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5 Manfaat Vitamin A Untuk Mata Dan Kesehatan

Vitamin A adalah keliru satu vitamin yg sangat bermanfaat buat tubuh khususnya buat kesehatan mata. Vitamin A termasuk vitamin yg larut lemak, sama halnya bersama vitamin D, E, & K. Dan selain memiliki manfaat buat mata, vitamin A jua sangat membantu dalam menaikkan imunitas & daya tahan tubuh.

Membantu Mencegah Mata Katarak

Secara awam manfaat vitamin A buat mata memang timbul aneka macam. Hal ini dikarenakan vitamin A terdiri berdasarkan beberapa senyawa kimia, pada antaranya retinol, asam retinoat, retinal, & beberapa karotenoid provitamin-A dan beta karoten. Dengan kandungan tersebut, vitamin A sangat membantu menaikkan kesehatan mata.

Dengan asupan vitamin A yg cukup, resiko katarak akan diminimalkan. Karena bersama vitamin A yg bersifat menjadi antioksidan, kotoran dalam mata akan ditangkap sehingga kotoran (zat kapur) pada lensa mata akan berkurang/hilang.

Mata minus ini dapat dicegah bersama cara memperbanyak konsumsi vitamin A dan memperbaiki pola hidup yg kurang sehat buat mata. Beberapa pola hidup yg kurang baik buat mata artinya kebiasaan membaca sembari tidur, kebiasaan membaca pada ruangan yg gelap atau kurang cahaya, menonton televisi sembari tidur, dan terlalu banyak bermain game pada komputer atau smartphone.

Demikian 5 manfaat vitamin A buat mata & kesehatan, semoga bersama artikel ini anda dapat menjaga asupan vitamin A agar kesehatan mata tetap terjaga. Semoga bermanfaat.

Menjaga Kesehatan Organ Mata

Berikut ini artinya 5 manfaat vitamin A buat mata & kesehatan.

Dengan manfaat menjadi antioksidan, regenerasi sel mata, dan menaikkan imunitas tubuh, vitamin A menjadi nutrisi yg sangat krusial buat mata. Hal ini dikarenakan mata artinya satu satunya organ yg berfungsi buat melihat sehingga kiprahnya akan sangat penting sekali. Untuk itu agar organ mata tetap sehat, maka perlu asupan vitamin A dalam dosis yg cukup.

Penyebab mata minus artinya adanya abnormalitas pada otot siliaris mata sehingga nir dapat melihat benda berdasarkan jeda yg jauh atau benda tersebut akan nampak kabur atau buram. Dan jikalau sudah menderita rabun jauh ini, maka orang tersebut wajib memakai kaca mata buat melihat benda yg jauh.

Rabun senja artinya suatu penyakit penurunan fungsi retina sehingga pada ketika malam hari nir akan dapat melihat bersama normal. Dengan kandungan senyawa retinol dalam vitamin A, retinol akan membantu memperbaiki & menaikkan metabolisme pada sel mata sehingga fungsi retina dapat berjalan bersama normal baik pada siang ataupun malam hari.

5 Manfaat Vitamin A Untuk Mata Dan Kesehatan

Membantu Mencegah Rabun Senja

Berikut ini artinya beberapa bahan kuliner yg adalah asal vitamin A.

Sebagaimana kita ketahui pada vitamin A terdapat banyak kandungan senyawa yg baik buat mata. Senyawa tersebut akan membantu metabolisme hampir seluruh sel yg timbul pada mata sehingga sel akan selalu berada dalam kondisi yg sehat. Dengan asupan vitamin A yg cukup, maka kesehatan mata akan tetap terjaga.

Sayuran : wortel, brokoli, bayam
Umbi : ubi jalar
Buah : apel, anggur, kiwi
Hewan : minyak ikan
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Membantu Mencegah Mata Minus (Rabun Jauh)

Selain dapat mencegah gangguan mata minus, asal vitamin A mirip wortel dapat jua dipergunakan buat terapi mata minus. Terapi secara alami ini dapat dilakukan bersama mengkonsumsi secara rutin butir wortel yg diparut kemudian diseduh bersama air panas, sesudah itu diaduk kemudian disaring. Air ekstrak wortel diminum secara rutin 3 kali sehari. Dan selama terapi, nir diperbolehkan buat memakai kaca mata.

Katarak adalah penyakit mata yg tidak jarang dijumpai pada Indonesia. Penyakit ini disebabkan adanya pengapuran pada lensa mata sehingga timbul semacam penghalang pada lensa mata. Akibatnya cahaya nir dapat masuk ke mata & retina nir dapat mendapat cahaya tersebut. Sehingga penderita katarak jua memiliki indikasi-indikasi mirip kebutaan.

Membantu Metabolisme Sel Mata

Wizard of Oz - Book review (Part 1)

There is a new TV series, "Emerald City", based on the great stories of the land of Oz. This is the first time in a while we've see anything Oz  related that 's this big and mainstream; not since the movie "Oz, the Great and Powerful", which was a prequel to the first Oz story. I'll be watching the new show.  I'm very curious about it.

I wonder which direction they'll go with it., And wihich part of the Oz mythos they'll explore. But for now, I would to take this opportunity and talk about its source material, the original Oz series of books, by L. Frank Baum. I'll also talk a little about some of the Oz movies and discuss how and why there don't exist many faithful adaptions.

There's fourteen books by the original author and many more by other writers. It's really a gold mine of source material! It could have been a huge film franchise, like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or Chronicles of Narnia. There's been tons of adaptations, but none of them turned into a major movie series. Even the most famous 1939 version, staring Judy Garland, is solitary and exists all by itself.

And maybe that's the way it should be. Nothing could ever top the classic version. Personally, it is one of my favorite films, and many people share that sentiment. It's such  a timeless movie with every generations, it holds up so well.

That it's hard to guess what decade it was made. I've heard lots of people say they thought it was the 50s. There were many silent versions that came before it but this is the one everyone knows. It's a contender for "Most Beloved Film of All Time," and it is perhaps the only film that no one dares to remake.

But, like I said, there a whole bunch of books that are waiting for adaptations and most of them are now public domain. Let's see how "Emerald City" turns out, But first let me tell you about these books and what we're missing out on. The first, published in 1900, is the most famous of the stories. If you've seen the classic Judy Garland movie, then you pretty much know what happens in the book.

But there are some differences that stuck out to me. For example, in the book, the slippers or shoes that Dorothy gets the corpse of the Witch of the East are silver. For the film, they were changed to a sparkling ruby red. I assume the reason was because the film was made in color, which was very expensive at the time, so it made sense to show off the rich, lavish production by making them red.

In the book, there's two good witches; the Witch of the North and the Witch of the South, Glinda. For the movie, they combined both of these witches into the same character and just called her Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. When watching the movie, that always had me wondering why didn't they have a Witch of the South. Well, that's the reason.

As for why they combined the characters, My hunch is that, since the Witch of the North appears near the beginning of the book and the Witch of the South appears near the end of the book, it made sense just to make them the same character and tie it all together. But this raises a little problem with the movie. The whole time, all Dorothy is trying to do is go home. Glinda gives her the slippers and sends her off to meet the Wizard, which gets her into all this trouble with the Witch of the West and after she finally meets the Wizard and kills the Witch her problem still isn't solved.

Then Glinda comes out again and says all she need to do is click her heels together and she's home. In the book, this made sense because it was the first time she met Glinda, but in the movie it makes you wonder, "Why couldn't she tell her that in the first place?" Other than the fact that it would have been a short movie. Don't get me wrong: the movie's a masterpiece and this does nothing to harm it. It only makes it funnier.

It's one of those things you don't think about the first few times, but after a while, you stop and go, "Oh ... Glinda's an asshole!" There's a lot more characters in the book who we don't see in the movie like the Kalidahs, who are bears with tiger heads who try to stop the group on their journey to the Emerald City. The lion says even he is no match for them. Another obstacle they face is the hammer heads, who are armless men who attack by stretching their necks, using their heads to hit.

There's a country in Oz called China because all their buildings and people are made of porcelain. While this didn't appear in the movie, the porcelain girl did appear in "Oz, the Great and Powerful". The Wizard of Oz himself has multiple forms, not just the floating green head you see in the film. Each of the characters are only allowed to meet with him one at a time and on seperate days.

Everytime they seem him, he changes his appearance, into different things, such as a beast with horns, a ball of fire, and even a charming girl with wings. The way I interperet this is that, since the Wizard has such an elusive, mysterious reputation, each of the characters walked into that room with their own subjective mind and imagined their own version of the him. That's just how it came off to me. The lion in the film is cowardly and timid.

In the book, that's also true but he also has moments of bravery. There's a part where a community of animals in the forest, including bears, wolves, foxes and elephants, are fearful of a giant spider, with legs as long as tree trunks, who is devouring them. Then, the lion proves his title as King of the Forest killing the spider ... While it's sleeping ...

By knocking its head off. I find that very funny to imagine. While reading the book, I find myself visualizing these "deleted scenes" in the same style of the movie, popping out from the pages with its Technicolor glow, but there's violent, gory moments that strike me as being discordant with the childish tone. The movie has some parts that are scarry for children but the book ...Check this out: "...

And it rolled over at his feet in two pieces." The Tin Man is killing things with its axe! In the movie, he's always holding that axe and it makes you wonder: "What is he going to do with that axe?". Well, in the book, he actually uses it ... ... In all the ways you'd imagine.

" ... So that it immediately died.". "As soon as he could raise his axe another wolf came up, and he also fell under the sharp edge of the Tin Woodman's weapon." "There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed;" "so that at last they all laid dead in a heap before the Woodman." The Tin Man has a body count! And that's not all! The Scarecrow kills just as much! "And then another crow flew it him, and the Scarecrow twisted its neck also." "There were forty crows, and forty time the Scarecrow twisted a neck," "until at last all were lying dead beside him." Could you imagine the brainless scarecrow with that dopey look on his face breaking the necks of forty crows one at a time? There's also some philosophical moments. The Tin Man and Scarecrow debate whether it's more important to have a brain or a heart.

The Scarecrow says, "A fool would not know to do with a heart without a brain." And the Tin Man says, "... For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." Hmm... The group all have their differences. Dorothy's hungry, but they're in the middle of the woods, so the lion says he'll go to kill a deer, but Dorothy won't eat raw meat and the Lion says she has pecular tastes that she only likes cooked food.

Meanwhile, the Tin Man is about to cry over the idea of killing a deer and is concerned he'll make himself rust. The whole group is dysfunctional in a way. And, as great as the movie is, it only samples some of the comedy potential of these mismatched characters overcoming their differences to work together. When it comes time to kill the Witch, they each give their reason why they're not properly equiped and address their own flaws.

The Lion says that he's too much of a coward, the Scarecrow says he's too much of a fool, The Tin Man says that he doesn't have the heart; but they're so faithful to Dorothy, they'd do anything to help her. Dorothy herself cries over the idea of having to kill someone in order to see her aunt and uncle again, but she must try. And this mishmash assortment of characters all join forces and bond their friendship. It's this moment that I think sums up everything "Wizard of Oz" is all about.

It is the whole story right here on page 132. Then they all start preparing for battle. In one brisk paragraph, the Tin Man is sharpening his axe ... Getting his joints oiled, The Scarecrow is stuffing himself with fresh straw...

If this were a movie, it would be a montage, the kind in action movies where the heroes are gearing up. It is almost a parody of a montage, a parody of something that didn't even exist yet. This was the year 1900, and if made a movie of this today, they could take this same scene with the same context and it would already be parody, but it needs a ton of close-ups and fast editing in the same way that was so effective done by Edgar Wright in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". There is more cinematic potential in these books than can even be estimated.

The books have such a weird, mixed tone that you could adapt it any way you please. You could make a dark, twisted version or a funny, light-hearted one. All the possibilities are there and with tons of Oz books in the public domain, I wonder why Hollywood hasn't taken advantage with more movie adaptations. Like I said, therr's been a lot of Oz films over the decades, but its never turn into a full film series like Harry Potter Even "Oz, the Great and Powerful" has yet to see a sequel, and I thought that movie was all right.

It laid a good foundation to build on. I have some ideas why a big, mainstream Oz franchise it hasn't yet happened. This is just my own speculation ... Some possible reasons.

Number one: Hollywood is too busy adapting comic books. Superheroes are more adult, more badass, and they see Oz as more of a children's thing. Number two: Since the books are public domain, anyone can do it... But that may also be the problem.

Let's say Disney and Warner Bros.Both made an Oz movie at the same time... It would be competition. Everybody wants to have something that's exclusive. Undoubtedly, if one major Oz movie get made, a bunck of lower budget version could rise to the surface to cash in.

This was something very common during the Direct-to-DVD market. The one I best remember was when three different "War of the Worlds" movies all came out in the same month - two of them the same weekend! A big-budget Steven Spielberg version, a low-budget version and a zero budget version, and actually, the zero budget version was the most faithful to the book. And the third reason: if they make it into a series, they would have to start with the first book, and that was already one the best films of all time. Even though Hollywood has had no issues with remaking other classic films like "Ben-Hur", which is ridiculous, Oz seems to be remake-proof.

So, they'd have to be careful with that one. They would have to make it different, especially since while the books are public domain, the movie is not. Meaning, without a license,  they couldn't immitate the same look for the characters, use any of the songs or rehash any of the same elements that appeared solely in the film. Nor should they.

Personally, the only reason I'd be okay with a remake is if they explored its source material in new ways and if it served as the launchpad for a whole series to adapt the rest of the books. They would have to do a good job with the first one and it would have to be successful. Now that we have 'Emerald City', I may stand corrected. It's television, it's not theatrical films, but lots of franchises, such as "Evil Dead", are going in the direction of TV anyway.

Could this be the Oz series I've been waiting for? I at least plan to watch the first few episodes and see how it is. If you want to hear me talk more Oz, stay tuned.  There's going to be a Part 2 of this video next week I'll discuss a couple more of the books and another one of the films..

VICIOUS by V.E. SchwabBOOK REVIEW

Hi guys! Today I'm here with a review of Vicious by V.E. Schwab, also known as the Victoria Schwab This is about two friends, Victor and Eli, who are in college and for Eli's thesis he is looking into EO's, extra-ordinary's. These people with special
kind of abilities. They decide to experiment when they come up with this theory about
how someone could develop extra-ordinary abilities, but things go
terribly wrong.

Fast forward ten years into the future and Victor is just of jail and he's on the lookout for Eli, So this was the book that the Little Book Club read back in October and we did do a live show discussion
on the book, This does include all kinds of spoilers so I'd only
recommend watching that if you have read the book. I will leave a link to that down below if you're, interested but let's move on to some of my spoiler-free thought. This became a one of my favourite books of 2014. It is amazing.

It is, I suppose, and unconventional kind revenge story, but oh my gosh it was
like nothing I've ever read before. The whole premise itself just captivated
me. I was so intrigued from the get-go, and I think the
structure of the story also really helped with keeping that suspense and that level of mystery as
well, because we flip back and forth from the present-day and also ten years back into the past
and in doing this we slowly learn about how certain series
of events came about and how these things lead to
what's happening at the present time. And everything just kind of falls into place, but one piece at a time.

So I was constantly questioning and
constantly wanting to know more, so it definitely keeps you flipping those
pages. I love the idea behind creating
extra-ordinary people, but not only that, but how this affected people and actually
kind of changed who they are - how that person not only deals with it, but kind of uses it. I also really love V.E. Schwab's writing style.

I absolutely adore it. I
don't know what it is, but I just find it so captivating, but from what I've heard, looking at the discussion threads on Goodreads while we were reading this book, some people weren't such a huge fan of the writing style, or at least a little bit of getting used to. But I definitely think it's worth it, if you have any kind of issue whatsoever with the writing I definitely recommend you keep at it. Keep at it because oh my gosh, the story is so worth it.

But I think the best elements of this book as a whole were the actual characters. This was my favourite part of the story. So for our two main characters, Victor and Eli this experiment really, really changed them as people, but not necessarily in a good way. They both become quite obsessive, but in different forms.

And this leads to some extreme and sometimes even awful actions on both their parts. Both of their characters, they're so twisted. They're just kind of messed up. And I'd describe them both as slightly villanous there is no clear-cut hero in this story.

There's definitely a blur between good and evil but what I found most interesting was the thought processes behind both of the characters, and their reasonings for their actions. That really made things interesting Because you do learn to empathise with these characters, you kind of learn to understand why they're doing certain things, even though it's so terribly wrong you get it. But it's just so wrong on so many levels which just, and I thought that was just so, so well done. We're also introduced to some other characters apart from Victor and Eli, and I think my favourite is Mitch which is quite interesting because he's very different to a lot of the characters.

He appears to be quite a quiet character, I suppose, But I really liked his relationship with Victor and how he kind of keeps Victor on track. Honestly, I don't think there's anything else that I can say about this book without kind of diving into some spoilery things. Because so much of this book is left to a mystery until later on So, I'm going to end things here. This is one of my favourite books.

I highly recommend it. And this is undoubtedly a 5/5 stars from me. So, I hope you guys enjoyed this review, I would love to know your thoughts on Vicious if you've read it, so leave your comments down below. Don't forget to check out the liveshow if you have read the book and would like to hear a little bit more of some spoilery discussions.

And I think that's about it! So, I will see you guys next time with a new video. Bye!.

Uprooted - Spoiler Free ReviewThe Book Life

Hey guys it's Sarah Jane,welcome back
to my channel. Today I'm here to bring you a spoiler free review of Uprooted by
Naomi Novik. I read it I finally read it. Sam from Thoughts on Tomes bought me
this book in January 2016 as a birthday present and I hadn't read it until last
week because I'm a rubbish human.

So Uprooted is a book that most of you will
either have read or at the very least heard about, it's a book that got a lot
of hype a lot of buzz in the beginning and it's interesting coming to the book
at this point after its release because people seem to either love the book or
hate it. *Cat meows* Luna I actually managed to do that sentence in one take. I would like
to take this moment to tell you that she was fed 15 minutes ago. So Uprooted is an
adult fantasy novel which I didn't know actually until I'd finished the book
which was quite interesting because I.

Went into it thinking it was YA. But I
will touch upon that later. So this is a fantasy novel that feels as though it's
set in a world where fairy tales come from, it has that fairy tale feel to it
and it follows the story of seventeen-year-old Agnieszka.  I don't know, it wouldn't be a book review if i didn't
slaughter some names.

So Agnieszka loves her quiet village she loves her life there
but the village stands on the edge of a very corrupted wood. The wood is cold
it's corrupted it's dangerous and its kept at bay by the cold wizard known as
the Dragon. This wizard known as the Dragon keeps the villagers safe but it
comes at a cost. Every 10 years the village must hand over a girl to serve
the dragon for 10 years, a fate almost as terrible as being lost to the wood.

Now
girls that are born in choosing year are always seen as a little bit special they
are loved that little bit harder treasured that a little bit more because
it's known that one of them will be picked by the dragon to serve him. But
Nieshka has never really had that trouble because it was never believed that it
was going to be her, her best friend Kasia is beautiful, she's talented and
it's always being kind of understood that it will be Kasia that the Dragon
picks but in true book fashion of course that is not how it goes and the dragon
picks Agnieszka. Within seconds of being picked by the Dragon she's thrust from
the world that she knows and loves and she now lives in the Dragons Tower and
she knows she's going to be there for ten years. I'm gonna put this down now though
because it's quite heavy okay? Because Agnieszka never thought it was
going to be her she never made the effort to learn how to cook she never
made the effort to learn how to be a servant so the Dragon is quite
displeased with her at first shall we say.

I would say the first 30% or so of
the book definitely gave me strong Beauty and the Beast vibes if you go
into it expecting a Beauty and the Beast retelling you're gonna be very
disappointed but if like me one of your favorite elements of Beauty and the
Beast is the push and pull characters have, the friction they have how he's
really grumpy and she's really stubborn, if that is your favorite element of
Beauty and the Beast you will see Beauty and the Beast in this book. The dragon
starts to do spells and magic with Agnieszka and it really frustrates him
when she can't do the things that he wants her to do and the story really
goes on from there. The book strongly focuses on friendship, the friendship
between Agnieszka and Kasia is really really strong and I like that I don't
feel like I don't feel like Agnieszka is massively layered I don't feel like
she's a character that hugely went on a journey, I don't feel like she had a very
big character arc of course there's some character development there she becomes
more confident, she becomes more accepting of who she is blah blah blah
but I wouldn't say that she has a massive character arc. I also wouldn't
say that I felt that Kasia was a particularly strong character either I
really liked their friendship but I.

Wouldn't say that either of them
massively stood out to me on their own. One thing I would say about Agnieszka
that I liked is she's that stubborn protagonist but I love. I love stubborn
protagonists Sam said the same thing in her video and that's something that
we're very similar with we both really like stubborn headstrong characters and
I like that she... You understood why she was being headstrong and you understood
why she was being stubborn, there was no point when she was being stubborn that I
went and like rolled my eyes I.

Understood everything that she was doing
and I really liked that. I really did like the Dragon I could see a lot of
Beast elements in him especially since reading the book after watching the 2017
version of Beauty and the Beast and I loved how he was stubborn how he
was grumpy how he was a bit cold how he was really abrasive that's my kind of
character of course I was going to love the Dragon and I liked that he he didn't
have to do very much for me to go like aww because any slight little movement of
him that's just anything away from his usual cold grumpy demeanor
I was like yes yes come on Dragon open up a little bit, I just loved him. I love
them together this book does have romance in it but it's definitely not a
book that has too much romance I would say the romance left me wanting more me
and Sam talked about this when I'd finish the book and we both feel the
same way it's it's a book that makes you want more from the romance but what we
did get was absolutely amazing I love seeing them come together it wasn't
sweet and soppy it was like friction and then they put away from each other
because they don't,  oh I don't like you and then they'd be like yes I do and
I just I love that that's that's my thing. But the thing that intrigues me
most is that when I actually picked up Uprooted I didn't think it was adult, I
thought it was YA and I would say that I.

Still felt like the book was a little
bit YA it was only parts of the romance that then pushed it that bit further
into perhaps like a new adult fantasy genre I don't feel like this book is
100% adult I feel like it kind of straddles the line of YA and adult.
There is a little bit of mature content when you get to the road where it's part
of just saying but if you take that bit away I don't feel like the book was
massively adult so it's interesting that it is classed as adult. I know there's
some criticism about the magic system some people were saying that they felt
like the world building was sloppy that the magic system wasn't explained and I
do feel like I'm basically repeating Sam here, but that didn't bother me at all
it didn't bother me that I wasn't explained everything because this wasn't
a world where the character is coming into the situation not knowing anything
she hasn't been in the dark she's from this world so the fact that we weren't
getting that explanation I was fine with. I feel like I finally got a book for the
question that you get in a tag which is name a book that you love that
everybody else hates because I know that not
everybody hates uprooted but I have really seen a lot of negative reviews
for this book and I personally just don't get it although a little bit of me
can see perhaps why you wouldn't love it I don't get how you can hate this book. I
respect everyone who hates this book I.

Respect everyone who doesn't like, it but
I personally absolutely loved it. Something else that I really liked about
this book which is kind of funny because a lot of people don't like this aspect
of the book is how fast-paced it was I. Could see where the book would have
finished if it was a duology if it was a trilogy how it would have been padded
out and it was just nice to read a strong fast-paced standalone that I
could really get into that I liked the characters and ultimately I gave Uprooted 5 out of 5 stars. If you haven't read this book yet I
strongly recommend that you pick it up I.

Really enjoyed it I hate that it took me
so long to read it so many of you Sam included were like will you just pick up
this book so I finally read it and you guys were right.
Have you read uprooted yet what did you think about it, please let me know in the
comments and no spoilers please and if you haven't read it yet are you planning
to? Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys again soon bye!.

UNSHAKEABLE by Tony RobbinsBook Animation SummaryReview

What's up internet? My name is TridentLion in this video we're going to be talking about Tony Robbins new book, "Unshakeable: your financial freedom playbook, creating a piece of mind in a world of volatility." With Peter Mallouk. Here on this channel it's entirely geared to helping you level up! Level up whether that be with relationships, with regards to finance, with regards to business, as well as so many other fun and exciting topics. So, if you're new to the channel consider subscribing.  Tony Robbins breaks this book into three separate sections.

The first section is the rule book, the second section is going to be the playbook, and the third section is the psychology of wealth. Now let's get into the first part of this book which is the rule book. You are an investor whether you recognize it or not. Whether you believe it or not at the very least most people are trading their time for money which is an investment by pretending like you're not an investor and sitting on the sidelines and not allocating your money properly or just leaving in the bank or cash or under your mattress.

You are making a very costly mistake by staying by the sidelines. Fortunately Tony Robbins has brought us this book to carefully and thoughtfully show us how you can become a master of your investment fate instead of just sitting on the sidelines full of fear and getting whipsawed by reacting to the markets volatility and panicking in damaging ways, by making emotional decisions based on fear. Let's talk about the name of the book, "Unshakeable," an unwavering and undisputed confidence a steadfast commitment to the truth, presence peace of mind and a calm amidst the storm. There you have the definition of Unshakable, now take that definition and apply it to yourself and your financial situation.

Imagine being unshakeable regarding your finance how great would you feel how certain would you feel? How confident, secure, and comfortable would you feel? Knowing that, you know what you're doing. This is your financial situation that we're trying to improve and level up with so really take this information seriously and try to apply it to your life. If you have to pause the video take notes as it goes along and I highly recommend anyone to pick up this book of the haven't already that's seeking to master money in their own life. You can find a link for the book in the description that way you can get a greater understanding and have the right mindset going forward into it not only because this mindstate better you but it can give you a competitive advantage amongst others in the marketplace.

When others are afraid you have the presence of mind to take advantage of the turmoil. Too many people obsess and focus on what they can't control, you need to become hyper focused on what you can control.If you're going to compete in the financial world you need to learn the rules of the financial game. You need to know who the players are in the game, and what their agendas are. You have to be aware of what can hurt you and also how you can win.

This financial knowledge can set you free. Your decisions will equal your destiny and I'm sure the last thing you want is a destiny filled with poverty and uncertainty. So make the conscious decision to master this area in your life and no longer step on the sidelines. Allowing other people to become rich and you to become stagnant or become poor.

Make the decision to not be stupid with money. Become smart, understand it Too many people out there just are not aware of what's going on in the financial world. When I read this book, I. Learned about what a bear market means.

I'm sure most of you probably don't even know what a bear market is. Well, what a bear market is is when a market falls by at least twenty percent from its peak. That's what a bear market is. A correction is when the market falls at least ten percent from its peak, both of these terms I had no idea what it meant and most people don't know that as well.

Some people out there that invest in stocks don't even know what that means, and that's why they're losing because when one of these two things occurs whether a correction or a bear market most people get terrified of losing their money so they pull out of the stock market, and resort to cash. By doing that, it's ignorance and fear helping you to just lose money. You have to recognize that in the market there are patterns that occur there are ups and down so why would you freak out in the wintertime when you know that spring is just around the corner. By being ignorant you're left in the dark, but by being aware of how these patterns work you can use it to your advantage.

By reading this book you can learn when to plant the seeds to get the greatest harvest. You're never gonna earn your way to financial freedom the real route to riches it's a set aside a portion of your money and invested so that you can utilize the power of compounding over many years. The single best place to compound money over many years is in the stock market but you really need to understand the market patterns. You need to understand the seasons that it goes through.

So now let's get into the next part of the rulebook that discusses... 27 Freedom facts.  The first freedom fact is that, on average a Correction occurs about once a year. So don't get sucked into a lot of the drama that you see on different news and things like that.

It's just a part of the pattern it goes up and down so don't be scared if a correction happens. It's normal, it's natural and it pretty much occurs every year freedom fact number 2, less than twenty percent of all corrections turn into a bear market. Freedom fact number three, nobody can predict consistently whether the market will rise or fall. Do not listen to people that claim that they know what's going to happen to the stock market because they don't.

Nobody can predict the future it's a delusion to think that you or I. Or anyone can successfully time the market by jumping in and out at the right time. Freedom fact number four, the stock market rises over time despite many short-term setbacks. The S&P 500 index experienced an average intra year decline of 14.2 Percent from 1982 to the end of 2015.

In other words, these market drops were remarkably regular occurrences over 36 years. Once again, nothing to be scared of just a matter of winter putting on it's usual seasonal appearance. Display a 14.2% Average drop within each year, the US market ended up with a positive return,  27 of the last 36 years. That seventy-five percent of the time! Now it's important to take note of because it reminds us that the market generally rises over the long run.

Even though we had a huge number of potholes along the way. Freedom fact number five historically bear markets have happened every three to five years but here's what you need to know. Bear markets do not last. Just like winter never lasts, spring always follows.

The most successful investors take advantage of all that fear and gloom because they see everything as being on sale. The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism. Freedom fact number six, bear markets become bull markets and pessimism becomes optimism. Most people remember how fragile the world was in 2008 when banks were collapsing the stock market was in a freefall and the real estate market was at a all time low.

People were panicky, they were full of fear, but take note of what happened after that. The market hit rock bottom march 9th 2009 and after that the S&P. 500 Index surged by 69.5 Percent over the next 12 months. That's one hell of an opportunity, that's a spectacular return and by late 2016 SMP 500 has risen by an astonishing 266%! Since its low point in march 2009 So think about that when people were panicky and selling and getting rid of it because they thought the world was coming to an end.

They really were missing out of a fantastic opportunity because everything was on sale. They should have just bought and bought and bought and bought. Look what happened in just six or seven years, whatever they invested would have gone up 266%! Here is a clear example why Warren Buffett has been known to say "be greedy when others are fearful," and as a little fun fact, me and warren buffett have the exact same birthday. Freedom fact number seven, the greatest danger is being out of the market.

The trouble really lies in sitting on the sidelines. Even if it's just for a short period of time. Even if you invest in the market with bad timing! If you invested two thousand dollars every year for 20 years, starting in 1993. Look at the large difference between if you just kept it all in cash, in comparison to all the different options going into the market.

Even the bad timing is about 21,000 dollars more than just leaving it in cash. Next let's get into another part of the rule book which is fees. Far too often people are overpaying for underperformance. Being that nobody can predict the future it turns out that the professionals aren't really any better at predicting the future than the rest of us.

So what a lot of people make the mistake of doing is, they go to seek a financial advisor and ninety percent or more of the time it's a mutual fund broker and those people are not legally bound to be in your best interest. For an investor in a actively managed fund, the combination of hefty transaction costs and taxes is really the silent killer. Which will just quietly eat away at all of your funds returns. Paying more than you need to pay whether that be fees or taxes is really insane and to be that lazy is going to be very costly in the long run.

A great antidote is index funds. Index funds take a passive approach that eliminates almost all trading activity. Instead of trading in and out of the market. They simply buy-and-hold every stock in the index such as the S&P.

500. Which will include companies like Apple, Microsoft, johnson & johnson, etc... What's great about index funds is that they're almost entirely on autopilot. They make very few trades and the transaction costs and taxes are incredibly low.

Having some cash on hand isn't a bad idea and it's pretty handy if the market falls. Cash doesn't earn a return so it will underperform stocks over time assuming that the market continues in general upward trajectory. So let's go back and discuss these mutual funds again. When you look at the result of what they do on an after fee, after tax basis, over a reasonably long period of time there's almost no chance that you'll end up beating the index fund.

It will just simply out beat it, because the index funds don't have an overwhelmingly large amount of fees and taxes. So for example, would you buy a two-dollar coffee for $25?   NO,  because you know you can get it for 2 dollars Here's another way to look at it, to put in perspective, an actively managed fund that charges you say 3% a year is 60 times more expensive than an index fund which charges you only about 0.05%       So imagine, going to buy that two-dollar coffee and instead it's going to cost you $120!!! For the exact same cup of coffee. You would never buy that coffee, but a lot of people do this every single year with mutual funds. Now let's get  into another area of the rule book which deals with the 401k.

401K plans were a beautiful invention.  It was created in 1984 which gave the average person the chance to build wealth,  by making tax-deductible contributions to a retirement account directly from our paychecks.  Nearly 90 million Americans participate in a 401k plan, to put that in perspective, only 75 million Americans own a home. Six trillion people are currently investing for 401k's.

It's the single most important vehicle for financial security in the US population. But i wonder if you know what happened, because somewhere along the line that dream got the derailed with trillions of dollars up for grabs, financial firms dreamed of countless ways to dip all of their fingers into the pot. For almost three decades the companies providing 401k plans were not even required by law to disclose how much they were charging to the customers. It wasn't until 2012 that the government finally forced these firms to make detailed discloses how much they were extracting from your statements.

What's interesting is that 71%  of people enrolled in 401k's,  think that there are no fees and 92% admit that they have no clue what they are.   Ignorance is not bliss when it's dealing with your money. Ignorance is very expensive and it can leave you in poverty, broke, and stuck working for your entire life. The vast majority of plans are characterized by huge broker's commissions.

Here's a short sample list of many categories of fees that were invented, there's the investment expensive, communication expenses, bookkeeping expensive, trustee expensive, legal expenses, and so on and so forth. The average worker who earns about 30 grand a year and saves five percent of their income over a lifetime, this worker would lose over $150,000!!!      To fees! That's 15 years of income. There are great alternatives though. A man named Tom Zgrainer is a CEO of a company called American Best 401k.

Tom told Tony that the 401k business is a largest dark pool of assets where nobody really knows how or whose hands are getting greased. Fortunately by contrast America's best 401k is entirely transparent. They don't accept kickbacks from mutual fund companies that are just trying to get them to sell overpriced funds. Instead they offer inexpensive index funds from firms such as vanguard and dimensional fund advisors.

Tom's company charges one fee, with no markup or hidden costs, it will save you a heck of a lot of money. There's over 300,000 financial advisors in America who are actually just brokers. Brokers who are paid to sell financial products to customers, like you and me, in return for a fee. The trouble is that these people work in a system that's beyond their control, a system that has tremendously powerful financial incentives to focus on maximizing profits above all else.

So who do you turn to?   The answer is a fiduciary,   but not a hybrid fiduciary this is important. A fiduciary is someone that is legally bound to be in your best interest, who you only pay for financial advice. There's also duly registered advisors out there which can play both roles, be a fiduciary and a broker. So make sure to check your advisors credentials.

So there have a brief sum up of part one, which is the rule book. Where you've learned the power of becoming a long-term investor who doesn't trade in & out of the market, who stays on course, not getting shaken and stirred by the crashes. You also learned the vast majority of actively managed mutual funds overcharge for underperformance. Which is why you are so much better off with an inexpensive index fund.

You'll also learn that excessive fees have devastating effects like termites eating away at the foundation of your financial future and you also learn how to find an independent financial advisor truly an incredible financial rulebook to learn how you can master the game of money. Now let's move on to the next section which is financial playbook. A playbook that empowers you to put your personal action plan in place right now the first thing we're going to talk about in the playbook is the core 4. All these great investors adhere to a similar 4 principles.

A core 4, and not only do they know what these principles are. They put it into action, remember execution is everything. If you just watch this video and read his book and keep it in theory but don't actually start saving and investing. Then you're not going to move forward with that, applied knowledge is always greater than just knowledge.

The 1st core is, don't lose, some of the best investors in the world are obsessed with avoiding losses. The second core principle is to seek asymmetric risk / reward. What that basically means is finding things that give you the greatest reward with the least amount of risk. So imagine if you were able to reduce risk while maximizing return that is what these great investors do and that's what you can do as well.

Principle number 3, tax efficiency there's only one number that truly matters which is the net amount that you actually get to keep. If someone goes up to congratulate themselves on a great investment return without taking into account the impact of taxes as well as fees, then what they are actually doing is demonstrating self-delusion. Self-delusion is a very expensive habit so adhere to core principle number three and have tax efficiency. Don't pay more than you have to and the last principle.

Principal number 4, diversification. We've all heard the saying don't put all your eggs in one basket, it's very true,  but even when you separate it into separate baskets, you want to separate those baskets into separate baskets as well. There's four important ways that you can diversify effectively, the first diversify across different asset classes. So avoid putting all of your money into only stocks, or only real estate, or only one company.

The second is to diversify within asset classes. So if you want to do stocks don't put all of your money into Microsoft, don't put all your money into apple, or even with real estate don't put all your money into piece of real estate that's right on the beach. The third important way to diversify effectively is to diversify across markets, countries, currencies all around the world because we live in a global economy so don't make the mistake of only investing in one country.  The fourth important way to diversify effectively is to diversify across time, because if you keep adding to your investment systematically over months and years you'll reduce your risk and increase your returns over time.

Diversification is like your insurance policy against financial nightmares. What it can do for you is decrease your risk and increase your return. Ray Dalio, the financial genius that's the head of Bridgewater. He's the person in "Money Master the Game" that is attributed for creating the "all-seasons" financial portfolio.

Where no matter what is going on in the market he's still succeeding, winning and getting a great return. Ray Dalio emphasizes in the book that by owning 15 unrelated investment you can reduce your overall risk by about eighty percent and you can increase the return to risk ratio by a factor of five. So your return is five times greater! So for your protection be sure to diversify. Once you're investing and you're dealing with the market going up and down you're dealing with corrections and the bear market.

There's four words that can be very expensive you want to be aware of and avoid, the words, "this time it's different." Far too often when there's a dip in the market or if it turns into a bear market or there's a recession everyone is dramatic and they think that it's the end of the world and that we're never going to bounce from it & it's completely different. When in reality if people were patient and they paid attention to what actually does happen in the market throughout history then they will realize that it's actually the greatest opportunity. When you're dealing with recessions and bear markets, because everything is literally on sale.  Imagine if your dream was to go ahead and buy a beautiful beach house and that beach house cost you $500,000 but instead it was on sale $150,000! Would you complain and think that it's the end of times or would you think oh wow that's a great deal let me go pick that up.

That is what smart investors do all the time during bear markets, & recessions. The reality then during recessions and bear market it's truly the greatest opportunity to grow. A balanced and diverse wealth portfolio will help you through hard times like in 2008 when the S&P 500 initially went down 38-percent. Investment-grade bonds rose just under six percent so when one drops, the other goes up.

You can outlast many of the financial storms that are inevitable simply by diversifying and having a well-rounded wealth portfolio. Now let's quickly check out some of the different major asset classes that you can use for your own wealth portfolio. One is stocks.  Stocks is not a lottery ticket what stocks are is when you buy stocks you become a shareholder, an owner, of a company and a lot of the stocks will pay dividends.

Bonds is another type of asset which you're basically making a loan to a company or government or something like that, typically you don't have a high return rate. There's also alternative investments which would be like real estate investments, trusts, master limited partnership (MLP),     there's also hedge funds which are not recommended to go forward within the book as well as gold. Gold is surprisingly not recommended either and it's kind of interesting Warren Buffett says that gold gets dug up and then we melt it down, dig another hole and bury it again, then pay people to stand around guarding it! It has no utility and you can't make any money from gold it just sits there and every time without exception the price has ultimately collapsed. Historically stocks, bonds and real estate have all outperformed the gold.

When you're making your wealth portfolio it's really important that you have something that matches your personality. Everybody has different goals, everybody has a different tolerance for risk. So it's very important when you're meeting with your financial advisor, you're pure independent fiduciary, that they understand you & they know what your goals are in life. They can design a portfolio around it so that you can obtain the certainty that best suits you.

I want to keep a lot of the more in-depth and refered base information, that Tony puts together, in the book for you to discover. We definitely have to get into the last section because it is very important and might actually be the most important part of the entire thing. Which is the psychology of wealth. There's really one enemy, one barrier that stands between you and your financial success.

Do you know who that person is?? It's you, and once you know how to silence the enemy from within you, nothing can stop you.    It's quite amazing that eighty percent of success is psychology. Only twenty percent is mechanical. On this video we went pretty deep together on the mechanics.

Covering the rule book as well as the playbook. If you're still watching this, I'm grateful for it, it's been quite the journey. I commend you for your thirst for knowledge, to master your financial state. Remember eighty percent of your financial success is your psychology.

It's up to you to make it happen, are you ready?   To learn what to avoid? Here we go Tony Robbins brings us six money mistakes we as investors make and how we can avoid them. Mistake number one: seeking confirmation of your beliefs. The best investors welcome opinions that contradict their own. The solution to this mistake is to ask better questions and find qualified people who disagree with them.

Mistake number two: mistaking recent events for ongoing trends why most investors buy the wrong thing, exactly the wrong moment. The solution, don't sell out rebalance. Mistake number 3: overconfidence, get real with yourself. Overestimating our abilities and our knowledge is a recipe for disaster.

The solution is to get real and honest with yourself. Mistake number 4:  Greed, gambling and the quest for only home runs. It's very tempting to swing for the fences but victory goes to the steady survivors. The solution is to recognize that this is a marathon not a sprint.

Mistake number 5: staying home it's a big big world out there. The solution, expand your horizons.  Mistake number six: negativity and lost aversion. Your brain wants you to be fearful in times of turmoil do not listen to it.

The solution to this is to be prepared and to know what you're doing. So there you have it, six mistakes to avoid. This book and your applied knowledge can bring you to financial prosperity. In Tony Robbins words that simply isn't enough, you have to strive to achieve real wealth.

By making the decision to achieve real wealth it might be the most important decision of your life. Real wealth is the opposite of suffering. The goal is not to become the richest person in the graveyard. The goal is to live an extraordinary life.

Living a life on your terms where you're achieving, contributing, & happy. The first step to achieving anything that you want is to focus. The second step is to go beyond hunger and drive, to consistently take action. The third step to achieving whatever you want is Grace, and as important as achievement is there's a second skill that you need to learn to master if you want to create an extraordinary life.

The skill is what Tony calls the art of fulfillment. In order to have any type of sustainability with your happiness you have to be a master of your internal world, not just your external world. You also have to focus on contribution. Do not give with the anticipation of getting back.

Recognize that when you're driven by a desire to contribute it brings us a great deal of fulfillment. Make the choice to live in a beautiful state. You really have two options beautiful state, and suffering state. The suffering state is when you're feeling stressed out, frustrated, depressed, terrible, overwhelmed, fearful, angry, etc...

A beautiful state is when you feel love, gratitude, ease, your creative, growth, curiosity, anticipation, joy, and so on. The mental and emotional state in which you live is ultimately the result of where you choose to focus your thoughts if you're ever experiencing suffering it's really just a result of an undirected mind that's precondition to just look for problems. To avoid all of these negative states of suffering you can start by being appreciative of what you have. Go over everything that you're grateful for.

Say what you're grateful for, step into the feeling of what it feels like to be grateful for what you have. List three things off, morning and night, it could be micro small like, I love coffee, or it could be something more grand like I love my children or something like that. Be grateful because when you're grateful and appreciative of what you have you can't feel suffering. Let's be real, life is way too short and awesome to suffer and it could be a challenge we all go through those moments of suffering but it's up to you to take conscious action when you're going through states of suffering.

So flip yourself around and see yourself to be in a beautiful state and to feel yourself to be in a beautiful state. One of the most amazing things about this book is that hundred percent of proceeds go to feeding America. Each book purchase can provide up to 50 meals so by Tony Robbins actions, writing this book of financial mastery for the average man. The fact that all of that goes back to people in need truly expresses  one of Tony Robbins core beliefs that he lives by.

Which is a secret, which is that the secret to living is giving. Thank you all so much for checking out this video, be sure to leave a like! Comment below what you found most interesting in this video and what your favorite Tony Robbins book & if you've seen him live. I've never seen him live but it's definitely on my bucket list. If you haven't already, subscribe to my channel for more awesome videos.

I'm sure if you're still watching this video is definitely achieved the goal of helping you level up and remember to always be learning, always be creating, and always be inspired! TridentLion             #LevelUp           Subscribe.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (Book Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report

This is a story about a girl named Winnie
who lives with her mother and grandmother in the town of Treegap. Her family is fairly
wealthy, owning the nearby woods. However, Winnie is unhappy at home and decides
to venture in the woods. She comes across a young man named Jesse Tuck, who claims to
be over one hundred years old, but Winnie does not believe him.

She asks to drink the
water from a nearby spring, but Jesse insists that she not. Suddenly, Mae and Miles appear, Jesse's mother
and brother. Mae, aware of Winnie's request to drink the water, decides to kidnap Winnie
and take her to their home. However, as they are heading back home, a man in a yellow suit
sees Winnie and follows them.

At the Tuck's home, Winnie is greeted by Angus,
Mae's husband. Collectively, the family tells Winnie that they are immortal because they
drank from a magic spring in the woods. At first, Winnie doesn't believe them, but because
they are so nice to her, she believes them. However, the man in the yellow suit hears
their story and returns back to Treegap.

The man with the yellow suit tells Winnie's
family that he'll help them get Winnie back safely if they sign away their ownership to
the woods. Winnie's family makes the deal and the man in the suit goes to retrieve Winnie. The man in the yellow suit confronts the Tuck's
and explains that he will soon own the woods and the magical water. After hearing about
the man's plan to sell the water, Mae hits the man with a gun.

She is arrested and the
man is rushed to a doctor. He eventually dies. Mae is held in the local jail and sentenced
to be hanged. The Tuck's decide to break her out and Winnie wants to help.

Jesse, who has grown to like Winnie, offers
her a small vile of the magical spring water and tells her to drink it when she's seventeen
so that they can live as young adults forever. The breakout is successful as Winnie pretends
to be Mae in the jail cell while the family escapes. In the end, Angus and Mae return
to Treetop many years later to find Winnie's tombstone, revealing that she never drank
the magical spring water. This story centers around the concept of immortality
and what it truly means to be immortal.

Traditionally, society is enamored by the idea of living
forever. There is an array of products that try to keep humans looking younger for longer.
However, these are merely attempts to look immortal and are not true immortality. Looking at immortality more closely, readers
can see that it is more of a curse than a gift. The Tuck's explain all of the downsides
of being immortal, such as the loss of family and friends, constant moving, and others suspecting
witchcraft.

But perhaps the biggest detriment of immortality
is the lack of a complete and circular life, as described in the many images of water throughout
the story. As Angus explains to Winnie, water is always moving in a cycle. And it's this
constant movement that gives it life. A life is made up of different phases and periods,
and without the completeness of the death phase, life becomes stagnant and incomplete..