Amazing People All Walks of Life Meetup Group

I'm happy to announce the new meetup group the Amazing People in Wheeling, Illinois. Please watch the video below and meet up with me. See the video invitation below.

Meetup Group: Amazing People All Walks of Life
Link: Amazing People All Walks of Life
I will meet you soon!

Prenatal Nutrition Tips for Your Future Family

Ladies, everyone knows nutrition is important (even if we don’t always make the healthiest decisions
— never happens, right?). But when you become pregnant, everything changes. Suddenly, your choices don’t just affect your own health — they affect the health of your future family. It can seem like a lot of pressure, but there’s a simple solution.

USANA has developed the BabyCare Prenatal Essentials™* specifically for women who are pregnant, looking to become pregnant, or nursing. The combination of BabyCare Prenatal Mega Antioxidant and BabyCare Prenatal Chelated Mineral provides the right levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants to fill in many of the gaps in your daily nutrition. When taken along with BiOmega™, Vitamin D, and Active Calcium™ Chewable, you can feel confident you are getting the best possible nutrition to support the health of you and your developing baby.

To further explain the benefits of superior prenatal supplements and the importance of nutrition for pregnant mothers in general, we are proud to introduce obstetrician, gynecologist, and USANA Associate Michelle Harden, MD. She has a great deal to teach us about the right decisions to make when it comes to prenatal nutrition.
Dr. Michelle Harden

Dr. Michelle Harden

What’s Up, USANA: Why is it so important for women who are pregnant or looking to become pregnant to take nutrition seriously?
Dr. Michelle Harden: It is important to realize that food is medicine. In today’s society, much of what the average woman consumes is not necessarily food, but “food-like.” Fast food and unhealthy convenience foods have contributed to weight and health problems for millions.

Lifestyle changes are the key to lowering your risk of health concerns. Eating whole foods that provide nutrients to fuel our bodies will not only help us stay healthy but will provide an optimal environment for a mother’s fetus.

We now know about the importance of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of heritable alterations in gene expressions that act independently of changes in DNA sequences. This means that in addition to inheriting genes from our parents, we can inherit their epigenetic “switches” that turn our genes on and off. Epigenetics dictates how our genes are actually utilized.

The nutrition consumed by mothers will likely play a role in the future health of the fetus. The biological response that can be produced by poor nutrition may actually influence the genes of the fetus. So the maternal diet can modulate gene expression in the offspring.

In the end, we may not be only what we eat, but what our grandmothers ate. So, understanding good nutrition is not only vital to mom’s health, but also to the health of her baby.

WUU: Why is it important to continue taking supplements while breastfeeding?
Dr. Harden: From a health perspective, breast milk is the most nutritious food you can give an infant. Consuming a healthy diet, eliminating as many preservatives and additives as possible, and choosing nutritional supplements rich in omega-3s and vitamin D can all support brain development and a baby’s immune system.

WUU: Why do you recommend USANA supplements to expecting mothers? Why are you excited
about the new product, BabyCare Prenatal Essentials?
Dr. Harden: USANA products contain bioavailable, high-quality nutrients and are made without unnecessary fillers, dyes, or artificial preservatives. Their products have been developed under the guidance of a scientific team that understands the importance of quality and promotes health.

I highly recommend USANA supplements to my patients and have consistently seen their positive influence within our patient population. I wouldn’t be comfortable recommending any other brand. Now that I have access to the highest quality prenatal supplement available, I will no longer have concerns over my recommendation of a prenatal. How exciting is that?!
BabyCare Prenatal Essentials, Active Calcium Chewable, BiOmega, Vitamin D

BabyCare Prenatal Essentials, Active Calcium Chewable, BiOmega, Vitamin D

WUU: Why is it important for women to receive enough iron, calcium, vitamin D, and omega-3s?
Dr. Harden: Calcium is important not only for bone development but also for smooth muscle function and circulation. During pregnancy a women’s blood volume increases significantly, so iron, as well as calcium, is a very important nutrient for a pregnant woman. Omega-3 essential fatty acids promote fetal brain development and can benefit a woman’s immune system. Vitamin D is important in pregnancy, because insufficiency is common.

So obtaining these nutrients from a healthy diet and a good prenatal supplement can enhance the fetal environment and overall health of the mother.

WUU: What are some common misconceptions about nutrition before, during, or after pregnancy?
Dr. Harden: Currently there is not enough awareness of what we are putting into our bodies. Popular advertisements seem to put the wrong messages into our mind about what is healthy. A common misconception is that a vitamin is just a vitamin — this is absolutely not true. What we need is more education on what we are feeding our bodies. That is why I love USANA. Before recommending USANA vitamins to my patients, I toured the manufacturing facilities, met with the scientists, and talked with Dave Wentz, the CEO of the company. I could not be more confident of the exceptional quality of supplements I am recommending to the mothers of our future generations.



Written by Emily Alaniz in Outside Experts
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Post Convention Highlight of our Company and My Team is in it!

About a month ago me and my team went to Salt Lake City, Utah to attend the international convention of our company being held annually. The experience is always exciting and invigorating seeing different people from all parts of the world doing the business. One of the thing that you will learn in attending the event is that you have to maximize your time, take note and write down all you could get from leaders around the world because this only happens in a year. Of course as a leader myself, I have to engage and talk to people and learn all the things that I can. After the convention, the trainings and seminars, I couldn't be prouder of myself as I was included in our company's post Convention Highlights! You can see me in the video below at 3:39 as we are preparing for the 5k Run for our Company's True Health Foundation, a foundation which help to provide the most critical human necessities to those who are suffering or in need.

Lessons learned, there were definitely tons of takeaways from this annual leadership convention but some of the thing that stick to me is that conventions like this is where you really will get most of the learnings, experiences that will be share by great leaders especially when they are just starting the business and the attitude that you need in building your business and the passion that you will need to keep moving forward.

Be. Do. Have.
This are only three words but it makes the difference.
"Be" the person that you want to be, learn how things should be done and how successful people do it and eventually you will master it.
"Do" the habit of a successful leader, you might not be comfortable at first but once you learn how to do it, it will be easy and you will be amaze at yourself. You won't believe that you were able to do it, things that scare you at first but once you're through it, you will love the journey and you will be prouder of yourself. And the last
"Have", have the things that you are working for, goals that you put in your dreamboard, received the things that you work hard for and share it with your loved ones. This three words are very important, who would have thought that I would be learning from great people like Tony Robbins? Dr Myron Wentz? or even running side by side with Dr Oz to raise money to help people? Believe in yourself and keep moving forward and you will get what you are yearning for.

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New Customer and Partner in Wheeling Illinois (Veronica)

One of the good things I like about my business is talking to different people and I'm so thankful that I get to know more people and the stories of their life. This is Veronica, my new friend from Wheeling, IL. I presented her my USANA business and she liked it. She's going to be sending more people to me.

Getting out there is the key and looking for people who wants something different in their life, something of value that can help them. Building a business is not easy but it has a long term return compared to other source of income. Meet Veronica and we'll be seeing more of her in the future.

The Cycle of Success - Great Take Aways from the Convention

As promise, here are some of the takeaways from the convention that I want to share with you.

The Cycle of Success
"Everyone wants success but nobody wants to do the hard work". Have you ever heard of this?
I want to become an artist, I want to get a promotion, I want to provide more to my family. I want to become fit and slim. I want to be successful in my business, I want to be successful with my relationship. I want to be successful with everything. A lot of people wants to be successful but nobody wants to do the hard work and some people wants to do the "shortcut" not enjoying the process of self development! If we want to be successful then we need to start changing ourselves first. As discuss and shared, there are 4 cycle of success that we need to develop within ourselves and set our minds into.

The Success Cycle

 
Potential - The potential, we all have the potential within ourselves and the belief that we can do something. Some potential are left untapped and is not being used hence we are not reaffirmed that we have the potential to do something good, to do something great.... We all know that we have potential but if we don't do anything about our potential, if we don't sharpen our saw and try to use them, we won't really know how and to what extent our potential could be which then get us to the next cycle.
   
Action - The Action, makes use of our potential and makes you do what you needed to do. Here, you will see what potential you really have and reaaffirms what your capable of. Well a lot of people will say that they did do made some action but the question is.. How much action did you really give it? Did you give your best or did you just try it for the sake of saying that you did something? Remember, if you have a big dream and you really want it, you will do everything to achieve it regardless if you've been rejected a thousand times, regardless if you've been surrounded by negative people, regardless if you're going to stand alone with your dreams and what you want to achieve. You will have to be strong against all odds. You will have to do everything in your power to achieve what you want. There is a famous saying from Zig Ziglar Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything, better than negative thinking will. You will have to apply this, you will have to push it until you reach the desire results that you want to achieve. Against all odds you will arrived to the next cycle.

Results - The results, varies depending on the action that you've performed. Do not expect that you will achieve what you want if you only invest a little on your dreams and what you want. You have to consistently train yourself, discipline yourself. Seek mentors and people with the same dream as yours and always reaffirm what you want in life. In the potential and action cycle you will know what you need to do in order for you to achieve your desire results and you always have to fuel your passion and always keep on going because in the end, the result is what really matters. Result is the accomplishment of all the hardship you've done with your goals and dream and it gives us rewards and accomplishment, the sense of satisfaction and victory. The sense of happiness, and what better joy it is to win and do whatever it takes to achieve your goal, this gives us a story that also motivates other people and dreamers like us. :)

Belief/Certainty- Last and not the least, belief and certainty. Part of the success cycle is believing yourself and having certainty about what you want to achieve in life. This is your dream, this is your goal and aspiration. Nobody but you can make it happen so you better believe and be certain that it is doable, it is attainable and you need to have a strong conviction of your dreams. You will have to protect your dream against negative minds and about all the people who's watching you. Remember, all that really matters are the people who believes in you and what you are doing. You are doing this for yourself and those that really matters. You will be amazed of what you can do if your singleminded and you don't second guess what you believe, you'll be astounded of what you're capable of. Believing and being certain will make you reach the success you want to accomplished and achieve!

Here's a video from the convention that I recorded during Thursday general session, it is just partial but listening to role model and people with achievement and whom you want to be a role model will give you big impact in life.

I'm still very ignited with the learning's I have and hope you picked up some great information from this article. Have a blast and be ignited!  - Mark

USANA International Convention - We are Ignited!

Ignited! We are ignited with this years theme "Ignited!". Wohooooo! One of the great takeaway that I got from attending the International Convention are meeting role model people that have made a tremendous impact to the people around them. You could say that building your own business is hard especially if your alone but with a team, the labor is divided and the fun is multiplied. Here are some of the awesome people I met(friends,mentors,business partners) at the Usana International Convention 2014 at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr Mehmet Oz - Partners with Usana in promoting Good Health.

Mentor Rich Tan at Hall of Fame

10 Star Diamond Director Jeremy Stansfeld and Singapore Diamond Director Precious Sia

Millon Dollar Club and XTRM Leaders Billy and Josephine dela Fuente.

Coach Jophet and the XTRM USA, Singapore and Philippines Team.

US Leaders at the Awards Night.

Me Listening to Tonny Robbins talk!

5k Run for True Health Foundation

Diamond Leaders from California.

XTRM Team at the closing ceremony.

The 4 day business trip and training was full of learning and was fun! A lot of great takeaways too, I'll be posting more stuffs about the takeaways from the International Convention. More valuable learnings to share, stay tuned!

More than a Vitamin.

Checkout this cool video fresh from Usana International Convention at Salt Lake City, Utah!