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There’s a persistent philosophical conception (dating back to Plato) of the human existence being divided between the mind and the body. Modern marketing themes have targeted commercial products as being good for the mind, body and soul. The idea of ‘inner peace’ as being the harmony of those three ‘components’ of the human has been used and abused by today’s media. Inner peace is today packaged and sold on the back of purified water bottles, is legitimized with the knot on a black belt, is written into canon by self-help books that convince you the problem is with you. It’s advertised by beaming models holding a ‘less-fatty’ salad from fast-food franchises that are much more interested in profit margins than an individual consumer’s serenity. And while maybe some people are able to completely detach themselves from their physicality, for most people who are acutely aware of their perceived ‘flaws’, being self-conscious about one’s own body can seriously undermine their sense of inner peace.

But most people with body image issues won’t find lasting, meaningful solace from external means. After all, we develop those personal negativisms from those very same social and cultural sources. It’s that slender model holding the salad that reminds us that our breasts aren’t as large or shapely as hers. Or that we’ve got that spare tire around our midsection that’ll prevent us from ever landing us a date with a girl who looks like that. Which isn’t to say that the very model doesn’t find a number of flaws with herself, but the point is, we’ve been raised and conditioned to recognize and evaluate people based on their appearance. If our own doesn’t meet the standards established by our society, then we tend to view ourselves as inadequate or ugly because we imagine other people do. If we lived entirely by ourselves in the wilderness, in addition to being incredibly bored, at the very least we wouldn’t concern ourselves with our fat faces, our flat asses, our expansive guts, our stretch marks… you get the idea. (Hell, I’d be walking around naked but my preferred lifestyle is irrelevent to this article.)

A very important aspect of accepting our physical appearances is that, should everybody else in the world suddenly disappear and we were left entirely alone, our physical flaws would still be present. Those ’skinny legs’ or ‘chubby cheeks’ wouldn’t change, but you simply wouldn’t be as conscious of them because there’s nobody to impress, or more appropriately,

One of the greatest current franchise opportunities is with a gourmet coffee franchise. However, there are some facts you should take into consideration first before deciding to pursue this opportunity investment.

In fact, because gourmet coffee franchises have became such wonderful opportunities, they risk running into the problem of startling market saturation. This factor, as well as other things will affect which type of franchises you should evaluate. We will discuss these factors in this article.

First I want you to consider this – in the past five years, while coffee consumption as a whole has stayed the same, gourmet coffee consumption has almost doubled! That is why it has been such a ripe opportunity.

When you consider that the cost to create gourmet coffee is minimal it means that the profit margins are unnaturally high. Now add in that demand is bigger than ever and you get one of the most competitive industries in the business market. This means that you have to have your druthers about you if you’re going to make a gourmet coffee business work.

What you want to look for are market opportunities to exploit. The best opportunity to exploit is to find an area that is currently untapped by any gourmet coffee shop or franchise. If you can determine that the logistics would work for a franchise in that area, and there is little to no competition, you’re in a prime opportunity. In this instance I would urge you to quickly invest.

The other market opportunity to exploit is where there is a steady stream of competition, but you feel you can improve upon the competition and offer a better choice to the consumer. Competition is not necessarily a bad thing; it proves that there is a demand in that area.

However, it is not easy to take away someone else’s share of the market. To do so will require that you have such a compelling advantage that they will choose you, a stranger, over someone that they currently trust to provide their gourmet coffee to them.

In this case, you either have to look for a share of the market segment that is currently not being catered to, but would like to be catered to, or come in with a very big competitive advantage to offer to an existing market segment.

Consider these facts and then determine if a gourmet coffee franchise to be right for you. If you can make it work for you, it should be a very lucrative investment.