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Make Money Doing What You Love: Recommendation of Yaro Starak’s & Gideon Shalwick’s Products

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Background Story:

Have you ever wondered how you can strike a balance between making a living and doing what you love using your passions and talents to serve others? (To symbolize this balance, we chose the photograph of money with Gandhi above.)

This was a question that we pondered prior to stumbling upon blogging and launching this site, InspirationTheRide.com

Briefly, after a series of events (which Elliot mentioned in his article Expressing Gratitude, Embracing Uncertainty & Seizing the Day: Reflections on My Birthday), we accidentally stumbled upon the idea of blogging. During this period, we researched much information on the internet and in print. We searched Amazon.com for the best books and read reviews to see which ones would suit our purposes.

After much research, we purchased the items we actually recommend on our Blogging Resources page.

We read The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging which gives you a sense of purpose with blogging. We also read Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income for the making money aspect, which was a fine book in and of itself.

Finally, after reading these two books and actually seeing Yaro Starak’s products being advertised on Darren Rowse’s Problogger website, we decided to give it a go. We signed up for Yaro’s email newsletter as well as received copies of all of the free reports (Roadmap to Become a Blogger, Blog Profits Blueprint, and Membership Site Masterplan).

The free reports and the videos provided lots of quality information for free. And, the funny thing was that we had just happened to sign up for his email newsletter just as Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick were re-opening their Become-A-Blogger program.

We lucked out and got in.

The information they provided was great. Gideon’s videos walk you step-by-step through the process of learning how to use the WordPress blogging platform and adding all the extras to make your blog look professional to be able to make money.

Now, we’re not going to write an in-depth review of these products because that’s not what this site is about; however, what we will mention is the aspect of using these products to make money doing what you love. Before moving on, however, we did want to say that we like and recommend Yaro’s and Gideon’s products. (NOTE: this is not about a get-rich-quick scheme; anything worth doing takes lots of effort and hard work.)

So, how do you go about making money doing what you love?

Well, first you have to ask yourself (and answer) – what are your passions and talents? As the saying goes, if you love what you’re doing you never work a day in your life.

Have you always wanted to make a living by expressing your passions and talents? And if you don’t know what your passions and talents are, the easiest way to figure them out is to make a list of all the things you enjoy doing.

Can any of these interests translate into a product or service which you can make a living by teaching or helping others?

  • Do you like to write?
  • Do you have a great eye for photographs?
  • Do you love dogs?
  • Are you the best Italian cook you know?

The list can go on and on. Things that may seem to be a hobby for you could turn into a livelihood.

And, this is where Yaro Starak’s and Gideon Shalwick’s products come into play. They all help you take your passions and talents to create a product or service so that you can get paid to do what you love. Their free reports are all worth reading and reviewing. These reports go much more in depth on considering your passions and talents for using blogging and/or membership sites to make a living online.

The 3 products from Yaro Starak featuring 1 partnered with Gideon Shalwick…

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Vita-Mix Review For Your Health Plus 10 Smoothie Recipes

(Photo Copyright Terrah Lozano ‘Mango Tree’ Tulum, Mexico)

We all know that maintaining our health is an important part of life. If you feel tired or sick, it is hard to conquer your dreams each day and live a fulfilling life.

To help maintain our health, we make fruit smoothies with our Vita-Mix blender almost every day. We have been using our Vita-Mix almost daily for 3 1/2 years (except when traveling).

These smoothies jump start our day with energizing vitamins and taste fantastic. We have experimented with many different lifestyles including veganism and one constant that has always stuck with us is our smoothies.

There are many other things you can do with a Vita-Mix besides making fruit smoothies such as creating instant fresh soups. However, right now our primary use is to make morning smoothies.

Photo Copyright Terrah Lozano 'Man with Cashew Fruit' Canoa Quebrada, Brazil
Photo Copyright Terrah Lozano 'Man with Cashew Fruit' Canoa Quebrada, Brazil

We use the Vita-Mix instead of other blenders as part of our overall health consciousness because it does the following:

  • Better Health: The Vita-Mix breaks through the cell walls better than your teeth can to release the hidden nutrition in whole foods. Research has shown that when you break down the cell walls of your foods, more nutrients are released into the blood stream.
  • Fast: It takes 60 seconds to make whole food juices and smoothies, 4 minutes for hot fresh soups, and 30 seconds for healthy frozen treats.
  • Flavor: The Vita-Mix completely pulverizes whole foods to release full flavor.  This means you don’t have to add sugar, salt, or other condiments to make the meals taste good.

The initial investment of a Vita-Mix seems a bit pricey. We thought the same at first. However, Elliot, being of an analytical mind, wanted to know for certain, so he did a data analysis.

This analysis compared the costs of purchasing the necessary ingredients to make a smoothie at home compared to a retail smoothie shop.

He found a price difference of 4 to 1 per smoothie with the Vita-Mix being 4 times cheaper to make at home versus buying at a retail smoothie shop.

This shows that the machine will pay for itself in no time in terms of cost savings by spending less in the long run and increased nutrition for your and your family’s health.

We have used ours almost daily for 3 1/2 years now and there have been no problems with the machine malfunctioning or breaking down. And, even if it did, the Vita-Mix comes with a 7-year warranty.

So go ahead and purchase a Vita-Mix. We have recommended it to many family members, who have since purchased it themselves and are also enjoying the many benefits.

It even makes a great gift. One family member actually bought one for their son after we recommended it to them initially.

Also try the recipes below and let us know what creations you come up with! All recipes below are good for vegans as well.

10 Vita-Mix Smoothie Recipes For Your Health! Continue reading Vita-Mix Review For Your Health Plus 10 Smoothie Recipes

Wayne Dyer’s Power of Intention – A Book that Can Change Your Life

(Photo Copyright Elliot Lozano – Chaco Canyon, New Mexico)

We can either learn through the school of hard knocks or we can learn easier through the wisdom of others that we in turn implement and try out for ourselves.

On this site, we aim to save you time and help you avoid the school of hard knocks by providing condensed and relevant wisdom from our research and experience for you to study and implement into your life. (This is the same thing we have been doing with our families for years.)

One such source of wisdom is Wayne Dyer’s Power of Intention book in which he researched “hundreds of books by psychological, sociological, and spiritual writers; ancient and modern scholars; and academic researchers.” Wayne Dyer, Power of Intention

He condensed hundreds of books into his Power of Intention Manual. Something I am sure none of us have had the time to do. Continue reading Wayne Dyer’s Power of Intention – A Book that Can Change Your Life