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I have had many people ask me how I have stayed on my elimination diet for so long and not feel deprived.  All I can say is that “substitutions are the key to success”.  I still eat the foods that I love but I change things around so that they fit into my nutritional plan.  I still get to eat lasagna but use cabbage instead of pasta.  Mashed cauliflower makes a great substitute for mashed irish potatoes.  Protein shakes made in the blender with ice and fruit replaces milkshakes and icecream.  I make delicious chocolate protein bars with Arbonne protein powder instead of making brownies.  I no longer buy ready made salad dressings I came up with my own dressing that is fantastic.  Again the key is substituting unhealthy ingredients with healthy ones.

If we apply this same principle to other areas of our life we can find success in those areas as well.  If we remove unproductive habits and replace them with habits that move us closer to our goals we will be on track to our dreams.  Small substitutions make huge changes over time.

If your goal is to get more exercise then instead of parking as close as possible in parking lots park further out and walk a few steps more every time.  When you normally would climb on an elevator to go up one or two floors take the steps.  Instead of pulling up to the mailbox when you get home go ahead park in your normal spot and walk back to pick up your mail.

If you want to spend more quality time with your kids involve them in the activities you have to perform every day.  What can they do in the kitchen while you are cooking meals?  Could they butter the toast or biscuits for breakfast?  Could they stir up the muffin or pancake batter? What if you made a game out of sorting or folding the laundry? Do you have a green thumb and like fooling with plants?  What if the kids had their own houseplants or spots in the garden?  Not only would you be spending more time with your children you would be teaching them good work ethics that will last a lifetime.

Now let us also apply this same principle to building a home based business.  So many people are looking for a financial plan B.  They need extra income to support the life of their dreams so they want to start a business to build while they continue to work their current job.  Time looks to be a real hurdle that must be overcome so they have find time in the already busy schedule.  How much time could be carved out and applied to their business if just a few habits are substituted?  Could you use your coffee breaks at work make calls instead of chatting with co-workers?  What about lunch breaks? Could they be used for short business meetings over a bite at the local coffee shop?  How many of us sit down in the evening and watch an hour or two of television?  What if part of that time was used productively building the business?  Why can’t contacts be made at the kids sporting events or while standing in line at the grocery?  Changing one small habit for another again is key.

Remember the age old question.  How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.  How do your change a lifestyle?  One small habit at a time.

Good luck and God bless!!!!

I was diagnosised with Rheumatoid Arthritis about 6 years ago.  I did not want to go on the terrible medications that are used to treat RA but my doctor told me that I had explosive RA and if I did not get it under control I would be in a wheelchair within a year.  I felt so trapped!!!!  There were still so many things I wanted to do that couldn’t be done from a wheelchair.  I wanted to be able to play in the floor with my future grandchildren.  I wanted to continue to enjoy horseback riding and camping.  I believed there had to be better option than either a wheelchair or the risk of liver disease or cancer but I didn’t know one and my doctor didn’t either so I caved in and started on the medications.  I started out on methotrexate and prednisone but the methotrexate didn’t work and the levels of prednisone I had to take to relieve the pain was so high I could only take it for short periods of time.  It only took a few months before I decided to try weekly Enbrel injections.  It worked better than the methotrexate but still left me with alot of breakthrough pain.  There were days when I got out of bed I had to use a walker to get to the bathroom and get ready for work and times when I would come home from work wondering if I could make it up the flight of stairs to get into our home.  It got to where I couldn’t go down to the barn and work with the horses and only rode a couple of times a year.  When we went camping I would have to take the maximum dose of prednisone to be able to climb in and out of the camper.

I didn’t want to be a slave to the RA or the medicine and still believed their had to be a better way.  I would surf the internet looking for alternatives but every site had a different opinion like; bee sting therapy,  giving up red meat, taking weird herbs, etc.  I finally became somewhat accustomed to taking the meds and living with the risks.   Still deep inside of me I knew there had to be a better way, if only it would find me because I sure wasn’t having any luck finding it.

I was so excited when my oldest daughter had our first grandbaby.  He was the light of my life.  I held him, I cuddled him, I made a fool out of myself with him but I still couldn’t play in the floor with him.  I couldn’t walk down to the pond with him.  I couldn’t play catch or kickball with him.  I was heartbroken and I felt cheated.  I had done what the doctors said and I still couldn’t do the things I dreamed of doing and there were still times when the pain was so bad I had to use a walker or cane and go to physical therapy so that I could stay mobile.

Then in the Spring last year I decided once again to tackle my issues with weight.  I started a regimen of drinking protein shakes for breakfast and supper and eating a regular lunch.  This seemed to be working well for losing weight and even helped a little with my mobility.  I continued that through the Summer and Fall.  Then I heard about a plan that took it farther than just doing the protein shakes.  The shakes were being used in conjunction with a 30 day elimination diet and other supplements.  I got the information but after reading it I thought it was too restrictive and that I could never stick with it.  In January of this year I went to a meeting where several of the people had tried the complete program and were talking about the additional health benefits they had reaped with it.  I was particularly interested in a couple of people who also had auto-immune disorders that seemed to be going into remission.  One lady who had not yet started the full program spoke up and said “I am going to give this a try.  I can do almost anything for 30 days.”  So I came home and that statement laid heavy on my heart for a couple of weeks.

On February 8th of this year I started on the full program still thinking it was going to be an awful 30 days.  Within the first two weeks I realized that the hardest part was actually doing the grocery shopping.  I had to read every label of every thing I bought, that is if it had a label.  I had to go to several stores in order to get all the organic food I needed, but I finally learned how to complete my shopping without spending hours reading labels (don’t buy much with labels – eat real food.)   By the end of the 30 days I was feeling so much better my Rheumotologist started me on a plan to wean me off the Enbrel.  So I decided to do another 30 days and see what happened.

I am now almost at the end of 90 days on the program and I continue to progress.  I am not saying I am pain free but my pain is significantly reduced.  I have only had bad pain 4 days on the program and that was 2 days when I ate things that were highly inflammatory and 2 days when I was under extreme stress.  In the last 3 weeks I have been able to go down to the barn a couple of days a week and work with a girl who is training a pony we bought for our grandson.  Today I rode my horse for a while and when I got down my husband applauded my dismount.  He said he is convinced that it won’t be long until I will no longer have to use a stool to get mounted.

That's gonna be me someday soon

I have a dream board of places I want to see and things I want to do and one of those dreams is to take hunter/jumper riding lessons.  I can now see that as a reality some day and not just a dream.

I don’t know if what I am doing would work for you but no matter what keep on looking for and believing in a better way.  Rheumatoid Arthritis doesn’t have to win.  Take your life back!!!!

How do we handle rejection?

REJECTION – that is a word that hurts just looking at it.  Why does it hurt to just look at that word?  Could it be because as humans we all have been on the receiving end of rejection and it brings to mind all those painful feelings.  I don’t know about you but it sure does me. 

My bible study delved into this very sensitive subject recently and shed some wonderful light on different areas of my life. It spoke to me personally and professionally.  One thing we all know is that rejection in any area can be taken very personally.  If we extend our heart to someone we love and it is not accepted, it hurts.  If we extend the hand of friendship and it is not accepted, it hurts.  If we extend ourselves professionally and it is not accepted, it hurts.    We internalize these hurts and it tends to color the way we deal with others in the future.

A person in a relationship gets rejected and the relationship ends one of two things usually happens:

1. We try and recover the relationship by doing things we would not normally do in order please that other person, ie; accepting behavior that is detrimental to us or acting in a manner that is in conflict with who we are or what we stand for. 
2. We reject the person who rejected us and sometimes end up cutting off our nose to spite our face by possibly being vengeful or ending up in a rebound situation.

In either case our life is negatively impacted and future relationships can be also.

From our perspective it is hard to see the rejection may not really have anything to do with a failing on our part but an issue the other person may be dealing with.   Now I am not a proponent of being a doormat but I do think we should give ourselves and others a little slack.  We might need to step back and get a little space and try and see what really happened and why.

Case in point…. I have a facebook page that I use to inform people  about health & wellness issues and as I am in that industry I also will occasionally (maybe 5%) post something about my business.  Yesterday I was going to other pages and posting a suggestion that they check out my page.  On one page I was accused by 4 separate people of just trying to sell them something, when they had not even bothered to look at my page.  At first it hurt my feelings and made me angry and I wanted to lash back at them. Then I wanted to justify myself and finally I realized that those people had problems in their lives that they were dealing with and had just fed off the first negative comment that had been posted.  I replied to their comments by apologizing for any offense I might have caused, letting them know that my intent was to provide information that could help their health and finally wishing them well on their life quest.  Do I wish that their response had been different, yes.  Does that mean I should quit trying to share helpful information with people, no.

Space, time, and persepective is what we need to use to deal with people who reject us.  Will we ever stop receiving rejection…no, but hopefully we will learn how to handle that rejection in an appropriate and emotionally healthy manner.

Last Fall we had a female black lab mix wander up to our farm and adopt us.  We really weren’t looking for a new addition to the family but we, being the softies that we are, started feeding her.  Not wanting to get attached I just called her Black Dog because I knew if I named her she would become part of the family.  Needless to say, she still became part of the family and now she answers to the weird name of Black Dog. 

As with most dogs new to our place she was having trouble learning to get along with the horses.  So one day a couple of weeks ago I was not too surprised when I heard her barking out in the field.  After about 10 minutes of continuous barking I thought I had better check and see what was going on.  When I went out on the deck and looked over in the pasture I saw all 5 horses standing in a circle with their heads in the middle and tails to the outside and Black Dog barking furiously at them.  I was a little baffled as this was not normal behavior for the horses.  I called and called for the dog but she wouldn’t come.  Finally she ran to the front pasture to relieve her bladder.  While she was gone the horses started to meander off but when she returned they ran back to the same spot and got back in the circle, noses in and tails out and she started barking again.  By this time I was reeeeeeally curious, so I put on my shoes and headed down to where they were gathered.  When I got there I was absolutely amazed.  Inside their circle was one of the black dog’s puppies.  Apparently the horses were trying to protect the puppy from the viciously barking dog and the vicously barking dog was trying to get to her puppy to protect it from the horses. 

Circling The Wagons

Looking back at this episode it reminds me of what we as humans sometimes do.  We circle the wagons around someone that we think is in danger when the thing we are trying to protect them from is actually sent for their good.  We see danger in growth or change and try to save our loved ones from something thing that might be a wonderful opportunity for them.  I run across this frequently in my business, when a person is shown the potential of starting their own network marketing business.  They are so excited about the opportunity and start telling their friends and family about it, only to be met with resistence and negativity. 

Is network marketing for everyone? No.  Can almost everyone make some extra money to supplement their income?  Yes!  If a person does due diligence about the company and the products it truly is a win/win proposition.  A good network marketing company will have a very minimal sign up fee that can be earned back in sales commissions during the first month.  A person who is willing to be committed to personal growth, working hard, stepping outside their comfort zone, and being coachable can get a sizeable return on their investment.

The Network Marketing Industry of today is very different from the network marketing of the 70′s & 80′s.  It is an industry that is regulated by the federal government to protect investors.  It is the “Wave of the Future” and supported by many internationally respected financial advisors.

So next time a friend or family member takes a look at network marketing, instead of circling the wagons, make sure they have done their due diligence and join the train by supporting them in a venture that could change their life for the better.

"Stress"

The other day I realized I need to be constantly vigilant for things that could throw my physical fitness journey off track.  I had been lulled into a false sense of security due to the fact that I was doing so well in controlling the inflammation and pain associated with my rheumatoid arthritis.  (See my blog 30 Days To Reclaiming Your Health).  To see the big picture I must go back a few days, so bare with me.

 A couple of weeks ago it was getting warm enough to turn on the air-conditioning in the house, which I really wasn’t quite ready for anyway.   After finally coming to the conclusion it was either a/c or moderate discomfort from the heat I gave in and turned it on.  After a couple of hours I noticed it was still not cool in the house and the unit was running constantly.  I didn’t want to burn the unit up so I turned it off hoping that maybe it just needed a good cleaning around the unit outside (that had happened before).  When my husband came home from work I asked him to take a look.  He found a couple of vines growing up the casing and cut them down and then scrubbed the vents really well.  We turned the unit on convinced that he had done the trick.  After a couple of hours we noticed it was still not cooling but running constantly, so I again turned the unit off.  The next day I called the repairman, still hoping it might be something simple.  He was there in a couple of hours and started work.  After about 30 minutes he came to the door and said the cooling unit was shot and would need to be repaired.  He said he would call back with a price and then if I wanted he would order the parts which would take a day or two to come in, figuring  it would cost maybe $500 to $800.  When I got the call the next day my jaw hit the floor.  It was going to be $1400 to fix or $1650 to replace the whole unit.  They suggested replacement as the unit was already 15 years old.  I swallowed my tongue and said ok replace the unit.    I was a little concerned about laying out that much money at the time but didn’t see any help for it as I was getting very tired of sweltering not only all day but at night too.

Okay, now let’s fast forward to the next week.  It is 5 am in the morning and I am snoozing away peacefully and coolly I might add, when my husband comes back to the bedroom door and says “Kathy, you might want to get up we need to talk about something.”  Needless to say I knew something was bad wrong.  I just wanted to throw the covers back over my head and pretend I didn’t hear him, maybe it would just go away.  Then  he proceeded to tell me that the transmission in his truck was not engaging.  He offered to stay home from work and see to the details of getting it towed to the shop.  I assured him that I could take care of that for him and he could just take my truck and go on to work as I didn’t have anything scheduled for the day.  At this point I had no illisions of it being a cheap and easy fix.  So I called the transmission repair shop and asked them to come and get it, which by the way, they were happy to do.  When they called back later in the day they said the transmission would have to be rebuilt or replaced.  I chose rebuilding as we had had success with that in previous vehicles. The cost was going to be about $1300 plus towing & tax.  Now I was really starting to sweat, even with the brand new a/c unit. Not only were we going to have to cover another big hit on our budget I was going to be stuck at home without a vehicle.  This meant I was going to have to reschedule any appointments that I had for the week.  So I studied and I stewed for most of the day.

That evening I noticed  I was getting very stiff and experiencing moderate to severe joint pain.  At first, this was very confusing as I had done so well.  I had been very careful about my carbohydrate intake since I had the episode I blogged about in “A Lesson Learned”.  So I started reviewing my day (inflammation and pain follow quickly on the heals of a causal action).  As I looked back on my day I realized that my food intake for the day was fine, the only thing that stood out was the episode with the transmission.  The “Aha Moment” followed soon after.  I had known that stress was a contributor to inflammation but what I hadn’t realized was that acute stress could have such an impact and so quickly. 

So now I am on to another leg of my journey, learning how to combat stress.  I guess I could look at yoga, palates, or meditation; but I know the place I need to spend more time is on my knees and in God’s Word.

From my ramblings I hope that you find encourgement and strength to help you on your life journeys.  God Bless You!

How many of you remember the old Grapenuts cereal commercial with Euell Gibbons?  I laughed over that commercial many times thinking that Euell was nuts.  I used to call him the “Bark Eater”.  I thought the way I was eating was just fine and all that healthy stuff was for the birds.  Well “Ole Euell” is having the last laugh on me.  I realize now that there is truth in the saying “you are what you eat” and I have become an unhealthy mess from eating the typical American diet.

I cannot fully express in words what the 30 Days to Reclaiming Your Health program has done for me.  I started this wellness program on February 8th, 2012 and have had fantastic results.  I have had high blood pressure since 1996 and it is now back to normal.  My chronic fatigue is gone.  I am losing weight again (that has been a life long battle for me). Probably the biggest improvement is my Rhuematologist has started me on a plan to wean me off of weekly Enbrel injections which I have been taking for 5 years.  I feel better, I can move better, and for the first time in my adult life I know I can reach my goal weight ( I am almost half way there).  I am so impressed with the improvement in my life I have started the 30 days all over again. 

Can I promise that you will have the same results? No, but I believe from the bottom of my heart that if you stick with the plan for at least 30 days you will be on your way to reclaiming your health.  If I didn’t believe that I could in no way present it to others.

 30 Days To Reclaiming Your Health is a program that teaches people the importance of eating clean, eliminating allergenic & addictive foods, balancing your blood sugar, and detoxifying your body.  It is all about getting healthy not just losing weight.  The great thing is as you start getting healthy you will lose weight if you need to but if you don’t need to lose weight you won’t. The program uses Arbonne products to support you on your journey to reclaiming your health.

The vidoes below are of Dr. Barbara Beaty,  She has her doctorate in Nutrition and is the creator of the 30 Days To Reclaiming Your Health program.  She will explain the products and the plan much better than I can.  If after watching the videos you have any questions or want further information you can go to the Contact Me page of this site and I will be happy to respond to you as quickly as I can.

 I am also posting the required disclaimer.

This field training material has been produced by Barbara Beaty PhD, an Arbonne Independent Consultant, and is not official material prepared by Arbonne.  Arbonne and the Independent Consultant presenting this material make no promises or guarantees that any consultant will be finacially successful as each consultant’s results are dependent on his or her own skill and effort.

The information contained in this presentation is presented soley for informational purposes so that you may learn more about the subject.

Nothing contained in the presentation is intended to constitute, nor should it be considered medical advice or to serve as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare provider.  Always consult your doctor before beginning any diet or weightloss program.

The information provided in this presentation should not be considered complete, nor should it be relied on to suggest a course of treatment for a particular individual.  It should not be used in place of a visit to, consultation with or the advice of a physician or qualified healthcare provider.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  Arbonne products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

My mother was always telling me that curiosity killed the cat because I have an insatiable curiosity.  I felt the National Inquirer said it best “Inquiring Minds Want To Know”.  Obscure little facts always fascinated me so thinking there might be more folks out there like me I have put together a little list others might find interesting or amusing.  The first item was something I pondered on for years before finally asking a physician about it.

1. Why do we get brain freeze when eating ice cream too fast? The extremely cold ice cream going down our throat causes the blood vessels that run close to our esophogus to constrict and results in something similar to a mini migraine.
2. Hiccups are caused by a muscle spasm in our diaphram and can almost always be relieved by drinking 6oz of hot tap water.
3. It is almost impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  It is a defense mechanism that has evolved to protect our eyes from bacteria and debris.
4. A simple moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels extensively.  Studies have shown that it can take 4 to 15 months for them to return to their normal condition.
5. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.  The cartilage between our bones get compressed by our daily activities as the day goes on, making us just a little shorter at the end of the day than at the beginning.
6. People who are happy are less likely to catch colds and report fewer symptoms when they are under the weather.
7. On the average, each American consumes 117 lbs of potatoes, 116 lbs of beef, 100 lbs of fresh vegetables, 80 lbs of fresh fruit, and 286 eggs per year.
8. Refined sugar is the only food known that provides calories but no nutrition.  About 100 lbs of sugar are eaten per person per year in America, and only 36 percent of it is taken directly.  The rest is hidden in commercially sweetened and prepared foods like ketchup, canned fruits, cereals, and even baby food.  It is estimated that children consume 4-5 lbs of refined sugar per week.
9. After decades of research, scientists and doctors have come to the conclusion: up to 50% if all cancers may be linked to diet.  So what you eat and what you don’t eat can tilt the odds of escaping certain types of cancer in your favor.
10. There are more than 1,ooo chemicals in a cup of coffee.  Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half of them caused cancer in rats.

Hope you have enjoyed these little tidbits and watch for more!!!  Have a blessed day!

Ok, I admit it I am hard headed.  Now that I have gotten that out of the way I will say I never thought I was stupid but I proved that wrong yesterday.  Over the last 6 weeks with much  determined effort my diet was changed to control the inflammation in my joints caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis.  During this time I had come to realize that sugar and excess carbs were the true culprits.  And yet, yesterday I chose to eat several things that I knew were not good for me; bread, potatoes, rice, and sugar.  Before the day was over some inflammation had moved back in and by this morning it was running rampant.  The pain in my shoulder is immense. 

A beautiful culprit

 A hard lesson has been learned, when you find a culprit don’t ever forget that it is a culprit.  Don’t let it sway or you off your path no matter how beautiful, delicious, or tempting it may be.  As I write this paragraph I realize how many times I have been tempted off my spiritual or business path by things that seem beautiful, delicious, easier, faster, etc.  and wonder if many of the knocks in life have been the consequence.  Thinking back to some of the crossroads in life when I looked down separate roads and chose the one that looks easier or prettier when wisdom said that was not the road to take.

Is this a lesson that I have learned forever?  Will I never make the wrong choices again?  I doubt it, but at least it will keep my eyes open longer and cause me to listen better to my true self for a while.  I guess that is why they call it a journey.

For those of you who are beginning to realize that our food choices really can affect our health please check out my facebook page www.facebook.com/arbonnebykathy and my website www.kathybooker.myarbonne.com for things that can help you on your journey.

Well, I have spent the last 3 days dispelling the old adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  I have finally created a powerpoint presentation with attached audio.  I will admit that it took much longer than I anticipated and I did have to get some assitance from my daughter who has a Masters Degree in Instructional Technologies.  It also is not the most professional I have seen but I received a great deal of satisfaction just getting the job done.

So much of the time as we get older we almost give up on ourselves when it comes to attempting new things.  I am not sure if it is because we’re afraid we can’t wrap our minds around new concepts or we’ve been programmed to believe that failure is slways a bad thing or possibly we’ve just gotten tired and it’s easier to let someone else do it.  Whatever the reason, I don’t want to fall into that trap.  Life is much more exciting when I can’t see everything that is around the next corner.  Not that I am a huge risk taker but I do like to dance close to my edges on occasion.  I hope I never get to the place that I won’t try something new.  My life has always been a journey in learning new things, sometimes due to necessity and others for the  stimulation.

I think my next new thing will be to learn how to actually embed my presentation into a blog and not just the link.  I can already feel the frustation coming on, followed by deep pleasure of a hurdle overcome, or even possibly the pain of defeat.  Whatever the outcome I will take great satisfaction in the journey.

In case you are interested in watching “my new trick” just click on the link below.  It may take a couple of minutes for it to load.  Any feedback is appreciated.

30 Days to Reclaiming Your Health PowerPoint Show

 God Bless you all and never stop trying something new.

I thank the Lord for Beth Moore!!!!  Her teachings are such a blessing to my life.  As I was doing my Bible study homework this morning God’s word came through Beth to me on two issues vital to this season of my life.  The first is a truth that I have been concerned about for some time, the direction of our nation, and the second concerns a promised truth for my business.

I have always believed that the United States was a nation blessed by God because it was founded upon His principles.  In my adult life I have seen this nation pull further and further out from under His blanket of protection by letting those principle slip away one by one.  In hope, I kept going back to the verse in 2 Chronicles 7:14 – If my people, who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (paraphrased).  I thought and prayed for God to redeem the people of America and help us get back on spiritual track.  I thought that America’s redemption lay in the hands of the unsaved changing their ways and seeking God.  As the years passed and it seemed as if our nation had turned it’s back on God I began to lose hope.  The only future I could see for American was ruins.  This morning it was if the Holy Spirit turned a lightbulb on in my head.  The verse in Chronicles is not speaking to the unsaved, it is speaking to “God’s People”.  Our Nation is not dependent on the unsaved to turn from their evil ways it is dependent on God’s people to humble ourselves and pray and seek His face and turn from our evil ways.  The fate of America is not in the hands of the unsaved it is in our hands.  It is time for us to fall flat on our spiritual faces in humility for our sins and walk away from the pride that WE are somehow better than those whom God has not reached yet.  It is time for US to pray for each other and for our nation!  It is time for US to seek His face!  It is time for US to turn from OUR wicked ways!  So that He will hear US from heaven, forgive OUR sin and heal our land!  Thank you Lord!!!!!!!

At one time I was concerned about my tendency to see how much of God’s Word spoke to my Arbonne business.  I wondered if I was lessening or bending the lessons that God was trying to teach me by applying them to my business also.  One day after I had struggled for several days with this concept I was watching a Beth Moore video and she said words that just shouted out to me…”That which is spiritual is also practical.”  She said that we should always be applying what we learn in God’s Word not just to our spiritual lives but also in our physical lives.  So with peace in my heart on this subject I will continue to share how I see God’s Word as it applies to my Arbonne business.

I continually struggle with the thought that my business is not progressing fast enough and that the fruit of my labor is not just falling off the trees at my feet.  His Word spoke hope and patience over my business today.  Galatians 6: 9 & 10 says “Let us not lose heart in doing good for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.  So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.”   These verses speak volumes to this time in my business.  I must keep my belief high (that God has me here for a very specific reason) until due time (God’s perfect time) and if I do not weary (quit my activity) I will reap the benefits of my labor.  Arbonne is less about self and more about serving  and helping others.  I must be vigilant to look for opportunities to help other people (my network) and others walking their Arbonne Journey.

So friends, let us fall on our knees, turn from our self-centered ways, seek God’s face, and ask for the salvation of our nation.  For those of you who are on your own Arbonne Journey keep the faith, continuing working, and seek out those people who you can help become  all that they can be.  God Bless You All!