Healthy Work at Home Tips For Homeschooling Families

This might be helpful to some of you.  It’s a short website about relief from monthly cycle pain.  They will send you a really good article about inflammation and natural relief.

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Feeling pain for a few days out of every month can wreak havoc with the best work and homeschooling plans.  Taking ibuprofen often help because it is an anti-inflammatory.  Over the years I’ve researched different natural substances that would potentially have the same type of effect. It appears that most women who add acai berry juice to their diets are finding relief. The natural anti-inflammatory properties of this particular brand of juice seem to be what is helping.

Everyone’s body is different, so one product that works for a friend might not work for you. On the other hand, the quote on this webpage is quite compelling. If I were presently dealing with monthly pain that interrupted my life, I would give this product a try.

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People generally think of network marketing as people selling products to other people. There is also a component related to recruiting other people into your network or team. The focus in usually on making money and creating residual income in order to improve your lifestyle, have more time and freedom and also to acquire and enjoy luxuries that are often out of reach for most people. I see the potential of network marketing as being bigger than all that. I see it as having the potential to be a POWERFUL force, not only in the world of commerce, but in the world giving and altruism.

You first need to understand the basic concept behind network marketing before you can understand the amount of POWER that I am talking about. The theory (and reality) of network marketing is that a very large number of people each do a small thing. If the goal is to sell a product, then you create a NETWORK of of people who all use the product and like it enough to tell other people. Those people also then use and purchase the product and tell even more people. If the goal is to recruit people to sell a product or an idea, it works the same way. You recruit a few people who also recruit a few people, who then also recruit just a few people. If you know anything about math you see how this group can grow exponentially. Even if every single person only recruited two people, based an Metcalf’s law, at the end of 6 months there would be over 500 people in that network.

The beauty in this and the POWER is that no one person needs to be superman or superwoman and sell large quantities of products or recruit large numbers of people for it to grow. Instead, people need to do a little bit, consistently and model this for those they sell to or recruit. They need to train their downline to duplicate what they have done (ie: sell to 5 people, or recruit 3 people). Their downline, in turn needs to train all their people to do the same. This is how successful network marketing teams and business operate.

So, you may be asking, how does this apply to helping the planet? The answer is that the methods used for building a commercial network marketing business can be partnered with a charitable or environmental cause and both goals can be addressed simultaneously. As a selling/marketing network grows, the amount of focus, time and money dedicated to the charitable cause grows as well. People can be recruited into the network with a clear focus that they can committ a portion of the money they earn to the “cause” that they group has taken on, and in doing so they increase their own wealth along with the wellbeing of others, or the environment, etc…

The details of how this actually looks and operates are more complex than room allows in this article. There are corporations that are already doing this. It is called “Cause Related Marketing”. In a network marketing scenerio, it would be individuals, each joining a network marketing company with a committment that a percentage of their PERSONAL profits would go to the Team’s charity,(or a charity of their choice). The vision is that people would join a specific network marketing Team because they liked the product AND they wanted to be a part of growing support for that specific Team’s charity. That Team would focus their marketing efforts on recruiting people who wanted to sell their product AND promote the cause.

My partner and I are presently structuring our network marketing business to operate in this way. We are involved in two network marketing companies at the moment and have 2-3 causes that we of focusing on. We are interested in hearing from anyone who would like to join with us and grow this idea. Together we can create positive change on the planet. You can contact me directly by emailing deborah@homeschooling-moms-healthy-home-business.com . Our two product websites are: http://thegreatproduct.com/colorado and http://goamalaki.com/healthyfreedom .

I would love to hear from anyone who finds this interesting. Please feel free to share copy and paste this post into an email and share it with anyone else you know who might be interested, as well.

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Just a quick post to let you know about a FREE Newsletter you can subscribe to. It a nice focus on the kinds of things you should be thinking about and doing to stay (or become) successful in your home business. There is a slant towards network marketing..but since each issue is a different topic, many of the issues are more generic and would be useful to any home business person.

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Gathering free information that will help you grow you business and improve your efficiency is a no brainer. This newletter is different than other because I come from an organizational and social psychology backround, not a business backround. According to Dr. Mark Brenner, who is the CEO of The Global Consulting Partnership, psychologists and people with psychology type backrounds are better suited to helping business people organize and reach their goals than those with a business backround. This is because all of our training is focused on listening to what people say both overtly and between the line. We are trained to interpret the meaning behind the words and to then help people move past their own stumbling blocks and towards their chosen dreams and objectives.

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How do you teach your child? Of course their are curriculums and courses. But really teaching your child starts with modeling. You live with little sponges. They soak up not only what you tell them, but more importantly what you do. Yes, you will use methods to teach your child how to read. If they grow up in a household where they see others reading often and throughout the day, teaching them the skill of reading will be much easier than if they don’t witness readers in their environment.

The same is true for charity, or giving, or altrusim. Talking about it is great. Doing it is better. Both together is awesome. The state of the world lately is enough to make one want to hide in a shell. Wars, poverty, poor health care, deteriorating environment. It’s hard to imagine that one person or family can make a difference and often that mindset becomes paralyzing.

Try and step back for a moment from the feeling of being overwhelmed. Think in terms of one child; one child helping another child on the planet. Then think about a family of children raising money to send to a family of children on the other side of the world. Now what if a community of families (a church or a neighborhood block) got together to help a similar size community of families in an poor area of the state you live in? It started with one child and now it might be 100 people caring for and supporting 100 other people. See how easily it grows?

You work at home and you homeschool you children. Chances are you make enough to live comfortably yet not luxuriously. My challenge to you is to find a way to incorporate charity into your work and your home life. Let your children join you. Set a goal that connects your income and profit to a concrete altruistic endeavor. There are many situations worldwide and locally where you can have a direct effect rather than sending your money through a large non-profit, like United Way. (Don’t get me wrong, United Way is wonderful organization. It’s just that large non-profits have large overhead and it’s harder to feel connected to the end result, especially for children.)

Sometimes what you give ends up being time instead of money. For children this is even better. An afternoon a week at the local nursing home has much more impact than money sent in an envelope. Here is a link to an article I wrote with the intent of motivating people to find a way to create residual income and then use some of that income and free time to become a change agent in the world. The article uses a specific charitable opportunity to send a child to school in Haiti as it’s example. Read it by clicking here.

When children see you working and earning money not just for yourself and the family but for the greater good of the world we live in…that’s powerful stuff. When they can be a part of it you instill in them a value that they will carry throughout their lives. We CAN change the world, one child at a time.

Here’s one other link I found on this topic that I really liked. Give To Charity or Charities Even If You’re Not Big and Rich!

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If you’re reading this blog and your under 30, you’re probably going to laugh. But for those of you who are almost two decades older than that, this is big news. Social Media, social networking and social bookmarking on the internet is where you need to be if you really want to see increased success in the 21st century. I’m new to this just like you. I thought Face Book and My Space was just for kids. Here are some statistics I came across.

Social media giant Facebook is currently ADDING a million 25+ (non-student) adults per week to their rosters - that’s 52 million new users a year…

YouTube.com gets over 50 million unique visitors per month… over half a billion a year…

MySpace.com sees over 49 million unique visitors each month - over 1.6 million a day…

62% of MySpace visitors are older than 25 (40% are 35+), and 83% are making over $30,000 a year… and 19% are making $100,000 and up…

Facebook.com, is a little younger since it started with college students - but that’s changing in a hurry - 46% are over 25 and 34% are 35+… but they’ve got deep pockets - 88% make more than $30,000… and 23% make $100,000 or more.

…And those are just the big ones. There is Digg.com and Technorati.com, along with at least 50 other social networking/media sites. Some are specific to a certain industry or topic and others are more broad. What’s important to know though is that you can create a presence online by utilizing these sites and thus expand your sales market.

For the more mature among us, adapting to Web 2.0 is not easy. It’s a new language and a new paradigm for thinking about sales and marketing. If you have high school age kids they can probably help you get started. At least they understand the basics of what people are doing on these sites. Once you understand that it comes down to creating your online presence and learning how to form relationships in cyberspace.

Squidoo is a good place for business people to begin. It’s a social networking site geared more towards people with businesses. My partner just created a Squidoo Lense last week. It’s still a bit rough, but she said it only took her about 1/2 hour to create what you’ll see if you click here

Squidoo is a way for you to design and promote a web page of sorts that you can then share with whomever you like. Also, people searching for a particular topic on Squidoo will find you..and Google likes to crawl around Squidoo pages to find what people are deeming important. All good news for you marketing efforts.

Another thing you need to do is to create public bookmarks on different social sites. According to the experts, this is how to quickly drive a large amount of traffic back to your web page or blog. I wrote a short how-too for neophytes on my business blog. You can see it here.

Of course you need learn about and understand all this while you’re running your business the old fashioned way and homeschooling your kids. But do not fear. This is the future, so you have time. Learn a bit each day. See what other people are doing. Put search words like “tag and ping” into Google and read what comes up. Even when it all seems like so foreign that you don’t thnk it will ever make sense, keep going. It took my partner and about 3 months to all of sudden “get it”. Now we feel like we found the keys to the vault…the system. With it, you can sell or market anything from car products to ebooks to network marketing opportunities!!

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OK, As those of you who have been reading this blog for the past few months know, I don’t susually pitch a specific company or business opportunity. I believe I did it only once before. But I just received a phone call and I was so stunned by the information that I  have to share.  I hoping by putting this information out there, we can all benefit.

Some of you may have realized that I am an Independent Executive with a new network marketing company called Zrii. Zrii is a health drink endorsed by doctors at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Dr. David Simon, who is the head physician at the Chopra Center (which he runs, along with Deepak Chopra), helped in the formulation of Zrii. The ayurvedic ingredients in Zrii…both the Amalaki Berry and 6 highly regarded herbs, has caught the interest of many alternative and mainstream physician.

On the business side, Zrii will be officially launched in May of 2008. Presently the company is in pre-launch, setting up their structure of Independent Executives and working out any kinks on the corporate end.

I learned tonight about a special compensation bonus that just floored me. I’ve been in network marketing for a number years and I have never heard of anything like this before. The company will give “one share” of their profits to each eligible distributor each month. All it takes to become eligible is to find 5 people who want to become involved with Zrii. In November every distributor who had enrolled 5 people that month received a check for $1400…in addition to their regular commission checks. A “share” is a percentage of the company’s profits for that month. It is divided between any people who have enrolled 5…just 5.

You can do it for one month, or two or three or more. You can even enroll, sign up five people and never do another thing with the company. I doubt you’d do that since this is a really amazing business opp, but you could. I had no idea that this bonus pool was open to everyone. I’ve been working this business for 3 months so far, and all my energy has been spent setting up my personal marketing campaigns for the future. I know that the long-term residual income will come over time.  Now though, I’m going to focus a little more on the present and benefit from part of that bonus pool. I hope you will too.

You can link to my Zrii web page by clicking here.  Most of us work at home and all of us could benefit from a bonus…especially when it’s comes from such a unique and nutritionally advantageous product… What a great way to begin 2008!!

Most  of this post has been taken from the Jan/Feb/08 issue of Mothering Magazine. They can be found in the feature called A Quiet Place, by Peggy O’Mara.

“Wanted: Men and women volunteers. No experience necessary. No predictable schedule. Situation often out of control. Long hours. Unpaid. No Training. No praise. Will be expected to work to an incredibly high standard with little support. Everyone else will think they know better than you, yet you will be the only one blamed if something bad happens. A totally improvisational position. ”

Here’s the better version….

“Wanted: Men and women volunteers. Develop the mental and emotional capacity of an entire generation. Potential to inexorably affect the quality of life on the planet. Potential to improve the envitonment, ensure world peace, eliminate nuclear war. Job is like no other yet will prepare you for anything. May hasten enlightenment. Valaue of job is beyond money: payment is made in memories, self-esteem, personal transformation. Individuals are handpicked for the position.”

The last one is truly the job of being a parent. It’s the job that I see myself doing, though the first one surfaces now and then. As we begin a new year we can make choices within ourselves that positively effect our families, our communities and the world. What view of parenting do you have???

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Do you ever remember your teachers or your parents using that term “tabula rasa”?   A clean slate.  The beginning of a new year seems so much like a tabula rasa to so many people. Today, January 2nd 2008.  What did you do today? For many of you it may  have been simple “new” things..like organizing your new day timer, or hanging that new calendar on the wall (Remember the “family calendar” from the organizational post a few weeks back?).

Homeschooling families are gearing up for their next semester, so to speak. What exciting projects are you going to work on? What about field trips? Winter is such a great a time to really buckle down and concentrate. There is something about the cold and the blustery that makes us want to hunker down inside and concentrate. If your kids are of reading age this is the perfect time for a really loooooong book. And then maybe a play about the book, or a newsletter written during the time the story took place. For younger kids, a multi-day project is perfect. It’s great if each day the project is whole..but then all the wholes go together to make a bigger whole. Young kids have an easier time with this than things that are left hanging unfinished until the next day.

You probably have ideas to make 2008 the best year yet for your home business. Congratulations!! I plan on doing that as well. I’m also not going to save all my tax organization until the end of March. This is my week to get it done. How free it will feel to sit down at my computer on Monday and know that I can be totally focused on moving forward, rather than on the paperwork from 2007.

If you haven’t set your business goals for 2008, now would be the time to that. You can be creative and make it fun. Not only focus on your financial goals, but on what you want to learn, what you want to teach and what directions you’d like to grown in. You can even tie your kids into this process. What are their goals for 2008? If it were January 2nd, 2009 what would they like to look back and see in the past year? This type of thinking and planning is a great homeschool activity.

Finally…what would you like to give back in 2008…to your family, your friends, your community and to the world and the earth? Whatever it is, it deserves a premier spot on you list of goals and plans.

Happy New Year!!

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