That was his first success

He built on that success by making the lion move away from him when he ordered it to. With each success his confidence grew. Humility may be admirable, but not in a lion tamer!

Some retarded children were taught how to do mental arithmetic at lightning speed. Suddenly their IQ increased, and they started to succeed at school. They no longer expected to fail.

They built on their success with studying techniques .

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The above is an extract from a book about how to pass exams, that is being put up on the website one page at a time. To read more visit the link above.

Free Decision Making Tool

I've just discovered this free decision making tool, and thought I would tell you about it before I started dividing everything into categories. Why? Well what category do you make all your decisions in? It might be better to ask "What category don't you make any decisions in?"

You might be trying to decide on a holiday destination that will be ideal for all the family, but all the family has different interests. This would be an ideal free decision making tool – it doesn't really work for yes/no answers but it's great for complicated answers.

• Perhaps you are wanting to
• decide which university to go to
• which way to finance going to university
• which healthy diet is best
• which hobby would be best for the family to take up
• which subject would be most profitable for the family website?
• which partner to marry (cold-blooded perhaps, but decreases risk of divorce)

Where to use your free decision making tool

Go to http://chooseit.sitesell.com/buildwebprofit.html and work through the example to get an idea of how to use the free decision making tool.

Then start plugging in your own information till you reach an informed decision.

Note: you will have to do some research sometimes to find your own information to enter into the tool. It won't always be already there like the worked example.

Also don't put numbers in so as to support a decision that you have already made – you are the only person that will be fooled.

Making Money on the Internet

This is an ideal family project. The kids know more about the Internet. The parents know more about life and the jobs they have had.

Brainstorming

This is the ideas section of a project. It has been proven over and over again that the more people you include in a brainstorming session, the more good ideas you will get, so invite friends and their families round for the brainstorming session.

During the brainstorming session one person must write down the suggestions. It is important that nothing is judged at this stage. One stupid suggestion will often trigger a flood of other stupid suggestions.

Why should we want stupid suggestions? In one brainstorming session many years ago on the subject of ways to make dish washing easier some idiot or other said “Eat the Plates” and that is how ice cream cones and wafers came into existence.

That’s right, at the next stage your creative mind might just be spurred into frantic activity as a result of a stupid suggestion.

Once you’ve written down all the brainstormed suggestions, group them into categories, then go through each one to try and find a way to use it.

Keywords

If you are enthusiastically excited about spelling through the ages and decide to put up a website on the subject, how many visitors do you think will come to your site? If you manufacture hot cross buns, how well do you think they will sell at Christmas?

There is a new tool now at Google. Visit their site and look for the link labeled “trends”. Put the keywords you have found into the search (5 at a time, separated by commas) and look at the graphs. Do the searches vary much during the year? Are there any searches at all?

I just did a search on skin cancer that was very surprising and revealing. See the explanation at the Sunlight-And-Cancer-Lie page.

Can You Make a Profitable Website

Your immediate reaction is probably “No! I don’t know anything at all about making websites.”. Well, there are ways to create profitable websites without any knowledge at all about doing it. Next blog I’ll describe a great free tool for making decisions.

The designers give an example of how to use it to choose a website company if you don’t know anything about creating websites.

But that is just an example.

You may have seen consumer magazine articles that show you a chart about food blenders for example. There will be lines for how powerful each brand is, how silent, how easy to clean, how safe it is, and if you are lucky, how long it will be before it breaks down and needs replaced.

I always find that they list everything except what I want to know. Well this free tool allows you to make your decisions based only on what interests you – not some so-called expert.

Is a website really a family project

Well I know of a sixteen year old schoolgirl who will never have to borrow money for college because she is raking in too much money from her website? How does she do it? By describing her holidays on the website! Read more here about

Nori’s writing for money success

If you want to learn to make your own website without the crutch offered by the above link, try http://beginnersmakeownwebsite.com/

Foraging Fun

I spent many happy hours out with my Dad foraging for food.

Poisons and blackberries

For a time foraging for blackberries etc at the roadside became risky because of the lead from petrol in vehicles driving by.

Now that we are using lead-free petrol it should be safe again to go foraging as much as you like.

Keep an eye open for signs saying things like "These blackberries have been sprayed with weed killer". Probably some of the plants would already be wilting if they had been sprayed with weed killer.

In some countries blackberries are considered to be noxious weeds, but the fruit is just as delicious.

Prickly Pear

When we were riding round the pampas of Paraguay we often got thirsty. Prickly pears were great for quenching our thirst.

You hold down the fruit on the ground with your shoe, slice off the ends, and slit up between the two cut ends. Pry the skin apart taking care not to touch the thorns on the skin, and eat the contents.

One young tourist had never seen prickly pears so she bought some. She was just about to pop one into her mouth when a man leaned towards her and said "No! No! Don't do that". She glared angrily at him and popped it into her mouth anyway, thorns and all.

Guavas

There were always some guava trees wherever we went. We learned to cut them open to see if they were infested with fruit fly.

Uvapunu

These can be called "tree grapes" though they aren't really grapes. Instead of growing at the end of twigs they grow all up the trunk and thick branches of the trees.

Mum was the member of the family who was always stuck with the job of working out what to do with the results of our foraging. She decided to make uvapunu cordial, but no matter how much she diluted the mixture it still set. So she used it to make jellies, and mixed it with other fruit to make jams that always set properly.

Dad took us to the woods at first to find the uvapunu trees, but later on we discovered that many people had them growing in their back yards as ornamental trees. Dad just asked them if we could pick the fruit and from then on we could pick as much as we were able to use.

Mulberries

These were growing as street trees. I must have spent tens of hours foraging mulberries from street trees. It didn't matter how many I ate as I was picking them, or how purple my face became, there were always more in my baskets for mum to cook up into jams and jellies and puddings.

Fish

Then there were the fish. Dad introduced us to a very unsporting way to catch fish.

We fastened the hooks to a few yards of thick cord, and wound thin wire up the cord for about a foot above the hook to prevent fish biting through the cord. Then we dipped stale bread in water and kneaded it to dough, which we used to bait the hook.

There was no skillful playing of the fish. We just pulled them up by brute force.

I only lost a fish once that way. I was fishing off the side of a ship and caught a fish. As I started to pull it up I saw a large shadow dart out from under the ship and my line went dead.

When I pulled it in I discovered that the wire had been sliced through cleanly by the jaws of the shadow, whatever it was. I don't think pirañas grow as big as that. The Indians use the jaws to cut their hair, but slicing through wire is a step above that.

Road kill

If you are in the country and see an animal being run down by a truck it is another chance for some free protein. Hedgehogs are tasty. Foxes may be rank tasting and tough, so you could pressure cook for an hour to tenderise and then make a curry to disguise the flavour.

I like witchetty grubs, but eat them raw without cooking.

Of course, it depends on which country you are in, but there is likely to be road kill of some sort, and it's just a case of getting there while it is still fresh.

Legal Aspects of Foraging

This varies from country to country, but in most countries anything that hangs over to the outside of the boundary fence can be collected by anyone passing by.

But why restrict yourself to the outside of the fence? If you see fruit rotting beneath a tree you may be able to make a new friend and get lots of free fruit.

Just tell the owner that you noticed his lovely tree and wondered if there is any chance of him letting you have some of the lovely fruit. If you emphasize how grateful you are you could have a friend for life.

The owner obviously doesn't want it, so why shouldn't she be glad that someone can make good use of it? It's all a matter of salesmanship.

Get a copy of "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie from the lending library. His methods work just as well now as they ever did.