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NEW! Online Team Calendar!!

New Online Team Calendar!

This dynamic online tool will keep everyone updated with all team events, 1on1's, presentations, trainings and more! It will be updated by authorized Directors & above. Save this link and keep posted.

http://www.my.calendars.net/ipaintl

HOLIDAY SEASON CONTESTS [UPDATED! 12/05/09]

HOLIDAY SEASON CONTESTS

Starts after the November 21 Super Saturday, ends December 18

4 week running contest

Director New Year Kick-Off

If NOT YET a Director, HIT Director and you are automatically in!

For current Directors & Above you must

• - Either Make an accumulative $600 check + create 1 Builder-Platinum OR Higher Rank (1 builder- platinum/higher rank per 1 director only)

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- OR Rank Advance!

In addition to above qualification, Silver Directors must pay a nonrefundable $25 to claim their spot and show intent of attending event by Friday December 12^th. Directors and Bronze Directors must pay the same $25 fee by Friday January 1^st.

Disneyland Bonus

ANYBODY WHO HITS BUILDER-PLATINUM CAN GO!

· For those who are not yet Builders AND cannot go platinum anymore because their 6 weeks is up,

they have to go Builder AND do Platinum over again.

(ie. John is a Sharer that has been involved for 3 months, John was not able to go Platinum within his first 6 weeks, so John must hit Builder, and personally sponsor 4 new reps by Dec 18th)....

· If someone was only a Builder OR only a Platinum before Super Saturday, if they hit the other part (becoming full Builder-Platinums) they are qualified to go.

· get 50% of ticket paid for

Current Builders/Achievers must

1) Rank advance AND

2) Create 1 Builder-Platinum OR Higher Rank

· Builders will get 75% of ticket paid for & Achievers will get 100% of ticket paid for

Current Directors and above must

1) Qualify for New Year Kick-Off Event AND

2) Create 1 extra Builder-Platinum OR Higher Rank on top of what was done for the New Year Kick-Off event

· get 75% of ticket paid for

Anybody that HITS DIRECTOR OR HIGHER, ON TOP of getting their extra Builder-Platinum will GET 100% OF TICKET PAID FOR!

(ie. John is a Builder, he hits Achiever and gets 1 Builder-Platinum, John goes to Disneyland with 75% of ticket paid for. BUT, if he goes from Builder to Director and gets 1 Builder-Platinum, John goes to Disneyland with 100% of ticket paid for.)

(ie. Ashley is an Achiever, because she must rank advance to go to Disneyland, that means she must go Director or higher, as long as she gets her Builder-Platinum, Ashley goes to Disneyland with 100% of ticket paid for.)

(ie. Fred is a Director, he qualifies for the New Year Kick-Off Event by making $600 in 4 weeks, and gets 2 Builder-Platinums, Fred goes to Disneyland with 75% of ticket paid for. However, if Fred got promoted to Bronze or Silver Director AND got his 2 Builder-Platinums, he goes to Disneyland with 100% of ticket paid for.)

o 1 ticket per business center, so if co-apped, they either pay for the 2nd ticket OR double qualify for the event

Final qualification that applies to BOTH events…if you DO NOT attend Super Saturday, you are disqualified and CANNOT go to either event!

CALIFORNIA'S COLLAPSE...

Tracking California's Collapse

Glenn Beck wants to kick California out of the Union

California in Collapse July 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-I5hA5MQd0

Employers in the U.S. cut 467,000 jobs in June, the unemployment rate rose and hourly earnings stagnated, offering little evidence the Obama administrations stimulus package is shoring up the labor market.

The payroll decline was more than forecast and followed a 322,000 drop in May, according to Labor Department figures released today in Washington. The jobless rate jumped to 9.5 percent, the highest since August 1983, from 9.4 percent.

Unemployment is projected to keep rising for the rest of the year just as the income boost from the stimulus package fades, undermining prospects for a sustained rebound in household purchases, analysts said. As companies from General Motors Corp. to Kimberly-Clark Corp. cut costs, the lack of jobs will restrain growth.

California Budget Crisis - Millions will Leave this State

California in America Becoming Economic Wasteland

California as of March 2009 has 10% unemployment. Recently the dodgers had 500 jobs available. Guess what? Over 4,500 people showed up. When I was a kid I used to go to Dodger Stadium. Now look a the mess they are in.

How bad is it? I was raised in West Covina, California. My father had a very successful business there from 1955 to 1975. Today? It's a mess.

Our home was purchased in 1971 for 37,000 dollars. The house was on 1/3 acre of land, had a great swimming pool and house design.

By 2004 the house had increased in value to over 800,000 dollars. My Mom in poor health took a loan out against the property to purchase a home outright in Orange County to be closer to my sister. Between 2004 and 2007 the house dropped in value. My Mom has a 500,000 loan. About 6 months ago someone offered 525,000 dollars for the house but my Mom refused to sell it, she wanted 575,000 for it. Long story short. The qualified buyer purchased another home. My still has the loan against it.

America wake up.

Buy Storable Food,
Buy Water
Get some cash.
Purchase some gold.

One interesting note about West Covina. The town is actually part of the San Gabriel Valley, not the Inland Empire. The reason they claim that West Covina and Pomana are a part of it is wrong. It is very interesting to note that the economy in California (which is larger than India's), has tanked so bad that even West Covina is considered by of the Inland Empire.

Sad. Forget Democrats and Republications. Both parties are corrupt bought off and paid for by lobby groups. D now stand for Depression and R stand for Revolution. My hope and prayer is that people in California will stay grounded. Then again, if you research the statistics, it is far worse than being reported on the News.

Greta California Economic Collapse

California's Collapse: Whose problem is it?

With the California economy $24 billion in debt, the state has asked for federal aid. But should the government ride to the rescue?
http://www.newsy.com

Peter Schiff on California economy falling apart. People moving out of California.

Peter Schiff is asked about the California economy by a caller to his weekly radio show. Peter also comments on the expansion plans for Euro Pacific Capital.

California's economic disaster MASS EXODUS

Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- January 12, 2009 // CNN's Casey Wian looks at how California is slipping into the financial abyss.

Glenn Beck - The One Thing - On California

Glenn talks about the people of California rejecting the tax hikes requested by Arnold Schwartzenegger

Glenn Beck California gov starving citizens

Food is going to cost more now that CA. cut off 90% of water to farmers so the gov is starving farmers now.

Glenn Beck Part 2 - Starve The Farmer Starve The People

Eat Like a Brazilian to Slim Down

By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. - Posted on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 10:32 pm PST

I was in Brazil last August, my second visit there, and while on that trip remembered something that had puzzled me when I had lived in Curitiba for a year in 1994: Why, despite my eating 3 hearty Brazilian meals every day, did I weigh less during that year than at any time before or after--with no effort on my part?

This time around, as a dietitian, I of course took note of the Brazilian lifestyle and attitudes toward eating and found some common threads running through the culinary culture that answered my question. To make a long story short, Brazilians avoid packaged foods, indulge in little or no snacking between meals (other than some fresh fruit and coffee, sans cream), and fill up on salads before meals.

Pradaria Watercrest

The salads are wonderful, including one of my favorites: hearts of palm with tomatoes and watercress. Unlike most salad lovers, the Brazilians forgo high-calorie salad dressings, which saves them huge numbers of calories. You might see a Brazilian add a small amount of olive oil and vinegar to a salad, but the vegetables are definitely the star of the show.

Prato Freito

Filling up on veggies also helps the Brazilians cut back on their portions of higher-calorie entrees, such as red meat, a food that is certainly popular there. (If you eat red meat, I highly recommend the Brazilian-style barbecue. They make delicious BBQ cheeses too!)

Another thing that struck me about meals in Brazil was the abundance of freshly squeezed juices using fruits that you don't often expect to be drinking, like watermelon and pineapple (with a dash of mint). And because these juices don't come from super-concentrates, the purity of the taste, minus the sugar or anything artificial, is deeply satisfying.

My take-aways for U.S. eaters, after casting my dietician's eye on Brazil's eating habits:

• Be sure to include a hearty salad before your entrée, perhaps including such veggies as hearts of palm, fresh tomatoes, watercress, and maybe cilantro or basil. Add balsamic vinegar and a little splash of extra-virgin olive oil--or omit the oil altogether if you'd like to save calories.
• Consider fresh fruits in season for light snacks and desserts.
• If you drink a lot of sugary soda or tend to consume other liquid calories because you never learned to appreciate the taste of plain, old water, consider flavoring fizzy water with just a bit of freshly squeezed orange or pineapple juice (again, with mint). When flavored, carbonated water is refreshing and may even help stave off hunger, since many people mistake being thirsty with being hungry.

Whether you're in South America or North America, however, always try to eat slowly. Chewing your food well not only helps your digestion but will also increase feelings of satiety since your brain doesn't notice that the stomach is full until after you've been munching for about 20 minutes.

In Brazil, dear readers, the people say "Saude," which means "to your health."

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/weightloss/8351/eat-like-a-brazilian-to-slim-down/

Seven tips if you're chronically late

• by Gretchen Rubin, on Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:43am PST

Feeling as though you’re always running twenty minutes behind schedule is an unhappy feeling. Having to rush, forgetting things in your haste, dealing with annoyed people when you arrive…it’s no fun.

If you find yourself chronically late, what steps can you take to be more prompt? That depends on why you’re late. As my Eighth Commandment holds, the first step is to Identify the problem – then you can see more easily what you need to change.

There are many reasons you might be late, but some are particularly common. Are you late because…

1.You sleep too late? If you’re so exhausted in the morning that you sleep until the last possible moment, it’s time to think about going to sleep earlier. Many people don’t get enough sleep, and sleep deprivation is a real drag on your happiness and health. Try to turn off the light sooner each night.

2.You try to get one last thing done? Apparently, this is a common cause of tardiness. If you always try to answer one more email or put away one more load of laundry before you leave, here’s a way to outwit yourself: take a task that you can do when you reach your destination, and leave early. Tell yourself that you need that ten minutes on the other end to read those brochures or check those figures.

3. You underestimate the commute time? You may tell yourself it takes twenty minutes to get to work, but if it actually takes forty minutes, you’re going to be chronically late. Have you exactly identified the time by which you need to leave? That’s what worked for me for getting my kids to school on time. We have a precise time that we’re supposed to leave, so I know if we’re running late, and by how much. Before I identified that exact time, I had only a vague sense of how the morning was running, and I usually thought we had more time than we actually did. My daughter goes into near-hysterics if we're late, so that motivated me to get very clear on this issue.

4. You can’t find your keys/wallet/phone/sunglasses? Nothing is more annoying than searching for lost objects when you’re running late. Designate a place in your house for your key items, and put those things in that spot, every time. I keep everything important in my (extremely unfashionable) backpack, and fortunately a backpack is big enough that it’s always easy to find. My husband keeps his key items in the chest of drawers opposite our front door.

5. Other people in your house are disorganized? Your wife can’t find her phone, your son can’t find his Spanish book, so you’re late. As hard as it is to get yourself organized, it’s even harder to help other people get organized. Try setting up the “key things” place in your house. Prod your children to get their school stuff organized the night before—and coax the outfit-changing types to pick their outfits the night before, too. Get lunches ready. Etc.

6.You hate your destination so much you want to postpone showing up for as long as possible? If you dread going to work that much, or you hate school so deeply, or wherever your destination might be, you’re giving yourself a clear signal that you need think about making a change in your life.

7. Your co-workers won’t end meetings on time? This is an exasperating problem. You’re supposed to be someplace else, but you’re trapped in a meeting that’s going long. Sometimes, this is inevitable, but if you find it happening over and over, identify the problem. Is too little time allotted to meetings that deserve more time? Is the weekly staff meeting twenty minutes of work crammed into sixty minutes? Does one person hold things up? If you face this issue repeatedly, there’s probably an identifiable problem – and once you identify it, you can develop strategies to solve it -- e.g., sticking to an agenda; circulating information by email; not permitting discussions about contentious philosophical questions not relevant to the tasks at hand, etc. (This last problem is surprisingly widespread, in my experience.)

Late or not, if you find yourself rushing around every morning, consider waking up earlier (see #1 above). Yes, it’s tough to give up those last precious moments of sleep, and it’s even tougher to go to bed earlier and cut into what, for many people, is their leisure time. But it helps.

I've started getting up at 6:00 a.m. so I have an hour to myself before I have to rassle everyone out of bed. This has made a huge improvement in our mornings. Because I’m organized and ready by 7:00 a.m., I can be focused on getting all of us out the door. (On a related note, here are more tips for keeping school mornings calm and cheery.)

What are some other strategies that work if you suffer from chronic lateness?

* Interested in starting your own happiness project? If you’d like to take a look at my personal Resolutions Chart, for inspiration, just email me at grubin, then the “at” sign, then gretchenrubin dot com. (Sorry about writing it in that roundabout way; I’m trying to thwart spammers.) Just write “Resolutions Chart” in the subject line.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/seven-tips-if-youre-chronically-late-543534/

Welcome our new teammate Ana Maria Crespo from New York!

Please help me welcome Ana to the IPA International / Downey Team / Kaizen Support International / USANA family! Ana got introduced to USANA by non-other than her sister USANA Associate Renee Da Silva. Ana is no stranger to the world of Health & Wellness since she currently works for a very well known skincare company.

Ana just recently got engaged to her now Fiancee Vince in a surprise Las Vegas event last month!


Ana & Renee with Freddie Roach (Manny Pacquaio's Trainer) @ Wild Card Boxing Gym in Los Angeles!

Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Fight Team Event! Sat. Nov 14th 2009 @ 6PM!

Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Fight Team Event! Sat. Nov 14th 2009 @ 6PM!

Manny Pacquiao (L) of the Philippines and WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico pose during a news conference at the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada November 11, 2009. The boxers will fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on November 14.

Come down to our Team Event Hosted by:
Silver Directors Sam & Betzy Quintanilla!
Saturday November 14th 2009 @ 6PM
Location: Sam & Betzy's House

Pizza, Snacks, Rev3, & Xbox 360! Bring a friend! Contact Sam Q for further details.

Who will win? You got to be there to see it for yourself!