The recession hasn’t put a damper on the public’s enthusiasm to be more healthy.

Meat is still a major part of most American’s diets. The public is aware of the difference in factory feed lot grown protein and natural grass fed animals.

People like the idea of no hormones and no anti biotics as well as allowing animals to mature at a normal rate. Many also applaud the humane treatment of animals and the sustainability of land by not using harmful pesticides or manures.

In speaking with sites that sell lean protein there is a shortage of bison and venison. One of the problems that occurs when there is a shortage is that more livestock starts getting held for breeding instead of being added to the supply. It certainly implies higher prices which will test commitments.

The list of popular meats keeps expanding. There is a following for natural beef, goat, lamb, poultry, bison, and venison as standard products and there is a lot more demand for more exotic meats such as ostrich, alligator, snake, and so forth. Google exotic meats and you can find the various types of meats that are easy to purchase.

Many of the natural meat producers also sell sea food. What could be more healthy than ocean traveling seafood which includes species with claws and species with fins.

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Jim Greenwood started two retail chains and developed them successfully before selling them and retiring. He was born into an entreprenurial family and has always worked for himself. He reflects here on what influenced him to own his own business. He is now writing a book “The Truth of Small Steps” and you can read his blogs at http://tossly.com

“For me (as I remember) …

I came from an entrepreneurial family.  Both my mother and my father owned their own businesses and I can remember my father saying “own you own business-don’t have partners”  so from a family perspective I was directed to do my own thing.  I worked for dad for a few years doing windows and buying and liked the interaction with people.  It was fun to give and get support and it certainly prepared me to see and capture the retail opportunities I saw at the time (in an area of business I loved).

At USC I was on a track (like a lot of us) to be a lawyer.  I can remember at some point saying that I would rather solve my own problems than be paid to solve someone else’s.  Another step toward my own businesses.

Taking risks was a part of it .  I was worried about failing but not afraid to fail (does that make sense?)

As my first business began I liked being boss.  I liked doing new things and being responsible for the outcome.  I liked the financial returns that were mine to create and not dependent on someone else’s structure or judgment.  I liked (as my parents had told me) to opportunity to follow my own drummer and the opportunity to have other work with me in the attempts.  It was fun and anything I could envision I could do, if I could just do it.   I thought the security of a check was like handcuffs.

As it turned out later in my entrepreneurial growth I also had very satisfying experiences with partners.  The warning from my father proved be something I could deal with, perhaps because I knew what I was looking for (honest, smart and hardworking partners) and an ability to create and follow a plan.

The mind and brain are always active; sometimes friends, sometimes foes. My monkey brain, lizard brain, chicken brain were always there (and still are), but my character was shaped by dealing with them and some how getting past them one step at a time (and a lot of luck).

I’m not sure if this answers your questions about whether I was born to it or whether it was environment,  but there it is.”

The longer your URL or domain has been in place the more cache you have with search engines and hopefully the more “Favorite”s recorded.  Over time, not only do the consumers for products and services change, but the words people use to find the products and services change and the mix of new players in and old players out changes.

These changes create new players in the niches with the highest traffic. This occurs because the other firms are upgrading and learning how to play the game. It occurs because the keyword traffic may have changed and others are on top of it.

You have to recalibrate your site to see if the key words you use are still getting the most traffic, to see if your site would support the highest traffic keywords, and if you are competitive with those who rule the best niches.

Tuning can be as small as key word and content changes to creating a new landing page and maybe a few interior pages. Even sites with 150 pages can be brought back into the competition with a few changes.

Finding the right key word niche for your website requires just a little investigation.

Google ad words will tell you which words and phrases have the highest traffic used by consumers for your particular product or service. Most industries have several words and phrases Consumers use to find what they want.  Then you should look at the competitors listed on the first few pages when you Google your key word choices

If you have a local mail operation, you will have a tough time if your Google page has Fed Ex, UPS, DHL, and USPO. You may need to choose different words and think of SEO local. You can become the leader in your own small geographic region.

The second area that is important but more difficult to find are the number of  incoming links that your competitors have. Google rates them highly.  They are links as the result of social media, directores, articles, blogs, p/r, sponsor sites, PPC, and anything else that causes someone to refer back to your site for more information or to learn more about you. To Google is is a sign of the popularity of your site or the amount of service it is delivering.

Some industries are very active in creating incoming links to be more competitive and some industries are not.If your niche has firms with lots of incoming links and you don’t have them, you have a real challenge.

The value of rising on the page ranking is that you will get a larger share of new consumers looking for your product. As business moves away from traditional marketing because the consumers are doing the same, the importance of establishing yourself where the consumers live becomes more important.

Thanks to the work of Patt Lind-Kyle in “Heal your Mind, Rewire Your Brain” we can learn how to take back control of our lives.  Wholesome living is not only the key to progress but part of the return reward of physical, mental and emotional well being.

Most of us live with the every day chatter of our impulses, desires, attachments, and addictions vying for control of our behavior; not to mention our concerns for all our responsibilities, liabilities, and fears. Of course they vary from day to day and doesn’t always work on us all at once, but the long term affect of daily stress does age us before our time. And yet sometimes we have a break through performance that if we could maintain or repeat regularly we would be king of the world.

The brain has evolved over millions of years Patt tells us and like geology, has evolved in layers. The reptilian brain sits on the brain stem, and the limbic over that and the last evolution, the cortex sits on top. The frontal cortex is the real general and sits up front. On emotional days when people tell us to be rational the right lobe is in total control and doesn’t listen to the rational left lobe. When we are accused of acting without heart, the left lobe is in control with access to the emotions.

The different parts of the brain operate on different wave lengths and at different speeds. When the cortex beta waves are in high  speed you are getting monkey chatter or maybe over wrought. When the reptilian brain is on low speed you are sleeping and at peace like you were for the first two years of your life.

There are also nine different personality types classified by Patt and your brain waves accentuate their positive and negative aspects. So, if you are an achievement oriented person that feels depressed  if not achieving, then separating your self from your mind becomes crucial. If everything is in sync and you are focused and concentrating, then you and Payton Manning are in the same zone.

Meditation is the road out, but even without that you can assist with some simple daily practices of exercise and food. Exercise each day and strenuously every other day. The most common helpful food is brocolli followed by garlic, zucchini, nuts, eggs, olive oil, and many others depending whether you want to support beta or alpha waves.

The right wave balance affects our dopamine and serotonin which when out of balance may cause us to pursue alcohol and drugs. When our beta waves are down and we want more zip, we reach for the coffee and sugar. We are constantly trying to offset or counter balance what we could have naturally if we knew what to do.

We pick up 50% of our model behavior and personality before we are three by imitating our parents and later living out what we learned. We suffer our whole lives from a traumatic event or interpretation from our youth. We live the best we can but we may suffer from stress from subconscious thoughts we no longer realize we have.

Meditation is the road out but that is a decision for you. Read her book and you may  rediscover the treasure that was always you.