My Favorite Bloggers

Time to share with you a few of my favorite blogs!!

Melissa from 320 Sycamore shares her AMAZING home renovations
Seriously, check out her Kitchen redo! 

Michelle at The Vintage Apple is a elementary school teacher
in a low income school district and while her day is worse
than I could ever imagine (think of re-living those years in elementary school where everyone hates you) she seems to find the silver lining in her day!
She also just got married and has an amazing husband and a doggy!
My kind of lady!

I love Jamie's blog title because I'm pretty sure it has to do with a beautiful song I hear at tons of weddings.  Jamie puts tons of Pinteresting images up every Wednesday. I love the dresses she shares!  Also, because I love her blog design I revised my blog (once again) thanks to her designer!  It's really simple!

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Another blogger named Michelle...Has a beautiful family, a loving husband and is having some issues fitting in with her neighborhood stay at home mothers. 
She does alot of pinning also!

I might need to make this into a page on my blog....I have a TON of other favorites including some personal friends of mine!  Stay tuned!

Live Life to the Fullest....one inspiring blog at a time!

-Rachel

20 answers to usana questions

This article from Petez Danis is the answer to ALL of your Network Marketing questions! 


I've listed the questions below.   I HIGHLY encourage you to read the article if you have considered Network Marketing at some point in your life but haven't jumped in yet! 

Here are my thoughts:

Let's start with: "if this business model is so great, why aren't more people doing it?" I love Petez's response: MISCONCEPTIONS.  We all have made assumptions about various industries.  For example "Lawyers are all rats" or "Those who can't - teach".  I know many very very nice lawyers who are not rats at all!  Heck if my lawyer was a rat, I wouldn't work with him. And this quote about teachers, ugh it's so sad!  Teachers are golden!!  Have you thought about what it's like to actually teach someone how to learn!?  Teaching a skill is one thing, but early education teachers teach children how to learn skills.  My friend (a kindergarten teacher) pointed that out to me and I gained a world of respect for her industry.  So please don't misconceive the network marketing industry.  We are not a bunch of creepy sales guys who are 'recruiting' you for a pyramid scheme.  We are people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.  We are very passionate about our companies.  Just like we'd refer a lawyer or a school to a friend, we're referring our company and our lifestyle.  Hoping that you'll be living the lifestyle we're providing for ourselves. 

Financially flexible, physically fit and mental healthy. 

Living life to the fullest every day! 

E-mail me here to jump on board!

Here are the questions from Petez's article:

Q: Can Network Marketing be done successfully part time?
Q: Do I have to sell products door-to-door or hold partied or meetings?
Q: Isn't Network Marketing one of those pyramid schemes?
Q: I'm not a salesperson, so this probably isn't for me.  Right?
Q: How much money can I make?
Q: Do I have to sponsor a lot of people to be successful?
Q: What's so important about sponsoring in this business anyway?
Q: Do I have to stock and deliver products?
Q: Isn't Network Marketing just another "get-rich-quick" scheme?
Q: I couldn't get involved in Network Marketing.  It's not a "real" business.
Q: If Network Marketing is so great, why aren't more people involved?
Q: What are the costs involved in starting and operating this kind of business?
Q: What if I can't afford to buy extra products?
Q: I've tried Network Marketing before and it didn't work for me.
Q: I don't have the cash right now to get involved in Network Marketing.
Q: I can see how others have become successful, but I don't think I could do it.
Q: If I would happen to be sponsored by someone half way across the country, how do I get questions answered?  And what about training?
Q: I just don't have the time to start a Network Marketing business.  I've got too many iron in the fire already. 
Q: Don't you have to get in at the beginning to make any real money?  Doesn't saturation eventually occur?


If you want the answers to the questions above visit Petez site here: http://www.petezdanis.com/doc/20_Questions.pdf


If you want to start your Netowkr Marketing career contact me today!!

www.livinglifetothefullest.usana.com

It's not a Need it's a Network

I'd like to point out that I am still very good friends with many of my ex-boyfriends.  I choose to do this for the following reasons:
     a) they are someone you let into a private part of your life....You wouldn't want someone to share that private side of you out of spite
     b) they are very talented and good men who I am honored to know personally
and
     c) you never know when you might need something. 
One is a chef, one is a clothing designer, another is in politics, one in real estate, another does alot with the church and yea, there are some who are just there - but I'm sure they'll do something GREAT in the future.  You never know....

For example, the other day I went out to dinner to my ex's restaurant.  He said business was slow, so I invited a girlfriend and we went out to eat there.  It was nice to see him, he gave us an appetizer sample along with a dessert sampler, and the food was delicious! 

A few weeks later I bought a chicken for $4.00.  I could have bought 2 chicken breasts for $7.00 but an entire chicken (which comes with 2 breasts, right?) for $4.00?!  My mother didn't raise an idiot.  I understand you are paying for the convenience of the 2 breast being cut, skinned and packaged but I don't have a deadline for dinner time.  I can sacrifice a few more minutes in the kitchen for the $3.00 I saved. 

Photo courtesy of: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1024418

So I bring home my whole chicken and I realize - I have an entire chicken in my refrigerator!! And I have no idea how to go about cooking it.  I should obviously use some type of fat (oil, butter) and some seasoning, probably some herbs because I like herbs.  But at what oven temperature?  For how long?  Do I cover it or leave it open for the heat to seep in?  Come in ex-boyfriend who is a chef!  "Hey, how's is going.  Thanks for everything you did at dinner the other day.  It was a great seeing you.  I'd like to repay the favor by inviting you over for dinner on one condition 1) you teach me how to cook a whole chicken and what to do with all the extra pieces to make it last."

You may be happy to hear I successfully cooked a chicken and enjoyed a thigh and a leg with a healthy sweet potato.  I will be having chicken stir-fry tonight with the breast meat and some rice and veggies.  I also created a broth from the roasting product including the bones, so I'll enjoy chicken soup sometime this week and probably save some for a later date when comfort food is needed.  My friend also wins on this because now I can/will rave about his restaurant and the fact that he can do private cooking lessons.

Moral of the story: you never know when you might need to reference your past.  And when you do, don't think of it as a need, think of it as a networking opportunity. 

Living Life to the Fullest - with my network of friends!!

-Rachel

All these foreigners

2.24.10
Let me preface this by saying: I understand why some people think Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are a joke and a waste of time. They are looking at the people who sit in front of a computer all day and tweet things like "I just saw a bird that looks like a dinosaur" or "I'm hungry" or "I hate my job". However there is a HUGE world on the other side of twitter full of people who network the HELL out of these social media tools. They not only tweet, they are in relationships other tweeps supporting their businesses, supporting their blogs, their lifestyles, etc.


Last night I attended a San Antonio tweet up. There is a conference going on next week in Austin and this was a pre-party for San Antonions going to the conference. I know that the internet connects people internationally. I didn't realize that these international relationships existed in a physical sense as well. I'm standing in this room with my fellow San Antonio tweeps and I the more I get to know people the more I learn they are NOT from San Antonio. 2 people from Los Angeles, 1 from Mexico, 1 from Colorado, 1 from Nebraska, 1 from Minnesota...I'm thinking am I the only true San Antonian at this tweet up - oh wait, I'm from Dallas!

I was proud of myself for taking advantage of twitter and making the physical effort of showing up at these events. If I didn't attend, I would be stuck in my St. Mary's University, San Antonio bubble (no offence to StMU, but that bubble is pretty boring to me- esp. compared to these characters I'm meeting).

I'm looking forward to Austin this Saturday for a "San Antonio tweet up" for San Antonians attending SBSW - let's see how many foreigners I meet this time!

Social Media Guru Colleen Pence's Photos from last night

Correction: SBSW San Antonian "tweet up" is March 13th - same day as Luminaria...deciding between the two will be tough!