Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Announcing the Launch of The Wholesome Entrepreneur

When I was putting my affairs in order for my surgery last winter (when doing major surgery there is always a chance, however small, of not making it), I updated my wills and I wrote like mad to finish The Wholesome Entrepreneur. I wanted to leave it as a legacy for my daughters, both entrepreneurs, and to the massage profession. I finished it before I went under general anesthetic.

Obviously, as we all expected, I survived. And I have this Life Giving Manual for you now.

I launch The Wholesome Entrepreneur, on October 2nd at 6:00 AM PDT.

The subtitle describes the book well –

One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business

I’ve learned the hard way, curled up on the floor in a fetal position that the self-employed don’t take care of themselves very well. They need help. This manual shows them easy steps and some more challenging ones that can save their lives.

Crash and burn is not pretty. Despair sucks. You and I want people who can thrive over decades of entrepreneurship. You want them to be able to sustain this life of freedom. Right?

I have helped many people to stay sane and thrive over my thirty plus years as a therapist and mentor. It’s mythic, even when people are making good money, they still need help staying whole.

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"Give me one day and I'll show you how to have a rich, rewarding, life connected to the Sacred while running a business.”

When you get your copy of this amazing manual, The Wholesome Entrepreneur -- One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business you'll discover amazing secrets like ...

What the Zen master from the 6th C has to say that will change your life. Just think about getting a powerful tip like this.


· The ultimate perspective clearing device. And if you’re reading this you know – Perspective Is Everything.

· How to gain inspiration to solve any problem in your business... This one's really cool!

· Where to find true joy in your business. Wouldn’t that be useful?

· How to have unlimited energy for life.

· How to be in alignment with the Sacred and feel supported in all you do.

· And much, much more ...


HERE’S WHAT JOHN GALLAGHER SAYS –

“GREAT! It's like you wrote it for me! :)

"I never would have become an entrepreneur without the tools I learned from William years ago. It blows my mind that ANYONE can learn these life saving tips in a manual.

“For those of you who WANT to be entrepreneurs, you will learn how to remove the blocks from preventing you from realizing your dreams. Hint: There is one secret in this book that says “Just get to work!”

“William’s techniques take the whole human into account and really work.

“For those who ARE entrepreneurs, you will learn what you need to do to keep yourself sane, healthy and happy. There is no way your business will ever be sustainable without following Williams 12 Secrets.

“If you want to start your own business or already own one, you’d be insane not to read The Wholesome Entrepreneur."

-John Gallagher, L.Ac. , LearningHerbs.com (http://tinyurl.com/6fqf8b )

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YOU GET TWO OPTIONS –

Buy The Wholesome Entrepreneur outright and gain the benefits,

Or for ONE DOLLAR MORE you can become a member and get everything I have ever written.

You can read details, watch a short video, and get samples here --

Go for it => http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.net/wholesome2options.html

Blessings,

William

P.S. Remember you can’t get the book or join until the launch date of October 2nd at 6:00 AM PDT.

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Cut Through the Lies

Politicians lie, exaggerate, obfuscate, spin, and manipulate your base fears. So, what?

So, what happens for me is I lose my sense of humor. I descend from skeptical, which I view as healthy, to cynical, which I find to be dark, oppressive, hopeless, and no fun.

Here’s a cure go. Read www.FactCheck.org every time you see a political advertisement. Or better yet, skip the ads and just read what the scrupulously non-partisan folks at Fact Check have to say.

These folks rate the veracity of political campaign ads. Recently, in the US campaign, you may have seen some real stinkers.

If you live outside the U.S., you may still find the site humorous and useful, but look inside your own borders for similar sites. Surely, this valuable site will have imitators. Then again, no-one delivers the same barrage of ads over such a long time as the U.S.A. does.

Blessings,

William

P.S. A good antidote to BAD political ads is A MAGIC MESSAGE from Uncle Mike, News from the Universe --

If you ask me, William, I'd say the main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from.

Ain't no thing -

The Universe

If you aren't getting these magic messages from Uncle Mike, read my review of Mike's goodies including this fabulous freebee.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/3yu6yz


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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Oh, I See Your Problem

“Oh, I see your problem,” Zen Master says, “The trouble you have is that you think you have time.”

Woof!

Who’s the “you” Zen Master addresses? To which “you” does the master refer? It’s not your Buddha mind, now, is it? It’s not the wise inner sage. It’s your personality, your ego identity, your ego mind.

Your ego has a couple of jobs, at least.

One: Always be right. Justify if you need. Be delusional if you need. Be right by being wrong if you need. Just be right.

Two: Keep the knowledge of your certain mortality at bay.

I have written before about using the phrase – today is a good day to die. Today’s quote is another take on this wake up call.

How can you use it to wake up? How can you use it to be joyful in this very moment? Instead of waiting for some event in the future, as when I win the lottery, when I marry/divorce, when I get the promotion, when my parents, spouse, boss, best friend apologizes or they approve of me.

It might be instructive for you to look inside and discover the circumstance for which you’re waiting. What needs to improve before you get to be wholeheartedly happy in this very moment?


And What Pray Tell Would Be The Best Use Of Your Limited Time?

Obviously, I recommend you use any strategy you have to become present, to become conscious of this present moment. Right here. Right now.

· Meditate
· Practice taiji
· Be still
· Watch your breathing

You can find wonderful suggestions in my books
SIMPLY SERRENE (http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x) and LOOKING DEEPLY INTO PRESENCE (http://tinyurl.com/os966) including the guaranteed Owl Eyes method.

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION (http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9) offers another way. (Note: SIMPLY SERENE contains an early version of FOOLPROOF RELAXATION.)

All three carry satisfaction guarantees. Go for it–

Simply Serene => http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x
Looking Deeply into Presence => http://tinyurl.com/os966
Foolproof Relaxation => http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9

Byron Katie’s book, LOVING WHAT IS can be very useful. More later.

Blessings,

William

Friday, August 01, 2008

YOUR TIME’S RUNNING OUT…

Dear One,

YOUR TIME’S RUNNING OUT…

Your chance to join BODY & SOUL MENTOR ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st. THAT’S TONIGHT!

I don’t know when you’ll be able to join after this time. And it will never be at a better price -- $1.oo for the first month. NEVER.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com


YOU GET…

Remember when you become a member, you get these books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports as part of your monthly membership:

The Wholesome Entrepreneur – $27

Altar Making – $Priceless

Amazingly Content -- How to Be In Love with All You See & Hear, and Be In Harmony With Family, Friends & Work –$19.97

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION -- How to Relax, Become Present, and Be At Ease Anytime and Anywhere You Want. – $9.97

Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways To Be Instantly Alert And At Peace – $27

Looking Deeply Into Presence – Solve Problems, Make Critical Decisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life – $17.97

The Magic Formula –How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want – $19.97 (Note: I just doubled the price on this gem.)

And don’t forget the COMING ATTRACTIONS that members will also get as part of their monthly fee. You can read about them in the right sidebar at http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Total that up and you’ll find it’s a bunch of value for only $9.97 a month.
Naturally, you can read all that you get here => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com Find out for yourself.

Again, your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Live long and prosper,

William

P.S. A couple more countries have members now. Cool!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

How Optical Illusions Help You Eat Well

How can air in food make you more satisfied – make you eat less? How can it curb a tendency to be fat, or reverse a trend?

Can it? Turns out – yes.

Feed a hungry college student a half glass full of smoothie and they will eat 20% more at lunch ½ later than the college student who drinks the SAME smoothie only whipped until it swells to a full glass with air. Not only that, but the ones that eat the airy smoothie don’t make it up at their next meal.

My brother, John, and my food guru, Dick, have both recommended Mindless Eating and Volumetrics to you and me. I finally read them. Actually, John recommends listening to Mindless Eating as a book on tape, so that’s what I did. I recommend it.

Listen to get the fun of it and the flavor of it. Then get the book to read the summaries of what to do.

Both titles don’t really work to tell you their messages. The subtitle of Volumetrics is great – Feel Full On Fewer Calories. I’d rewrite that to read – Feel Satisfied on Fewer Calories.

It’s not my job to re-title these excellent books. Mindless Eating deals with how our brains are tricked to eat more than we want by other visual cues and often by genuine optical illusions.

You could summarize Volumetrics – We don’t eat calories, we eat size, volume. We are stratified by greater volume and not necessarily by greater calories. Satisfied means you eat less, means you lose fat and still feel, well, satisfied.

These are not deprivation diet books. DEPRIVATION DIETS DON’T WORK. And need I say, not fun.

The two cheapest ingredients in food are water and air. Adding air or water is the simplest way to feel more satisfied with no additional calories. You read about air in the smoothie above. Soup is food with water added. Raisins are grapes with water removed.

Let’s see what that does for you…


Raisins

Which is more satisfying. ¼ cup of raisins or nearly 2 cups of grapes (50 ml or 500 ml). The metric numbers makes the size difference even more startling. Exact same number of calories. Exact same food. One has water; one doesn’t.

Which would you choose if you wanted to feel most satisfied?

Yep, me too.


Soup is the Free Lunch of Satisfaction

I live on good soup, not words. – Molière

Even though soup is mostly water, you and your body perceive it as food. This is very counter intuitive to me.

Proof? Give people a 270 calorie chicken-rice casserole and a glass of water as a first course to a luncheon.

Give another group the same casserole with the water added to it to make it a soup. Check both groups to see how much they ate for the rest of lunch.

The soup people ate 100 calories less of the lunch that followed and didn’t make up the loss at dinner. Cool, yes! Soup created more satiety, satisfaction. Other experiments showed that chunky soup creates more satisfaction than strained soup. And hot and cold soups both create the same benefits.

You can read the physiology in the books if you’re interested. But this seems like magic to me.


Bag the Peanut Butter

I over eat peanut butter; it is one of the highest density foods you can find. If I eat volume, then you have to eat a mountain of calories to get a decent volume.

If I lived alone, I would just not bring it into the house. Obviously you can use this useful tip for all your trigger foods. Since I live with the Mysterious Madame Ling, who likes peanut butter on apples, I simply put the peanut butter in a brown paper bag.

Not only is this -- Out of sight, out of mind -- it puts inconvenience into the circuit making it harder to mindlessly eat.

Note: You may be and I am on a seafood diet, I eat everything I see. Out of sight, out of mind.


Eating Out? Eat This, Not That

Men’s Health magazine food editor, David Zinczenko, has written a book that works with some of the same ideas, but he takes it into the world of eating out in America. If you live outside the USA, these examples can still be instructive.

John shared this one with me -- Baskin-Robins’ Banana split or Dairy Queen’s?

I will just tease you. Go to the site or get the magazine to see which one.
http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/15-Top-Swaps/index.php


This page deals with drinks. Check the classic cocktail for a shock.

http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/Drink-This-Not-That/index.php



OK, One Optical Illusion

People perceive tall as more than short.

Remember the optical illusion from childhood of the upside down T. They ask which is longer – the horizontal part or the vertical section.

People say the vertical is up to 20% taller when they are in fact the same length. (The illusion is so strong for me, that I got out a ruler and tested it.)

Tall thin glasses will have you drinking less wine, juice, or Coke. And again, you will feel satisfied. Remove the short squat glasses from your life, unless you want to increase your consumption of water, then the idea works in your favor. I drink water out of a Bavarian beer mug.


Action

If you have people in your family who need to monitor fat gain, get the books, read them, and then apply the tricks.

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TIME’S RUNNING OUT…

Your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Remember when you become a member, you get these books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports as part of your monthly membership:

The Wholesome Entrepreneur – $27

Altar Making – $Priceless

Amazingly Content -- How to Be In Love with All You See & Hear, and Be In Harmony With Family, Friends & Work –$19.97

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION -- How to Relax, Become Present, and Be At Ease Anytime and Anywhere You Want. – $9.97

Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways To Be Instantly Alert And At Peace – $27

Looking Deeply Into Presence – Solve Problems, Make Critical Decisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life – $17.97

The Magic Formula –How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want – $19.97 (Note: I just doubled the price on this gem.)

And don’t forget the COMING ATTRACTIONS that members will also get as part of their monthly fee. You can read about them in the right sidebar at http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Total that up and you’ll find it’s a bunch of value for only $9.97 a month.

Again, your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Eat well,

William

P.S. If you haven’t read the Magic Formula, clearly, this would be a good time. It shows you How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want that includes the healthy body you want.

What would your life be like if you loved your body?

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2

And, of course, if you’re a member, getting the MAGIC FORMULA is one of your benefits.

Again, your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Biggest Concerns

Here are the two biggest concerns I hear from people about joining Body & Soul Mentor.

I have no time.

I hate reading on a computer.

I don’t have time …

A concern of some folks is the old time thing. “I don’t have time,” they say.

“Who does?

Well, actually, you have enough time for this.”

Because of two things, you’ll get your money’s worth.

1) I have priced this so that there will be no financial barrier to joining.

2) I have compacted so much value in this sight that even if you apply the minimum of 17 minutes a day you’ll get your money’s worth.

Just nose around Body & Soul Mentor until you find the article, the podcast, the Laser Focused report, the forum that sparks a single insight. You can live on one or two great insights a month. You can skim the regular and prized letters I send – scanning for the gem that changes everything…

I will give you more tips on how to do this when you join.

3) If you don’t have 17 minutes a day, join and find out how to get more time.

I Hate Reading on the Computer

I am with you there. Short articles and videos are just great on the computer. Don’t you agree? But for longer pieces, I want to print it and head to my favorite reading spot.

All the articles on Body & Soul Mentor have a print friendly link at the bottom of the page. Use it.

All my books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports, which are intentionally shorter than 20 pages, come as Adobe Acrobat files and can be easily and beautifully printed, even bound.

Lastly, for non-reading altogether, I have podcasts for members. You may have listened to the Pilgrimage one. If not, you can get it here.

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

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Good Surprise

The underlying question of people in the above two concerns is – Will I get my money’s worth?

I say, “Yes.” Here’s why – price.

I want you to get the very best value I can offer. And I don’t want money to stand in your way.

That is why after weeks of pondering, I decided to keep the price for membership at $9.97/month instead of $17.97 even though there is HUGELY more value in the site now after this HUMONGOUS upgrade.

In fact, I am going to bet that people like you will like the sight so much once they try it that they happily will continue being members for years.

That is why I am going to offer the first month at the token price of $1.00.

Be sure to be first in line to be one of the 200 new members.

Go here Thursday morning, July 24th at 6:00 AM PDT.

=> http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com


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Go to http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com to look at everything you’ll get when you join. You can watch timer countdown to the opening…

And Tomorrow, July 24, 2008 at 6:00 AM PDT I’ll open the doors for the first 200 people to come join. Then I close the doors for at least a month to see if I can manage the new folks along with the current members.

Take your time in considering. Carefully Read the whole letter I wrote at http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com I don’t think all 200 places will disappear in a shot. Consider wisely. Take your time.

In any case, at the end of the week, August 1, 2008 at 9:00 PM PDT. I will close the doors.

Note: I reserve the right to close the doors for any other unforeseen reason. Very unlikely, but that’s the nature of unforeseen events.

Blessings,

William

Monday, July 21, 2008

Fear Reframed

A famous British stage actor used to be horribly frightened before each performance.

One day someone kindly inquired, “How’s your body feel when you’re about to go on stage, when you say you have stage fright? What are the sensations you feel. Just what your senses tell you. Don’t label the sensations.”

“Hmm,” he pondered. “Well, my heart’s racing, I’m breathing high up in my body. I’m on edge…”

“And how do you feel when you’re excited?” his friend continued.

“Oh! It’s the same.”

So, from thenceforth, whenever he was preparing to go on stage and the old stage fright would ramp up, he would just say, “Jeepers, I’m excited.” And he’d be fine.

Try it the next time you’re feeling fear about a new adventure. Just say to yourself, “Holy moly, I’m excited.”

Blessings,

William

P.S. Woof! That’s me doing a lot of heavy lifting UPGRADING Body & Soul Mentor. I am really close to launching the site on the July 24th at 6:00 AM PDT.

A favor: although, I think Body & Soul Mentor site it terrific, I want to be sure I have included everything you might want.

I have all my books, Laser Focused reports, and manuals on the site available to members at zero cost.

I have the new videos posted. (Many wrote about how much they liked the last one on Dave’s Knee.)

Moving, powerful podcasts are available for members.

You’ll find the stories and articles are organized beautifully. I have IMPROVED guided tours available to make it easy for people to get around.

In short, there are lots of goodies available to members who will be glad to pay the low monthly fee of $14.97 or $17.97… I haven’t decided yet.

But, this is where you come in… please take a couple of minutes to respond to this SUPER SHORT survey. Really. There are only two questions I need you to answer.

I you would be so kind

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