The first time I’d heard of Moses Maimonides I was about 12 years old.
I guessed right that he must have been already dead a while. As a kid I didn’t know even how to pronounce such a strange sounding name; but the famous quote and his inspired words, engraved and sprawling on a huge stone wall that countless dental students over decades passed by on their way to class I could read:
“May there never develop in me the notion that my education is complete, but give me the strength and leisure and zeal continually to enlarge my knowledge."
My first exposure to a faculty of dentistry where I met Moses and his huge wall became part of my larger continuing education in grade 7. I read this quote about a zillion times every monthly visit over the course of about three years.
It took years later understand the significance and importance of what he was saying, how I have applied his principle in my own business.
Who's kidding....I wasn't that good. I cared a lot more about trying to stop the feeling of my guts leaping into my pounding heart on my way past the lobby. My mother was committed toward a gruelling forty minutes of embarrassing torture once a month for my orthodonture.
Opening my mouth wide to a stranger. I've done it many countless times in my business. It does get easier over time. I'm lucky I've found excellent training. Still, I remember my mouth sore from braces, swollen from the latest installation of shiny hardware toward a straighter and a more beautiful smile. I was basically a shy ugly kid.
About the braces; of course I am glad now that my mom vetoed me. She just told me one day that I was going to get my teeth fixed whether I wanted to or not. Whether I liked it or not. After all, I was only twelve. What did I know? Teeth are important. Every time I open my mouth I enjoy the benefits of the labour my parents put into my teeth, the great work of the dentist, the time spent on trips to the office every month.
Although I haven’t seen Moses Wall at the faculty of dentistry for years, I have learned what is true at 12 is also true at 12 plus 12. When starting a new business you can’t know everything. But the funny thing is you don’t know what you don’t know.
That's Where Training Comes In
The ability to continually enlarge our education says Moses in his wisdom from over a thousand years ago offers any new person starting out or continuing in a business the best clue today of how to succeed.
Connecting yourself with excellent training and real people to help you is important since it is your ability to effectively communicate with another person is what will handsomely pay you.
But knowledge doesn’t start there. The knowledge Moses might have been talking about is a lot more basic and timely.
Education not wrapped up in a shrink wrapped system that smells new or the key board you’re punching.
Your best system, the one that I am talking about, has millions of neurons, blood and air pass that pass through it every moment. Millions upon trillions of living breathing and thinking stuff. Your best system is your own mind. It’s the one that you’ve always had and have been expert at developing your whole life.
What if your mind is broken? You've been well, Lazy! Got A lot of bad habits?
It's costing you money.Fix it. And as good and as important marketing and sales skill is needed to grow a business., it won't do you any good unless you take the necessary ongoing action to work your business. Action is important but it needs to be the right effective action.
This all sounds so obvious. Why mention? Because week after week I speak to many people already in business, or, wanting to be in business, yet won't pick up the phone or empty it. Sad but true.
Com'on is it all that bad!
If you’re not picking up your phone, answering your phone, or picking up your email, in your own business what makes you think you’re not losing potential millions of dollars? A successful home business entrepreneur told me by his own estimate 30% of marketers weren't evening opening the email he had sent when it concerned them and their own business.
So, what makes you think what you can be sure? What you're missing out on doesn’t matter?
All the training and money you’ve poured with your heart and soul into your business without picking up your phone or answering your email won’t matter.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Is your day job killing you financially?
Got you stuck treading water…?
If you find yourself swimming in this swimming pool, you're in with quite a large school of fish.
“The trouble is my outgo (expenses) is more than my incoming salary,” Jerry says. His emotion totally nails it. Summing it up in a recent email: I’m supporting a wife and kids at home, a new grand child I didn’t expect it. My daughter has moved in with us. I’m supporting their dog as well…”
As a dog lover I want to do more than empathize. And not stop there.
“At first it was fine,” Jerry admits, “The job allowed me to get to where I was getting to.”
Where did the dream go?
Where Jerry was getting to was the dream; we all have it-- investment in a home, a family, to gain some stability. Over time Jerry’s heavy mortgage and pressures of a growing family are busting Jerry out into the garage and spilling out into his driveway. Expenses mount. His pay check shrinks. So what’s the option? Another job? Jerry’s predicament anything but new…
Stumbling toward brave new reality
What you'ld love me to say in this blog post is how it all made sense then. Jerry hopped on board. How I so wanted it to be that way for Jerry. But it just didn't happen like that friends.
What Jerry did is take the first step like many do to fix what was bothering him. He opted out not for another job but to truly fix the source of the problem keeping him awake at night.
What was sadder later was how Jerry allowed himself to get stuck.
What he realized was a mathematical certainty How he was spending time every day at his 40 hour a week job is killing his finances, putting Jerry in a hole financially falling behind. What he decided was to put off the next step.
What happened?
Can you really afford to work your job?
We got down to brass tacks. Rolled up our sleeves together to the first point of any real power toward change--Jerry’s mind. Wrapped up in a practical first step was how much time and money Jerry had to work with. We were on the path to power, After what can truly change his reality forever. And forever is still a long time.
“I want to have more control over my life…to be able to do my own thing, and call my own shots. His reason for doing a business.
Jerry must have been on the right track. No sooner were his words out of his mouth then the seeds of doubt came drifting as they always do to settle in beside the very thing Jerry wants.
Procrastination set up stakes in Jerry's fish pond. Seeds of doubt took root. Jerry jumped from the boat.
If you want to be rich(er), learn to build and succeed in home business. says Donald Trump and in order to do that you'll have to keep yourself in the game.
The road to riches is a foot path. Not a superhighway. The path is unfortunately still used by so few. The best thing you can do for your job is learn someday how you would be able to leave it.
According to Robert Kiyosaki the best way for you is to Build yourself an asset like a business. An asset is something that will continue to pay, something a job just cannot do.
Procrastination and lack of action are the number one killer for any business.
So what if you stumble, get back in the boat
Procrastination and lack of action are the number one killer in any business.If you want things to be different you have to be different. The important thing is that you're moving forward. When you move closer to what it is you want you have options that many others don't have.
If you find yourself swimming in this swimming pool, you're in with quite a large school of fish.
“The trouble is my outgo (expenses) is more than my incoming salary,” Jerry says. His emotion totally nails it. Summing it up in a recent email: I’m supporting a wife and kids at home, a new grand child I didn’t expect it. My daughter has moved in with us. I’m supporting their dog as well…”
As a dog lover I want to do more than empathize. And not stop there.
“At first it was fine,” Jerry admits, “The job allowed me to get to where I was getting to.”
Where did the dream go?
Where Jerry was getting to was the dream; we all have it-- investment in a home, a family, to gain some stability. Over time Jerry’s heavy mortgage and pressures of a growing family are busting Jerry out into the garage and spilling out into his driveway. Expenses mount. His pay check shrinks. So what’s the option? Another job? Jerry’s predicament anything but new…
Stumbling toward brave new reality
What you'ld love me to say in this blog post is how it all made sense then. Jerry hopped on board. How I so wanted it to be that way for Jerry. But it just didn't happen like that friends.
What Jerry did is take the first step like many do to fix what was bothering him. He opted out not for another job but to truly fix the source of the problem keeping him awake at night.
What was sadder later was how Jerry allowed himself to get stuck.
What he realized was a mathematical certainty How he was spending time every day at his 40 hour a week job is killing his finances, putting Jerry in a hole financially falling behind. What he decided was to put off the next step.
What happened?
Can you really afford to work your job?
We got down to brass tacks. Rolled up our sleeves together to the first point of any real power toward change--Jerry’s mind. Wrapped up in a practical first step was how much time and money Jerry had to work with. We were on the path to power, After what can truly change his reality forever. And forever is still a long time.
“I want to have more control over my life…to be able to do my own thing, and call my own shots. His reason for doing a business.
Jerry must have been on the right track. No sooner were his words out of his mouth then the seeds of doubt came drifting as they always do to settle in beside the very thing Jerry wants.
Procrastination set up stakes in Jerry's fish pond. Seeds of doubt took root. Jerry jumped from the boat.
If you want to be rich(er), learn to build and succeed in home business. says Donald Trump and in order to do that you'll have to keep yourself in the game.
The road to riches is a foot path. Not a superhighway. The path is unfortunately still used by so few. The best thing you can do for your job is learn someday how you would be able to leave it.
According to Robert Kiyosaki the best way for you is to Build yourself an asset like a business. An asset is something that will continue to pay, something a job just cannot do.
Procrastination and lack of action are the number one killer for any business.
So what if you stumble, get back in the boat
Procrastination and lack of action are the number one killer in any business.If you want things to be different you have to be different. The important thing is that you're moving forward. When you move closer to what it is you want you have options that many others don't have.
Monday, August 4, 2008
You can't get there from here....
What makes this time different?
You've been here before at this feeling. At this same dull ache.
You want to have more of that Financial Freedom. The ability to call your own shots.
What that is for each one of us might be slightly different but the feeling is always the same: its a bit of a vague feeling that comes on after lunch at the office. It tells us we want to really be doing something else. A tiny bit of upset. Like a sinus infection--it's a while before you realize that cold's turned into a chronic dull ache.
You said, "I really want to do something different in my life. Meaningful, you know?"
Have that horse farm, run a catering company, you say, heck, I just want to do my own thing....make some decent money, have a business, have some change.
Why, when we think about doing what it is we love, why does it sometimes feel bad? Why does connecting with the freedom we want and deserve, make us scared or what we long for---like we have to run for cover in an opposite direction?
What I'm talking about is that same indescribable feeling that gets lost somewhere on the way going back to the office. And horses? With that gigantic pile of email to sort through, forget it. Horses are for other luckier people. A dream feels so far away.
Gulping down another cup of coffee works a good distraction. Somehow liquid turns to ether You're not sure where your mind it is today but you know where it is not and it is certainly not at work.
It's the tiny choices we make every day that end up defining our experiences.
We've decided to put off our choices until tomorrow, until, the fall, until next year, until by 5 o'clock on the drive home you've hedged your bets. Carved out your niche.
You've changed your mind again. You settled down on the things you can control for the afternoon. Your job. Sitting at your desk. It's really not so bad. It works for now. For a little while. You can get though that pile make your dent. Control your piece of the dent. After all, nothing is perfect you say.
Your little piece. In your next twenty minutes. If life is a series of lost chances and stolen moments what we do with them is important and can change things.
It's not always the tramatic things in life that create long term meaningful change. It's not win, loose, all or nothing but a slow gradual change and commitment to ourselves that changes our experience. What we really end up having in life.
If you want to have different you need to do different.
Learn how to take that first step toward financial freedom.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon. A rocket scientist, someone with tons of money and loads of fabulous education. What you need to begin with is desire in your heart a willingness to move forward. To to keep moving forward.
If you've never thought you could do a business but always wanted to. If you've always wanted to do your own thing but weren't really certain how to start, or what do do, or if you don''t know what is available, you've come to the best place to start.
Click here http://www.leadersclub.com/jumpstart/index.asp
Your life does not need to turn on a dime.
You've been here before at this feeling. At this same dull ache.
You want to have more of that Financial Freedom. The ability to call your own shots.
What that is for each one of us might be slightly different but the feeling is always the same: its a bit of a vague feeling that comes on after lunch at the office. It tells us we want to really be doing something else. A tiny bit of upset. Like a sinus infection--it's a while before you realize that cold's turned into a chronic dull ache.
You said, "I really want to do something different in my life. Meaningful, you know?"
Have that horse farm, run a catering company, you say, heck, I just want to do my own thing....make some decent money, have a business, have some change.
Why, when we think about doing what it is we love, why does it sometimes feel bad? Why does connecting with the freedom we want and deserve, make us scared or what we long for---like we have to run for cover in an opposite direction?
What I'm talking about is that same indescribable feeling that gets lost somewhere on the way going back to the office. And horses? With that gigantic pile of email to sort through, forget it. Horses are for other luckier people. A dream feels so far away.
Gulping down another cup of coffee works a good distraction. Somehow liquid turns to ether You're not sure where your mind it is today but you know where it is not and it is certainly not at work.
It's the tiny choices we make every day that end up defining our experiences.
We've decided to put off our choices until tomorrow, until, the fall, until next year, until by 5 o'clock on the drive home you've hedged your bets. Carved out your niche.
You've changed your mind again. You settled down on the things you can control for the afternoon. Your job. Sitting at your desk. It's really not so bad. It works for now. For a little while. You can get though that pile make your dent. Control your piece of the dent. After all, nothing is perfect you say.
Your little piece. In your next twenty minutes. If life is a series of lost chances and stolen moments what we do with them is important and can change things.
It's not always the tramatic things in life that create long term meaningful change. It's not win, loose, all or nothing but a slow gradual change and commitment to ourselves that changes our experience. What we really end up having in life.
If you want to have different you need to do different.
Learn how to take that first step toward financial freedom.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon. A rocket scientist, someone with tons of money and loads of fabulous education. What you need to begin with is desire in your heart a willingness to move forward. To to keep moving forward.
If you've never thought you could do a business but always wanted to. If you've always wanted to do your own thing but weren't really certain how to start, or what do do, or if you don''t know what is available, you've come to the best place to start.
Click here http://www.leadersclub.com/jumpstart/index.asp
Your life does not need to turn on a dime.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Wikipedia Approach to Financial Health Fitness
Who doesn't feel like they're falling behind these days? Financially speaking I mean? Money doesn't go as far as it used to.
Money is short in a whirlwind of change sweeping the country. It's a complicated mix happening at the unbelievable blink of an eye. If you've had that adrenalin rush that you don't have time but still gotta fix this....
You're not alone.
That's why I know you'll understand completely when I tell you that a few first year medical sudents recently, under this same feeling of REAL pressure --with tons of work still to do --in the wee hours of a thankless morning, turned to an easy frame of reference: the most straightforward source of medical knowledge they could get their poor numbed eyes locked on: Wikipedia.
Of course these students are not yet doctors. But as a lay person I do admit I find it a little bit unsettling, a wee bit funny, and a whole lot dangerous to imagine professional medical students turning to Wikipedia as an authoritative medical source.
Especially when others of us may be looking to them in the future to provide guidance.
"We don't have time to do it your way." the students say to their bewildered instructor, " (I'm getting the story over dinner) "Doing a proper clinical review your way is too hard. We should be able to do it the way we want."
If it's easy to see the short comings of this approach for a medical review, but not always easy to find our short-comings to our finances we seek remedy.
How is it many of us, make these choices? Without too much critical wind swept thought in the space of a 60 minute lunch hour between running an errand to the post office find 20 minutes left to troll the internet. In 20 minutes we pick highest, fastest, hippest brightest new promise out there. We set up shop, next week for it's easy to do moving traffic to our website. It's a beginning. We say.
Who am I to pinch your fabulous balloon? Wouldn't I love that kind of a system for myself?
When our time, effort, and hard-earned money are at stake, why is it so many of us seem to take a "Wikipedia", and a one-stop-shopping approach to financial fitness?
It's so human to think that somehow we will be different; that we will be tiny half percent that achieves the mother lode, that up to $8,000.00 in three months. Have you ever asked someone recently:
"by the way, who has done that coming from the same place I'm at now? Can I talk to them, would you give me a referral?"
Many of us are caught somewhere in the middle. Spending $400 or $500. It is surprising what $400 dollars buys today besides a few months gas depending on where and how you drive. In the case of a small home business owner I talked to last week, that sum gave her a business partner in another country she could not contact while another she learned suddenly lost interest.
Do your homework:
When searching for home-based business your objectives need to be clear. You need to know the real reason you are looking to be in a home business in the first place. It takes time to sit down with yourself for an afternoon. Put your heart felt reason down on paper with a few gobs of sweat. It will feel good. I promise. Write down your hopes and dreams for you. Who else but you is that important?
Write down what you're realistically looking to earn per month. How much money do you have to invest? How much for start up? How much for ongoing expenses? Yes, you'll need a budget. How much time will you have per week to devote to your business? You'll need at least 8-10 hours a week if you want to get off the ground.
When searching for a business ask how much is required to get in? How much volume or how many customers is required to trigger a sales bonus? What will be my training? What will be my return on my investment?
If anything this is rudimentry. It is sadly surprising how many people skip this oh so very important step.
Ask yourself, if Wikipedia wouldn't be good doctor for your lung infection, why would that same kind of approach be good then for your long term bank account?
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Help from me and Helen Keller....
There’s something new behind the man over the counter. It’s a story and the million and one things he doesn’t say. He looks taller now behind a grey bland looking wall that only a week earlier was row after row of colourful trays and bright packaged boxes of cigarettes.
“We have to conceal them now,” he tells me. “we have to go dark by the end of this month”; meaning that the government now wants to restrict the look of the cigarettes, doesn’t want customers to be enticed into impulse buying. Still, it’s a legal product that costs the government billions of dollars every year from health related illnesses. And when it comes to government getting tax revenue from the sale of cigarettes, there we all know here they can’t and won’t stop you.
I’ve never smoked. It’s not cigarettes I buy when I come into the corner store. Usually it’s my favourite brand of soy milk I buy from Farouz. It's delicious, for some reason is not carried in the larger grocery store. Over several months now I've come to know a little about the man that sells me soy milk. Boxed cigarettes it seems are not the only thing on my street that has gone dark.
Farouz is a chemical engineer and he stood me up for a coffee on my birthday. I always knew that there was more to Farouz than meets the eye. It was my fault I suppose. I asked Farouz if he would consider looking outside of his current retail job and into a home business as a way to earn extra income.
I waited for Farouz and he didn’t come. I was disappointed but I understood his hesitancy to try something new. To his mind he has already tried and failed at so many things and can't face rejection and failure another time.
“I can’t afford to look at anything!" he says to me. "I can’t afford to risk. I’m finished with chemical engineering jobs. I’m going to be stuck packing groceries now until the day I die..."Maybe you don’t understand what it is like he tells me because you were born in Canada.
But you don’t have to have a foreign-sounding name and brown eyes to have things in the job front not turn out. I told Farouz that but he didn’t seem to believe me.
Months after obtaining his professional re-certification in Canada, after applying for a long list of engineering jobs it seems Farouz still has not found his engineering job. By now this same scenario is an old story having played itself out countless times.
I feel luckier these days not because I am not packing groceries but because I have found after much trial and error and a lot of soul searching a jewel and a gem. That is simply a realization that the hardest thing in the world is not being able to have what you want. If you’re willing to be open to LOOK AT a home business seriously and to study the model, like me you might be pleasantly surprised.
It’s hard work that pays off and will pay off and reward you for your efforts a million and one times over. In return for this effort you earn similiarly to an engineering degree a return on investment. In this case a life-long stream of steady residual income. That is something that a job and even chemical engineering will and cannot do. The deal is you have to be willing. Willing to give up your FEELING of security.
If life is either a daring adventure or nothing, according to Helen Keller; she also said security does not exist in nature, it's only man himself that seeks it. And it's harder to find all the time.
I wish Helen would have told Farouz that because Iknow he won’t always feel so defeated.
He won’t always be resigned to packing groceries because it is NATURAL to want more and to have more from life. It’s entirely possible in your own business. Another birthday is around the corner. If Farouz can only see things for a minute or so. Sit down over a happy cup of tea and really have a listen… like me and Helen.
“We have to conceal them now,” he tells me. “we have to go dark by the end of this month”; meaning that the government now wants to restrict the look of the cigarettes, doesn’t want customers to be enticed into impulse buying. Still, it’s a legal product that costs the government billions of dollars every year from health related illnesses. And when it comes to government getting tax revenue from the sale of cigarettes, there we all know here they can’t and won’t stop you.
I’ve never smoked. It’s not cigarettes I buy when I come into the corner store. Usually it’s my favourite brand of soy milk I buy from Farouz. It's delicious, for some reason is not carried in the larger grocery store. Over several months now I've come to know a little about the man that sells me soy milk. Boxed cigarettes it seems are not the only thing on my street that has gone dark.
Farouz is a chemical engineer and he stood me up for a coffee on my birthday. I always knew that there was more to Farouz than meets the eye. It was my fault I suppose. I asked Farouz if he would consider looking outside of his current retail job and into a home business as a way to earn extra income.
I waited for Farouz and he didn’t come. I was disappointed but I understood his hesitancy to try something new. To his mind he has already tried and failed at so many things and can't face rejection and failure another time.
“I can’t afford to look at anything!" he says to me. "I can’t afford to risk. I’m finished with chemical engineering jobs. I’m going to be stuck packing groceries now until the day I die..."Maybe you don’t understand what it is like he tells me because you were born in Canada.
But you don’t have to have a foreign-sounding name and brown eyes to have things in the job front not turn out. I told Farouz that but he didn’t seem to believe me.
Months after obtaining his professional re-certification in Canada, after applying for a long list of engineering jobs it seems Farouz still has not found his engineering job. By now this same scenario is an old story having played itself out countless times.
I feel luckier these days not because I am not packing groceries but because I have found after much trial and error and a lot of soul searching a jewel and a gem. That is simply a realization that the hardest thing in the world is not being able to have what you want. If you’re willing to be open to LOOK AT a home business seriously and to study the model, like me you might be pleasantly surprised.
It’s hard work that pays off and will pay off and reward you for your efforts a million and one times over. In return for this effort you earn similiarly to an engineering degree a return on investment. In this case a life-long stream of steady residual income. That is something that a job and even chemical engineering will and cannot do. The deal is you have to be willing. Willing to give up your FEELING of security.
If life is either a daring adventure or nothing, according to Helen Keller; she also said security does not exist in nature, it's only man himself that seeks it. And it's harder to find all the time.
I wish Helen would have told Farouz that because Iknow he won’t always feel so defeated.
He won’t always be resigned to packing groceries because it is NATURAL to want more and to have more from life. It’s entirely possible in your own business. Another birthday is around the corner. If Farouz can only see things for a minute or so. Sit down over a happy cup of tea and really have a listen… like me and Helen.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
I can't remember when I started to read food labels. But I do remember the first time my mother saw me doing it.
We were in the middle of a grocery asile and I was home for the weekend. Every time I came home I cooked. Getting out the 4-H recipes for Bread. Sour dough starters, cinnamon rolls, anything complicated with a lot of "farting around to it"I gravatated to and naturally wanted to make. My mother didn't understand that fussing part, hijacking her kitchen all afternoon! But during the afternoon in question I was in the middle of a whirlwind cooking phase and had to go into town with her for further supply.
I was stopped in the asile at the gocery store, staring at a friendly and familiar blue and white box. I was having misgivings about dessert now. Questioning myself on biscuit dough and did I really want to move ahead with it since I couldn't get creme in the country and the only alternative was this friendly box that said it was an edible petroleum product. What was that, I wonder?
"You mean to tell me you stand there and read labels!" my mother says. trolling up behind the rear "I can't believe it!" After all our jont in was supposed to be a short. A get in and out back home affair not take all afternoon.
"Well, yeah. I read labels." I said, "don't you?" I said.
"Well if I had as much time on my hands as you seem to," she is telling me "I wouldn't get much done. And no. I don't. Besides, what difference does it make here!" I should clarify this time I was living in Toronto and had access to food around the world. Fresh, interesting of every description.
At least on the "here" part mom was right. In our only country grocery store there was iceberg lettuce two brands of milk. No one for miles had even heard of an avocado much less eat one or figure out why you would be needing or wanting to eat one in the first place. If you didn't want what was offered in our town, this meant no alternative, going without. If you couldn't live with that what you had to do was take a 45 minute drive to the city for whip creme. Not many saw good sense to it. Often times people in the tiny country seem to have the poorest access to good food.
Today it seems odd anyone would question the need to read a food label. Why we need to pay special attention to what we're eating is clear. Diabetes, hyper-tension, food allergies, headaches, loosing weight. These are all good enough health reasons.
These days I am a better informed consumer, but I will quickly admit I am daily confused by what I read what's on my label. Reading labels on food we are at least familiar with even if we don't understand what it is we read.
Strange this same concern does not extend to what cremes, soaps and beauty products we put on and into our bodies.
I have decided to do my little bit in an effort to change that. To bridge the understanding gap. To build a user friendly dictionary of ingredient terms for the beauty business. So the next time you're stuck in the shopping asile with that certain something in your hand with words that derail you that you can't make sense of you might say instead, "oh yeah, I remember didn't Nancy mention that in her blog...? So dear friend here it is your friendly neighbourhood beauty reference guide:
Paraben:
We were in the middle of a grocery asile and I was home for the weekend. Every time I came home I cooked. Getting out the 4-H recipes for Bread. Sour dough starters, cinnamon rolls, anything complicated with a lot of "farting around to it"I gravatated to and naturally wanted to make. My mother didn't understand that fussing part, hijacking her kitchen all afternoon! But during the afternoon in question I was in the middle of a whirlwind cooking phase and had to go into town with her for further supply.
I was stopped in the asile at the gocery store, staring at a friendly and familiar blue and white box. I was having misgivings about dessert now. Questioning myself on biscuit dough and did I really want to move ahead with it since I couldn't get creme in the country and the only alternative was this friendly box that said it was an edible petroleum product. What was that, I wonder?
"You mean to tell me you stand there and read labels!" my mother says. trolling up behind the rear "I can't believe it!" After all our jont in was supposed to be a short. A get in and out back home affair not take all afternoon.
"Well, yeah. I read labels." I said, "don't you?" I said.
"Well if I had as much time on my hands as you seem to," she is telling me "I wouldn't get much done. And no. I don't. Besides, what difference does it make here!" I should clarify this time I was living in Toronto and had access to food around the world. Fresh, interesting of every description.
At least on the "here" part mom was right. In our only country grocery store there was iceberg lettuce two brands of milk. No one for miles had even heard of an avocado much less eat one or figure out why you would be needing or wanting to eat one in the first place. If you didn't want what was offered in our town, this meant no alternative, going without. If you couldn't live with that what you had to do was take a 45 minute drive to the city for whip creme. Not many saw good sense to it. Often times people in the tiny country seem to have the poorest access to good food.
Today it seems odd anyone would question the need to read a food label. Why we need to pay special attention to what we're eating is clear. Diabetes, hyper-tension, food allergies, headaches, loosing weight. These are all good enough health reasons.
These days I am a better informed consumer, but I will quickly admit I am daily confused by what I read what's on my label. Reading labels on food we are at least familiar with even if we don't understand what it is we read.
Strange this same concern does not extend to what cremes, soaps and beauty products we put on and into our bodies.
I have decided to do my little bit in an effort to change that. To bridge the understanding gap. To build a user friendly dictionary of ingredient terms for the beauty business. So the next time you're stuck in the shopping asile with that certain something in your hand with words that derail you that you can't make sense of you might say instead, "oh yeah, I remember didn't Nancy mention that in her blog...? So dear friend here it is your friendly neighbourhood beauty reference guide:
Paraben:
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
“Yeah, but what’s that near?” I am saying with my cheek pressed hard into the phone. It’s been over an hour, I don’t recognize a single landmark. If there's one thing I've been blessed with is left-handedness, and if there's another is my reliable and lousy sense of driving direction. and if blood pressure had colour, I am sure mine would be black.
I feel heat rise to the surface of my flushed face.
“There’s not a single landmark I recognize I tell her, blubbering into the telephone. Under these circumstances, the lateness of the afternoon hour I think I am very civilized, considering. My voice trying to be even. As if west twelve kilometres means anything to me! All I can think of is I want to be home. Away from this road and this dust and this heat and my brain trying to figure the map out. Where was it how was it I became so lost. I want to retreat. The perfect cup of tea or coffee, with a crunchy cookie. I want water. A hot bath. To crawl inside Citrus C. My 6 fluid ounces. Its perfect piece of luxury. Spa in a bottle.
Are you kidding!
My Lamas Citrus C beauty cleanser cannot solve this; this lousy ability I have to navigate the road! There is nothing in that little orange facial cleanser, its colour as friendly as a popsicle that will bring me any closer to exit 129. My tiny bit of luxury, my redeeming only salvation.
What Citrus C can do is clean the face and make it beautiful. Its your one stop cleanser that gets down to sooty business. Its tiny versitility doesn’t fool around; takes out the grit without drying. Removes makeup-even mascara- without effort. Is gentle enough to be used every single day. It smells like orange citrus and is the nicest facial cleanser you’ll ever meet. Without a paraben to its petigree. (what the heck's a paraben? Click here if you've always wondered...) It has Vitamin C and Beta Carotene.
You can use Citrus C Cleansers in the shower. Use it as a gentle lather for shaving. After you come in from a long tiring day of driving on your road to somewhere. Use it on your face it feels softer than satin. Comes out from the bottle in a pearl satin droplet. Your face a jewel to behold. Your face soft as roses.
Beauty is a personal experience.
.. “She can’t even find the car in Wal-mart parking,” my friends will tell you, “. . She’ll be lost in the village she came from: population of a thousand...”
Learn more about Citrus C
Take one Home
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I feel heat rise to the surface of my flushed face.
“There’s not a single landmark I recognize I tell her, blubbering into the telephone. Under these circumstances, the lateness of the afternoon hour I think I am very civilized, considering. My voice trying to be even. As if west twelve kilometres means anything to me! All I can think of is I want to be home. Away from this road and this dust and this heat and my brain trying to figure the map out. Where was it how was it I became so lost. I want to retreat. The perfect cup of tea or coffee, with a crunchy cookie. I want water. A hot bath. To crawl inside Citrus C. My 6 fluid ounces. Its perfect piece of luxury. Spa in a bottle.
Are you kidding!
My Lamas Citrus C beauty cleanser cannot solve this; this lousy ability I have to navigate the road! There is nothing in that little orange facial cleanser, its colour as friendly as a popsicle that will bring me any closer to exit 129. My tiny bit of luxury, my redeeming only salvation.
What Citrus C can do is clean the face and make it beautiful. Its your one stop cleanser that gets down to sooty business. Its tiny versitility doesn’t fool around; takes out the grit without drying. Removes makeup-even mascara- without effort. Is gentle enough to be used every single day. It smells like orange citrus and is the nicest facial cleanser you’ll ever meet. Without a paraben to its petigree. (what the heck's a paraben? Click here if you've always wondered...) It has Vitamin C and Beta Carotene.
You can use Citrus C Cleansers in the shower. Use it as a gentle lather for shaving. After you come in from a long tiring day of driving on your road to somewhere. Use it on your face it feels softer than satin. Comes out from the bottle in a pearl satin droplet. Your face a jewel to behold. Your face soft as roses.
Beauty is a personal experience.
.. “She can’t even find the car in Wal-mart parking,” my friends will tell you, “. . She’ll be lost in the village she came from: population of a thousand...”
Learn more about Citrus C
Take one Home
Learn more about the line of natural certified Organic Lamas Beauty Products.
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