What are the best vitamin supplements available?

How does one go about choosing the best?

Are all vitamins the same? How can one company offer a multi-vitamin for $5.99 and another one offer one for $23.05? What is the difference?

What you don’t know CAN hurt you. Many people want to be investing in the best vitamin supplements available but it is hard to separate advertising from truth.

There is one key difference that you need to know about the best vitamin supplements to judge their efficacy – but I’ll get to that in a minute.

360YourLife.com is a great health site with a wealth of information. They have an awesome article called “3 Types of Vitamin Supplements.” I have paraphrased their article here, but do go check out their site. I know you will love it.

An Inside Look at the Three Vitamin Supplement Types

1. Synthetic: These are made in a test tube in a lab to look like the real thing. Synthetic vitamins can be toxic to the body, might not be absorbed, and can even do more harm than good. Check out the Landmark Study which proved this. These types of vitamins are usually found in a drug store or a discount store.

A synthetic vitamin has no enzymes, is man-made, contains inorganic substances, is a stimulant, has side effects, and can actually be more harmful to your health to take than being on no vitamin at all.

2. Extracted: These vitamins start out natural, but are heated through the processing which kills off the live enzymes. The final product is a partially-live (if live at all) vitamin. This type of vitamin also usually has harsh binders and fillers, plastic coatings, and in some cases, contains tar.

A crystalline or extracted vitamin is characterized by weak enzymes, uses chemical and heat extraction, has some organic substances (but can be low quality raw materials), is a stimulant, is imbalanced, and has harsh binders and fillers.

These type of vitamins are usually found in a health food store or a strictly-vitamin store. Brands need to have only 10% natural ingredients to legally be classified as “all-natural.”

3. Natural: These vitamins are cold-pressed to extract all the vitamins resulting in live enzymes. This means you get something as close to nature as possible – full of nutrients that are useable by the body. These vitamins are often referred to as whole food vitamins, like the Shaklee brand, which are 100% natural.

A natural, unaltered vitamin has strong, enzymatic action, uses low or no heat and low pressure process, uses organic substances, feeds and improves the cell’s health, is balanced, and contains essential unknown nutrients.

The Best Vitamin Supplements Have One Key Difference

We have established that natural, whole food vitamins are the best, because of one key difference: their enzymes are alive so they can truly feed the cells.

Building your health up starts with helping your cells be healthy. I love real live examples, don’t you? Check out this post where two stories are contrasted – one woman in failing health and another one who chose healthy supplements – and went on a cruise at age 100! Learn her secret  so you can emulate it.

This is just the beginning of learning how to choose your vitamins. For a more in-depth look at evaluating the best vitamin supplements for you and your family, choosing which ones to take, and addressing objections, grab my private report on the right over there: “A Wildly Effective Daily Health Boost.” You will be surprised how easily you can be on your way to optimum health.

Remember that the key to the best vitamin supplements is that they have live enzymes and are whole food, natural vitamins. That is why I believe Shaklee has the best vitamin supplements and why I have chosen Shaklee for my family’s health.

Health Disclaimer: This post is the opinion of the author and these statements have not been approved by the FDA. This is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Contact your health professional for all your medical concerns and be sure to ask him/her about choosing the best vitamin supplements.

Excitement, preparation, good food, doctor appointments, baby shopping, name research – the list goes on.

Even life styles are evaluated and adapted when a thinking couple faces the changes of parenthood.

They may stop smoking.

They may start to go to church.

They may plan a hiatus from work when the baby arrives.

Ahhh. The changes. Good changes. Deliberate changes.

All except for one. One very serious, deadly mistake they might make.

Actually, you might be making it too – not even realizing it.

That mistake is that they (you?) are unknowingly living in and perpetuating a toxic environment. Take a look at this documentary filmed in Canada by some experts.

Wasn’t that interesting? We are performing a toxicological experiment on our children. It is amazing the number of chemicals that haven’t even been tested for safety yet.

Check out How Toxins can Hurt & What We Can Do About It.

One mom had to learn the hard way about her deadly mistake: “Braden cried constantly. I had to hold him 16 hours a day. We couldn’t take him anywhere without his being out of control. He was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD but at 2 years old was too young to take Ritalin.

I came across a book on chemicals and how they can cause learning disabilities, mental problems, concentration difficulties, etc.  Chlorine was listed as the number one problem. I started using Shaklee’s safe cleaning products and switched cleaners one by one. After I cleaned with Shaklee’s Basic H2 and Shaklee’s Basic G, Braden was instantly a different child. He would sit and watch a cartoon and could concentrate long enough to do puzzles.”

“One day I ran out of Basic H2 so I used what was left of my old favorite cleaner. Braden had a severe relapse and emptied kitchen canisters, poured out all his game pieces, and broke my ceramic figurines while I thought he was watching a cartoon. I cried – but cleaned the whole house again with Shaklee. It’s been a year now and Braden has not had another relapse.”

Kim is very adamant about only using safe cleaning products made by Shaklee. And she shares her Shaklee story with others, so they won’t make the same deadly mistake she was making.

Know someone preparing for a baby? Here’s a great idea for an unusual baby shower gift. Package up some Shaklee Basic H2 with 3 spray bottles in a cute basket, and include a little cut-out “onesie” explaining how to keep toxins out of the baby’s home with these safe cleaning products.

Whether you are preparing for a new baby, or have a house full of kids of all ages, or you have an empty nest, or it’s just you and your cat, don’t make the deadly mistake of living in a toxic environment.

Switch to safe cleaning products like Shaklee’s Get Clean product line.

Just so you know, you can join Shaklee as a member and enjoy a 15% life-time discount with no minimum order and no renewal fee. And, get this, for April 2012 only, the $19.95 membership is waived with any size order! Check it out here: http://hagerup.myshaklee.com.

Be sure to use your favorite social media to share this post so we can help others from making this deadly mistake – especially share it with people you care about! Safe cleaning products mean better health for all of us!

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Oh yes – autoships are a good thing, but not when a second notice comes through within five days for the same person! It means my friend wasted money on shipping when the autoships could have been combined.

She hadn’t understood that.

And I felt responsible for the error.

So I took the bull by the horns and decided to put together a short video explaining how to do an autoship.

That brings me to my subject. I actually followed the 3 steps illustrated to us by our trusty ol’ GPSes. (GPS stands for Global Positioning System and is a device used to direct us when we are driving somewhere.)

3 steps to effective problem solving as modeled by the GPS:

1. Set your goal where you want to go. If you want to go out to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in the city, you have to get the address first in order to set that destination in the GPS. (Okay – I know – most of them can find the address for you themselves, but you are missing my point.)

Do you know where you want to go with the particular problem you are trying to solve? This could mean you need to do some learning, studying, researching, or asking others to learn where you want to go.

In parenting, you might have the goal to eliminate whining from your children. So you will learn what others did to get that result.

In your health, you might want to lose weight. So you spend time learning about healthy weight loss options and healthy eating.

With making a video for autoship for my Shaklee members, I took time to research on the web how to capture my screen and make an audio to go along with it.

You see, learning has to go hand in hand with setting a goal.

2. Take action. Now that you know where you want to go, you get it all programmed into your GPS. What is the next step?

You pull out onto the street and get going! Taking action is necessary or you never will get to your destination.

To eliminate whining, you begin giving consequences for whining. You praise your child when whining wasn’t used.

With weightloss efforts, you make healthier choices. You visualize your new slim self as you drink your breakfast protein shake. (I linked you to my favorite one in case you are interested.)

I actually have said MANY times that I needed to make an autoship tutorial for my Shaklee members. But . . . I wasn’t taking action. The lofty goal was there – but there was no action to follow through. Yesterday I took action and did all three steps.

Which brings me to the third step that trips up a lot of people (no pun intended):

3. Recalculate. If you have the joy of owning a Garmin GPS, you have most likely experienced the lovely voice saying “recalculating” when you decide to make a detour from her specific instructions.

Recalculating needs to happen when we are in the “taking action” step and something doesn’t work that well. We have to make a few corrections to the plan we are implementing.

In parenting, maybe the consequence of time out wasn’t working too well. In fact, your child seemed to like time in his room. So you “recalculate” and switch to “no media” for a consequence.

In your weight loss efforts, you found out that you just didn’t enjoy that particular exercise video. So you “recalculate” and add in a daily 30 minute walk instead.

With the making of the autoship tutorial video, I found that the first screen capture free program I downloaded didn’t allow me to save the video I created.  So I searched for another free one and found a youtube video telling me how to get a free version of SnagIt. Bingo. I “recalculated” and kept on my journey.

Then you go back to step 2 of take action, followed by step 3 of recalculating when needed, focusing on the goal until you reach your final destination.

And yes, I did reach my destination. Here is my Shaklee autoship tutorial if you are curious about it. Okay, it won’t win any Oscars but it is decent for my first attempt.

What problem are you grappling with right now?

Try the GPS guide to effective problem solving with these 3 steps. Leave a comment to let me know your thoughts on the GPS guide to problem solving.

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Whether it is on a health video like Forks over Knives or Food Matters, or in a health book like Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and Nature’s Cancer Fighting Foods, the core message is very similar.

So what do you think? Do you agree? Got a favorite health movie or book? Mention it in a comment below.

Disclaimer: This information has not been approved by the FDA and is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Please contact your health professional for all your medical concerns.

Statins are drugs that are able to block the action of a chemical in the liver that is necessary for making cholesterol.

Possible side effects from statins include headaches, pins and needles sensation, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, feeling sick, a rash & a slim chance of severe form of muscle inflammation.

Plant stanols & sterols are found naturally in plants, fruits, vegetables, and grains, and have been clinically proven by more than 80 studies to lower LDL cholesterol.

There are no side effects from natural plant stanols and sterols.

Shaklee’s Cholesterol Reduction Complex delivers 2000 mg of plant stanols and sterols daily.

Here is what Lilli wrote: “In late July my husband’s cardiologist was beginning to talk “statins” which are not even an option for us because of all the side effects, so James began taking Cholesterol Reduction Complex in late July. In 3 1/2 months, after taking the CRC, James’ LDL (bad) dropped from 145 to 116. His HDL (good) increased from 63 to 78. His cardiologist was amazed. James is on no medication, only vitamins and his doctor is wanting information on what he has been taking.” *

Isn’t that exciting? I love success stories from natural solutions! Want to know more about how to reduce other types of prescription usage? Check it out here.

National Institutes of Health recommendation for lowering cholesterol: eat less saturated fat and cholesterol, exercise, lose weight, eat more soluble fiber, and consume 2000 mg of plant stanols and sterols daily.

Want to read a letter written to doctors by a doctor about Shaklee’s Cholesterol Reduction Complex? I thought so. Here it is: Letter to doctors

So take care of yourself, and get your cholesterol down the natural way.

*Excerpted from Life Changing Short Stories complied by Lorri Kruesher, used by permission

Disclaimer: These statements have not been approved by the FDA and are not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Contact your health professional for all your medical concerns including lowering your cholesterol the natural way.

Everywhere I turn I hear people talking about reducing debt. So I thought I would talk about healthy finances!

Basically, debt has taken over our lives. Here is what Dave Ramsey says:

“Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can’t even envision a car without a payment … a house without a mortgage … a student without a loan … and credit without a card.’

Here’s an Insanely Simple Tip for Reducing Debt

The insanely simple tip for having healthy finances and reducing debt is . . . (drum roll please) to spend less than you earn. Then take the difference to pay off your debt and start a savings for the future.

Cut out the “fat” in your spending! We all have “fat” in our ”out-go” each month. (“Out-go” is the opposite of “in-come”!)

Here are some ideas to get you started:
1. Purchase food in most economical form and do the work yourself (i.e. buy block cheese and grate it yourself).

2. Stick to your needs’ list & don’t make impulse purchases.

3. Give “work coupons” instead of purchased gifts (i.e. “good for an evening of babysitting,” “good for a car wash done by me,” etc.)

4. Meet at a library or in your home for a “coffee date” with a friend. Did you know that 11 million people purchased a Starbucks yesterday? No wonder we are in debt!

5. Use up EVERYTHING in your frig, freezer, and cupboards before buying more. You can probably eat for a month by doing this. Just buy the minimum like milk and fresh vegetables and use up the rest. Find a canned good and be creative to make it into a meal.

Make a game of it. See how LITTLE you can spend this month and then check your bank account.   Reducing debt is easier than you realize. The key is to stop spending so much. You’ll be amazed by how this little tweek can help you.

The key to healthy finances is not how much you make but rather how much you keep. Even people with huge incomes are in debt and can go bankrupt. Live below your means.

Want to know more skills for reducing debt?

Check out this War on Debt program by Dani Johnson to help you “cut the fat” and get out of debt.  Or just get on her website at http://www.danijohnson.com/category/personalfinances/ to learn more about having healthy finances.

Better yet, find a buddy and split the cost of the program and be accountability partners for getting out of debt.

Investigate working from home opportunities to find one that is right for you – if that interests you, that is. Here is my story about how I found the right tool to solve the poor economy dilemma.

What are you doing for having healthy finances? What success tip can you share for reducing debt? Leave a comment below so we can all benefit from your experience too in reducing debt.

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Did you know you might have put a disinfectant ingredient in your mouth this morning? Yep, it’s possible. Go check the ingredients on your toothpaste. (Might not be on the tube; check the box.)

Innocent looking. But is triclosan in there?

Did you find triclosan on there? (There is other bad stuff too like sodium laurel sulfate, artificial coloring, artificial flavoring. But let’s major on the triclosan for now.)

Facts on Triclosan

Triclosan is considered a pesticide by the EPA.

Triclosan is a synthetic, broad-spectrum, anti-microbial agent that has recently become a common ingredient in soaps, deodorants, toothpastes, cosmetics, fabrics, plastics, and more. Studies have linked this chemical to skin irritation and allergy sensitivities among other nasty things we don’t want to happen in our bodies.

The European Union classifies it as an irritant to people and also a danger to the environment.

Triclosan may cause endocrine disruption in people according to the Environment Working Group’s “Skin Deep” database. Check out this post on the Ubiquitous Triclosan by Aviva Glaser.

A study was done in 2008 that was designed to determine what exposure to triclosan had occurred in a selection of children and adults living in the U.S. The results showed that triclosan was present in the urine of nearly 75 percent of those tested. Hmmm. Not very good news in my opinion.

So, check your personal care products: toothpaste, hand soap, shaving cream, etc. And be sure you are using products that are free of triclosan and other bad stuff. Here are some more thoughts on how chemical toxins are poisoning us.

Check the warning label on your toothpaste box. It might say: “If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.”

Hello? Poison Control Center for too much toothpaste? No thanks. I’ll stick with my Shaklee Dentrifice & other personal care products that I know are safe for the rest of me AND I have healthy teeth and gums and skin!

Be vigilant with every product you trust your body to. Your long term health depends on your good choices so please avoid triclosan.

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Disclaimer: Remember that this information is not endorsed by the FDA and is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Check with your health professional for all your medical concerns including the safety of triclosan.

You'll be shocked at this proof of Shaklee vitamins!

I was at a vendor event awhile ago with lots of shoppers streaming by. My Shaklee table, which had to do with building health from the inside out, was a bit slow. I studied the people as they leisurely made their way around the room scrutinizing the vendor’s wares & choosing their treasures – for their home, their own adornment, or their stomach.

And I pondered, “Why do people readily buy a necklace, or a fancy plate, or spend hundreds of dollars on internet training programs, or thousands of dollars on a fancy cruise, yet refuse to invest in natural supplements to improve their overall health?”

I think I figured out the reason. The reason is that there is no glitz to a bottle of good Shaklee vitamins. There is no picture of how your body will improve plastered on the label. There is no vision portrayed of what might happen to you if you don’t invest in them. There must be proof of the Shaklee vitamins truly giving you better health before you will shell out the money.

I, too, needed proof. I began investing in Shaklee supplements because the Landmark Study proved they work, they have a 100% moneyback guarantee, and I have heard or read so many great testimonies* of how the  products have worked for others – even by doctors and medical professionals! (*needs a password for the library; email me for my password!) (Here’s a video with more results of the Landmark Study.)

But what if, just what if, there WAS a picture that proved someone who uses Shaklee long term DID affect her health for the better? I was delighted to find a great story the other day about identical twins.

Mary and her sister (from Indiana) are identical twins. You can see their adorable photo as four year olds here. Their genetic make-up, heredity, and environment (diet and lifestyle) were exactly the same during their childhood years.

Some time in her 40s, Mary began to use Shaklee supplements. Her sister, however, preferred products from other companies. Mary has more energy, feels better, looks younger, and is healthier than her non-Shaklee sister.

The same twins - 65 years later

Seeing is believing. 20 plus years on Shaklee supplements resulted in outward appearance being healthier: outward proof of Shaklee vitamins working well. How much more so are her insides doing great too that we can’t see!

Prove this to yourself. Take the 30 day Shaklee challenge and if you don’t feel better, you get your money back. But if I were you, I would stick with it for the long haul like Mary has done. In my book, these photos are the proof I needed that Shaklee vitamins really work.

Join Shaklee with an order that includes Vitalizer and your membership fee will be waived. Prove to yourself what feeling good really feels like.

Disclaimer: This information has not been approved by the FDA and is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Please contact your health professional for all your medical concerns.

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Recently I asked myself “is that how I want to spend my life?” Well, truth be told, I was told by my life coach to ask myself that. Okay. Wait. Let me back up here.

Here is a sample lifewheel.

Have you ever evaluated your life on the life wheel idea? It’s pretty cool. I was introduced to the concept by my life coach who I have been meeting with recently. It is where you divide your life into 8 – 11 different categories (your choice), and then evaluate how you are doing in each category. Here is a really cool blog post that explains it very well: How Are you Faring in Your Life Right Now?

So back to my life coach. She had me choose 8 different categories in my life and make them into pie shapes in a circle. So I chose health, family, spirituality, business, recreation, finance, friends, & personal growth. (In reflecting now, I would add a few more, but that is beside the point.) I then rated each category as to how I was doing with 1 being “needs lots of improvement” and 10 being “totally fantastic.” Yes, it was quite eye-opening – especially the realization that my home business was just a small part of the pie!

My business coach told me that for the next month I should keep track of my activities, noting the category it represented. Then she told me to ask the killer question. Looking right in my eyes, she said, “Now at the end of the month, I want you to look at how you spent your time and ask yourself . . .

“Is that how I want to spend my life?”

Let’s do that in slow motion: “Is. that. how. I. want. to. spend. my. life?”

I didn’t even have to do the exercise for the month. I went right home and called my local adult daughter to plan a lunch date with her. I didn’t want another month to go by when I didn’t make time to sit over lunch with her, look into her eyes, and feel her heartbeat. I knew that if I didn’t schedule it, it wouldn’t happen. And not having personal time with my daughters is NOT how I want to spend my life!

After all, we never know when it will be our last chance to show love to someone. Something could happen to me or to them to cut our time together short. Check out just such a story here.

How are you spending your days? The way you are spending your days is how you are spending your life. Take time right now to stop, evaluate, and take some deliberate actions to schedule in the things that are most important to you.

When you go to bed tonight, think about your day. Did you read to your little one? Did you kiss your spouse good-bye this morning? Did you compliment the cashier waiting on you? Did you have meaningful conversation over lunch with someone you love?

Empower yourself to be able to say “I love the way I am spending my life!”

Leave a comment below as to how you feel about the way you are spending your life and what has helped you to be proactive to spend it well!

What exactly does a hug do for a person internally? How does a hug help you have good emotional health?

The Importance of a Hug (photo 1)

I was privileged to watch the dvd based on Temple Grandin’s life recently. Watch a trailer here.

Temple Grandin is an autistic woman who thinks in pictures. She credits her achievements to her autism, stating that how she thinks has enabled her to learn the sensitivities of animals.

Temple Grandin DVD cover

What does this movie have to do with the importance of a hug?

Temple is perplexed as to why the cattle stop mooing and seem to be calmed down when they are put in a restraining contraption for being innoculated. She asks in desperation why they stopped mooing. The cattle-hand responds matter-of-factly, “They like it. It gentles them.”

The contraption is a wooden device that is closed gently on their bodies so it was dubbed a “squeeze-machine.”

Example of a squeeze machine

Later when Temple is upset by a change in her bedroom, she goes wild and rushes out to the squeeze-machine. She demands for her aunt to close it on her. “Tighter, tighter,” she yells. Then she begins to take deep breaths and she is calmed down. Temple discovered that the squeeze machine worked for her too. She ends up making a squeeze-machine for herself to keep in her dorm room when she goes off to college.

Later in the movie, when she is explaining the feeling that the squeeze machine gives her, she says, “I always wondered what it feels like for children to be hugged by their mothers.” (Temple was always opposed to physical touch and refused hugs or other forms of human contact. This is often characteristic of autistic children.)

She then said regarding the feeling that the squeeze machine gave her, “It’s like a wire that is disconnected in you gets reconnected.”

I immediately thought of the importance of a hug to our emotional health. It is like a wire that is disconnected getting reconnected.

Here are some other ideas you might be interested in to help promote healthy emotions.

Big hug! (photo 2)

Go hug someone you love  . . . and do it daily. Help to reconnect whatever wire might be disconnected for them. And while you are at it, you just might reconnect a wire in you too.

You can never underestimate the importance of a hug. Leave your comment below of your own experience that validates the importance of a hug.

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I want you to picture yourself at 70 years of age or older. What do you want your life to look like? Would you like to be in lots of pain? going from doctor’s appointment to doctor’s appointment? having multiple surgeries for this or that? Of course not!

What do you want to feel like when you are over 70 years old?

Decisions you make today for your health will affect what your “70 year old self” looks like. Make good health choices: exercise, maintain a good weight, get plenty of sleep, eat a good, fresh diet, handle stress well, and . . . invest in the best natural supplements available. Let me explain.

I bet you are already taking fish oil. How about B complex? a multi?  Hmmmm. Sounds like you need to hear how to evaluate the best natural supplements available.

Here are the top five reasons why you should invest in the best natural supplements for your health:

Reason Number 5: The best natural supplements will have no product recalls over its entire history nor any lawsuits from contaminated supplements. Shaklee supplements are known for purity and strict manufacturing standards. During their entire history since 1956, there has not been a single product recall. Check out the Shaklee difference here.

Reason Number 4: The best natural supplements will have proof that you can reduce your risk of diseases. The Landmark Study showed that Shaklee users of multi-vitamins for 20 years or longer reduced their risk of heart attack by 43% and of congestive heart failure by 60% and of diabetes by 65% over the other groups who used no supplements or other brands of supplements. If you could do something right now to reduce your risk of these diseases in the future, wouldn’t you do it?

Reason Number 3: The best natural supplements will ensure each vitamin is delivered where it is needed by the body. Shaklee Vitalizer™ is the only multinutrient supplement pack in the marketplace with S.M.A.R.T.™, a patent-pending, cutting-edge delivery system designed to improve absorption of key nutrients, ensuring the right nutrients get to the right place at the right time.

Reason Number 2: The best natural supplements will be endorsed by many people who have proven their efficacy. Here is an audio by chiropractor Dr. Frank Painter on the efficacy of the products.

Reason Number 1: You are worth the investment. Your future will be healthier by investing now in your health.

Now imagine yourself the morning of your 70th birthday. You bound out of bed in the morning, your eyes are bright, you feel ready for your day biking with your grandkids. Ahhh – you bless your decision years ago to build up your health with the best natural supplements around: Shaklee!

Good health is less expensive than sickness . . . you just have to pay for it sooner. So invest in the best natural supplements by Shaklee. Take the 30 day Vitalizer challenge and if you don’t feel better, you get your money back.

It’s a great decision for your health and your future health. Shaklee products are 100% money back guaranteed so there is no risk to you to give these products a try and get on the road to optimum health. I’ll see you on the inside of Shaklee!

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Health Disclaimer: This post is the opinion of the author and these statements have not been approved by the FDA. This is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Contact your health professional for all your medical concerns and be sure to ask him what are the best natural supplements to invest in.

Our life is like a steam vapor dissipating into the air.

Do you know what is actually stealing your future? It is tomorrow . . . next week . . . next year. “Tomorrow” is stealing your future. It is procrastination . . . or just plain distraction. It is putting off till tomorrow what could be done today.

I just read a fantastic blog post on CopyBlogger called “The Single Word that is Stealing Your Future” by Robert Bruce.

CopyBlogger is one of the few email lists that I let come into my primary inbox because their stuff is so powerful. I wasn’t disappointed today. I had to share it with you here.

Tomorrow is not ours to spend

To paraphrase Bruce, “Tomorrow is not ours to spend. We cannot build on tomorrow. We can only build on today.”

He encourages us to realize our life is just a vapor – just like the steam rising from the cup of hot coffee sitting before us . . . our hours, just like the vapor, curl up and away, dissipating faster than it appeared.

In fact, there is a verse in the Bible about that. James 4:14 says “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”

So Bruce gives a succinct call to action:

“If you intend to write something, write it.”

“If you intend to build something, build it.”

Tomorrow is like a master thief

Tomorrow steals away our productivity and success.

Today is what we have been given and we can build everything we need today.

For further thoughts on productivity, check out How to Improve your Performance with the Clock of Success theory.

Don’t let your future be stolen by tomorrow.

Share in the comments below what you are going to do with your “today” instead of waiting till tomorrow.

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Aron had his arm pinned by a big rock.

I recently was inspired to think about how to solve the poor economy. At the 2011 Shaklee convention, I had the privilege of hearing Aron Ralsted speak to us. Aron is an extreme outdoor explorer who narrowly escaped death in 2003 during a hike through the Blue John Canyon in Utah.  Aron had his arm pinned by a half-ton boulder for nearly a week and he made the agonizing decision to cut off his right arm in order to free himself with a pocketknife.

His first reaction was to use his tiny pocketknife to chip away at the boulder, but that was obviously futile. As he considered his dilemma day in and day out, he realized that he wasn’t trapped by the rock, but rather he was trapped by his tool, a puny knife.

This statement got me to thinking. The economy is like that huge boulder trapping Aron’s arm. And the knife he had was his only tool to solve the problem of the boulder pinning his arm. Everyone is suffering from the economy right now and trying to solve that problem. But they need the right tool to free themselves from the rock of the poor economy.

Let me share what has been the right tool for me and many, many others and that is the business opportunity of a 55 year old network marketing company called Shaklee. In fact, thousands of people have been seeing the Shaklee compensation plan and leaving other network marketing companies to join Shaklee.

“Why Shaklee? Why You?” Check out this video by our CEO Roger Barnett of the Shaklee Corporation.

Shaklee is the right tool for me to solve the problem of the economy. Maybe it is right for you too. Contact me at amy @ hagerup . org (no spaces, of course) for more info so you can evaluate well whether or not it is a fit for you. Here is the link to a quick video about the opportunity. I am committed to helping you every step of the way if you do want to go “all in” for Shaklee.

Oh, back to Aron’s story, he WAS able to cut off his arm with his puny knife and he used the boulder to break the bones in his forearm to free himself. His story is detailed in his best-selling book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and was the inspiration for the movie “127 hours.”

When he succeeded in getting himself loose from the boulder, he said, “And I then stepped out of my grave and into my life.”  Do you feel like you are in a grave right now with the economy beating you down – too many bills? not enough money? job-loss?

Step out of your grave and into your life with the Shaklee business opportunity. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

You can view a clip of Aron speaking at the convention right around the 5 minute mark in this video:

So what do you think? What tool are you using to keep the rock of the poor economy from draining the life out of you? Leave a comment below with your ideas on how to solve the poor economy and please share this post with your social network.

Want to reduce your prescription usage?

Have you ever thought about what could reduce prescription usage for the average Joe Blow (my apologies if your name is Joe Blow)?

I am off to the annual Shaklee convention next week – woo-hoo. I’m so excited about it. This will be my third one to attend. Pay attention now because I have something really important to share.

You know what I notice at these conventions? I notice how many elderly people are there who are in amazingly good health! Mind you, there are a lot of young people there because so many young people are excited entrepreneurs who see the potential of the Shaklee Dream plan as well as being interested in improving their health.

Anyway, back to my subject line. Have I had the chance to explain the Landmark study to you?  It is the study conducted by the University of California at Berkeley in 2006 that compared long term, multiple Shaklee supplement users (20 years or longer) with people who used no supplements at all as well as people who used other brands of supplements.

Lab analysis showed the Shaklee group maintained much higher blood levels of all the essential vitamins and minerals than the other control groups.

When comparing risk factors for diseases, the Shaklee group scored between 200 to 500% better than the other two groups, and their actual incidence of coronary artery disease, heart attacks, stroke, and diabetes were much lower.

The most remarkable differences between

Take Shaklee vitamins to help reduce prescription usage over the years.

the two was revealed by their use of prescription drugs. In the Landmark Study, the control groups averaged using 19 prescriptions per year, while the Shaklee group only averaged one-half of one prescription per year!  That’s a difference of 3800% in usage pattern. Now that’s impressive. Go Shaklee!

“So, yes, Susan, there is a Santa Claus” – I mean, yes, Susan, there is a factor that can reduce prescription usage. It is taking good Shaklee whole-food supplements faithfully over the years.

Want to have vitality into your old age? No, slow down. Read that again. We are talking about your future health here.

Do. you. want. to. feel. really. great. into. your. old. age? Then look at the evidence from the Landmark Study. Look at the evidence of all the healthy elderly people at the Shaklee conventions. Read the testimonies at http://www.vitabooks4u.com. (Email me for the user name and password.) Take. your. Shaklee. vitamins.

Whatever your age, be faithful to take your great Shaklee supplements because it will help your health LONG-TERM.  Don’t play Russian Roulette with your health.

I heard a quote recently that sums this up. “Good health is less expensive (and more fun!) than sickness. You just have to pay for good health sooner.” That means you need to invest in quality Shaklee vitamins, faithfully take them, and probably reduce your own prescription usage.

Thanks for stopping by, health friend. Leave a comment to what you are doing to reduce prescription usage and build up optimum health.

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Health Disclaimer: This post is the opinion of the author and these statements have not been approved by the FDA. This is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Contact your health professional for all your medical concerns and be sure to ask him what factor can reduce prescription usage.

MS is often diagnosed with an MRI.

Is there a natural, immune boosting supplement that can help fight Multiple Sclerosis?

One of my teenage daughters has the possibility of having MS. She has had an MRI in June every year since 2009 to see if her three white spots on her brain have grown. When we had our appointment after the MRI recently, the neurologist asked her what treatment she is on. She said that she is only on Shaklee supplements including NutriFeron and Vitamin D3. The doctor told her that one of her white spots had faded significantly and that even though she did have two new spots, they were very, very faint.

Dr. Smith asked me more about the NutriFeron and I told her that Japanese Dr. Yasuhiko Kojima, who discovered Interferon, spent forty years working with botanicals that would boost the body’s natural interferon. He discovered four botanicals that worked and created NutriFeron. (Here is a video on NutriFeron.)

Are you wondering what interferon is? When a virus attacks a cell in your body, interferon triggers resistance mechanisms and activates other immune cells to kill the invading pathogens. Interferon helps your body protect you from the millions of germs you encounter on a daily basis that can lead to disease or infection.

Dr. Smith turned to my daughter and said, “You DO have MS, and you ARE on treatment. Your NutriFeron is your treatment. The NutriFeron you are taking is keeping your body from being overcome by the MS.”

The doctor asked me the cost of NutriFeron and I said that it is $39 at member network price with a 10% discount on autoship or on quantity volumes. She shook her head and said, “$39 instead of thousands of dollars that my patients have to pay.” She was interested in more information so she can offer it to her patients who want more natural solutions. How cool is that?

I was talking with Gaby last night and she said that when sickness went all around her office this past spring, she stayed well. She said that she is sure it is the great immunity boosting supplement, NutriFeron, that she is taking. There is another immune boosting supplement you can read about here.

Dr. Sandra Bevacqua says that she uses Vivix and NutriFeron with all her cancer patients. Listen to her talk about “Natural Solutions for the Challenges of Cancer.”

Shaklee’s NutriFeron is a wonderful immune boosting supplement and is all natural. In Japan it is even called “natural interferon.” I hope and pray that many more people will be helped to fight MS, cancer, Alzheimers, Hepatitis C, and other debilitating illnesses by taking this powerful, natural, immune boosting supplement called NutriFeron.

Have you experienced a great natural immunity booster yourself? What is your story? Leave a comment below so we can compare notes.

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Health Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and experience, and these claims have not been approved by the FDA. Please consult your health professional for all your medical concerns. This information is not meant to treat, cure, prevent, or cure any disease. Take information on the immune boosting supplement NutriFeron to your health professional for their guidance.

Keep your dreams before you on a dream board.

Successful leaders encourage people to create a dream board to keep their dreams alive. A dream board helps to visualize success. Ask yourself this question: What do I want to accomplish with my life?

Can’t answer that quickly, can you? Think about it and then write some things down. This is the beginning of your dream board.

There are lots of articles about how to create a dream board.  My favorite and super easy way is to use Creative Memories Everyday Display Board that is a magnetic board. It comes with magnets as well as a cute little clothesline with clothespins for pinning up more dreams and goals.

Your dream board helps visualize your success.

A dream board, sometimes called a vision board, uses the law of attraction to help you visualize success. You can use photos, clippings from magazines, images printed from your computer, words, and drawings to put together your dream board.

Some ideas of what to put on your dream board:

1. Items you are working toward (car, house, new furniture)

2. Experiences you want to invest in (vacation, college fees, health club membership, security in retirement)

3. Values you want to promote (charitable giving, more time to volunteer, missionary support)

4. Ranks you want to achieve in your business leadership

5. Impact you want to have on other people (helping people, developing leaders on your team)

The Creative Memories Everyday Display Board comes in black, white, or chocolate distressed frames as well as black or white sleek frames. They are 18 by 18 inches with the inside white magnetic board measuring 13.5 by 13.5 inches. All the hanging hardware is included. The cost is $52 (US) plus $8.50 shipping and applicable tax. This versatile board can be used for other fun things too, like your latest family photos, the birthday family member of the month, wedding photos, and lots of other great things. It is a favorite for teens’ rooms, baby’s room, kitchen … well, everywhere!

Want to order one now? Go to Creative Memories and put the everyday display of your color choice in your shopping cart. When you check out, you will be asked for a Creative Memories consultant’s name. If you don’t already have a consultant you are connected to, just put in my name, Amy Hagerup, and my state of Wisconsin, and my name will come up. Choose me as your consultant and we will be connected. You will be on your way a fun and adaptable dream board of your very own.

Which quadrant are you in in the clock of success?

Have you ever heard of the clock of success? I attended a Dale Carnegie class and we learned about the cycle of performance improvement. I like to call it the clock of success which is useful especially for those with home businesses or network marketing businesses.

The Carnegie instructor used a clock for the illustration and divided it into four quadrants.  These four quadrants are the cycles the average person goes through to reach optimum performance.

Clock of Success: Quadrant 1

The first quadrant in the clock of success is from 12:00 till 3:00 and this is the ATTITUDE quadrant. This is crucial for building the foundation of a solid business. Think of the attitude piece as realizing:

1.       Something needs to be done

2.       I am able to do something about it

3.       I want to do something about it

4.       I am determined to do something about it.

Without a good attitude and determination, nothing will happen.

Clock of Success: Quadrant 2

The second quadrant is from 3:00 to 6:00 and this is the KNOWLEDGE quadrant. This is where you are working on your business by collecting information – learning about the products and the company. You can learn from books, the internet, training events, and your upline. You can go thru your company’s training and listen to webinars, conference calls, and meetings. The learning curve is often steep at first but even once you know a lot about your company, you still need to keep learning.

Clock of Success: Quadrant 3

6:00 to 9:00, the third quadrant in the clock of success is PRACTICE. Now you are moving from knowledge to implementation. You want to put into practice all that you have been learning. Don’t fall into the trap of wanting to know everything before you get started. Just get started! All the super stars began with 0 sales and 0 team members. As you practice, you will find that habits develop.

Clock of Success: Quadrant 4

And with those habits come SKILL and that is fourth quadrant – from 9 till 12:00. As you keep practicing, skill results. With skill comes a breakthrough. The key is consistency. Keep practicing with consistency – don’t  get discouraged when everyone doesn’t come on board with you or when you hear a lot of naysayers or doom-predictors. You just keep pressing on.

Here is the funny thing – as skill improves, the fourth quadrant, your attitude gets even better. As your attitude gets better, you want to learn more. As you learn more, you are willing to practice in natural life settings – not just when you schedule time to work your business. And as you practice, your skill takes quantum leaps.

Now take a look at the four quadrants. Where would you put yourself right now? The big problem that often occurs in a network marketing business is that we get stuck at 6:00. We spend a lot of time on learning and then we get another great book or get on the list of another great internet marketer or we sign up for another super duper webinar that is sure to break things wide open for us and guess what? We don’t start practicing!

Here are four tips to help you focus your time on building your business.

Many thanks to the Dale Carnegie training for this idea. If you get a chance, read his books or attend a class. Doing so will improve your performance in every single quadrant in the clock of success.

Wherever you are on the clock of success, take steps to move to the next quadrant in order to improve your performance. You can do it! Leave a comment to let me know where you are progressing on the clock of success.

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Hmmm - is this ice cream making me feel better or worse?

Is there a connection between depression and sugar consumption?

One of my guest posters, Mary Anderson, sent me this article titled “What happened the last time I ate ice cream?” I thought she shared some valuable experiences so I wanted to share them with you.

Mary writes: “For anyone suffering from depression, I highly recommend Sugar Blues by William Duffy.  I stopped eating sugar after reading this book, with great results, but over time I lost sight of what I learned and slipped back into my sugar-eating ways. Then I realized that depression and sugar consumption are definitely connected.

It took me a long time, and many winding roads, to return to what I learned from Sugar Blues.  Unfortunately, I didn’t learn it the easy way.  I had to suffer.  In fact, my whole family had to suffer, because my mood affected our home.

I finally became so fed up with how I was feeling that I quit eating sugar.  In order to help me resist buying ice cream, one of my favorite treats, I put a little reminder note in my purse to read just in case I become weak again.  This is the note I wrote after the last time I ate ice cream:

“For five solid days I felt tired and listless. I did not feel

Gotta love this expression!

like doing anything other than lying on the sofa, with no motivation to do anything beyond the absolute basic necessities.  I felt easily irritated and insecure.  I required two or three naps each day.  I felt overwhelmed with our dog’s needs.  I had several days in which I felt I ‘had to munch.’

I do not feel like this when I am eating an organic, sugar-free diet.”

Sugar is deadly for the body and emotions.  A truly healthy person will not be noticeably affected by sugar because the body can still process this poison.  However, it is slowly doing its damage, and someday the effects will be manifested.

Depression and sugar seem to go hand-in-hand.

I encourage you to study the effects of refined sugar on the body, and then take it off your menu.”

Thanks to my guest article writer, Mary Anderson. This is very insightful.

You might also want to read Two Mood Altering Drugs in Your Shopping Cart.

Remember too that depression is very multi-faceted and that diet is only one component of what is happening in your body and brain. Be sure to check with your health professional for help solving depression issues, but decreasing or eliminating refined sugar might be worth a try for a few weeks to see if that helps. It sure helped Mary and many others who discovered that there is a link between depression and sugar consumption.

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Please contact Mary Anderson at mea@hvgsystems.com if you would like to subscribe to Get the Connection.

Health Disclaimer: Remember that this article is the opinion of the authors and it not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. See your health professional for all your medical concerns to help you determine if there is a link between depression and sugar consumption.

Can the use of a cell phone cause health hazards?

Did you know that the WHO (World Health Organization) says that brain cancer can possibly result from cell phone use?

After reviewing numerous studies on the use of cell phones and brain cancer, the WHO listed cell phones as being “possibly carcinogenic.” Simply put, that means there’s enough evidence to raise concern, but the information is not exactly conclusive.

Other items in their “possibly carcinogenic” category are the banned pesticide DDT and gasoline engine exhaust. Hmmm. Not a good sign.

On the other hand, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states “that although some studies have raised concerns, the scientific research as a whole does not support a significant association between cell phone use and health effects.” Here is a comprehensive list of scientific studies done by the National Cancer Institute regarding cell phones and the risk of cancer.

Mobile phones do meet federal safety requirements, but to be cautious, here are

Five tips for using your cell phone safely:

A cell phone is almost indispensible now.

1. Limit your time on your cell phone. If you have a choice between your landline and your cell phone, choose the landline.

2. When you do talk on your cell phone, use the speaker phone feature so you don’t have to hold the phone near your head.

3. Or better yet, use a hands-free headset.

4. Don’t sleep with a turned on cell phone by your bed. If it’s your only phone, put it in “airplane mode.”

5. Children, because of their thinner skulls and developing brains, should use cell phones only on rare occasions according to Devra Davis at University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Environmental Oncology.

It is a fact that cell phones do emit radio active waves, similar to the danger of microwave ovens – it is just not certain whether they are truly harmful yet. The surge in cell phone use is fairly recent and it can take a decade before cancer shows up, so the jury is really still out on the human evidence factor.

However, cell phone usefulness is here to stay so it behooves us all to take precautions to protect our health as much as we can.

Remember there is no such thing as a brain transplant, so turn that speaker on next time your cell phone vibrates.

What do you think? Leave a comment below to let us know if you believe there a danger in too much cell phone use.

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Disclaimer: Remember that this post is my opinion and is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Check with your health professional for all your medical concerns including cell phone use.

Kinza's adoption story was told at her concert/grad party!

My husband and I decided to share Kinza’s adoption story at her high school graduation party. We had to leave out a lot of the details in order to keep it to 10 minutes because her party was also a piano concert performed by Kinza, including songs that she composed. Stay tuned for a video or two of her playing the piano. But the highlights of Kinza’s adoption story are included here. Take a peek:

Kinza wrote her own version of her adoption story when she applied to Bradley University. She absolutely loves composing music and has told me that “she hears it in her head.”

One time I was contemplating how the choices we make in our lives can impact us . . . and others . . . so significantly, and this post about choices also shares more details of Kinza’s adoption story. You can also see more family photos on our family website at http://www.hagerup.org.

Kinza’s adoption story is an amazing story of an infant rescued from death, and destined to musical greatness. It makes me think of how every single child has great value and potential.

In the orphanage where we found Kinza, there was a large poster on the wall of a smiling boy. The caption read, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” And then below, in big words, it had printed, “ALIVE!”  Kinza’s adoption story is a reminder of the value of every child on this earth – whether they are born in a mud hut or a mansion!

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She needs warriors to build up her immune system!

Did you know that 80 percent of your immune system is located in your digestive system? This means that you need a healthy gut if you truly want to maintain optimal health and this can be achieved by the delivery of 500 million warriors, also known as friendly bacteria, in the form of probiotics.

The number one defense against all disease is a robust immune system. This is because the nutritional root of many health concerns is directly related to an imbalance of the intestinal bacteria. The optimal balance for good health is about 85% good bacteria to about 15% bad bacteria.

Healthy food choices will help with the bacteria balance. But, similar to keeping your yard covered with green grass, you might need to “reseed” areas that have become a bit barren for whatever reason.

The warriors for a healthy immune system you are striving for have several important functions:

* Digesting and absorbing certain undigested starches, sugars, and fiber, and then converting these carbohydrates into sources of needed energy and nutrients.

* Helping to produce vitamin K and B vitamins, promoting mineral absorption, and also aiding in metabolism and the breakdown of toxins.

* Keeping bad bacteria under control.

* Preventing allergies by distinguishing between pathogens and non-harmful antigens, and to respond appropriately because of these friendly bacteria.

* Providing vital support to your gut’s immune system and your systemic immune system.

Probiotics, I mean, warriors, perform many functions.

A few of them include help with:

* food and skin allergies
* vaginitis or candida
* inflammatory bowel disease
* recurrent ear and bladder infections
* chronic diarrhea or constipation
* acid reflux
* flatulence and bloating
* taking antibiotics
* stomach ache & digestive disorders

Look for these features in your probiotics:

* Doesn’t need refrigeration
* Has a long shelf life
* Has good protection to survive stomach acid and reaches your small intestine
* Live cultures arrive safely in the small intestine where they can be effective

Shaklee’s Optiflora has 500 million warriors to help you build up your immune system. Each capsule contains 250 million Bifodobacterium Longum and 250 million Lactobaccillus Acidophilus. The triple layer encapsulation guarantees survival through the stomach acid and the arrival of live cultures to the small intestines where the friendly bacteria is needed. Optiflora can be purchased by itself but is also a part of the Vitalizer pack which you can check out here.

A healthy immune system is so important to maintain good health. Rally your own 500 million warriors and get your gut ruled by friendly bacteria!

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Remember, folks, this post is the opinion of the author and is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Please consult your health professional for all your health concerns and what warriors for a healthy immune system are advised!

Be careful what type of vitamins you put in your body!

Have you been confused regarding natural versus synthetic vitamins?

Does the body recognize the difference? Do synthetic vitamins really go through the body without dissolving? What is the truth?
It is important to know the truth regarding natural versus synthetic vitamins before you put a vitamin in your mouth.
It is possible to ingest a pill that can kill us – so why would we even consider swallowing a vitamin we were not certain was good for us?

A vitamin consists of not only the organic nutrients identified as the vitamin, but also enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, and trace element activators.

A vitamin supplement cannot simply be an individual chemical or several chemicals. Supplements must be food concentrates, intact, integrated with their vitamin complexes incorporated so as to retain their functional and nutritional integrity.

There are two general points of view when it comes to natural versus synthetic vitamins.

One belief is that the vitamin factors can be made as parts to resemble the structure of natural vitamins, prepared in a chemically-pure form in a high concentration or high potency. The result is a synthetic vitamin that is a crystalline-pure chemical, hardly resembling the original intricate vitamin complex. This is the principle followed by the drug or the pharmaceutical companies and most supplement companies. Many contemporary biochemical researchers and nutritionists believe that the body doesn’t know the difference between this synthetic vitamin and a natural, whole-food vitamin.

The other point of view, the natural vitamin point of view, is that vitamins are just like other food factors. They exist as extremely complex groups of associated substances of a synergetic nature and that if the complex is taken apart or fractioned, it no longer is capable of producing its normal nutritional and metabolic effect or function.

The important truth is that nature produces that which man cannot duplicate.

Even when the chemical analysis is the same, there is still a difference that makes one alive, functional, and the other dormant, inactive, and basically dead.  The synthetic product may resemble the natural product in one or more ways, but it is deficient and definitely not the same thing. It is a false imitation. The synthetic product is always simple, isolated, chemical substance while the natural product is a complex mixture of related and similar and interdependent materials.

The Landmark Study conducted at the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 proved that people on retail store vitamins sometimes did worse than people on no vitamins at all in their body’s bio-markers and disease history. The third control group of Shaklee whole food supplement users for 20 years or longer had markedly better biomarkers, less disease, and overall better health.

This Landmark study proved the importance of choosing whole food supplements for optimizing your health. When it comes to natural versus synthetic vitamins, choose the natural ones that are whole-food based.

What do you think? Leave a comment below telling us what your opinion or experience has been on natural versus synthetic vitamins.

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This post is the opinion of the author and is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Check with your health professional for any medical concerns and seek out the truth about natural versus synthetic vitamins.

What you do with time is a critical component to building a business.

There is one critical component to building a business and we all have an equal amount of it. And that component is TIME.

Time, however, can often elude us. A quick look at our emails sends us on mission to solve a client’s problem. What is intended to check to see if we have any messages on facebook ends us with an interesting blog post getting clicked on.

There are lots of great time management tips available, so check out those for the nitty gritty of prioritizing. But, if you know all of those and still struggle with focusing,  here are four quick tips to help you become more laser-focused with your time in building a home business:

1. Clearly write out (yes, on paper!) what you do that is the most valuable part of building your business. Document at least five key things on this A List.

2. Now list 10 low value activities that take up a lot of your time. Learn to delegate, minimize, and control the time these low value items take up, so you can focus on the high value ones.

3.  Carve out blocks of time of 60 to 90 minutes where you refuse any distraction, including the phone, so you can accomplish high value work from your A list. You might even find it helpful to set a timer.

4. Put controls on your email. Don’t have your email be set up as your home page. Set up specific times to check and deal with email. If you don’t do this, email can be a great deceiver – making you think you are accomplishing something, while it is actually distracting you from your work. The same guidelines can be used for facebook too.

I love how Amanda Han shared more detailed tips about time management so check out her article here.

If you had a bank account that credited your account with $86,400 every morning with no balance carried over to the next day each and every day, what would you do? Well, you do have such a bank. It is time.

Every morning you are credited with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules off as “lost” whatever you didn’t use toward good purposes. It carries over no balances and allows no overdrafts. You can’t hoard it, save it, store it, loan it, or invest it. You can only use it.

This is why it is so vital to learn to focus your time in building your home business.  A big impact on your daily life is the power of the choices you make with the use of your time. Share a comment below to let us know what you have found that helped you focus your time in building your home business?

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Can hepatitis B vaccine cause SIDS?

Can the hepatitis B vaccine cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?

I’ve recently become a fan of Dr. Mercola. On his website, he will quote a study that has been done, give the facts from that, and then he will give his own comments about it. Fascinating! He is not afraid to take on controversial topics like the study done in peer-reviewed papers that cites hepatitis B vaccine as a possible cause for  numerous sudden infant deaths (in the U.S. and in Europe), multiple sclerosis, and other  autoimmune disorders.

Dr. Mercola points out that reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine may be serious. He believes that the hepatitis B vaccine may be the most problematic vaccine on the required list for children today.

Newborns began to be routinely given the hepatitis B vaccine in 1992. The CDC and the FDA jointly operated the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and between 1992 and 2005, they reported 36,788 official adverse reactions to hepatitis B vaccines. 14,800 of these were serious enough that hospitalization was required.

Furthermore, 781 people were reported to have DIED following hepatitis B vaccination. Dr. Mercola also noted that vaccine adverse reactions are grossly under-reported, even perhaps by as much as 90%. So these figures could be only the tip of the iceberg.

Often vaccine reactions are not even recognized by medical professionals as vaccine-related.

For instance, when babies die after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine, their deaths are usually attributed to SIDS without investigation into the vaccine that might have caused the baby’s sudden death.

What happens when a parent tries to refuse a vaccination? A friend told me recently that when she was politely refusing a certain immunization for her infant, the doctor continued to urge her to allow it, saying that the risks were minimal of an adverse effect. Read what happened here.

Dr. Mercola goes on to say that the protection that the hepatitis B vaccine gives the baby tends to diminish over time so that by the time the child is actually exposed to the virus, their protection is almost nil anyway.

So why vaccinate them at birth when they could have such an adverse reaction in their immune system, permanent brain damage, and even death?

Dr Mercola concludes: “It is not logical. Makes no sense, none, nada, zip. This is a seriously flawed public health policy recommendation that is not backed up by good science.” Read Dr. Mercola’s full article here.

What’s your opinion on this? Do you believe in childhood vaccinations? What has been your experience? Leave a comment below with your vote of yea or nay for hepatitis B vaccine.

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Health Disclaimer: This post is the opinion of the author and these statements have not been approved by the FDA. This is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. Contact your health professional for all your medical concerns and be sure to ask him/her about the safety of vaccines like the hepatitis B vaccine.

It is all about skin cancer, how it begins, and an exhortation to protect yourself and examine your skin. I really loved how this was put together with multiple people giving their viewpoint on what they wish they had known as a 16 year old about the dangers of skin cancer. The message is that melanoma is a young person’s disease so forewarn today’s youth about this.

Wasn’t that thought-provoking? They pointed out how malignant melanoma starts in the skin cells. You need to catch it before it spreads. This is easy to do because this skin cancer shows up on the outside of you. Check yourself once a month and have a skin cancer screening done. Get more information at http://www.dcmf.ca.

Excuse me now while I go call my dermatologist to schedule a skin cancer screening at Great Lakes Dermatology. Find a skin cancer screening clinic as soon as you can.

Please share this post with everyone you know so they can take steps to avoid this fast growing skin cancer.