When things get tough, or if you’re faced with what looks like an impossible situation, remember this guy!

Here’s an inspiring short little story for ya…

Ever find yourself wanting more in life? More FROM life?

This guy figured it out, and he’s actually surpassed the normal idea of what’s possible.

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I used to work in the high-end construction business in Manhattan.

I’d often work around 51st street and 1st Avenue.

If you ever see an older man down there, pushing a large canvas post office bin, collecting bottles and cans, then it’s probably Roy.

He’s cool. We shared a rice and bean lunch one day, got to talking, and I asked him how much he makes collecting cans.

His story was pretty impressive.
Pretty much blew me away!

He was wearing new shoes, clean clothes, wore a watch and a silver ring (not your usual can collecting homeless person).

To my surprise, he told me he wasn’t homeless, had previously worked downtown on Wall St., in the financial industry, and had had your usual run-of-the-mill lifestyle.

At some point, he was laid off (before the recession kicked in), lost his apartment, and had to re-think his whole situation in life.

He did what he could. He starting collecting bottles and cans for redemption. I think he quickly realized the incredible opportunity this provides.

Ready for this?

He told me how much he makes.

Ready?

Roy makes about $800 a week!

Yes, $800!

He works hard though. He IS his own boss, and he works about 3 days a week.

Those three days, he works constantly, morning to night, collecting cans from apartment building’s recycle bags, and from garbage pails etc…

Not too bad, right?

Roy didn’t get bogged down by his problems, and he created an income which affords him the time and freedom to pursue his passion in life… his daughter.

He’s quite the family man.

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I thought you might find this interesting, so I put together a few things I’m aware of.

I bet you want to make more money, right?
I bet you might also think that you’re somehow limited to raking in bucks only through your job?
You’re not!

The whole point of my site is to give you the tools you need to free yourself from an old,
outdated mindset. You can make some pretty hefty beans by doing lots of other things, outside of
your normal routine.

Let’s say you take home 30,000 a year at your “job”. What if you could double that number?
It takes a little extra work, but it can certainly be done. Here’s a few ideas that’ll show you how
you can do it. It’s not as hard as you might think. You just need some really basic education (I’m
about to give you all you need), and a tiny bit of elbow grease. I can’t give you the grease, but I
can give you a push. I think you can pull it off.

First:
You need to sell something, to make something. You need to sell stuff.
“What the hell can I sell”, you ask yourself. Here’s the roadblock for most people. They don’t
know where to begin.

Here’s the solution:
You can sell anything!

Old books
Old magazines
Nick-nacks that you got as lame birthday presents
Furniture you’re tired of
Clothes
Your artwork
Your music
A book you wrote
An educational program you design
Your services
Other people’s stuff (even your neighbor’s cat, if you feel so inclined)

Each one of the above can make you a full time income with the right amount of grease behind
it. The question is: How bad do you want to be a millionaire? You gotta want it, to do it.
Get creative, brainstorm a little, and I’ll show you where you can sell your stuff.
HOW to sell things is the next hurdle we’ll knock over…..

So you realize you can sell your stuff (or other people’s) to make some extra cash, or to create
full time self-employment for yourself. Here’s HOW to sell your stuff. How to sell your stuff
online, mostly.

One of the most popular ways to make extra dough is to create an amazon.com site, post your old
books and magazines, and sell away. It’s pretty easy to do. The trick is in the pics. Take a good
couple pics of your stuff, write a basic description, enter your info on the site, and voila! Bucks
galore! If you have a lot of old books, so much the merrier.

I’ll mention this here, because it’s relative to the above. Ebay! Did you realize you could spend
your days carelessly hunting and shopping tag sales and thrift stores, go home, take some pics,
write some simple descriptions, then post your product online at a nice markup? I’ll tell ya: the
best markup is on books. You can pick up loads of books at tag sales, for pennies, then make
3-15 bucks on EACH book. You could support yourself entirely using this method.

Think about it….. What if your online business was selling just 20 books a day at $10 average?
$200 bucks a day selling books from home, ain’t a bad job.
With Ebay, clothes are a biggie too. You can find boat loads of clothes that may never have been
worn, mark ‘em up, and SELL ‘em. Instant moola!

Got some old gifts layin around? Never really liked ‘em? If you have trouble justifying tossing
them because you feel bad Aunt Elma put some thought into it, then think of this. She’d be
happy you turned her gift into a business that brought you some cash. You got what you really
wanted.

BTW: If you want to sell furniture items, I would recommend using craigslist.org. Get the local
shoppers for this stuff. Who the heck wants to ship a 400lb marble table that their grandmother
gave them when they got their first apartment? Not me! Craigslist: let the buyer pick up!

You can be someone’s outsourcer too you know. With Elance.com, you can sell your services.
Good at writing, researching, studying, editing, or proofreading? Create an account on elance,
bid on someone’s posted project, do some work for them, then make some more bread. People
are always looking for their man to help ‘em out. You can be their man. This is a good one. With
some work, you can pull in an extra couple thousand a month.

Are you an artist? Do you paint or write music? Why not sell your stuff? That’s your dream
anyway right? It’s easier than you think.
Buy your domain name (www.myartsthebomb.com??), use a site building template, post your
stuff, sell your stuff. Register.com has an easy to use simple template which allows you to add a
shopping cart. Do some simple online marketing, some youtube videos, blog posts, and shazaam.
Notariety, and more bucks.

As for music, the publishing industry has all around changed completely. The old model is
failing. Even with a conventional record label, you still have to market your own stuff, build
your name, and do a ton of legwork. Why not do it for yourself and keep the publisher’s cut of
the profits? They make more than you do off your stuff. Sell your stuff yourself.
Check out lulu.com. It’s a pretty good self publishing solution.

If it’s a book you’ve written and want to sell, then I’d recommend createspace.com. it’s a
subsidiary of Amazon, it has tons of options, and it’s super cheap. Selling books is a great way to
make some extra money. Again, the old publishing paradigm is falling. All authors have to
heavily market their own stuff. The publishers these days just handle distribution and cover
design.

There are millions of people online. Who needs distribution to get started…
With a conventional publisher, you’ll make about $1 a book. If you landed an agent, you’ll get
about .50 per book. With self-publishing, you’ll make anywhere from $3 to $10 book average.
Not too shabby. Especially if you have 400 friend that will buy your stuff just because they know
you ;0) You could potentially nail 4 Grand on your first night! Bam! Bucks!

Real fast…. If you got it in you… You’re an expert in something? Design an educational
program (print and video will suffice), design a website around it, market the hell out of it, sell it,
sell YOUR stuff, rake in the dough. Study marketing and copywriting. With this powerhouse you
could potentially pull in a million in sales overnight! People HAVE done it… and it’s not so
uncommon.

Last but hardly least: Sell other people’s stuff. I don’t really mean you should sell your neighbors
cat. Even if it does crap in your potted plants. I’m talking about affiliate marketing. You know I
love this subject. This is where you get a special link from a site like clickbank.com, you post it
in an Adwords ad, or on your blog, or website, people click it, buy the product, the sale’s tracked
back to you, you get a cut. You never touch inventory, there’s ZERO overhead. You make a sale,
you get paid. Pretty cut and dry.

Some of the commissions are pretty cool too. Between 15 and
150 beans from one sale. Not too bad. A TON of people live very rich, and eventually quit their
jobs to become full time or part time millionaire affiliate marketers. Not too bad. It’s all online.
Sit on the beach, relax, unwind, travel, work an hour or two a day, collect checks, and live well.
It’s possible for anyone, even house-pets

There you have it. I hope this gave you some ideas, freed your mind a bit from the limiting belief
that your source of income is directly related to your career or job, and motivated you to get
going on your new entrepreneurial lifestyle.

I’m all about “Do what you love”. If you can make a fortune doing it, then by all means do it!
Life’s too short to be a slave wearing a ball and chain till retirement. Retirement now please…

To you unconventional success
Adam

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Good Wine… Cheap!

You don’t have to spend a fortune to drink good wine.

I love wine, and I hate “cheap” wine, but there are some good cheap wines. You don’t need to spend $50 a pop to get a drinkable red.

I was just in a small Italian food store, in Brooklyn, and I came across 2 Montepulcianos. Each bottle was only $10, so I figured it would be worth a shot. I grabbed both, they bagged ‘em up, and I was off. When I got home, I quickly cracked one open. It’s good, and definitely drinkable. I would decant it though.

Here’s an extremely valuable trick: If you have a known, hardly drinkable, cheap wine, decant! Decant the wine for 1 day, for particularly cheap wines. Decanting is leaving the bottle open for some time, or pouring it into a decanter. If you’re not sure what a decanter is, look it up. Basically, it’s a glass bottle with a bulbous base. The ideas is this: Add surface area to the wine’s surface so oxygen can get to it. A wine will mellow out the longer its opened. Mellow out means that the Tannins (that bitter feeling on the back part of the tongue) relax a bit. A cheap wine is marked by two things: The strong, overbearing tannins, and that notable red mouth and teeth. Though decanting will solve the taste problem particular to a cheap wine, you’re on your own with the red mouth problem. Not all cheaper wines make the mouth red. In fact, I’ve only come across a few.
I’ve found that there are far more good, inexpensive Italian wines than there are French wines. Italian wine is a pandora’s box of variety though. It takes years to learn the ins and outs of the Italian varieties. You usually can’t go too wrong with a Valpolicella or a Montepulciano. If you MUST get a French wine, and don’t want to pay out the ass, get a Chataneuf-du-Pape, as opposed to a Bordeaux of some sort. (That tip was given to me by someone I know, an author and wine connoisseur: Peter Meltzer)

So if you’re looking to save a little, and still enjoy your wine, spend no more than $20/bottle. Trial and error is the key here. It’s the key to learning about wine…Period. Experiment. You can always decant a nasty bottle to make it an enjoyable afternoon sip.

Good Luck!

…and remember, “A glass of wine a day, keeps the doctor away”. That was the right quote right? ok maybe not, but it’s certainly contextual here..

Cheers to your utter inehbriation!

Adam Shields

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There was a time when money just burned a hole in my pocket. If I had it, I spent it. I KNOW there are a lot of these same people out there. We all need to save money, no matter how much we make. This is the millionaire mindset.

It feels incredibly demoralizing to a nonconformist to NOT be in control. Self-Mastery is a lifelong aim of ours. Right?

How to save money? Here’s the tip…..

Buy!

Buy? How could it be?!

Buy what?

You’re nuts Adam!!!!

hehehehehe Buy Gold!!!

If you buy gold, not only will you have a secure hedge against the hyperinflation which is inevitably in our American cards, but you’ll also have a tangible item with real international value. The price of gold has always gone up. As the dollar does poorly, which it has been doing since the early 1900s I think, then gold does well.

You can satisfy your need to save money, as well as your need to buy.

With the price of gold always rising (investors expect it to reach the $2,000 mark relatively soon) gold is a great strategy.

The are many places on the web where you can buy gold bullion or gold coins. The collectors coins are the better buy. the government CAN’T confiscate them. It’s not worth it to them to try to value them. They’re a premium product. (the gov’t has confiscated, and made a blackmarket item of gold a number of times already in the past 100 years.) They buy up all the bullion in private possession, making it illegal to own. Not collectors coins though! Woo-hoooo!

In my opinion, for the compulsive spender and wise investor alike, this is the most reliable method for saving money for your future.

Make sure you buy a small fireproof safe though! They’re cheap, and you’d hate to be caught unprepared! God forbid!

Save Money=Buy Gold

To your unconventional success!

Adam Shields

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