3 Things you should know if you are starting a business in Belfast

My current hometown, Belfast, is a great place to start a business.  In all the countries and cities I have lived in, I find people in Belfast are very entrepreneurial.  A people with a great work ethic and a friendly and open nature makes Belfast, Northern Ireland a great place to open your doors to your new venture, for the full article please go to www.lisabarwise.com.

Top 10 health tips for having a super festive Christmas

The festive season is a time for celebration and family time but it can also bring with it stress, over indulging and well the usual winter sniffles and colds that get passed around.  In fact, this time a year we can put our bodies under so much stress that we spend the first two-three months in the New Year just trying to recover.  Follow just a few of these steps and you can enter the New Year with a fiery spirit!

So here are 10 health tips at Christmas Time

1. Get your dancing shoes on

Keep active during the festive season and help work off the extra calories. Try going for a brisk walk at lunchtime or why not have some fun and dance away the calories at the Christmas party!

2. Stub it out!

 

Give up smoking and help your heart. New Year is a good time to do this and after the expense of Christmas, it's easier on your pocket too.

3. Avoid the Fat 

It can be difficult to avoid high-fat food choices at this time of year, but there are some healthier options you can include on the buffet table if you’re entertaining.

Healthy examples include vegetable sticks with low fat yoghurt or tomato based dips and sandwiches with lower fat fillings, like sliced egg and tomato or low fat spreadable cheese with roasted vegetables.

4. Cut down 

 

The recommended maximum amount of salt per day for adults is 6g (or about 1 teaspoon). So go easy with the crisps, salted nuts and other nibbles.

It’s also worth getting into the habit of reading the food labels, such as those on pre-prepared party foods, to help you choose the healthiest options.

  

5. Eat more fruit and vegetables

It has been proven that a diet rich in fresh, raw fruits and vegetables can maintain heart health even when consuming high fat foods.

Fruit makes a great snack which can be eaten anytime of the day. Don’t head off to the work party hungry, as you are likely to be tempted by the less healthy options and may find you eat more than you normally would.

Instead, have a healthy snack beforehand such as an apple or a pear, low fat yogurt with dried fruit or a fruit smoothie which will take the edge off your hunger and helping you to make better choices.

Accompanying your high fat meals with a fresh side salad and fresh fruit salad can make it easier for your body to digest and is easier on your heart.

6. Festive cheer

Keep within sensible alcohol limits which is no more than 3-4 units a day for men and no more than 2-3 units a day for women. Try alternating alcoholic drinks with water or pure, unsweetened fruit juice.

7. Chill out

 

The build up to Christmas can be stressful and it can cause us to slip back into unhealthy behaviours, such as smoking and drinking more.

So take time out to relax, spend some time with friends or go for a stroll in the park and help reach your 30 a day physical activity target at the same time. 

8. Get some sleep

We know Christmas is all about having fun, eating and drinking, but research has shown that the a cold or other seasonal snuffle.

Your body and brain recharge when you're under the covers and also fight off infections. Try drinking a warm drink before bed, and, if you've been up or out partying, make sure you give yourself time to wind down and switch off before jumping into bed.

9. Eat a good breakfast

It's even more important than usual to eat a good breakfast at this time of the year. It's more likely that people who regularly eat breakfast also make good dietary choices the rest of the day. 

While any breakfast may be better than no breakfast, there are some foods you might want to avoid because they're high in sugars, sodium, saturated fats and calories. Cut back on sugary cereals (over 5.0 grams per serving), high-calorie pastries, and meats like bacon and sausage that are high in saturated fat and sodium.

Breakfast should include protein and plenty of fiber; the combination will help satisfy your hunger and will keep you feeling full until lunch time. The protein can come from low-fat meat, eggs, nuts or dairy products. High-fiber foods include fruits, vegetables and whole grains. A healthy breakfast doesn't need to be extravagant or take a long time to prepare. Try something simple like a hard boiled egg, whole grain toast and 100% fruit juice. And there's nothing wrong with a bowl of whole-grain cereal with berries and low-fat milk.

If you really don't like to eat breakfast, you can split it up into two smaller meals. Eat a hard boiled egg at home, and an hour or two later, take a break from work and snack on an apple and a handful of healthy nuts like pecans or walnuts.

10. Drink lots of water 

Being dehydrated can sap your energy and make you feel tired -- even mild dehydration of as little as 1 or 2 percent of your body weight. If you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated -- and this can lead to fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness and other symptoms.  Another symptom of dehydration is headaches. In fact, often when we have headaches it's simply a matter of not drinking enough water. There are lots of other causes of headaches of course, but dehydration is a common one. Drinking water can clear up your skin and people often report a healthy glow after drinking water. It won't happen overnight, of course, but just a week of drinking a healthy amount of water can have good effects on your skin.

TEAM VIVA: Welcome Aboard!

Hello there and welcome to Team VIVA.  Lisa Barwise's JP+ Team...

If you are reading this blog post you are either:

1. A new member of Team VIVA wanting to start on the path to becoming your own boss

2. An existing member of Team VIVA wanting ideas, tips and motivation to make more money with your business

3. Or someone looking for a new opportunity...


Well, there are many resources here for you:

1. Request access to the Team VIVA resource on Dropbox

2. Request a 1-2-1 phone call to work you through the back end admin

3. Request a call from me to discuss your new potential opportunity.

Here's to that new lifestyle, new you, new direction and new friends!

Lisa

You may be fit but are you healthy?

The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." To fully answer the question, then, you may chose to refine it to:

"What is the difference between Physical Health and Physical Fitness?"
Even within these parameters, Fitness is one component of Health. And in turn, Fitness has a number of components: "Fit for what?" Endurance, strength, and flexibility are three components of Fitness.

Generally, though, Fitness can be defined as the capacity to do effort, work or exercise. Physical Health might be defined as the resistance to illnesses; the capacity of your immune system, but even within the confines of Physical Health, it is not just "the absence of disease or infirmity"

To extend this to the original answer, health might be thought of as the ability of your body to recover from diseases like a cold, but it is so much more than that. Alternately, fitness might be seen as your ability to recover from doing strenuous exercise (the quicker your heart rate gets back to normal, the fitter you are), but it, too, is much more than that. Fitness is one aspect of Health, generally mediated through the fitness of your heart and circulatory system, lungs, and muscles. So, you can be fit but not healthy AND you can be healthy but not fit.

How would you like to be both?

Dave O’Brien, endurance athlete, International speaker on health is the oldest man, and one of only 30 people to complete the 4 Deserts- Racing the Planet.

He asks. “YOU MAY BE FIT BUT ARE YOU HEALTHY ?”

Dave O’Brien is an extraordinary person with a unique perspective on exercise, nutrition and health. Empowering people to take more ownership and responsibility of their health and that of their families.

A Story about real life, extreme challenges and life beyond the comfort zone

-  The Desert Runner’s Movie - 
Imagine you’ve been dropped off in the middle of one of the largest, driest deserts in the World. Over the next six days you will have to run, jog, walk or crawl 155 miles through the incessant heat (up to 50 degrees centigrade), across soft sand and hard-packed gravel, over sand dunes multiple stories high and down razor-sharp rocky cliffs. You must do this carrying everything you need to survive — clothes, food, sunscreen, emergency medical supplies, sleeping bag — in a 20-pound pack on your back.

Now imagine doing this not just once, but four times in one calendar year, through the four most treacherous deserts in the world: the Atacama Desert in  Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara in Egypt… and then, the final stage, a 150-mile footrace across the single most inhospitable landscape in the world: Antarctica. The race organisers have strategically chosen these four deserts because they are (respectively) the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest places on Earth.

Any single race in RacingThePlanet’s 4Desert Ultramarathon Series is an extraordinary, life-threatening challenge– something we would only expect the most accomplished, elite athletes on the planet to try. But most of the courageous men and women who come from all over the world to compete in these Herculean events are not professional athletes at all, they’re ordinary people—people with families and day jobs and mortgage payments– people like you and me who have decided, for a variety of personal reasons, to take on this extreme physical challenge.

Why do they do it? Are they crazy? Perhaps…
Dave O’Brien, the oldest man at 56, and only Irish man to complete this superhuman feat is an extraordinary person with a unique perspective on exercise, nutrition and health. Learn what he has to share with us based on his remarkable career when he visits us in Belfast on Thursday 17th November at 7.30pm at Ramada Encore Hotel.

How to Make an Ebook for FREE

Create PDF eBooks

Give your eBooks away as a viral marketing tool or sell them on the Internet the regular way or through your own members only website.
There is no doubt that ebooks are an excellent online money maker and a great viral marketing tool because they increase website traffic.

1. Write Or Acquire Some Content

Anything you know how to do can be created into an information product. I mean anything! Anything you know about or how to do is a topic which you can write about.  

Write Your Own

This is the best Free content because you control the distribution rights. It can be a few page report or as long as you like. The size of the product will depend on how much information is needed to explain what is in your brain.

Never try to increase the size of your product for the sake of increasing it's size to add perceived value. The value is in the information I want to discover. I want you to tell me how to do it and I want you to get to the point.

Get Free Content

To get moving quickly, you can get content that is in the public domain. When a title is in the public domain, it means that the copyright has expired. There are many public domain sources on the Internet. Take care when taking public domain works. The work itself will be in the public domain but the website HTML is not.

Private Label Content (PLR) is also an excellent source of pre-written material for your eBook projects. PLR content is an excellent alternative to Public Domain content because it is supplied in a digital format with a Resale Rights license.

In all cases, you can re-write the content and put your name as the author. PLR content is much easier to source than public domain content. Many Internet marketers today compile a series of PLR articles into an eBook with their own title. Then they create another eBook telling people how they got rich on the Internet selling eBooks!

Many affiliate programs now offer Free content to help their affiliates be more successful.
I have also used reports from my old Reprint Rights 2000 CD. While there is a lot of out dated information on these CD's, there are reports that will always remain timeless.

Timeless information includes information on business, advertising, customer service, life and happiness, cook books, formulas, philosophy, gambling systems, etc.

2. Build Your Pages

Build Pages From Word and Other Office Applications

Office applications like Word, Excel, Publisher, Access and Powerpoint can all be used to create a PDF eBook as long as you have Adobe Acrobat Full Version installed on your machine. Take note that the regular Free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader will not create PDF eBooks.

Macs have a PDF writer built into all word processing documents and provide quality PDFs with accessible links.

The biggest benefits in having your eBooks in PDF (Portable Document File) format (file-name.pdf) is that both Windows and Mac users can read your eBooks, the file sizes are much smaller and more people will download them because they do not have the .exe extention.

The biggest drawback to distributing PDF eBooks is that affiliate links become visible when the mouse hovers over the link. This is not a problem with compiled HTML eBooks because the status bar can be removed from the eBook.

Warning: While Free and cheap PDF creation software will make a PDF, it is a common mistake to use such software and discover that the hyperlinks do not work and you cannot create bookmarks within the document. This is true in many cases except for this Free PDF maker. I however, use Adobe Acrobat full version to create PDF eBooks and white papers.

Here is one site I found that will take you through the process step by step...
 http://www.richkits.com/how-to-make-your-own-ebooks-for-free/

How to Make Money Online

Get rich with the flick of a switch?

“Ways to make money online”, search for it and you’ll find hundreds of them. Some are legitimate and real methods for making money online and others are scams and get rich quick schemes. Although there are so many different ways to make money on the internet, making money online isn’t always easy or quick. It takes hard work and dedication. Yes, there are some online jobs that are easier than others and there are some quick(er) ways to make money, but if you want to make real money, you have to put some time and effort into it.

Earning money online is no different than making money offline. If you want to work at home, you need to have the right mind set. Forget about making money with a push of a button, free money or the magic money making method that is going to get you rich over night. Though internet itself is a virtual world, there is nothing virtual about the need to work to make money online.

Earning money online takes hard work and consistency. But, if you are willing to put enough time and effort into it, there are number of ways you can use the internet to make extra money. Here are a few:

Making Money with Affiliate Programs

This is by far the best way to make money online, at least in my opinion. You are basically selling other people’s stuff for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books and short reports to promote on sites like ClickBank and PayDotcom.  Affiliate Marketing for beginners.

Make Money on eBay

Believe it or not, there are lots of people who don’t know how to sell on ebay. You can sell their stuff on ebay in exchange for a commission. You can take this one step farther and turn it into a bigger business by buying wholesale items and selling them individually on ebay. Don’t forget that garage sales are often good places to find worthy items for a fraction of the cost. eBay for beginners.

Create and Sell E-Books or Programs
You can make e-books about anything. If you have some knowledge about anything, whether its a recipe or a how to do this and that. Its not as hard as you think. You can take that step further and create a DIY program.  Look at some e-books that are selling for £10-£50 to get an idea what people are willing to buy. How to make an ebook for free

For full details, more free articles, visit our website www.vivasystems.co.uk.

Selling on E-bay

There are many different ways to make money online. some online money making methods like Affiliate Marketing are so profitable that can become your home based business and your only source of income you will ever need, and some like Paid surveys not so profitable, but can still help you make couple hundred dollars a month, which in this south going economy is very much appreciated. with the rise of internet popularity which is growing tremendously, an online based business can be as profitable as ever. some of these online money making methods will require some investment and some don’t. but either way many of these online money making strategies can be quit profitable if done right. an example of such a method that doesn’t require a big investment and can be quit profitable is selling on Ebay.

Ebay is by far the most well-known online based action site. using the already established reputation of Ebay, you can build an online business that can make you more money than you could ever imagine.

There are many successful Ebay sellers who used Ebay as a platform to launch their home based business. but in order to succeed in building a home based business that will be a great source of revenue, such as an Ebay store, you need to take some very crucial steps that will prepare you for the road ahead. it may take some time to go through the process, but it will ensure your success in making more money with Ebay or any other online based business built on the idea of buying low and selling high. lets take a look at 3 of the most essential and important steps you can take to make your online business a success.


1. Research And Find A Profitable Niche
This is the most important part of any successful business. researching and finding what product or service can convert. you need to find a product or products that are hot and are in great demand. this is not very hard to do. keeping an eye on what sales the most on Ebay, and using their seller research tools, will allow you to easily find what kind of product are hot sellers and in great demand. of course not any product is going to be profitable. that is where you have to combine this part with the step 3 to find a product that can bring you bigger profit than others.

2. Find legitimate Wholesale/Drop ship Companies
After deciding what kinds of product you are going to be selling, its time to find a place where you can buy the products at a wholesale price. this step is by far the most difficult challenge in your journey to running a successful Ebay store, finding a legitimate and trust worthy Wholesale/Drop ship Company. while a simple search on Google reviles hundreds of wholesaler and drop shipper from all over the world in any niche imaginable, 80% of those are not trustworthy companies. scam in wholesale industry is quit a big problem. while scammers can be all over the world, for a beginner i recommend choosing a company that is located in united stats(or any country that you live in), so you can track their business easier and make sure they are legitimate.

3. Start Small And Grow
After deciding your product and finding a legitimate wholesaler, who you can trust to buy large quantities of the chosen item, it is time to get started. but you want to start slow and build up as you go. don’t make the mistake of many beginners who spend all of their money on buying case loads of stock before they even know how eBay works. starting small and building up gradually is an important aspect of any successful business. not only it keeps your risk to a minimum, but also it allows you to test the water and get your feet wet before you take a plunge into it. many power sellers on Ebay agree that this method is the best way to learn and grow your Ebay business, while keeping the risk involved at a minimal level. you will be surprised how much you learn and grow by selling just a couple items at a time. build on that and take your Ebay business to the next level.


Tip
An important part of any business, specially a home based business based on Ebay, is being organized and documenting each and every transaction you make. that will allow you to keep track of your progress, which can contribute greatly in your success as you will be able to look back and find your high’s and low’s.

Ebay can make your dream of having your own online business come through, if you put enough effort and persistency into it. The 21st century is going to make the use of internet, a normal and even a bigger part of daily lives of people around the world who are becoming more and more comfortable with the idea of shopping online. thanks to many great ideas such as Ebay, for a smart person who is trying to build a great foundation for rest of his financial life, making money online has never bee easier. fallowing these three basic but essential steps will guaranty your spot amongst many others who make a living by taking advantage of ever increasing online shopping popularity, and building a solid online business that can bring you thousands of dollars, month after month.