Spent the last week with a serious group of networkers having fun. We went on the Crown Princess from Fort Lauderdale and didn’t have any noroviral challenges this time around. Our partners, Ron and Marlene Brice have named this the the Xango Fever cruise and this was number VI. It’s amazing how much information you download by osmosis from being around people who have done it and are willing to share it.
The fun part included spending time with my sweetheart on Valentine’s Day without the challenges or concerns that have been part of our life this past year. We are positive when we encounter positive. This is really the Law of Attraction personified.
This is going to be a good year.

Do you think it’s safe to go back in the water? Heaven help us if this ship is the “typhoid Mary” of cruise ships and the darn viron rears up and smacks someone down again. Have done the norovirous once before and don’t want to do it again. But the reassurances are that two days of disinfection and we’ve got the cleanest ship in the Caribbean. We’ll see…
I’m really in need of a little R& R and I generally love this type of vacation so I’ve packed extra Juni hand sanitizer and a box of nitrile gloves and we board in about four hours. I was the only one of my rotation in pediatrics who didn’t get the gastroenteritis that dehydrated lots of kids back in Milwaukee. Great hand washing technique saved me then, but we don’t have the same iodine based cleansers at every sink here. Just gobs of hand sanitizer. And that didn’t work last year.
Sorry to go on but I am both looking forward to the vacation and fearing the virus. Time will tell.

Well, I got your attention didn’t I? But seriously. Yesterday Kathy looked in the mirror while getting ready to go to her water aerobics and said with her arms up in the air, “hey, check out these muscles!” And yes, she saw herself with the view I have seen changing as we work the Favao lifestyle reset. Both of us changing for the better. And that’s the point. Look at the person in the mirror and ask yourself if you are changing for the better? Whether it’s the physique or the attitude. Health is a constant striving for a better you. Just be sure to look at yourself with the bare naked truth. You can fool some of the people some of the time. But if you fool yourself, you are a fool yourself.

Well, sure enough, yesterday I didn’t write anything although I started. Call it writer’s block or the Wall, or fear of the unknown, or the plateau. It paralyzed me from moving forward. Quite by accident this morning another wall that has been facing me this past few days fell down and I realized how that happened and what makes the wall get out of the way. And what I must do when faced with those challenges.

The current wall that fell was the, for me, magic number 210. 210 poounds to be exact and this morning I got on the scale and there it was staring me in the face. 209! I really didn’t expect the new number, and I won’t worry if tomorrow after some SuperBowl fun it’s up a little. I know it’s not insurmountable. I can blast through that barrier. 210 is significant for me because I haven’t been below that number for many years. Might even be ten years, but I know it’s a least five years. I know it’s possible and thanks to all the encouragement from my online support team at Favao on Facebook, I kept following the program. Hydration increased a little yesterday, excercise has increased a little yesterday and I took all my supplements and all my meals. And voila, 209!

So the lesson from my lifestyle reset is a simple one. Whether it is losing weight, deciding to blog daily, or making another phone call or contact, just keep doing what you know has been succesfull for others before. Keep your belief in the team, the process, and those who care about you the most.

Yesterday I was listening to the bonus CD that comes with my subscription to Success magazine. There was a great interview with Seth Godin, the marketing guru, who was asked by Darren Hardy a question about the one thing that people can do to move forward in their quest for success and excellence. That one thing was to create a blog if you don’t have one, and blog daily.
Well, I have a blog, but haven’t been using it so beginning today…I BLOG DAILY!

Yesterday was interesting in that Diego and I participated in an animated discussion about the differences between network marketing and conventional marketing with an experienced and dynamic gentleman in Bogota. Our discussion was joined by Glade Poulsen. The conventional marketing company spends on advertising in press and on multimedia advertising and the network marketing companies take that money and incentivize the distributor workforce in the form of bonuses. Those who develop and train their team to market effectively earn the bigger bonuses. So my friends, learn how to lead and train your team to excel in their knowledge and skills in building networks. I’ve been most impressed with what I’ve learned in go90grow.com from Mark J. “the worlds’ laziest networker” http://worldslaziestnetworker.com/

Good starting place for any networker. Learn the free skills and signup for his weekly tips.

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Just about every leaf has fallen and the branches left behind narrow as they course to their distal ends. Kind of like the coronary arteries. Only as the branches narrow in the trees, the sap has probably already stopped flowing months ago. What about the flow in your coronary arteries? Any inflammation? Atherosclerotic plaque? Hope not. But what can you do? Take a look at this PBS special about inflammation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3vq0LoqaXU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Consider what could be done by a simple nutritional that has anti-inflammatory properties and drink it every day with meals! Avoid the silent killer!

When comparing my thoughts about labor then and now, there are similarities and differences. We’ve passed our Expected Date of Correction ( EDC) and we are definitely over due. Our choices are to try to induce (QE3) and get things moving. But the usual stimulus plan isn’t going to work because the economy isn’t ripe. Besides, patient doesn’t want it. So before we admit that we don’t really don’t have a plan, and before letting this go on any longer, the O’B(ama) is probably going to call on the anesthesiologist ( Bernake) and give us some kind of special medicine and bring the new baby on. Labor Day from a different perspective.

While the country suffers, Congress and the POTUS are taking a respite. How many of us have forgone the time away in order to pursue our dreams. The whole lot is so far removed from reality. The ship of state is on autopilot without a destination dialed in. I pray for you, America.