Books by Bill Bodri

Why do empires rise and fall? Why do some cultures and civilizations disappear over the ages while others have thrived for thousands of years? Why have some countries become superpowers brimming with prosperity while others have not? What grand strategies have empires, countries, and cities used to grow themselves into greatness? There are many factors that foretell the rise and fall of civilizations, and two of the prosperity principles rarely discussed but must be mastered include asabiya, or cooperative group unity, and the aggregate "virtue" or "merit" of a great body of men.There are also cyclical factors in history - whether of Kondratrieff innovation waves, Strauss and Howe generational waves, business cycles or demographic waves - which explain predictable trends in technology, politics and economics that we can align with for the purposes of prosperity. Cities can make use of these trends and through astute placemaking magnetically attract residents, talent, and the "next thing" industries within their borders. Many companies also face the prospect of super profitability and then bankruptcy. What strategic factors explain how to build firms to last? Many companies thrive by adopting a guiding vision that creates benefit for customers and overrides a natural tendency towards pure profiteering without regard to human values. How should those companies design products embodying greater merit (benefit and values) than the competition and ethically market them to highlight their best value propositions? In your own career, how do you avoid the slippery road of commerce that often produces "errant men of business"? What principles will help you stick to a virtuous road and even become considered a man or woman of "consummate conduct"? More importantly, how can you find your life purpose or purposes within life so that it becomes filled with more satisfaction than what your job or occupation provides, and how can you band together with larger groups with similar interests to uplift communities and infect the world with positive change?When you peel back the layers of explanation you will find that the big principles of death and decline, or progress and prosperity for great bodies of men usually revolve around lasting issues of virtue, values, culture and merit. The grand strategies of progress revolve around unifying principles of cooperation and shared values. When virtuous ways such as altruism, self-sacrifice and cooperation hold sway we will normally see prosperity in societies and when they decline we will normally see deterioration. One individual with a vision or passion who cultivates himself to become better can therefore influence his family, community, country and the world to do great things, and can even affect the future generations of men. This is a book on the big principles that explain why small to large associations of men grow and thrive or decline and die, and teaches how to manage their group-persistence and uplifting. It reveals the causes of progress and prosperity for civilizations, cultures, empires, countries, cities, companies and products ... and how men can personally raise these groups up to greater heights by pursuing purposes, values and missions that embody the highest of ideals.

Sport visualization skills, the ability to create mental images of a perfected athletic performance in your mind, are extremely powerful tools for helping individuals achieve their athletic best. Legendary sports figures like Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Jerry West, Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, Pele, Ronaldinho and countless Olympic champions have all used mental imagery practice to improve their game because it indeed creates an advantage that adds an edge. If they did not think it worked then most elite athletes would not use it.Using mental visualization as a training technique invariably results in much better athletic performances so elite athletes everywhere are now using it. Seasoned athletes train to form highly detailed mental images and run-throughs of their entire athletic performance while vividly engaging all their senses in their mental rehearsal. The very best learn how to combine their knowledge of the sports venue, including their athletic skills and game strategies, with their mental rehearsals for excellence.Science has discovered that intently visualizing mental images of sports activities and actually doing them activates similar neural circuit regions of the brain. Because the brain doesn't distinguish between doing something and just thinking about doing it, mentally rehearsing an athletic skill can then activate preexisting neural pathways just as well as physical practice does. Refreshing that mental imagery over and over again is then like carving a groove into your nervous system, enabling your actions to become more automatic which is a boon if you are imagining great skillfulness. Done consistently, visualizing ideal, perfect athletic actions in vivid detail can definitely help you reliably "hard-wire" a great performance in your brain. Imagining yourself doing those movements in a perfect fashion will help you become better at their execution.Athletes practice visualization because they want to condition their mind in such a way that the body automatically behaves the way they want it to without effort, which can take their performance to the next level of excellence. You can positively, absolutely improve your athletic performance when you start to employ the right type of mental imagery practice. Among other things, athletes commonly use visualization efforts to improve specific skills such as hitting or catching a ball, skiing a hill, swimming a race, jumping an obstacle, timing a response, or moving their body in a certain way particular to a sport. Mental imagery practice can also be used to enhance your confidence, boost motivation and reduce performance anxiety.Visualization practice helps prepare athletes for real competition. It can and should be a type of active mental rehearsal of how you want things to be in terms of your performance. By regularly creating certain experiences or scenarios in your mind, which your brain interprets as a real situation, you can skillfully prepare yourself with the appropriate expert response when it comes time to make those experiences happen. The magic is that sports visualization practice can then take you to the next level of competition because forming mental images in your mind will help construct mental and physiological schema that can be reproduced, almost automatically, in actual life.

Do you have a stubborn health condition that doesn't seem to be improving? Can't seem to lose weight no matter what you try? Do you want to reduce your risk of developing Alzheimers disease or cancer? Or do you just want to look better, feel better, sleep better and start slowing down the aging process? The answer might be a home detox. "What is the simplest, cheapest but most effective detox program I can do at home that involves the fewest supplements and least amount of effort?" As a nutritionist who runs detox programs in Asia, I have been asked this question so many times that I finally put down my most powerful detoxification protocols with the exact products I've noted work best for people. Inside you will find simple but powerful detox protocols using nutritional supplements that will clean your entire body and address specific problems such as liver or kidney troubles, heavy metals, stubborn infections, Candida and parasites, or clogged arteries. You will also find protocols that help support and detox specific organ systems needing assistance such as your colon and intestines, liver and gallbladder, kidneys and bladder, skin, bones, and lungs. Found nowhere else, you will also learn how to read your blood lab test results to finally discover what inside you is not working at peak efficiency and can use some detoxification support. You'll find out which over the counter supplements work best for these concerns. As pollution has increased in the world, our organs have simply not been able to keep up with the detoxification demands from being exposed to so many contaminants. Our bodies have literally become toxic cesspools from absorbing an onslaught of harmful chemicals in the air, our water and food. Our detoxification organs have been inundated by this deluge and are unable to keep up with their elimination work. Tests show that all human beings, including infants, now have innumerable toxic chemicals, insecticide and pesticide remnants, plastics, heavy metals, xenoestrogens, inoculation residues, industrial wastes and other poisons stored in their cells, and the eventual outcome of these accumulations is likely to be some form of chronic or even fatal illness unless we do something about it now. A home detoxification program is the solution, but what protocol should you use? What supplements work best? Different people will require different products for their own detoxification needs, but a typical protocol will be to start with cleansing the intestines, kidneys and liver since they are our main detoxifiers or channels of elimination. Afterwards you can move on to other body systems. Inside you will find a collection of the most powerful detoxification protocols you can do at home using products that others have derived from years of development. Whenever you put an additional burden on your detox organs you must also take supportive nutrients so that they have enough energy to carry out the additional work you are requesting, and you will find what to take for organ support as well. Is detoxification worth the effort? Many people have cancelled surgery and reversed incurable health conditions because of it. Will you feel better? It's worth a try!