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November 26, 2020 by Richard Leave a Comment

Wealthy Affiliate Sneak Preview Black Friday Sale Nov 27th – Nov 30th, 2020

WEALTHY AFFLIATE

Black Friday is coming soon and there are always bargains to be had. There has been a big shift in shopping habits since the COVID-19. It could be a cold Xmas for High Street Shops. It’s been all doom and gloom and Covid-19 is doing its best to put a damper on the Xmas Shopping. Shoppers are carrying on regardless and I suspect Black Friday online sales will be record-breaking.

If you are considering joining an online marketing course instead of spending your money have  a look at one of the top online marketing platforms. Wealthy Affiliate is excellent value for  money and  I highly recommend them because they equipped me with the tools to understand the online world a lot better.

What is Wealthy Affiliate

Wealthy Affiliate was created as an initiative to help other people succeed online in the same way Kyle and Carson had already experienced success. Since 2005, the platform at WA has continued to evolve and innovate at a pace that is faster than the industry.

The Upcoming Black Friday Offer Details.

This year’s Black Friday event at Wealthy Affiliate is running Friday, November 27th, 2020 – Monday November 30th, 2020 at MIDNIGHT.

This year is a bit different. Like previous year’s you are going to be able to get a Premium membership at a big discount. This year however, Wealthy Affiliate has another option available as well. They are also going to be offering a steep discount on r Premium Plus+ bundle, their newly introduced membership option that was released in early November.

Kyle one of the co-founders says. “We are on a mission to keep your costs of running a business the lowest in the industry, while maintaining our lead in the industry and offering the MOST comprehensive, technically advanced, and well support affiliate/internet marketing platform online”.

There are going to be two offers this year.

Premium Yearly Offer ($395 per year)

Premium membership, with $100 saving off of regular price. You are going to get access to EVERYTHING within the Premium membership, the training, 52+ live classes, research tools, the support, websites/hosting, content tools and ALL Premium updates in the year ahead (and we have a bunch of them planned).

The Premium offer includes the following:

  1. $100 off the regular price
  2. One Free .com Domain
  3. $50 in Community Credits
  4. 52+ Expert Classes
  5. All future Premium updates

Premium Plus+ Yearly Offer ($795 per year)

The Premium Plus+ Bundle is Wealthy Affiliate  newest membership, released in early November. It has already gained a lot of traction, with people blown away by the offering and the overall savings they get. Well it is about to get discounted event further for the Black Friday event.

The Premium Plus+ offer includes:

    • $200 off regular price
    • Two free Domains
    • $100 in community credits
    • Jaaxy Enterprise ($1,188 per year value)
    • Hosting for 50 Websites ($500/mth value)
    • 200+ Additional “Premium Plus+ Only” Expert Classes (can’t put a price on it)

If this post interests You have a look at Wealthy Affiliate’s website  –   Click Here!

If you are interested in the Black Friday Sale Friday, November 27th, 2020 – Monday November 30th, 2020 at MIDNIGHT.

Click Here!

Thanks for Your Time!

Richard

 

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November 19, 2020 by Richard 2 Comments

Who Doesn’t Love a Bargain! Black Friday Sale November 27 2020

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Is Black Friday 2020 cancelled? No, but here’s how COVID-19 changes it

Discounts still abound, but you should really just shop online this year. Read here !

One Man’s Trash is another Man’s Treasure

Internet revellers looking for a bargain found the most disgusting items for sale from online toenails to furniture that should have been tossed into a bonfire. One newspaper source reported:

  • A new series of photos reveals the strangest bargains once found online
  • Some people tried to sell extremely damaged goods such as a shabby armchair deemed ‘in OK condition’ and beat-up sandals going for $60
  • Another seller posted a stunningly creepy ad for fingernail clippings, carefully arranged into a smiley face in one picture
  • Someone attempted to sell what was presented as Ugg boots that are ‘a little rough around the edges’, with a hole so big the person’s toes are poking through

Quite frankly this not my idea of bagging a bargain there are better and reliable ways of finding a bargain.

I love the Black Friday Sales on Amazon because I can go shopping for the family and get a massive discount on products 

So what is a Black Friday Sale?

Black Friday

Black Friday is a tradition that falls after Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Its a fairly new shopping experience in Europe.

Shops compete against each other to get you the best deals, and frantic shoppers bumping into each other to get their bargains into one of their six trolleys. 

Black Friday is a shopping day for a number of reasons. Its a reminder of the chaotic Xmas shopping season. Imagine!

The thrill of getting a bargain, You just bought your wife a mink coat at a fraction of the price. Or a diamond bracelet she was hinting at for months.

Oh! yes, and don’t forget those Gucci shoes you promised yourself for ages. Black Friday deals are normally promoted across the States and the UK, by all major retailers with Amazon being the biggest online store. 

No doubt there will be plenty of bargains so make sure you are acquainted with the drill for Black Friday 27th  November 2020

 Top 15 shopping tips for Black Friday Deals (Which Magazine)

1. Preparation is the key to Black Friday

If you know what’s going to be on sale beforehand, it’s easier to check if it’s a good offer or not. Sign up for your favourite retailers’ newsletters, ‘like’ their Facebook pages and register for Twitter alerts, as they’ll be keen to publicise their best deals.

2. Find out whether retailers will match prices

Some retailers, such as John Lewis, will match prices on Black Friday deals (but usually not with online-only stores, such as Amazon or AO.com). This means that you can do most of your shopping with just one retailer, which can make life a lot easier. 

Most other shops don’t have price-matching policies but may agree to refund the difference if you challenge them about a price drop soon after you’ve bought something. Read more…….

Check out the Amazon Black Friday Deals 

You may bag a bargain on Amazon for kids clothing and toys. Black Friday seems like a perfect time to kit out the kids and buy the Xmas presents for the kids.

Just make sure you hide it in a bank vault as kids have a nose for sniffing out hiding places. My children always knew our hiding places.  I got wise and asked a neighbour to hide their presents.

Okay! so here is the question are you really getting a bargain on Black Friday?. Check the fifteen shopping tips as recommended by Which Magazine above and you should become a savvy shopper spot the bargain, raise an eyebrow when the product that has been on sale throughout the year. I wish you a Happy Black Friday Day.

Keep checking Black Friday  deals for

  • Pushchair bargain
  • Car seat bargain
  • Baby Monitor bargain
  • High Chair bargain

 

 

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September 8, 2020 by Richard Leave a Comment

A Survey on Hands on Dads

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It’s not only a Woman’s Role

During the 80s I was a hands-on dad as I just lost my job it was fun it was exciting and it was damn demanding. But! I learned so much from my children. All my time management skills I owe to them. My two sons, in turn, have become hands-on dads.

Today, however, times have changed, more and more dads have become involved with their children, from pushing prams, bottle feeding and changing diapers. I’m extremely proud of my two sons as they are fantastic with their kids and make it look so simple.

An article in the Daily Mail caught my attention, the title was the “Rise of the hands-on Dads”. According to Sadie Whitlock, she states that the detached dad, turning up his nose at parenting duties, is a myth.

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A new government survey was done and found that 3,881 fathers across the U.S. who lived at home with their families between 2006 and 2010. Of the 1,790 men with children aged under five, 90per cent said were hands-on dads and bathed dressed and changed diapers. Seventy-two percent of the dads said that they fed and ate with their children daily.

Eighty-one percent of fathers were engaged in playtime activities but when it came to Reading less than 29% found the time to read to their children. Dad’s with children aged 5 years old to 18 only 30% said they help with homework or checked up on the daily progress.

 Two thirds (65per cent) made an effort to engage in conversation about what had happened in the classroom. The nationally representative survey shows fathers’ involvement has increased slightly since the government first asked in 2002, coinciding with research since then that bolsters the benefits of hands-on fathering.

These new results are very encouraging and important to the child’s development. The more involved dads are with their children’s mental and emotional development the more the child would flourish. Joe Jones a leading researcher found there were more academic success less behavior problems and healthier eating habits.

The more dads became involved in their children’s daily activities their children’s wellbeing was assured. The survey speaks volumes. During the baby boom years, mothers were the nurturers and carers and dads were the breadwinners. 

My Dad would run a mile when it came to feeding time but I will say he told us lots of stories and occasionally read us a story, he normally fell asleep halfway through the story.

As those roles shifted, so did the view that mothers are the only nurturers. Jennifer Bellamy, Sociologist from the University of Chicago  who also studies fathering, said some old stereotypes persist.

I am doing the most important Job in the World.

how to be a hands on Dad survey

Dads are sort of the co-pilots in their families,’ absent or less involved than moms. But she said the survey confirms that fathers ‘are quite involved in a variety of different and important ways.

Here is a case study of Robert Loftus, 34, of Yonkers, New York.

He resigned from a six-figure sales job a year ago to care for his two young children while his wife works full time. ‘Times have changed,’ he said. ‘We’re trying to rethink our priorities and family seems to be the “number one” priority whereas in the past maybe people were more focused on career.

He says he is doing the most important job in the world. Don’t underestimate your role as a Dad. Your kids will always need you no matter what age. 

Read my blog on First Time Dad a Personal Journey

Download the Hands on Dad Survey here!

Getting dads involved – Watch Video Below!

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September 2, 2020 by Richard Leave a Comment

Men die of Fear because they did not take Action!

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Keeping a stiff upper  has long been a hallmark of masculinity. ‘Real men’, we are told, hide their feelings. It’s precisely this unrealistic expectation we place on the male of the species that is responsible for so many men putting off getting tested for prostate cancer until it is too late. That, and fear of what the result will be.

They fool themselves that it’s perfectly normal to keep running  to the toilet or to stand at the urinal for 10 minutes, with nothing more than a dribble coming out.

Read Jeremy Clarke’s searing account of his prostate cancer treatment in this week’s Mail — from testosterone depletion to growing breasts — was so brave. Like many other men, he had left it too late before he got the dreaded diagnosis.

The prostate gland is a male reproductive organ about the size of a walnut whose main function is to secrete semen.

But it can cause problems out of all proportion to its size when it becomes cancerous, so it’s suprising that it hardly got a mention when I was at medical school. It wasn’t until I was a junior doctor in A&E that I started to appreciate how important it can be. […..] Read more

How to treat an Enlarged Prostrate

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Benign prostatic hyperplasia, better known as prostate enlargement or BPH, is an incredibly common medical problem in which the prostate grows in size. Though the severity differs for all of the affected, up to 90% of males will develop BPH by age 80, with many experiencing it far earlier.

BPH is a well-researched and treatable disease, and while it can often be managed through simple home remedies, professional help is available for those with more severe symptoms.

Get active and exercise frequently

To help with an enlarged prostate, make sure you’re staying active and engaged through mild, low-intensity activities like walking. Look for exercises that put your waist and legs to work through gentle motions, bringing circulation to the area around your pelvis.

  • Avoid generally stressful exercises, like heavy weight training, and exercises that add extreme, repetitive stress to the pelvic area, like cycling and rowing. These can irritate the area around the prostate and make your symptoms worse.
  • Kegel exercises, like tightening the muscles around your scrotum and anus, can help strengthen your pelvic region and reduce symptoms of BPH.

Lower the amount of caffeine and alcohol you consume.

Coffee, soda, energy drinks, hot cocoa, tea, alcohol, and similar diuretics can weaken your bladder and add to any urination problems you’re already experiencing. Cut down the amount of caffeine and alcohol you drink, taking particular care to not consume any 3 to 4 hours before bed.

  • If you have trouble cutting down, try slowly reducing your intake over a series of multiple weeks.
  • Switch to non-caffeinated beverages if you have trouble cutting out sugar.
Retrain your bladder by holding your urine longer and double-voiding.

The most common effects of BPH involve slow or frequent urination. To combat this, work on retraining your muscles whenever you have to use the restroom. Some simple ways to do this include:

  • Hold in your urine for a small period of time whenever you have to pee. Start by holding for 1 to 2 minutes, then add more minutes once you can hold it successfully.
  • Waiting a few minutes after peeing to try and make more urine come out, known as double-voiding.
Monitor your use of medications.
Many common over-the-counter medications contain decongestants, antihistamines, and other elements that can worsen BPH symptoms over time.
Be aware of these risks when taking cold or allergy medications, sleep aids, hypertension medication, antidepressants, and antispasmodics. Talk with your doctor about any adverse effects caused by over-the-counter or prescribed drugs and whether or not it is safe for you to stop using them.
Get a prescription for alpha blockers to help your bladder muscles relax.

Alpha blockers are specialty drugs that can help your bladder muscles relax, relieving some symptoms of BPH and making urination easier. Alpha blockers are most effective for those with moderate prostate enlargement. Ask your doctor about prescription drugs like terazosin, doxazosin, tamsulosin, and alfuzosin.

  • Because alpha blockers were originally used for people with high blood pressure, the most common symptom experienced is decreased blood pressure.
  • Alpha blockers can lead to decreased ejaculation and should not be combined with erectile dysfunction medication.
  • Check with your doctor before using alpha blockers with erectile dysfunction medication, blood pressure medication, medicine to treat HIV/AIDS, antibiotics, antidepressants, or water pills.  Special thanks to  Janice Litza, MD  for this  review.

FEAR

Stop scaring yourself, make that appointment with your doctor it will save your life.

“How Do You Spell FEAR? Almost all fear is:

Fantasized Experiences Appearing Real

This is a practical way to remember what we are doing to ourselves when we are afraid.”

Click here for more information –  Benign prostate enlargement NHS 

Enlarged Prostate a Big Problem – Watch Video Below!

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May 30, 2020 by Richard Leave a Comment

Why We should attend Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success

Why We should attend Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success 

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Since my teenage years I have been a keen fan of personal development books and meditation. Dale Carnegie, Brian Tracey, Jack Canfield and Victor Hansen Chicken soup for the soul series all made a deep impression on my thinking.

I was hungry for spiritual knowledge and read and practiced  meditation techniques. I attended the Sufi movement in Cape Town which always made me feel spiritually uplifted. It was not instant Nirvana but I began to notice gradual changes in my thinking and attitude towards life on a more spiritual level.

Meditation played a big part in my spiritual development and combined that with my daily reading of personal development books, I knew intuitively  I was heading in the right direction. I had dreams and goals for the future  but that brought inner conflict with my beliefs and values around money and spirituality. Could one really have both? 

In 2002 I enrolled for a Life Coaching Course at the UK Coaching Academy. I felt charged up when  I attended the three  day coaching programme at Eynsham  Hall Oxfordshire. I was accredited the following year as a Life Coach. I was a student support coach for an outstanding Coaching Company  Noble Manhattan who were based in the United Kingdom.

I had the  skills to  coach clients, clients were getting the results and I was earning passive income while still working full time. I still felt my life was incomplete and I was determined to find the answer.

My First Breakthrough to Success Experience 

Breakthrough

I was still coaching clients, reading my personal development books and practising meditation, I wouldn’t say I was leading an extraordinary life.  I was getting paid for my services and helping clients problem solve and clear  up their messes. I was looking for more changes in my own personal life. 

 A couple of years ago  an email sparked my interest. A new self help guru whom I never heard of  was appearing in  Dublin for a weekend Breakthrough to Success. It was free and the demand for tickets was high. I applied online and was pleasantly surprised when I received two tickets. My wife readily agreed to tag along more so out of curiosity than an interest in personal development.

The Vibes  are Electrifying 

There must have been about 600 people who  attended the seminar in Dublin. The atmosphere was alive and invigorating. The motivational music was on full blast and we were grinning from ear to ear as we took our seats.  The music was turned down and a ripple of silence followed row after row as our motivational speaker  Christopher Howard stepped from behind the curtain like Houdini the magician. 

For the next two days we were split up into groups to talk about our goals and dreams. We worked through our exercises. There were lots of emotional hugs and laughter. I came away from the course feeling more centred and more grounded as a coach. My self belief as an outstanding coach was restored and I continued coaching clients part time  while I was still working in the public sector.

My wife raved about Chris, she said he was very charismatic. Chris helped her unblock some negative energy she had with writing. Helena  has written two novels now,  available on Amazon kindle. She is writing her third one.

What transpired over the weekend was magical and memorable but it  did not give me the oomph! I needed.  I remember  the Secret was released as a film at the time and most of the Motivational Speakers  including Jack Canfield, John Demartini and Esther Hicks were relating  their experiences on the law of attraction and how it transformed their lives and the lives of others.

The secret  sold around 30 million copies globally and was  translated into 50 languages. I bought the  Secret on DVD .  I found  myself  being pulled into that direction and started reading the Success Principles by Jack Canfield. I started practising the success principles and magical things started to happen.

My meeting with Jack Canfield was no accident

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I had a list of goals I wanted to achieve and one of them was meeting  Jack  Canfield.
I visualised myself  attending his workshop. I put an image of Jack Canfield and the date.

I would attend his one day to Greatness 30 June 2019 Chicago  on my vision board. My biggest dream was to attend his Breakthrough to Success in Scottsdale August 2019. I spoke about it often enough.

How it would happen I did not know ?  but I knew it was going to happen. All I had to do was believe and visualise. I looked at my vision board in the morning and the evening.

My daughter and son in law had just moved to Scottsdale Arizona after working in Europe. I literally jumped out of my skin when they told us their plan. They were going  to fly us  over from Ireland  to Scottsdale Arizona for two months.

We were booked  on ten day trip to the East Coast spending two nights in Chicago attending the One to Greatness event. Celebrate Independence Day in Washington D.C. Spend another two nights  in Miami before flying back to Scottsdale. The Success Principles worked.This all took place last year June 2019. There was an even bigger surprise !

As a birthday present my daughter and son in law booked me for the Breakthrough to Success Event in Scottsdale August 2019. Talk about the magic of thinking big! . I never stopped offering gratitude prayers, its now  part of my daily ritual.

What I took away from Breakthrough to Success

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In a nutshell WOW! I would attend another Breakthrough to Success in a heartbeat. There was so much information.  I never felt overloaded or overwhelmed with facts and information. Everyday we had relevant exercises  we had to prepare for the next day.

The  days were beautifully spaced with interaction from the participants, we felt loved, needed, safe and  we could express  ourselves without being judged.  I gained clarity for my goals and my life’s purpose. I loved the way Jack and his team would greet us at the door. The team were incredibly supportive and catered to our every need.

We also had a few young entrepreneurs attending  who had big dreams and goals.  They spoke with such positivity and self belief. The audience gave them a two minute standing ovation, which was quite inspiring and emotional. I plan to take my granddaughter to a Breakthrough to Success event when she is seventeen.

It’s almost a year since I attended the Breakthrough to Success. I have had many breakthroughs and success seems to follow success. I lead a happy well balanced life and learning that earning money is a spiritual experience when I am offering a valued service to clients.  There are other modules that I wanted to include but it would  take another blog post.

Here are some of the modules that stuck in my  mind  and I use with my clients.

Success Principle #1:

Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life” is fundamental to creating a successful life. It is the core principle on which everything else is based and should be introduced first. It is designed to get people out of blaming and complaining and into consciously creating the life they desire.

Success Principle #2:

Be Clear Why You’re Here” is one of the core principles for success. Everything else
stems from getting in touch with that which we are put on this earth to do, our Life Purpose. This module is designed to help your participants tap into what brings them the most joy and passion, which can give them, clues to their life purpose.

This module is grounded in the idea that we all have a life purpose and when we align our choices and actions with our life purpose, things become easier and we experience more success, fulfillment and joy.

“Success Principle # 28:

Clean up your Messes and Incompletes” is intended to help participants understand
that they may be tolerating certain things in their life that can keep them from achieving their goals and ultimate vision.

It will increase awareness of how tolerating little things can get in the way of the accomplishing bigger things. This process helped me and my clients streamline their life, free up time and energy (mental and physical), to create more time to focus on goals and their ultimate vision.

The Hug Process

This exercise creates a fun demonstration of the power of touch. It engages participants while giving them a sense that this is a safe environment. It also teaches them the most nurturing ways to give and receive a hug. We all went around the room using the proper hugging method. Lots tissues were at hand. I got a hug from Jack and it felt like a got a proper hug from my late father.

The Mirror Exercise

The mirror exercise is one of the simplest and most powerful self-esteem and self-confidence building exercises in the world. Its purpose is to replace the normal negative self-talk that dominates our thoughts with positive, self-affirming self-talk.

I  had a big problem looking into the mirror and saying – I love You Richard. It took a awhile to get used to seeing myself in the mirror. I am quite comfortable doing this exercise every night. It really boost confidence and self esteem.  It is an exercise that should be performed every night for 40 days.

Come As You Will Be Party 

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This was my highlight of the course and I feel as if I have achieved my goals. The purpose of the “Come As You Will Be Party” is to create an emotionally charged experience for
participants of what it will be like when they have “made it”—when they have achieved their dreams.

When you spend an entire evening living the lifestyle you want and deserve, sharing that lifestyle with friends, and thinking back on your journey to success, you lay down powerful blueprints in your subconscious mind that will later support you in achieving success.

Once “programmed” with these emotional and physiological “highs,” your brain will begin perceiving opportunities, creating powerful solutions, attracting the right people

I arrived as who I  will be 5 years from now. Dressed in my very best. Spoke only in the present tense the entire evening, as if it were already 5 years from now, all my  goals had been achieved, and all my dreams had already come true.

I brought props to show everyone what I  had achieved in the years between, such as bestselling books I had  written, magazine covers I had been on, awards I  won, and photographs or  scrapbooks of my achievements.

Throughout the evening, I  had the opportunity to applaud others in  their achievements and to receive congratulations, and taking the necessary actions to achieve their dreams and goals. That was a night  to remember.

I can’t even describe the huge impact Jack has had on my life… thanks to his training, I can only go from strength to strength and help others achieve their own dreams and find their own star.  I endorse and highly recommend this mind blowing event. Its excellent value for money and the benefits will last you a life -time.

Click here for more information  on the next Breakthrough to Success Event 2020

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