Practical To Do List Distilled from Anthony Robbins...

I'm a huge fan of Tony's work. I have heard about Anthony Robbin's programs and seminars as far back as the late 1980's, and ONLY RECENTLY (4Q2008), started listening and trying out his material. In hindsight, it's too bad it took me all these years to finally actively apply something from the self-help industry. I've come across plenty of books and material about "taking charge" of our lives and identifying our passions in life. After awhile, I got tired of reading about it and thinking about it and procrastinating on it, that I decided to apply SOMETHING to my life.

Anyway, I got to thinking about all the fundamentals that are taught in TR's work, and thought I'd start a draft of distilled, fundamental "To-Do's" that a person could do if they were to just trust that these habits/behaviors would improve their lives. I wondered what such a list would look like, and thought that if I had that list, it'd be a nice shortcut reminder to all the "good stuff" w/o having to go through all his programs.

So this is considered a work in progress list:

1. Hour of Power - spend 1 hour everyday in the morning to yourself. Use this time to reflect, plan, or do something FOR yourself to help you further yourself in some way. TR suggests giving yourself the gift of physical exercise to help jumpstart your day and keep your body healthy. During this time you can reflect/meditate, do incantations, exercise creative thinking, or just listen to music or learn/enjoy something over audio.

2. IN-CAN-TATIONS! TR swears by this technique and claims that this alone, if we were to remember ANYTHING from what he teaches, doing INCANTATIONS propelled him to success. This is different from affirmations in that when we do incantations we are to FULLY ENGAGE ourselves with as many senses as possible. The discipline of incantations is to feel the energy and intention in your body and physically move with it; think it, speak it (our inner talk), and express it with as much emotion and motion as possible to really implant it in our system. This technique is what helped TR go from 38,000 to 1M in a year.

Keep it simple and during exercise would be ideal.

TR's incantation:

God's wealth circulates in my life. His wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously by infinite intelligence. And I give thanks for all my good now and for all of God's riches for I am one with God, and God is everything.

Incantations help direct/guide you and keep you on track

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Are You an Unsuspecting *SPAMMER* ?

Hello Everyone,

Recently, I had joined boxbe to try out their services in supposedly
improving my email experience (handling spam, prioritizing emails,
etc.). Unaware, the software company essentially harvested my email
contacts list and sent out invitations to my list to join their
network on their behalf! I have since closed my account.

In the era of "social networking," you may want to read this article
from the NYTIMES to get an idea of what companies on the net are doing
these days to help spread the word about their company at the expense
of your reputation and trust network.

Apparently, this practice of spamming by trust has shades of gray in
terms of whether this is considered inappropriate/illegal or not...

here's the article (source):
http://tinyurl.com/avoidSPAMtoday
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/technology/internet/20shortcuts.html?pagewanted=all)

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Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ as Well

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Published: June 19, 2009

I THOUGHT it was a little strange when I received separate e-mail
messages from two people I knew only slightly asking me to click and
see their photos on a social networking site called Tagged.

I ignored them at first, but then thought maybe I should check it out.
After all, I should keep up on what’s hot in the social networking
world, right? This could be the new Twitter.

That’s when I started doing everything wrong. I obligingly typed in my
e-mail address and a password to see those photos. Well, the photos
didn’t exist, but I had unwittingly given the site “permission” to go
through my entire e-mail contact list and send a message to everyone,
inviting them to see my “photos.”

I found this out only when I started receiving e-mail back from people
agreeing to be my friend. I quickly realized what had happened and
shot off an apologetic message explaining why I inadvertently spammed
them.

As friends’ responses started rolling in, I heard from some who had
received similar e-mail. Others told me about the same problems with
Web sites like MyLife.com and desktopdating.net.

This wasn’t along the lines of someone stealing my bank account
information or Social Security number, but I was annoyed and
embarrassed.

“They’re using your good name to establish a connection,” said Peter
Cassidy, secretary general of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a
nonprofit organization with representatives from law enforcement,
industry and government.

So what’s going on here? I turned to Michael Argast, a security
analyst with Sophos, an Internet security company based in Boston, to
find out.

He told me that this kind of thing has been happening for quite a long
time in various forms, but has really caught on in the last three to
six months. It’s not the same as what’s known as phishing — fake Web
sites masquerading as real ones to get personal information. These Web
sites really exist.

Instead, this is generally called contact scraping. Once you enter
your credentials, like your user name or password, the company sweeps
through your contact list and sends everyone an invitation to join the
site.

How do the companies benefit? They are expanding their user
population, Mr. Argast said, which they can use to attract potential
investors or advertisers. Whether those users are willing
participants, or people like me, is another question.

“There are multiple shades of gray,” Mr. Argast said. “Some social
networking sites, like Facebook, are pretty straightforward in asking
if you want to share information about your friends. Others are far
less scrupulous.”

In the case of Tagged, my friends received a perky e-mail saying:
“Alina has added you as a friend on Tagged. Is Alina your friend?”
Then you click on yes or no. Even more insidiously, it adds, “Please
respond or Alina may think you said no,” with a sad-face icon next to
it.

I apparently also offered to share some photos; some annoyed friends
even told me to resend the pictures because they couldn’t find them.

“It’s using the chain mail psychology,” Mr. Argast said. And he’s
right. My friends got guilt-tripped into signing on.

It’s easier for these sites to get information from Web-based e-mail
accounts, like Hotmail and Gmail, than from local Internet provider
services, like Verizon or Comcast, but nothing is absolutely secure,
Mr. Argast said.

I spoke to Greg Tseng, founder and chief executive of Tagged, to ask
him what happened. He said all social networking sites invite you to
e-mail your contact list to join up or discover which of your friends
are already members, but that a software glitch meant an unusually
large number of accidental invitations went out recently.

He said the company received almost 2,000 complaints from people who
didn’t intend to send invitations to all their contacts — a fraction
of the three million people who registered in the month when the
problem occurred.

“We immediately pushed the pause button,” Mr. Tseng said. “This
business lives and dies by the good will of people.” He added, “We
took immediate steps to rectify this problem and improve the user
experience on Tagged.”

Mr. Tseng said Tagged was the third-largest social networking site
after Facebook and MySpace, with 16 million active users and 80
million registered users. And guess what? I’m counted as one of those
registered users now.

A colleague, Tom, received a similar “invitation” from an acquaintance
inviting him to join MyLife.com about a month ago. He clicked on
“yes,” and started receiving e-mail from people on his contact list
thanking him for inviting them.

“At first it was amusing, but when I realized that it was mining my
address book, it wasn’t so funny anymore,” he said. MyLife.com was
formerly Reunion.com, another site that stirred up numerous complaints
regarding contact scraping.

Jeff Tinsley, founder and chief executive of MyLife.com, said that his
company was constantly improving its registration system.

“We register more than two million users a month, and the complaint
rate is very small,” Mr. Tinsley said. “It’s very important to make
the process very clear, but that said, sometimes people are going with
the flow and not paying attention. It’s impossible to just take
someone’s address book. An individual has to give us his credentials.”

Tom, however, said he didn’t recall typing in his password, so he was
not sure how his address book was accessed.

In some cases, buried deep within a company’s terms of service or
privacy policy is information about sharing e-mail addresses, but few
people ever get that far.

“We don’t think the consent is meaningful or transparent,” said Marc
Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public
interest research organization. “People don’t know how their
information is being used.”

Donna Tapellini, senior editor for Consumer Reports, which reported on
this in its June issue, said such practices raised privacy issues.
“It’s your private contact list and you should be able to protect it,”
she said.

Such actions may also violate the federal antispamming law —
officially known as Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited
Pornography and Marketing Act and unofficially as Can-Spam — which
regulates unsolicited commercial e-mail, prohibiting, among other
things, false or misleading information in a subject line, said Eileen
Harrington, deputy director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection with
the Federal Trade Commission. Ms. Harrington emphasized that she was
speaking in general terms.

“We’re now fully in the era of Web 2.0 and under many circumstances,
consumers may be providing more information than they realize,” she
said.

The problem is, it takes a long time for people to learn the tricks.
So here are some words of advice from Mr. Argast.

First, don’t supply your user name and password from one site — say
Yahoo or Gmail — to a third-party site. And don’t use the same user
names and passwords for different sites. That’s good advice that most
of us — myself included — often fail to follow. He told me some 80
percent of users his company surveyed reuse their passwords.

The problem, of course, is remembering different user names and
passwords. There are programs or tools that provide an easy way to
remember multiple passwords, like 1Password, Sxipper, Keychain or
Firefox Password Manager.

You can also set up a separate e-mail account for registrations, which
won’t have your contact list.

Also, just be alert. Look closely at the invitation. Are there
misspellings, for example? Does something just feel not right? If so,
e-mail your friend asking if he meant to send you the query.

Finally, I used this opportunity to clean up my contact list. I hope
I’m too savvy to have this happen again, but if it does, at least that
acquaintance I met in a seminar two summers ago and the British couple
I haven’t spoken to in five years will be spared.

E-mail: shortcuts@nytimes.com

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Happiness = Instant Gratitude

I was thinking (again) the other day on my run about the "feeling of gratitude." "is gratitude really a feeling?" i thot to myself. and then an idea popped into my head... nothing major... just a simple idea. when I am grateful for something or about something, what exactly do i experience? how do i feel? what do i think about? and the answers to those questions (in order), i found were: 1. I experience joy, happiness... gratitude? :); 2. i feel happy... i feel glad... i feel at peace... i feel excited... i also feel calm - perhaps it's peaceful -hence, the previous note of feeling "at peace"; 3. I think about what i'm grateful for... i think about why i'm grateful for the object of my gratitude... i circle back and think about how i feel... i think about the moments that remind me of those feelings....

Is there any time that we are grateful, yet NOT happy? CAN we be grateful w/o being happy? then i wondered... when we're happy about/for something... does that mean automatically that we are grateful? when i watch a comedy sitcom and i laugh... does that mean i'm grateful for the joke, funny comment, etc? when I see my son learn new things and I get all excited and happy for him... am i grateful for the experience i witnessed? so far, they have been all yeses for my questions posed about when i feel happy. so i wonder... is all gratitude really just happiness?

in the new agey world of LOA... when we are told to be grateful... isn't that just another way of saying be happy? i'm beginning to believe so. "be happy for... (insert blank)... in our lives".. is THE way to express instant gratitude.

what are you happy about in your life? what are you happy for in your experiences?

I'm happy for my loving wife and son...
i'm happy for my optimal health that i discovered and have beneftitted from and maintain...
I'm happy about living in such a wonderful city and living so close to the beach!
I'm LOVING my flexible schedule!
I'm always happy about feeling happy everyday, despite my challenging (but temporary) circumstances...
I'm happy that i have a car that works and can take me wherever i need whenever i need at my whim!
I'm happy for the access to the internet and tv - such convenient and wonderful technologies to have on whim!
I'm happy I live in the U.S.... despite the world of uncertainty and challenges that surround us.
I'm happy to have discovered AR's tech and the community sprouted from his teachings.
I'm definitely happy for the computer i have access to right now so that I may express my happiness (and gratitude) with this group!

I LOVE MY LIFE... don't you? if not everything, can you find a lot of other things that you can love about your life?? if i can... you certainly can!

the quality of our life is determined by what we focus on, indeed!

g'nite!

the Latest in Heart Health Care - open for registration...

Hi Everyone!

Initially I had thought of sending this out to just my direct friends
and family... but after thinking about this, I thought that this was
information that is too good to not share with a bigger group.

Here's a clip from the link:
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This is cutting edge technology for cardiology in the field stem cell research that I wanted to share with my circle. There is high hopes for this technology to become available to the masses in the near future (2013)! This exciting technology will revolutionize the heart health care industry for all patients suffering from a heart attack.

This is not based on any controversial stem cell technology - it's technology that works with your body's own cells.
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TO LEARN MORE - VIDEO LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqb7cAKccS0

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
SM2009

p.s.
this study JUST STARTED... no one has been signed up for this study
yet. so in a sense, this is a "ground floor opportunity" AND the
best part is it's FREE!

Go ahead and click the video link to find out more about the breakthrough tech!
INVITATION TO VIDEO LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqb7cAKccS0

action IS INHERENT in LOA - ALWAYS...

I came to thinking about how we are and how we do things and how loa relates to us. I usually get to fun/creative thinking on my runs, and this occurred to me (hope i can remember it all - shoulda written it down! :) )...

dictionary definition of action:
per dictionary.com (http://tinyurl.com/uscw2), the common definition of action as I see most applicable: #3 (if you scroll to mid page)- Organized activity to accomplish an objective. the above points #1-2 were too vague but encompass #3. OR #5 (at the top of the page)- energetic activity.

it occurred to me that no intention can be held; no decision can be made WITHOUT action. Even thought requires mental action! and what is mental action? for us to perceive mental thought, cells have to connect in our physical brains - action has to take place to form any coherent thought. no matter how you philosophize this point, it's a physical fact of being human. Even if we're in a matrix, whatever we truly are in this form - actual or imagined, to create thot, this body has to go through a BASIC set of actions to even FORM a thought... to organize and gather energy to create thought - the seed to even more action (mental or physical).

we cannot disregard the FUNDAMENTAL physical steps (regardless of by voluntary or involuntary action) that are necessary to form thought. This, by nature, indicates ALL INTENTIONS ... ALL THOUGHT REQUIRE ACTION - no if's, and's, or but's about it! Since action is inherent in thought, every step that happens after that (whether it manifests as physical action or just remains as an emotion, thought, or left in imagination) required physical action by us. My point is that by this fundamental observation, action cannot be divorced from LOA - it's inherent in the seed of thought!

So what/who is the higher self? This is left to speculation as there is no 100% agreed way by everyone to say what/who that is -- only hypotheses. Speaking metaphorically, I have come to understand that our existence, our bodies, our physical aspect ... even more specifically, our brains... work as a lens to focus energy to form thought. Everything that happens in our experience begins with thought ---> to be self-aware or to create intention... anything and everything that relates to thought. to be self-aware requires a level of focused and organized energy to form a thought that allows us to be self-aware.

Therefore, I submit by common definition of action agreed by the english language that we all speak and use, that all intention requires action. to the level of degree that our desires manifest depend upon many steps after thought. In fact, to even "manifest" ANYTHING, we need two things: 1. to form an intention; 2. to recognize the goal/opportunity has become available to us... both require the brain to form thought... without our brain, obviously we are not self-aware or know life the way we know it. :) so this leads to the question of WHO are we? perhaps all we truly are as humans is the ego ... the personality we have come to know. our true nature may be divine, but how we have come to be self-aware (with or without memories of past lives) has been made available to us by the physical limits (visible and invisible and everything in between) that our physical brain has the capacity to understand. We may have connection beyond our ego and observe from a higher state, but we cannot indefinitely divorce our human nature...our physical presence... and still live as a human being. to become more than we are, we have to truly leave behind our physical limitations. i might add that this does not imply we know all the limitations of our physical nature. obviously, to perceive/explore/interact with the invisible IS NOT a limitation of our physical nature. for example, a physical limitation is to go without air, water, food... no matter how enlightened one is in physical form...in this physical world, you CANNOT defy that physical limitation. otherwise, you are NOT (only) human! :)

at any rate, the "aha" for me has been that in this life, EVERYTHING requires some degree of action... nothing lives in this life without action. action is not confined only to a physical, observable sense... action is required to form intention. the fact that we can intend is the same set of fundamentals required to form a physical action... it's all action.

the practical use of this aha moment:
loa works best (and only with) CONSISTENT ACTION towards the target/goal of our intentions. however things manifest by physical proactive measure or by circumstance b/c of invisible factors that we are not aware of BUT still have our influence... all require FOCUS. to decide is not enough... one must hold that decision... a decision is only an evaluation of standard. we must take action to maintain that standard... to maintain that decision to help align action or trajectory/results of action with that decision... at the very least, when a decision (action required) is made, we choose to initiate an action in the direction/focus of that decision.

LOA requires focus. the mind is the lens to which we must use to focus to manifest anything... action is required to create focus... action is required to maintain that focus... focus is the active gathering and organization of energy. or as dictionary.com succinctly puts it: "3. To concentrate attention or energy..." (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/focus)

who and what our true nature is is not the topic of focus in this thread... just the definition and role of action in LOA (or in this life as we know it).

that's my thoughts in a nutshell about action... i suppose it's more an observation/distinction than anything... and nothing that disrupts the idea of LOA.

FOUNDATION TO AN AWESOME LIFE!

There's this website I've been using and getting tips from for the past few months that I have found educational. I came across this website by looking up information on Chia seeds (great superfood, btw!) There was some article or reference (forget exactly) to RealAge and decided to check it out. The site basically gives you health tips on a daily basis (customizable/optional) on nutritional and health benefit facts about the different foods available to us. Going to the site, you can also take their li'l test that helps determine what your "real age" is based on their criteria to health. I'm about 6yrs younger than my real age, according to their test.

check out: www.realage.com

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Today, I took a closer look at what they have to offer and found a few tips that I'd like to integrate into my lifestyle that seem very common sensical and worth installing as consistent habits into my lifestyle. These are tips suggested after taking my RealAge test. I don't think these tips were customized per the results of my test, tho. Either way, some great tips to follow that I thot i'd share:

see: the Plan

• Do just two things, a.m. and p.m. In the morning, wash your face with your hands -- they're naturally thorough, but gentle. Apply daytime moisturizer to still-damp skin; let it soak in before applying makeup. Repeat at night, but spend a minute longer to be sure you remove all makeup, dirt, and residue from the day. Then, apply nighttime moisturizer.
• Establish a "get ready for bed" routine.
  • 4 to 6 hours before bed: Stop any caffeine (knock off even earlier if you're caffeine sensitive).
  • 2 to 3 hours before: Don't eat a full meal. Digesting food (especially a heavy meal) can keep you awake.
  • 60 minutes before: Turn off all electronics -- yes, the television, too -- and dim the lights. Even if you're in your jammies and not feeling wound up, light signals your brain to stay alert, and mental stimulation (especially from video games, nightly news, Sopranos reruns) makes it harder to fall asleep.
  • 30 minutes before: Drink something you find soothing. It could be a cup of chamomile tea; a glass of warm milk; or a splash (not a glass) of brandy, red wine, or some other nightcap that relaxes you. Just limit alcohol intake, because it can awaken you later. If you find it's a slippery slope, cut it out entirely and switch to herbal tea. Try a warm bath or light reading (no work!).
  • 5 minutes before: Make sure your bedroom is dark (or wear an eye mask), quiet (or get a white noise machine or earplugs), slightly cool (crack the window, if needed), and free of distractions (clutter, pets, work piles). G'night . .
• Connect with friends, book a massage, and/or have sex. Pick up the phone and call someone you haven’t spoken with in a while -- someone who makes you laugh and can take a load off your stress level and help you put things into perspective. (Later in the week, you’ll have dinner with friends, so maybe call someone you want to invite.)
• Start doing daily breathing exercises. Try these three. Then, pick the one you like best, and use it often -- at least twice a day for the next 8 days, preferably at the same time. This will help reinforce a pattern and establish a breathing routine that calms you, refocuses your energy, and changes your body chemistry so that it supports happiness from the inside out.
• Drink tea. As part of your Go Green day, make a big thermos of green tea at home, and sip it all day -- hot at first, over ice later, if you like. Try doing this every day this week.
• Plan a dinner with friends or family. Spend time today with people you care about. If you love to cook, invite them over for a scrumptious meal. If not, go out. The point is to get together with people who are meaningful in your life -- who make you laugh or inspire you -- and share stories and time.
• Sleep late, or try napping. No early obligations today? Sleep in as long as you like. If you can’t, try napping later in the afternoon. The ideal time is about 8 hours after you get up -- that’s when the body naturally takes a little dip in temperature (a sleep inducer); it’s part of your normal biological rhythm.
• (CANI!) Reflect on these 9 days. What’s gone well? Do you feel physically and emotionally better than you did last weekend? What helped most? Getting enough vitamin G? Taking 15 minutes to do nothing? Having more sex? Connecting with friends? Take pride in what you’ve accomplished.

NOTE: these tips are just the ones i picked for myself that I don't currently do daily or at least on any consistent regular basis. Take some time to check out the site and consider how you take care of your gift of life. Your physical health - it's the FOUNDATION to having an optimal, full, and fulfilling life experience in this world. You owe it to yourself to have the best in life... and the best begins at the foundation of everything you do and "be!"

Live Strong and Live with Passion!

Basic Meditation Experience... (update: 3/24)

3/20 -
I'm beginning my meditational journey w/training wheels using holosync, so I'm listening to the holosync program "prologue."

the first 3 days weren't optimal:
1 - i was disrupted and couldn't get back into state;
2 - did it in the morning but dozed off for about 1-5mins (at least that's how it felt);
3 - actually did it right upon waking up... stayed up too! was interrupted early on in the beginning of meditation (annoying), but got back into it...

when "going into trance," I first noticed something rubbing against my neck. haha... only to find that it was the collar of my shirt rubbing as my head was slowly lowering. well, that was unexpected as i next noticed my muscles relaxing - legs, arms, neck, shoulders. felt completely awake, but just relaxed. initially my mind was wandering on various thots. i noticed that if i didn't intentionally direct my mind, the distractional thots could last longer than i'd like them to, so i had to clear my mind and just focus on the sounds from the headset - which helped... that was when the above physical relaxation process began shortly after.

anyway, just interesting how quickly i could relax naturally w/o intending to and by just listening to the cd.

i guess this will count as day 0 (i'll count day1 when i'm not distracted nor fall asleep)!

****** UPDATE: 3/24 MIDNITE **********

so i've been trying to put in about (2) 30m sessions (once in the morning and once at nite)... but at least fit in once a day for my 30m meditation. it's been about a week now and i can't say i've been quite successful yet at having a "pure" session (where i don't fall asleep or am interrupted somehow). I have managed to avoid further interruptions (that's the easy part). as for the falling asleep part... haha... well... i've been able to do that only ONCE so far (during a morning session). the experience was interesting, but nothing groundbreaking - just felt very relaxed. a few times i coulda sworn i heard things.. talking or movement? weird... but that was maybe only 1 or 2 sessions for a brief moment. other times, i'd fall asleep for about (i'd guess) a min or 2 or 3 towards the middle or end. i know it's towards the end b/c after it ends, i wake up. that's kinda weird... like a light sleep? i dunno.

tonite i had just ZONED.. i don't think i was asleep... but i couldn't really tell. i've tried meditation consistently for a two month period (3x's a week for ~2hrs at a time) and have noticed the same kind of symptoms... i'd go blank (but my eyes would be opened focused on a point in the room)... i couldn't tell (like tonite) if i fell asleep for a moment or not. when i did regain consciousness or awareness, i noticed that my jaw and part of my neck (tonite) was VERY RELAXED... kinda numb and heavy... really weird feeling.

i got a copy of the holosync cd (cd1 -awakening) from a friend, but he has no manual or info. i may just buy the system, but will see how this first cd goes first!

maybe i'll google info about symptoms of meditation just to see what i find - if what i'm experiencing is typical (i imagine it is).

anyone care to share their first experiences or "symptoms" of meditating - aside from the obvious of feeling refreshed, relaxed, rejuvinated?

thanks!

SIMPLE ENERGY BOOSTER Tip #2

this one's also from simpleology:

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The Damaging Impact Water Has On Your Energy...

There are some things I'm about to tell you about water that will not only blow your mind, but will also have an almost immediate impact on your energy.

First - most of the advice you get about drinking water is dangerously wrong.

No one really knows for sure exactly how much water you should drink, and the blanket advice we get is pure unadulterated garbage.

Take this example ...

"Drink 8 glasses a day."

Now, that may look like sound advice, but further analysis shows it's an overly simplified "wives tail."

To be more blunt: "8 glasses a day" is actually a well established urban myth.

As recently revealed by the American Journal of Physiology, there is absolutely NO scientific evidence to support the popular 8-glasses-a-day theory.

Now, none of these scientists at AJP are saying we don't need water (that would be silly). It's just that these overly simplified platitudes are not helping anyone's health.

What's needed is real scientific information and not half-truths.

What we do know is that "8 glasses a day" by itself isn't sound advice.

First, you need to drink water regularly throughout the day. Drinking 8 glasses in the morning and assuming you're "golden" for the day is more dangerous than you think..

You should, in fact, hydrate every single hour. (On the next page we'll give you a free tool to help you remember to do just that - and a lot more.)

Many people who simply take up the habit of drinking a glass (or even half a glass - more about that in a minute) every hour notice their energy levels skyrocket.

Why?

Because most of us are chronically dehydrated.

If you don't think you are, try what I'm advising here for 48 hours and see what happens.

Again, this is a statistically valid "safe bet."

Still Feel Drained?

Another safe bet: you're tired all the time and you simply can't figure out why.

Dehydration making you tired?

You bet.

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Dizziness
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Chronic fatigue
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Impotence
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Hair loss
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Headaches
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Low back pain
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Constipation
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And more ...

Dehydration has been shown quite clearly to be linked to all of these. (Merck Manual of Health)

OK, so you want to fix this ...

What next?

Before you start gulping down, you need to know that "how much" depends on a lot of factors.

It depends on your body size, how much you exercise, the climate in which you live, and more ...

Obviously if you live in a hot climate where you're sweating all the time (a lot of the sweat is invisible - you don't have to be dripping to be rapidly losing water all day long), you need more - a lot more.

If you exercise even mildly - same thing.

But there's here's something to note though.

You may think drinking more water by itself is enough, but if you drink too much you can actually "overdose" on water.

Warning! Too Much Water Can Kill...

It sounds crazy, but there was even a widely publicized case where people were "holding their wee for Nintendo Wii" for a radio contest.

The contestants were ordered to drink a high volume of water and hold their "wee" for as long as they could.

One of the contestants died as a result.

True story.

Too much water can harm you by either "water intoxication" (as the above Wii casulty, may she rest in peace) or by "electrolyte" imbalance.

Ah, electrolytes ...

Listen to this:

The more water you drink, the more you need to replace your electrolytes.

But before you go thinking you're going to need to purchase some expensive fancy "electrolyte replacement" sports drinks, here's the real deal:

All you have to do is add a tiny pinch of sea salt to every gallon of filtered drinking water you drink and - voila! - you have all the electrolytes you need.

Of course, the sports drink peddlers won't tell you that. They'd have to sell you a whole lot of sea salt to make the same profit off your back!

Not bad, huh?

If you were simply to apply what we have shown you so far my "safe bet" is that you'd see a pretty significant bump in your energy.

(There's a whole lot more where that came from that - when combined in the right effortless away - will give you the energy for even the most demanding lifestyle and "juice" to spare for your wild nights. Read on ...)

But will you actually do it?

That's a darn good question.

The thing about this kind of information is that hearing it is one thing.

Applying it to your life is a whole 'nother animal.