The Wellness Industry is here and growing. Your success can be in Wellness.

Mega Trend #1 is the Wellness Revolution.  Yes, it’s real and it’s here.  Look at some statistics about this industry.  The Global Dietary Supplement Market is $77 Billion in Revenue and growing by 5% each year.  This is fueled by the true fact of what the American Medical Association says that we are not getting enough nutrients in diet alone and it's imperative to supplement our diet with nutritional supplements to maintain our wellness.  In general more and more people are being proactive towards their health.  First start is the exercise, eating right and then taking supplements.

The Global Weight-Loss Market is getting closer to $100 Billion in revenue because the battle of the bulge is no longer stationed in the USA and growing 6% each year.  By 2012, it’s predicted to be $1.4 Trillion.  People are just getting fatter and fatter.  And for those people who are exercising and dieting who are not getting rid of the unwanted fat round the neck, thighs, chin and tummy, are really looking for that extra fat-loss boost and naturally of course!

The Global Skin-Care Market is $55 Billion in revenue and maintaining growth each year despite the global economy slowdown. I mean, vanity just sells!  Vanity is a good thing!  It's good to want to look good and feel better about ourselves.  The skin is the biggest organ in the human body and it is most important to take care of it.

So the Wellness Industry itself will be the next Trillion Dollar Industry because people are simply looking for better quality of health, safer & more effective ways to slim down and to look great by using Skin Care products.  These types of products must be effective & all-natural and many people are simply looking for it!  Mannatech delivers products that deliver what people are looking for.  The research and documentation are found online at http://www.mannatechscience.org.  But despite all the science and publication, use the products for yourself, see how you feel.  The products are free unless you love it!  (Backed by a 100% 180day Satisfaction Guarantee)  If you like the products, you'll share it with your friends! Easy!  That is the Mannatech Business Model.  Perhaps you can find the success you are looking for in the Wellness Industry with Mannatech.

You Can Still Achieve a Healthy Lifestyle Even Though You Just Ate Fast Food

Every day, about a quarter of Americans eat fast food.  However, I wonder what the statistics are for other countries.  I am currently here in the Philippines and it is fast food galore here as well.  The fast foods in the Philippines are quite affordable also, causing people to go eat fast food rather than eating something more wholesome.  Japan has many American fast food chains and Europe I am sure.  I do believe the battle of the bulge is no longer stationed in America.  The fat is just everywhere!

The typical teenage boy in the United States alone gets 10% of his daily calories from Soda.  Did you know that a 12-ounce can of Coke contain about 10-12 teaspoons of sugar?  Basically, it is 1 teaspoon of sugar for every ounce or shot glass of soda.  It’s quite unbelievable when I first learned about that fact, but whenever I share it, everyone always questions it.  But I assure you, it’s the cold hard truth and if you’re a coke drinker that is what you are drinking.  Remember, excess sugar turns to fat in the body.

If you go to a fast food chain, it costs them cents to make soda and that is where a lot of their profit comes from; the sales of soda.  However, if you are weird like I am, when I go to a McDonalds for a treat (yes I occasionally have a treat there too) I order pineapple juice.  It’s a little healthier than soda, but it still has some sugar and it is still refined.  For myself, to combat the bad food I eat, I take in extra nutrients to balance out my treat.  But I keep this in moderation and so should you.  That’s the key! Moderation!

What is really scary is that children often recognize the Golden Arch before they recognize their own name.  Yikes!  Also, if you wrap anything in a fast food wrapper, it just taste better?  That is how powerful fast food marketing is.  It is incredible!

However, you can still achieve a healthy Lifestyle even though at times you can’t go anywhere else except a fast food chain.  The solution is natural food based supplements that will supply your body the nutrients missing from the food we eat everyday.  Nutrition is fuel for your body at the cell level so you can be healthy.  Healthy Cells equates healthy bodies.  Though not all supplements are made equally so you will have to do some research.  In this blog, I talk plenty about Mannatech Products because I believe they are the best money can buy.  

Also, increase your exercise to get more energy as well as burn off those empty calories.  Yes, they are quite empty even thought it tasted good.  But what is better is to eat something wholesome throughout the day.  It will just help you today, tomorrow and the long run.

So you can achieve a healthy lifestyle with good wholesome food, exercise, plenty of rest and good supplementation to help your cells get healthy and the overall You well.

Health Care is too ineffective, too toxic and too expensive!

Our current healthcare philosophy is really flawed. On top of that, all the debate is focused on the wrong direction. Prevention should be the focus.

Prevention is taking a proactive approach to your own health like proper diet, exercise and good supplementation.

Smart people take supplements: 70%+ of doctors and 80%+ of Nurses take and recommend supplements to their patients.

So taking good supplements, exercising and eating well is a big part of solving our Healthcare crisis. There are other parts into solving the crisis however, but when more and more people are engaged into taking care of their own health and focusing into preventing disease, healthcare in general will be more effective, not as toxic and a whole lot cheaper.

Wellness for your Mind

A huge part of getting healthy is your attitude! Attitude is everything. That is what Art Williams says all the time. He is known for talking about winning in business, but I think what he really means is about winning in life by having a good attitude. And being healthy is a big part of winning.

Studies show that laughter does everything from helping relax muscles to stimulating your heart and lungs. It can even ease digestion! Having a great attitude is crucial to over all health so find ways to be happy and, of course, laughter. Watch comedy shows! What one of my new favorites, Russell Peter. So go ahead and smile and laugh!

Word of Mouth is Still the Best & Most Effective!

Nothing is more powerful that word of mouth.  It is so powerful when someone says something sucks.  I was so excited to watch The Last Airbender, but my cousin said that people were so disappointed that people was walking out of the theatre.  Now what he says will always be in the back of my mind.  I am being pushed not to watch it.

On the other hand when someone says this is a good movie, we would watch it right away.  In the same conversation, he talked about how good Inception with Leonardo Di Caprio was.  So, now I’m bound to watch that over The Last Airbender.  Mind you, I have not read any reviews about both movies.  I have only watched the trailers and both movies looked really cool.  But one person ruined it for me (my cousin).

I was hoping M. Knight Shyamalan would do a good job with The Last Airbender (now in my mind that movie sucks, without giving it the benefit of the doubt).

Word of mouth is so powerful!  In business, this works the same way.  If people say your store/shop is good, people will go to it buy stuff from you.  If people say your blog is good, people would go and read what you have to say and recommend it to others.  If you have a particular product that is good, then people would buy simply from the people recommending them to you.   It’s like people would be your personal walking Ambassadors.

However, if ten people say it’s good to someone and one person says it sucks, in most cases the whole thing sucks to that person.  Whatever it is!  It’s human nature…  I don’t know the solution to this other than whatever you sell or promote, make sure it points towards the “I’ll recommend it to my friends” scale.  Then we’ll have all the success we are looking for!


That is why network marketing works!  People recommending good products and services to their friends and it simply trickle down to new people taking the products and promoting the business.  That is of course, the products and services are good.  Otherwise, it’ll suck!


I’m talking about this because from everything that I do like blogs & youtube videos, what is more effective is people recommending me to others.  I have an easier time getting customers because people simply recommend me to their friends and family.  It works! It’s so much easier!


So my goal is keeping everyone happy and it’s natural.  What I promote are good products which is good! All I need to do is share it with a few people and those people recommends me to more people.  Word of mouth works!

Why Wellness? Why not? Don't you want to feel good?

LifeStyle Living Today means living as well as we can be.  It's about having a good quality of life.  I mean that is pretty much we are all striving for, right?  In countries like the Philippines there are the poor and the rich.  There are way too many people in the Philippines suffering from poverty and compared to the population, only a small percentage of people are wealthy and can actually afford to live well.  Either your rich or poor, we are all striving for a good quality of life, about Living Well!

In the United States, about 10% of the population earn $100,000 or more.  On top of that most people still live beyond their means.  That is why the United States is suffering the credit crunch.  Whether you are in the Philippines, the United States or some other country, our goals are to have a good quality of life.  To have wellness!  If we don't choose wellness, we choose the opposite.  The opposite of wellness is doing nothing.



Wellness doing is exercising regularly, because we all need exercise.  You can drink all that SlimFast all you want, but you still got to exercise.  If you're on OsoLean, you got to exercise too!  You just can't get out of exercising.  That is essential.

Wellness doing is about eating right!  Not eating less.  Eating less sucks!  Just eat fewer calories.  This is typically the low glycemic diet.

Wellness doing is taking supplements.  Today, we all need supplements because it is a well-known fact that the nutrients that should be found in the food we're eating are not there.  Supplements need to come from food.  Not synthesized or anything like that.   Mannatech, Inc. makes Real Food Technology Solutions.  Their supplements are all natural and the body sees it as food.

Wellness doing is drinking water.  I see so many times that a bottle of Coke is in place of a pitcher of water  at the family dinner table.  It's sad.  Coke has so much sugar in it.  Water is water!  You have to drink 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water a day.  Eight glasses of water a day basically.



Wellness doing is earning adequate income to support yourself and your family.  In the Philippines and in America, some people don't earn enough income from their jobs.  So supplementing your income with another part-time job is okay.  Building a part-time home based business like a network marketing business is better.  More income for you and your family and better ways to support your wellness.

So why wellness?  To Feel Great!  To Look Great!  To ultimately Live Well!  Take charge of your wellness and financial wellness.  That is Living Well. Cheers!

Michael Jordan on Failure and a TV commercial about it

Michael Jordan is best known for his career in the NBA and as a Nike Spokesperson.  I found this Nike Commerical on Failure with Michael Jordan.  Jordan is right.  He's the best Basketball Player of all time and I'm sure many of you would agree.  He's also a business man.  He's so cool!  He is LifeStyle Living! He is successful! He's smart! He's humble.  And this is what he had to say about Failure.

We can all learn from this.  Multiple books and many successful people said it as well.   When asked how did they get so successful?  They often say, by failing multiple times. Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad said when Kiyosaki lost his first company, congratulations! most successful people lose three companies, you got two more to go. It seems you got to fail to succeed.



Or, in other words, the great inventor Thomas Edison said  "Failed? — why we haven't failed, we only know the thousands of ways that won't work." Persistence is key to our success.  Many people give up inches away from success.  In LifeStyle Living, success brings us happiness.  Everyone's goal in life is happiness! Come on?  Is your goal in life to be miserable?  I don't think so!  What is happiness?  What is Success?  Success is being happy, healthy, wealthy and wise;  all together, not one without the other. So never give up!  Keep on keeping on!  If you fail once:  it's okay.  If you fail twice: it's okay too.  If you fail 10,000:  Edison's lightbulb?.. Every failure is a step closer to success! I'm personally taking this advice, I'm a pro at failure.  Cheers!

How many times have you failed until you got your success?  Or are you still failing?   Don't worry, my Upline said that my failures were expensive learning experiences.

Having your own Office at Starbucks

I am all for Starbucks!  Starbucks truly delivers a good cup of coffee.  I just had myself a Doppio.

Doppio in espresso is a double shot, extracted using a double filter basket in the portafilter. This results in 60ml of drink, double the amount of a single shot espresso. More commonly called a standard double, it is a standard in judging the espresso quality in barista competitions. Doppio is Italian, meaning "double".

Starbucks also delivers a great environment.  Now, not all Starbucks unfortunately have a nice cafe, but for most Starbucks, they truly make a nice cafe and deliver that nice comfortable environment.  International Starbucks like the ones in the Philippines are so much nicer!  They are much cooler than the ones in the United States in my opinion.

Regardless if you're in the USA or elsewhere, Starbucks will provide you a great environment to chill out, hang out with friends, have a date, or have a meeting.  Yeah!  A work session meeting.  Now there have been many meetings done at Starbucks.  I would assume many Deals happened as well.  So if your office is at home, Starbucks will give you another office away from your home office and you'll get a great Cappuccino.  That is of course the Barista know's how to make one.  In some cases, I get a foamy Latte for a Cappuccino.   But anyhow, Starbucks will give you that office with a cup of coffee.

If you have a Home Based Business such as a Network Marketing Business, Starbucks is a great way to have meetings, presentations of the products, presentations of the payplan and have get-together with your Downline/Upline Leaders to create a Master Plan to grow your Home Based Business even bigger.

A Home Based Business is not restricted just at home, but there are many other places to have your office and Starbucks is a great place to have one.  I see it all the time.  I'm a networker and a former Barista.  When I was a Barista, I've seen lawyers, architects, and construction experts having their meetings and brainstorming sessions at the cafe.  It was so cool.

Kudos to Starbucks for providing great coffee in a really nice place for people to get some work done.  In college, 90% of all my homework was done at Starbucks.  Now, I am showing my work with Mannatech, meeting and brainstorming about Health, Wellness, Financial Freedom and helping as much people to get there as well.  Everything in life revolves around what Zig Ziglar said,

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Starbucks is successful because they deliver what people want and you can be successful by helping people get what they want.  And what do people want?  Happiness! :D