Christopher Brown

It's not about how much money you make but, how much money you keep. Billionaires and millionaires are leaving places like New York, and California because of the high taxes to the sunny state of Florida.

Hedge fund billionaires have relocated to Florida for tax reasons for years -- David Tepper, Paul Tudor Jones and Eddie Lampert being among the most prominent.

Last week, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump had submitted paperwork to change his residency from New York to Florida. The President confirmed the news in a series of tweets, at first a little wistful (“I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will.”), followed by a familiar chaser of vitriol for one of his political rivals (“New York can never be great again under the current leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo.”).

The move has many potential implications for the 73-year-old Queens native. Town & Country asked Lee-ford Tritt, a law professor and member of the graduate tax faculty at the University of Florida College of Law, to walk us through how the move might affect the President's bottom line.

Carl Icahn Moves To Florida

Billionaire Carl Icahn is planning to move his home and business to Florida to avoid New York’s higher taxes, according to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/carl-icahn-is-said-to-be-heading-to-florida-for-lower-tax-rates

Icahn, 83, who was born in the Far Rockaway neighborhood in Queens, New York, has been an icon on Wall Street for decades. In the 1990s, he bought a mansion in the exclusive Indian Creek island enclave on Biscayne Bay in Miami.

The move is scheduled for March 31 and employees who don’t do so won’t have a job, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter was private.

Hedge fund billionaires have relocated to Florida for tax reasons for years -- David Tepper, Paul Tudor Jones and Eddie Lampert being among the most prominent. But Florida officials have been aggressively pushing Miami as a destination for money managers since the Republican-led tax overhaul. Signed by President Donald Trump in 2017, it set a $10,000 cap for state and local tax deductions, including income and real estate taxes.

Florida Nabs Money Managers as Property Tax Cap Boosts Pitch

As the tax bill was being negotiated, then Florida Governor Rick Scott, a former resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, made trips up north to court investment firms.

Florida is one of seven states without a personal income tax, while New York’s top rate is 8.82%. Florida’s corporate tax rate is 5.5%, compared with 6.5% in New York. Icahn’s move was reported earlier by the New York Post.

The difference could mean dramatic savings for Icahn, who is the world’s 47th richest person with a personal wealth of $20.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

His investment vehicle, Icahn Enterprises LP, has a market value of $13.6 billion and reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization of $1.6 billion in 2018, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Grant Cardone Left Los Angeles For Miami

Grant Cardone is known as a sales and real estate and currently has a $1.2 Billion dollar real estate empire known as Cardone Capital and flies around in his $80 million dollar jet.

Why Would Someone Leave New York For Florida?

“The tax implications will be huge for President Trump. He lives in Manhattan and is therefore subject to New York city tax and New York state tax. Florida does not have an income tax so he’ll probably save about 12 percent a year in taxes. Florida also does not have an estate tax which is huge because the estate tax in New York is about 16 percent for any amount over $5,750,000. So, between income tax and estate tax, he and his heirs are going to be saving a lot of money.”

How Do You Do It?

“New York and other states with income taxes do not like to give up revenue and that’s where the statutory residence test comes in. New York State checks to see if you spent more than 183 days in New York after your move. It will literally check if you had flights that connected through LaGuardia or JFK and count those as days. And if you spend 183 days and one hour in the state, New York considers you a resident.”

States go much farther than just checking flight records. Last spring, a court decided that a man did not qualify as a Florida resident after a lawyer produced evidence that he checked into his gym in California on 300 days in the year he was supposedly living in Florida. States also assess where individuals with multiple dwellings keep their art collections and other prized possessions—the so-called Teddy Bear Test—and use that information to make judgments on residency.

There Must Be Ways To Prove I Actually Moved

“In the old days, we would tell clients to write down where they were every day of the year in a print calendar so they could prove to investigators that they spent the majority of their time in their new domicile. Nowadays, you tell your clients to keep track of it on their smartphones.”

Monaco and TaxBird are two residency tracking apps that automatically record users’ whereabouts and give early warnings if they get close to the maximum number of allowable days.

Okay. I Can Do 183 Days. Anything Else?

“It’s a good idea to give up your country club membership and other affiliations in your old home state and join ones in your new one. But that’s complicated for wealthy people who own multiple homes and belong to numerous clubs. It might be even more complicated for President Trump because he owns country clubs.” 

My Accountant Already Makes Sure I Don't Pay A Lot Of Taxes. Any Other Reasons To Go?

“Florida has something called Homestead Protection, which prevents you from being forced to sell your home to pay certain creditors.” (OJ Simpson, for example, was able to keep his Florida home after being ordered to pay $25 million in wrongful death judgment in a lawsuit filed by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.) “There’s no monetary limit, so depending on how expensive that house is, you can save a lot of your money from bankruptcy or credit claims.” (Nowadays people looking to avoid potential creditors can also enlist legal advisors to set up offshore or domestic “asset protection trusts.”)

Only In Florida?

“Hardly, there’s no income tax in Texas as well and it has similar home protection laws. It really comes down to personal taste. Are you a Florida type or is Texas your style?” Alaska, Nevada, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming are five states that also do not levy a personal income tax.

Is It Bad For Florida?

“In high-profile cases like this, people always say, ‘This seems so outrageous!’ but it is a very common move for wealthy and for older people. It’s old-school financial planning. People in my field would yawn if you mentioned it. Or say, ‘I'm surprised he hadn't done it sooner.’ Florida is able to generate revenue from tourism. And having wealthy people move to the state brings money to its service industries."

See the original article: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29715214/donal-trump-florida-wealthy-people-tax-breaks/

A hotel doesn’t have to be a bed and breakfast for you to enjoy both. In fact, you don’t even have to be a hotel guest to enjoy breakfast at these destination restaurants—though it is a nice perk to roll out of bed and already be halfway to your table. Whether you’re traveling for business, pleasure, or a little bit of both, these LA hotel breakfasts are more than worth waking up for.

The Restaurant at the Chateau Marmont

For brunching like a Hollywood celebrity, Chateau Marmont is the spot. The classy hotel still retains its old Hollywood glamour, making it as much a magnet for A-listers as for casual visitors. An intimate garden terrace, with bistro tables shaded by palm trees and umbrellas, is an idyllic—and semi-private—oasis to dine on shakshouka (baked eggs, spicy tomato sauce, feta, and herbs) or the popular acai bowl with grated coconut.

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Fig Santa Monica

Full of natural light and decorated with ivy plants and modern light fixtures, this trendy farm-to-table restaurant inside the Fairmont Miramar Hotel has become a destination restaurant for both locals and out-of-towners. The Mediterranean-inspired menu highlights seasonal produce from the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, best consumed in the market scramble, and includes indulgences like lemon ricotta pancakes with blueberry butter.

Check Prices for The Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica, CA

The Hart and The Hunter

Located at the Palihotel Melrose, The Hart and The Hunter is a group favorite for its rustic fare with a Southern twist—all served family-style. Homemade warm butter biscuits with honey butter and seasonal jam, thick-cut bacon with eggs, and shrimp and grits (all ready to pair with their craft beer menu) are perfect comfort food options whether you're far from home or no.

Check Prices for Palihotel Melrose in Los Angeles, CA

Tres by José Andrés

The indulgent menu at this sophisticated breakfast spot makes it perfect for celebrating a special occasion, whether that's a honeymoon, birthday, or anniversary. Quail eggs served sunny-side up and slow-cooked eggs with caviar are just some of the temptations served in the opulent yet intimate dining room. Breakfast is available daily, but Sunday brunch is worth holding out for—their seafood display features an eye-popping buffet of chilled oysters, snow crab claws, and Pacific prawns.

Check Prices for SLS Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, CA

Mardi

Mardi is at its best on sunny Los Angeles days, when the al fresco patio is teeming with Angelenos. Inside, the stylish, Europe-meets-California décor includes bistro tables, booth seating, tropical plants, and bright accents. Wherever you choose to sit, small plates—fresh ricotta with caramelized honey and thyme; albacore crudo—are easy to share with a group, while the hearty mains—steak and eggs; french toast—are ideal for recovering after a long night out.

Check Prices for Palihouse West Hollywood in West Hollywood, CA

Best Girl

Breakfast at Best Girl, in the always-hip Ace Hotel, is straight and to the point, making it perfect for visitors with a packed schedule. The black-and-white bistro serves quick and healthy options like overnight oats with coconut milk and acai butter and avocado toast, while weekend brunches are more involved, featuring crab cakes and chilaquiles.R

Check Prices for Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA

The Polo Lounge

A candy-striped ceiling, oversized booths, and Art Deco décor makes the Polo Lounge at The Beverly Hills Hotel an easy breakfast pick for a leisurely weekend brunch. If the sun is shining, the pink, bougainvillea-strewn courtyard is the ideal setting for enjoying their three-course Sunday brunch featuring live jazz. Breakfast classics get done-up, like lobster avocado toast and truffle eggs Benedict. Don’t forget to order a bellini.

Check Prices for The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA

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If you own Facebook, Google, and Youtube do you think that you would have any trouble finding customers? For those of you in real estate just imagine how many homes you would sell and how many investors you could find?

If you want to spend a lot less than your competitors and if you want to dominate your market. You will want to adopt the idea from Walt Disney known as “Own The Media”.

I would imagine that Disney saves billions of dollars in advertising costs from this one idea alone. Because Disney owns its own advertising network which allows them to advertise their products through their own adverting network.

Years ago Disney started their own TV show which was basically an infomercial for Disney Land disguised as entertainment. Years later Disney ABC, ESPN, and started buying up games, blogs, websites, and youtube channels to promote their products and services including Babble who they bought from a hipster mom and dad for $30,000,000

You may think Mark Zuckerberg is smart. But, he is an idiot in this regard. He does not truly understand his business. He thinks he is in one business when he is really in another. Disney understands the business they are in.

Facebook only earns a small fraction of the money they could be making with the same effort. Unlike Disney, Facebook gives up majority of the profits by giving it to the companies they promote.

Take for instance Alex Becker spends $1 to make $4.80 in return for his Facebook ad campaign. So Facebook is losing $4.80 for every dollar they make in this example.

Disney promotes its own products and services through its advertising network. Thus, allowing them to keep the majority of the profits. While at the same time generating additional revenue by allowing other companies to advertise through Disney advertising network.

Bob Igor, the current CEO of Disney has said this business model earns them 80% of their revenue.

Let me put this into perspective. The Huffington Post is a blog featuring news and trending topic articles that generate $14 million in advertising dollars per month. In which they run ads for the companies they work with earning them an estimated $67 million dollars per month or $804 million dollars per year.

Just like Disney bought ABC, ESPN, and started buying up games, blogs, websites, and youtube channels to promote their products and services through. Branden Bernard started buying up Facebook Fan pages and promoting his products through these sites. Which helped him get noticed by Oprah and he is now Oprah's top-selling expert through the Oprah Winfrey Network.

On the other hand, Tim Roger was built up by following and writing articles n his blog and video through his Youtube channel earning him $30,000 advertising dollars per month however, he also started introducing his own products that he could sell to his list of followers.

But the challenge may be, where are you going to find the time. You are already overwhelmed. You can either invest the time and money building up the following writing articles for your blog, filming videos on your youtube channel or you can take a short cut and partner up with us.

You can decide to go at it all alone or you can have a team behind you. Everything we have talked about so requires a team. I have helped the companies I’ve worked with out-earned those spending $…………. In advertising and I have out-earned them in 90 days or less in many cases because of working together as a team.

How would you like to have access to 100’s of 1,000’s of buyers without spending the hefty advertising cost that so many media channels like….charge? Because we are all, you and me, working together as a team with the same goal. To get more customers for each prospective businesses.

MORE ON THIS IN A MOMENT But let me first share something else with you. We talked about what I learned from Disney in owning the media. Net let me share with you what I learned from McDonald's in what is called as owning the customers.

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Robert Kiyosaki and the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series has many fans, however, one thing many people do not talk about is what he calls as the “cash flow quadrant” which says to put effort into grunt work to raise money such as selling over the phone. Then take that money and put it into different investments such as advertising and the money you make from your advertising is the money you use to make a living.

Some years ago Robert Kiyosaki was interviewed by Oprah in which they brought on one of his students who was a fireman making $48,000 a year in which he joined a network marketing which enticed him to receive $300 per month added onto his paycheck from his job through FREE government money programs in which he took the money he made from his network marketing business and the $300 he received in FREE government money and invested it into real estate which he made $100,000 thus doubling his money.

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Do you have a performance disability? I'm not asking if you have a sexual performance disability rather, a will power disability. Will power is limited! 

Are there things you know you should be doing that you don’t do? If you could bring yourself to do some of those thing you could do to change your life for the better?

But you don’t do them?

Each and every desicion you make through the day you burn your will power. In order to be successful you must uderstand how to use your will power wisely.

Otherwise, you will waste your will power on unimportant tasks that do not bring your closer to your goal.

So if you feel you are procrastinate, or are not motivated enough to achomplish certain tasks it may be because you do not know how to manage your will power.

Everyone has a limited supply of will power however, those with ADD / ADHD have a much more sever case of this.

When you wake up each morning with a full tank of gas however, if you suffer with ADD / ADHD you my only wake up with half of what someone without ADD / ADHD wakes up with.

So if you are one of those who struggles with ADD / ADHD managing your will power is much more critical for you.

In today module we will look at the research of Dr. Russell Barkley who is the fore most expert on ADD / ADHD because everyone has a limited supply of will power however, how much more effective will his advice be if you do not struggle with ADD / ADHD to reach your goal.

Dr. Russell Barkley believe that ADD / ADHD has been misnamed because ADD / ADHD is not an attention problem but a performance problem because those with ADD / ADHD have a limited supply of will power.

Even if you do not have to deal with ADD / ADHD by appling the principles in today lesson you will be able to conserve and refill your tank of will power.

Will power is like the gasaline in your car. Will power is the energy that gives you the motivation to go. But if you struggle with ADD / ADHD you have less will power than those without ADD / ADHD.

The non ADD / ADHD might have a fuel tank of a Hummer but if you have ADD / ADHD you might have the fuel tank the size of a small car.

So you will need to concerse your energy by. making wiser choices of how to spend your energy.

Many of you may be distracted easily, have a short attention span, be very impulsive and make rash decisions without thinking first, and trouble with organization which makes being productive a challenge ,however, some of you may have a bigger issue with this because if you deal with all 5 of these issues. This is warning signs of someone with ADD / ADHD which is a clinical issue.

Many mental professionals are quick to diagnose a person as ADD or ADHD because many of the traits associated with ADHD also affects the general population as well. But you need to be sure you are ADD or ADHD.

There are many disadvantages associated with those conditions however, there are also many advantages too. People who are ADD, ADHD, and or dyslexic excel at entrepreneurship. Even though they do have some disadvantages that they have to deal with as well.

For example in the article …….. we showed you evidence that dyslexics are 400% more likely to become millionaires however, they do have some disadvantages they need to overcome in order to be successful.

Do You Have A Performance Disability

In the following video, Dr. Russell Barkely explains that those with ADD / ADHD have a performance disability. Even if you do not struggle with ADD / ADHD you may know what to do but the brain does not allow you to put into action what you know because of the limited supply of will power.

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I lived 42 years before I started to understand the impact my dyslexia had on my life. I am now 45 years old and I am just starting to understand the impact my ADHD has had on me. The things I use to blame dyslexia for, I am now understanding it is my ADHD.

It is as if my brain know what to do but body body does not move. I think to myself my body is not moving. I have consulted with, and development marketing strategies for some of the biggest companies in the world however, I could not bring myself to do the things I knew I should do.

There is not a problem in what you know, but what you are doing.

BUILD AN ENVIREMENT TO BE PRODUCTIVE

A big thing now days is being a solo-treneur. But you need to be accountable for what you do and don’t do. If you are working together as a team there are people on your team who can keep you accountable. And when you do not do the things you should. DO NOT LET THEM GO EASY ON YOU.

The meaner they and the more uncomfortable they make it for failing to follow through and act. The more likely you will be to implementing what you need to do.

There is no cure for ADHD however, the following steps will help you to build an environment to be productive. Medication can help but you must decide for yourself if ADD / ADHD medication is right for you.

What happens if you sit around watching Youtube videos all day? Nothing, maybe you did not accomplish much but it does not impact you life much. But if you have ADHD you may have been caught in this type of loop for sometime which is causing you to fail and your life to fail apart.

ADHD has cost me $10’s of millions of dollars in lost revenue because I did not understand the full impact of what it was doing to me, my life and my business

Sure, you understand the impact of not doing the work but it may be weeks before you have to deal with the results. So you ADHD mind can put it off for another day.

Your Virtual Boss

You need to find a virtual boss. Which are reminder, to do lists, charts, calendars, and motivations quotes in eye view that reminds you of what needs to be done and to keep you on tasks. Because those with ADD / ADHD get distracted very easily.

Timers

To go along with your reminders and charts. You need to set timers to keep track of your day. Those with ADD / ADHD, when they are focused on something lose all concept of time. And something you those was 15 min. May have waisted you 2 hours. You need to set times and alarm throughout your day.

Dr. Russell Barkey suggest work for 10 minutes, rest for 3 however, this may seem burdensome. So you may instead set alarms to take a 10 minute break every 30 - 60 minutes.

Chucking

The hardest business task for me to accomplish is calling customers on the phone. Grant Cardone in the 10X rule says to make 300 phones calls a day however, this may be to much for the typical person and especially someone with ADD / ADHD brain to handle. So I set small goals:

• I focus on 10 phone calls at a time.
• I will do a set of 10 phone calls, 5-6X per hour. For a total of 50-60 calls.
• And 300 phone calls a day

MINIMIZE STRESS

One of the biggest fears people have. Closely linked to public speaking is phone sales however, as Mark Yarnell puts it, who is a former writer for Success Magazine. The less likely someone is willing to do a certain task, the more those willing to do it get paid. Phone sales is one of the highest paid professions in the world. See the article: The knowledge of the 1%

MINIMIZE DISTRACTIONS

I do now own a TV however, the internet can still be a distraction. So I close down every browser on my computer that is not nessasary.

WILL POWER IS LIMITED

Just like your time is limited. So is your will power. Mark Zuckaberg took one of the practices of Einstein by wearing the same out fit day after day. It is not that these people who the same stinky clothes day after day. But rather they had a closet full of the same outfit. So they had one less descicion to make that burns up their will power.

REFILL YOUR TANK

Someone who has ADD / ADHD has fewer neurotransmitters than someone who does not have ADD / ADHD. So you will burn through your will power faster. But you can refill your tank.

SELF IMPOSSED REWARDS

High performers put lots of pressure on themselves. If you tried something and failed those in your life you might have people in your life that might tell you that we love you anyways. But these high performers do it for their own self respect. As Dan Pena says if love was enough to get the job done. We would not need money. But love is not enough because when you fail, people stuff. You need to set self imposed rewards on yourself. Perferablity something that will get you a boost of dompanine in the brain like sugar, adventure, and perhaps a romantic evening with your wife. Again, if you can get people involved so that you will not give in until to accomplish the task. Because in order to get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. And you have to feel like you deserve it.

SELF TALK

You need to give yourself a boost of motivation. Something I often repeat to myself 


• I am the most high trained bad ass on the telephone
• I am the king of my empire

BREAKS

You need to give the action part of your brain which is called the executive part of your brain a break. So after every hour, give yourself a 10-15 break away from the executive part of the brain. 

Relax, meditate, play a music instrument.

FUTURE AUTHORING PROGRAM

Dr. Jordan Peterson self authoring program is based up the research of Dr. Jame Pennebaker which suggest that you spend some time writing or talking about your past / present / and future because if you only think about the past traumas you may get caught in a downward spiral, if you focus to much on the future you may end up living in a fantasy but if you write about your past trauma, and give yourself something to look forward to in the future, and write about where you currently are. This will give you the motivation to break through any barriers holding you back.

MOVE

You need to move your body. I wake up every morning a run to get my heart pumping, releasing endorphins into my body. 

HIIT or what is known as High Intensity Training build grey mater in the brain which also boost your learning ability. 

Your performance may be at its limit and burned out however, I box for a few minutes. Get my blood pumping and then I can get back on the phones.

SUGAR IN THE BRAIN

Sugar is energy. You may be eating to many sweats which is not good for you but you need sugar in the brain to perform. So you need to quickly give your brain the sugar to work with by siping on fruit juices. (Sip not gulp)

Even if you do not struggle with ADD / ADHD you can apply the suggestions of Dr. Russell Barkely to become a high performer.

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We all know that most businesses fail however, throughout the years the Government has used a portion of your tax dollars in research to find out what do all the most successful businesses have in common.

We know as business leaders what makes a business succeed however, Douglas Kruger in his book “50 Ways To Train Your Brain For Wealth” talks about this as well, one of the experts he mentions in his book explains if 9 out of 10 businesses fail, the one that is successful the numbers show it will cover any losses from those 9 businesses that failed. Most people do not think this way, if they fail one or two times they give up on their dreams because of not understanding what we call as the knowledge of the 1% by understanding how the numbers play out.

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According to real estate transaction data analysis, the top 5% of seller’s agents in Los Angeles, on average, sell homes for $284,303 more money than the average Los Angeles real estate agent. The top 5% of buyer’s agents generally save clients 0.06% more than the average real estate agent in Los Angeles.

There are businesses that seem to have a high failure rate for those who do not understand business but Success Magazine published a report some years ago. That those people who have been actively building the business for 10  years, 90% of them are earning a 6 figure income or greater. 

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The reason people don't always achieve their diet and fitness goals is that the health industry puts out standards that are too high for most people to achieve. When it comes to their fitness, people are working out too intensely too early rather than gradually building up a tolerance.  If you are sore or injured, you are less likely to go back to the gym again and will slip back into your same old habits.

If you have not mentally prepared yourself to make exercise your priority and are not getting the proper nutrition, it will be difficult to make these lifestyle changes. You should plan to rest a day or two between exercising to give your muscles enough time to recover and heal.  If not, you will be sore and tired and avoid going back to the gym altogether.  Then before you know it a few days, then weeks, and a month have gone by.

It is also important to Prepare your mind,  just as a professional athlete does. Professional athletes prepare themselves for a game or a workout.  

Many people get into fitness with this 'all or nothing' attitude. From one extreme to the other. 'I'm gonna hit the gym for 2 hours every day or 'I'm not gonna do anything. They conclude that since they do not have the time to go to the gym for two hours a day, they just may not go at all.  They feel defeated and start to give in to their junk food cravings and give up before they even start.  You may start with just 30 minutes of light activity several times a week.  Every little bit makes a difference.   

As you saw in Stage 2 of your digestion, if you work out within the first 8 hours of eating a meal, you are only burning the food you recently ate. Many experts explain that you need to burn 3,500 more calories than you take in to lose 1 lb of fat, however, the most efficient way to burn fat is to wait 8-12 hours after you eat to workout. Here is an overview of our typical digestion timetable.

1) The first 5 hours after you eat,
During this period you are burning the food you just ate. If this is the only time you can exercise by all means do so however, it is preferred you wait for later on in the day.

2) 6 - 8 hours after you eat,
During this time, you are burning off sugars which depending on your activity level, you can burn off relatively quickly.

3) 7-8 hours after you eat,
Fat is the purest form of energy and once you have given your body enough time to adapt to the changes in your routine, you will want to engage in activities to efficiently burn fat. This might be riding a bicycle, swimming, or light jogging.

After sleeping for 8 or 9 hours, you are in the proper stage of your digestion where you can burn the most calories through exercise. This is why many people do their workouts in the morning before breakfast.

You may not look forward to exercising, so if you're just starting out on this path of healthy living we suggest that you just MOVE. (You don't need to exercise). Just get your blood flowing. At this stage, it is not important in the type of physical activity you engage in. What is important is that you are moving. Walk to the mailbox and back, walk a flight of stairs instead of taking the elevator, lift 3-pound weights while seated, and so on. Whatever you can do is great! Just get up and go!

The point is that you are getting your body moving to burn calories. Take for instance the P90x Beachbody Workout Videos. After researching online, I learned that the average person burns 700 calories an hour and some of you will be able to burn 400 calories just by walking.

Many people you see that are doing high-impact cardio like running could actually be making themselves fat. Many of these high-intensity workouts stress the body out and create a chemical called Cortisol which creates belly fat.

More on this later...but for now stop your sedentary lifestyle and get up off the couch. Your body will thank you for it.

In a study published by the "National Library Of Medicine", it showed that walking an extra 1,000 steps will help you lose weight, including belly fat, and will also help you improve your body composition. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12213351/ 

Walking 1,000 steps will only take you about 10 minutes to complete. The "National Library Of Medicine" published another study that showed that walking those few extra steps, over time will help you lose an inch off your waistline and 1-1/2% of your body fat.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25566464/ 

We have a tool at https://alphalifestyleacademy.com/getmovingtoloseweight that estimates how many calories you will burn walking. If you are walking at a brisk pace, you can burn from 150-200 calories in 30 minutes, and if you walk for an hour you can burn 300 calories an hour. It adds up quickly and you will feel so much better.

Even walking you can overdo it, I use to walk to Santa Monica, beach and back, which was around 40 miles round trip, and even when I was there I would walk around and enjoy myself before returning home.Â

The experts suggest 10,000 steps a day however if all you can do is 30 minutes in the morning and build upon that but throughout the day you may be able to complete 10,000 steps.

The marketplace is filled with different type of smart watches however, the smart watch I use is spasificlly for fitness, that includes an Alarm Clock, Countdown Timer, Heart Rate Alarm, Notification Messages, Inactivity Reminder which is great to remind yourself that you need to get moving, Bluetooth Connectivity Notification, Sport Goal Setting, Find Phone

Even walking you can overdo it so you will want to warm up and even stretch. Start slowly and increase it a little each day. Don't focus on the miles just how much time you are spending. The rest will follow. I used to walk to Santa Monica Beach from my home and back, which was around 40 miles round trip, and even when I was there, I would walk around and enjoy myself before returning home. You will eventually build up your own endurance and participate in any activity that has you being active. The experts suggest 10,000 steps a day, however, if you can start with 30 minutes in the morning and build up from there, and take the stairs or park your car further away from your office to add more steps.

The marketplace is filled with different types of smartwatches however, the smartwatch I use is specifically for fitness. It includes an Alarm Clock, Countdown Timer, Heart Rate Alarm, Notification Messages, Inactivity Reminder (which is a great way to remind yourself that you need to get moving), Bluetooth Connectivity Notification, Sport Goal Setting, and Find Phone. It is a useful tool to have.

Action Item:
1) Walk...It is suggested that you accumulate 10,000 steps a day but more importantly, you just need to move. You can do this!

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We all love an underdog story; someone down and out who overcomes unseeminable odds and climbs his way to the top and gets the prize.

Star Wars is one of these stories. the reason we love the Star Wars saga so much is because it is an ancient story that has been told over and over again through the centuries with different characters and plot lines called “The Hero’s Journey”.

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You are the hero of your story. Most people who find success in business of any sort whether that be in entertainment like a comedian or actor, or even home based business like a MLM company and even local business in your community, do so after going from one business to another.

We look at people who have it so easy. Those who made $10,000 their first month in business and went on to earn millions over the next 18 months, however, this is not your story.

Your story is much more interesting because you are up against the odds. You are the underdog of your story.

Your story may be like mine. I struggled with a learning disability dyslexia, where I struggled to find and keep a job. After fighting for years trying to keep my marriage together and enduring years of emotional abuse after my wife left me I felt empty and went homeless.

In every myth including Star Wars, the hero finds a mentor. In Star Wars it is Ben Kenobi.

I am the mentor in your story. Let me show you how I overcame my obstacles.

You have gone through some sort of trauma that has caused you to self-sabotage yourself and not reach your full potential. (See the article: Personality Traits That Ruin Your Chance Of Success)

Take for instance Rick Engstrom who has an highly agreeable personality.

He first spent around $9,000 that he did not have on a credit card to hire a business coach to help him start an internet business.

Around that time he joined several network marketing business, he sent $500 buying leads in which he never called a single one of his leads, later he spent another $500 on a solo ads in which he would not have had to talk to anyone because his website would have done the selling for him however, he spent the $500 but he never finished setting up his ad to launch his ad campaing and never contacted support to get his money back.

He then spent another $3,000 and about another $10,000 from a life insurance policy that he turned in, however, he never did anything with any of these businesses either because he let decades of emotional abuse from his wife and mother-in-law to get the best of him. 

Because of not standing up for himself he lost the respect of his children. 

At the beginning Rick had credit, however, after spending money he did not have and no way to earn the money to pay back his debts because of not having the mental toughness to work his business he ruined his credit.

Dr. Jordan Peterson in his book the “12 Rules For Life” explains what happened to Rick.

When something bad happens to you your brain keeps a record of it an creates an algorithm which creates a pattern of self-sabotage.

The emotional abuse Rick endured led him to self-sabotage himself and the more he fails, he shrinks back and if we stay in the state of mind for long enough then failing becomes a habit in which more bad thing can and will happen thus, creating the hormones of stress. Cortisol is just one of the hormones of stress. Cortisol is known by scientist as the death hormone because it leads to so many life threating illnesses.

(See article: Personality Traits That Create Disease)

In Dr. Jordan Peterson book the "12 Rules For Life" in which he explains when you are successful the brain produces a chemical called “Serotonin” which is also called the happiness hormone and the more you succeed the more Serotonin the body produces, however, once successful does not always mean you will remain successful because once you have a traumatic failure you body produces another chemical that you may never recover from.

So the decades of emotional abuse released a chemical in his body that caused his to self-sabotage himself and in 2012 he had a 2 year battle of cancer.

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Companies spend billions trying to find serotonin-producing high performing employees. Many of these companies hired Dr. Joran Peterson to do a phycological profile to find these type of employees.

However, many of these same companies came back to him and asked what they could do for their current underperforming employees?

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Dr. Jordan Peterson created a program based upon Dr. James W. Pennebakers research.

Dr. Pennebaker studied the phycological impact traumatic experience had on a person physical health. He found that people who experienced a trauma from abuse, the death of a parent, divorce, and the loss of a job were more likely to get sick than those who had not.

He also found that those who keep their feelings bound up and did not talk about there experiences were more likely to get sick than those who talked about it.

However, looniness is a big issue today. You may not have anyone to share your experience with, or you may be too ashamed, and people may not be able to devote an adequate enough time for you to ease your pain and suffering.

But he found when people write about their experiences sickness drop by 50% within 6 weeks and blood test reveals writing enhanced their immune system.

Dr. Jordan Peterson designed a writing program for his University students called the “Past Authoring Program” and the “Future Authoring Program” based upon Dr. Pennebaker's research.

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Because as Dr. Jordan Peterson explains in the following video if your following along with us in the online version that writing teaches critical thinking.

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You could talk with a friend or mentor, you could even record it, however, you will not get the effects you could writing because with writing you really think and ponder about the problem and find a solution.

Future Authoring Program
You are gonna write about what life could be like in 3-5 years if you live up to your potential on your:

- Intimate relationships
- Friendships
- Family
- Career
- Education
- Time Spent Outside Of Work
- Your relationship with drug and alcohol

Past Authoring Program
You will write about where your bad habits can lead you in 3-5 years.

Dr. Jordan Peterson is a University professor who has put over 7,000 students through this program. The average student increased their GPA by 20%, and class dropout rate decreased by 25%, and 50% at the end of the first semester

This writing program brings you face -to- face with your future. People can procrastinate because there is always tomorrow, however, there are only so many tomorrows.

This writing exercise makes you deal with what you are doing or not doing with head-on.

In my research though I have found out that writing about your past and your future is not allways enough to cause you enough pain to change.
Let's say you got the same results that Dr. Jordan Peterson got with his students.

You need to write about you past, an optimistic future, but you also need to write about your current life to make you feel optimisic about your future by seeing how far you have come but you also want to feel enough pain to keep you motivated to continue moving forward towards your goal.

For those of you in network marketing or MLM imagine if you could increase the retention of your team by 50%. Just imagine how well you would be doing then.

So if you combine this with what Grant Cardone says in his book the "10X Rule" in which he writes out his goals each day. In order to stay focused.

As many of you have noticed I write about the trauma and issues I have faced in my life through this website, however, there is no need for you to start your own website because we have created an option for you to create an account and write your articles on this website.

We have also included a feature that allows you to keep your articles private because we understand the emotions you may feel, however, if you are willing to make your articles published there is an option for you to make money.

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Or you can watch the following video from Dr. Jordan Peterson in which he explains the self-authoring program in more details.

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