February 21, 2016

Missing in Action

Hello....

You probably thought what happened? I have been missing in action,

I have not been blogging for a while 'cos I have been working full time. I will have many things to share about working full time as an employee versus working for myself the past 15 years.

One thing I quickly realized is that time is no longer my own - I am contracted to be on the job from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. My time is not as flexible as when I was my own boss.

Stay tune - I will be sharing my thoughts on work, health and wealth and what it takes to truly be an entrepreneur.

February 18, 2016

How To Eat For Your Best Skin Ever

From mindbodygreen >>>


How To Eat For Your Best Skin Ever

by Amelia Freer  |  February 16, 2016

Growing up, we were told to eat our greens, but this was only partly right. While green vegetables are a powerhouse of healthful properties, having the other colors in our diet is just as important.

Brightly colored foods contain naturally occurring phytochemicals, which are responsible for giving food its color — the fire-engine red of tomatoes; the deep purple hue of blueberries — and also play important roles in protecting our health and staving off chronic disease: mopping up inflammation, slowing down premature aging, supporting sight, protecting the brain, and assisting our immune system.

Yet for many of us, the color beige is the mainstay of our plates. Foods like cereal, pasta, rice, pastries, chicken and bread often dominate our meals. These foods, especially when processed or bleached, offer much lower levels and less variety of nutrients than we need to keep healthy.

I’m not saying don’t eat them, but I am saying aim for the rainbow when it comes to your daily food choices.

Research has shown that our diets should be predominantly plant-based, and so ensuring that we include plant foods in each meal is an important habit to embrace. Every cell in our body survives on the nutrients it is fed — plant foods are the richest sources of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and those color-giving phytonutrients, which form their own cool little health-defending gang.

When humans were predominantly hunter-gatherers we ate more than 800 different varieties of plant foods. These days, we have a very limited choice, especially when shopping in supermarkets.

But at farmers markets you’ll find the more unusual forms of our everyday foods, such as purple carrots, golden beets, yellow zucchini, orange tomatoes, and purple broccoli — there really is a wider variety out there to shake us out of our color comfort zone.

Many experts advise us to eat five portions of fruits and vegetables per day, but they don’t stipulate that they need to be in a natural, unprocessed form. And I believe that we really need much, much more. I encourage you to eat three portions of fruit per day, one per meal (a portion being a small handful), and two to three portions of vegetables at each meal, reaching as far and wide in color as possible.

As you go through your day, try to mentally tick off the different colors you are eating. And see where you could possibly add in an extra burst.

For example, a salad doesn’t have to be only lettuce, cucumber, tomato, and a dressing. Throw in some other dark leafy greens like spinach, broccoli, brightly colored peppers, red cabbage, carrots, beets, and creamy green avocado, too. If you’re making oatmeal for breakfast, toss in some fresh berries or make a smoothie with one fruit and three or four different vegetables. It’s easy once you start.

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February 16, 2016

Power Profile: David, Stacy and Colton Whited (2016 MAWC)

David: "...if you understood residual income, you would walk through a brick wall to get it!"

Stacy: " That is so true you know, David and I are living proof of how powerful residual income is. We started our business at the age of 23 in the midst of some really tough times. I've been sick with the pregnancy for months. I was a cosmetologist prior to that and David was going to school and working but when I got sick he had to take on a bunch of part-time jobs....."



February 15, 2016

Power Profile: Dritan Hodo (2016 MAWC)

Dritan was an immigrant with his parents from Albania. Like every immigrant, Dritan had
visions of becoming successful after college. Listen to his story.....