark Zuckerberg was a great example of a nerd who just could not quite fit in. While smart and successful in school, he was odd and not liked by his classmates overall. He struggled to make friends and get dates and his original idea for Facebook was to make sure that he could connect romantically with girls. He later expanded his idea to make sure that others who were socially awkward like him could find dates and connect in an easy way with girls that they struggled to talk to at school.

The vast success of Facebook could be considered an accident, but he was at the center of the development process of the site all along and has made critical decisions along the way that indicate that he knows how the social structure of online life works rather well. Being a unique thinker who was not engaging successfully socially with others in his age group, he managed to make a website that would launch many people into social health in ways that they could never have managed without his help.