Congruency is driven through accountability and consistency.

My Tip

One thing that I personally do to help me is obtain a set of stationary and clear a certain area to work for my goal/project. YES I know that may sound a bit odd?

Why?

Well when you pick up the papers with the goals and actions it is specific to your focus. You don’t have three different ideas and lists to distract you while flicking through.

Buy a new blank book that will allow you to; identify, write your goals, specify your actions and list your activity.

Breaking your activity into consistent actions

Remembering the 80/20 rule is vital; 20% of your real activity is going to drive 80% of your business. Administration, paperwork and ‘procrastination’ is going to make up 80% of your time while devoting to your business, which means the key parts that drive sales or business is 20%.

This rule was derived from an Italian economist that 80% of the income in Italy was received by 20% of the population.

How does this apply to your business life? It simply means that 20% of your certain activities account for the majority 80% of your ‘output’ business or income.

How does this apply to your business?

You have actions that you have derived from your broken down goal. These actions are what you have self-discovered or learnt that will impact and drive your business and life to the end achievement. Having said that you don’t want to be spending 95% of the time “preparing” for the key sale actions.

Ask yourself, how many hours a week are you dedicating to your goal? 20 hours? 25 hours? 40 hours? GREAT! Lets use those hours in the most productive way possible.

Break down your hours throughout the week from the days you can add value to your business. Keep in mind the important part of breaking down these hours is to ensure the time you split your activity its appropriate to the actions you set.

Priority is the key to prosperity

From the actions derived write them out on a new page and prioritise them. Rank the list of actions by the highest impact to your business growth! We want to know what actions will derive the business, though we are NOT at all disregarding administration or other activity but we need to understand what are the ‘big hitters’.

Now you have your priority of actions and now you can separate these actions to the most appropriate time to achieve your results from those specific actions.

For example; if you have separated your hours of 5hours a day Monday to Friday, but Monday is not appropriate for your potential clients then priorities then we will choose a lower prioritised item that may not be ‘customer contact’ but may be team building, skill coaching or development to this time. It enables you to ensure you are focusing 110% on each item in your list.

Prioritising your actions does not regraded the importance of other activity. Without skill building, mentoring or team activity you may not be able to develop or even perform the higher prioritised actions. The importance of the above is to select and categorise the right activity to the right time.

Steve’s Side Tip For an Effective and Powerful Week!

Within most business cultures you will find the meetings throughout are split into

• Monday: Weekly Focus Review and Actions & Motivation – GOALS for the week
• Tuesday: Skill Building Techniques PLUS Take Action
• Wednesday: Review the midweek, where do I set? What is working, what is not and anything I should change?  Keep Taking Action!
• Thursday: Keep up the motivation, keep up the momentum, set the goals for the day of where you sit against your Monday goals, and you know it… Keep Taking Action
• Friday: END IT WITH A BANG!!!, which of course includes Taking Action!

These actions are broken down briefly for the Monday to Friday. It’s simply an example to share how you could break your week down, adapt for your schedule!

Now that you have your BRILLIANT LARGE goals, your broken down medium and short goals and actions that will help them! You now have the recipe to your success to your actions!

Share your goals and actions with Sharon and I! We can’t wait to hear your success!

An Extraordinary NEW Approach to Health & Well-being

Is Your Health Secure?  Our Food is NOT Enough…

Why are the essential micronutrients missing?  There is now overwhelming science that our modern world is nutrient depleted.   The food chain is existing in what is now a largely urban society.  Green harvest for long distance transport to cities is the primary reason for micronutrient deficiency in our foods. Mill-processing, corporate farming, poor and lengthy storage and over-cooking of food are other factors that cause deterioration of the molecules.  In addition, our food is grown on or grazed upon nutrient depleted lands.

Global Toxins Impacting our Immune System

Studies show that every North American now has in his or her tissues 300-500 known toxins that were not in existence before 1940. So, where has all the poison come from?

Toxins are everywhere and the problem is not just confined to North America. . . although the first studies have been done in the USA and Canada. Because of the nature of wind, rain and weather, we know that the entire planet is surrounded with toxins. Almost every known toxin and farm pesticide on the planet can be found in places as remote as the North Pole. . . and this has had significant impact on our immune system.

I’m Healthy!  Why Should I Take Supplements?

Causes of ill health are nutritional, environmental or lifestyle related. . . The Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine published a position paper titled Effective Nutritional Medicine: The Application of Nutrition to Major Health Problems. Within this paper is a response by the British Society for Nutritional Medicine to the document Health of the Nation.

“There is a great body of evidence – convincing, scientific evidence – which clearly shows that nutritional, environmental and lifestyle related factors contribute to present day health challenges to a much greater degree and to a much wider extent than is generally realised. Much of this is detailed, specific evidence and information which enables specific actions to be taken now. It cannot be ignored and should be acted upon immediately.”

What About our Children?

It seems almost impossible to supply our children with their daily nutritional needs. Do your children enjoy eating their broccoli, brussel sprouts and turnips? Or would they rather prefer sandwiches washed down with a glass of artificially coloured fruit drink.

Studies have shown that 50% of western children receive only one serving of fruits or vegetables per day and 38% only receive two. At best, only 12% receive more than two servings each day.

In addition, the current generation of children, born 1996 and later, are currently predicted NOT to outlive their parents.  This is a dire situation and one SO many parents are unaware of!

Stay tuned for a full blog post on taking the best care of your children’s health!

Interested in Dancing Your Way to the Grave?

Nutrition remains important throughout life. Many health issues that impact quality of life in later life can be influenced by dietary factors. The earlier a balanced nutrition supplemental regime is included into a healthy lifestyle, the greater the opportunity is for a healthy later life.

So many people attribute symptoms and lower quality of health in later life as ‘aging’ and something they have to ‘put up with’.  NOT true!  You’d be amazed at how young you will start feeling when you add quality nutrients back into the diet!

The NEW Kid on the Block is Your FIRST Step for Wellness

Glyconutrients, ‘vital sugars’ are a new class of nutrients and are the key to one of the most important breakthroughs in recent medical science. We’ve all been bombarded with warnings about consuming too much sugar. But, in fact, for our bodies to function properly, we need proper amounts of eight necessary sugars, only two of which – glucose and galactose – are commonly found in our limited, over-processed diets.

By combining glyconutrients with other essential  categories of high quality plant nutrients also missing from an average diet, you have the foundation of a lifetime wellness plan, supporting good energy, alertness and overall inner strength.

Multiple Nutrients Bring the Results

We’d love there to be ONE magic bullet…  The truly remarkable improvements in wellness, occur when people ingest multiple nutritional  supplement combinations.     Cells can only function fully when the cells receive ALL the vital nutrition and building blocks they need for wellness.

For your body’s best support, start with glyconutrients, essential fatty acids, vitamins & minerals, plant sterols, anti-oxidants and plant micro-nutrients.

Contact us to learn how to add a Wellness Bounce to your Life!

Welcome to part two on Building Your Opportunities from the Ground Up – by creating the solid goal foundation that will enable you to manifest into reality!

It is exciting to write out your goals and picture what will soon become the reality from your hard work and commitment.

One of the most important tips in this stage is your congruency to your goals….   meaning your whole heart and soul wants this goal deeply and you’re focused and driven to achieve them no matter what.

Easily said, but how do you stay congruent?

How do you transfer the energy from the big goals that MAYBE overwhelming, BIGGER than you’ve achieved previously, MAYBE bigger than your friends and family could comprehend, SO much so that you even might feel a bit scared to get started?

That’s exactly what this Part #2 of Goal Creation and Action Planning is about – you will discover the steps to turn your goals into actionable items and SUCCESS!

1.  Look at your goals – now remember, they shouldn’t be tucked in a draw where you might look at them once a week…or month. They should be in front of you EVERYDAY. Don’t forget that! Picture the end goal every time you walked past them, picture them and feel the emotion of your success and achievement.

You will have your long-term goals set and reading them everyday. They are your dreams and desires – now lets get down to the nitty-gritty and extract your actions and plan from these goals.

To best demonstrate, let’s use a hypothetical example of a long term goal and drill down to specific actions relative to the goal.

Relating back to Part #1 we have set a positive affirmation, specific and measurable goal.

“I Steve Partos am a successful entrepreneur and earning an extra $1000 a month from my home business by the 31st of December 2012 through partnership with wellness clients and business partners”

What Now?

We need to have a general understanding that from this goal my 60 clients will provide a monthly profit of $1000 a month. The questions I will ask my self are

• How many potential wellness clients and/or business partners will I need to present our education to, to create 60 for whom our business and products are a perfect match?
• What actions will I focus on (your support team can help you with what’s realistic/average as a starting point and then you may want to stretch it!)
• Are those actions realistic to my timeframe, time commitment, skill level and mind-set?

There are other questions that will come up, including possibly some doubts or distractions.  The bottom line is ‘Action eradicates doubt’   As you go forward into action you will be able to identify your concerns and then focus on self-discovery and reviewing what has worked for others.

Other Factors to Consider -

Is there a specific product or service I need to sell for each client to keep an average turner over?

This will differ from business to business – but it might be obvious that it is a critical point to evaluate for the clarity you’re looking for in setting and achieving your goals. Does your business have multiple products or package suites that offer a different return and a different niche within your industry?

For example, say you need to sell $100 a month of your package/product to one client, so overall $3000 a month in sales to achieve your $500/month income.  You now have a better understanding of what you need to focus on from your business product selection, know what you’re passionate about and you will find and attract the contacts for whom it’s perfect for.

What is the average number of connections needed to achieve one client or business partner?

Within different industries and type of business you will have different ‘strike’ rates. A strike rate is the number of “asks”, “leads”, “prospect conversations” to convert into a successful sale.

If you need to talk to twenty-five people on average about your product to achieve one product sale we can now look at the actions derivable to achieve that.

How do you find out what your strike rate is?…. SIMPLE!

• Ask your colleagues, mentors or business partners what they are getting?
• Research – read books, articles or google on your industry.
• And then, practice and action will improve your positive outcomes over time – so, right now you’re just looking for a starting point

Are you talking to someone you know well or someone you’ve just met?

If your contact does not know you at all, the building relationship and trust aspect will have even more impact on your outcomes.   Typically someone that knows you will have enough trust to listen to what you have to say…  if you are brand new in an area and your friend might not perceive you as an expert, you might even ask your friend to do you a favour in checking something out for you.

What Now? You have the figures, you have the end goal and breaking it down to yearly, monthly and weekly…

What a great privilege to be invited over to my friend and colleague, Anna Barnett’s blog (www.annabarnettonline.com).

(See Part 1 Here: http://businessinwellness.com/?p=1126)

The TOP 7 Steps you can take NOW to have more energy and support the wellness of your body

Part 2 of 2 of ‘Health is Your First Wealth’ by guest blogger Sharon Whiteman of Business in Wellness

In part one of this post, we made the case for how important it is to be looking at wellness with new and ‘informed’ eyes.  It is no longer sufficient to keep going as long as we can, ignoring the sometimes subtle signals from our body and trusting ‘your bloodwork is fine, your healthy’ line from our MD’s.

It’s critical to understand that once we do have challenges that show up on typical western medical testing, the imbalance has been establishing itself at the cell level for months, years and even decades.  But, looking at it another way, armed with this education you can make choices…  Life Enhancing and sometimes Life Saving Choices!  It’s much more simple than you think…  or fear :-)
The TOP 7 Steps you can take NOW to have more energy and support the wellness of your body

Read more at Anna Barnett’s online blog here..!

Sharing the Wellness!

A bit about Anna:  Anna Barnett has over 18 years of experience in the Marketing & Public Relations industry and has spent the last 6 years specializing in Social Media Marketing.   She is the Founder of Anna Barnett Online, a training company established to provide personal coaching and mentorship programs.  Through these programs Anna is helping others understand the impact that social media has on expanding businesses in both the network marketing industry as well as the traditional business world.

Read more at Anna Barnett’s online blog here..

A New Year Year of Possibilities and Opportunities at your doorstep!

Welcome to the New Year of 2012, Sharon and I hope you have had a fabulous Christmas and ready to start your 2012 as a year of abundance!

A New Year typically starts with a focus on resolutions and goals around personal changes. It could be to exercise three times a week, drink only on weekends or other small habits to change within yourself.

The hardest part for some people with New Years resolutions is the consistency and commitment to keep to them.  To follow through each week, inspect what you expect from your goals and resolutions and maintaining your DRIVE and DESIRE to achieve them.

I am going to share some insight into my resolution and goal tips could help you stay consistent and committed to them from the time you write them down to the date you set to achieve them.

With all the New Years resolutions, why not look further than the next twelve months? Look at your end goal, your ultimate dreams and desires and work backwards. When you know your end goal, in say five years, then break down to three years, one year and then even 6 months.

Why?

Have you ever written a goal down and just felt way too overwhelmed that it’s IMPOSSIBLE and will never happen. Your negative thoughts kick in, the subconscious devil pops up and says “you can’t achieve that”, “you don’t know how to do that”, “ you wont have time…”. Then you walk away feeling less motivated than before you even wrote down the goal, and in the end abandoning the dream or goal all together.

These are tips that I’ve amalgamated to assist with those pitfalls in goal setting.  You may or may not feel comfortable or want to use them, but give them a try and let Sharon and I know how you go!

Initially I am going to talk about writing goals, but the tips below help you extract more specific goals from your long term dreams as well!

Get Ready and Get Excited!

This is Part 1 of Writing and Achieving Your New Year Resolutions!

Tip #1 – SMART Goals

SMART Goals are utilised around the world to help leaders, and employees write their achieve goals within their work place. These techniques are carried across to personal and work life everyday.

S – Specific

M – Measurable

A – Attainable

R – Realistic/Relevant

T – Timely

Goals should be straightforward and specific to the accomplishment you wish to achieve. This is the foundation of the success before the actions to help you move forward.

For example, let’s say you want to earn an extra income from a home business venture this year… That’s too broad, no measure of time and doesn’t help you drill down.

Lets get granular!

Take some time now and think of a SMART goal for you in 2012.  To demonstrate, I’ll use:

“I will be earning over $1000 a month from my home business by the 31^st of December 2012 by the sale of my products to over 60 clients”.

Breaking this down you can pull out the key points:

• Specific $1000 a month target for your income

• Date of when to achieve by

• Measurable and realistic clientele details that will drive the base goal

In this goal I can comfortably write this down, then know the set date of when I will be earning my extra $1000 a month AND what I NEED to do. Not every goal setter will put the finer detail of the goal, i.e “by the sale of my products to over 60 clients”.

It is my experience that this is a critical foundation of the goal you want to set:

1. You won’t lie to yourself – you won’t write down “ by the sale of 3000 clients” which could be unrealistic within your business

2. You now have a great starting point to break down the goals into your actions

3. You can measure on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis other than income alone.

Remember to have a realistic time frame, and if you are unsure of what is realistic talk to your business partners or colleagues who have achieved your goal before.

Take a moment now and think of the goal that you would like to achieve in the next three to five years or just this year. Write it down and try and follow the same basic principles.

Tip #2 – Self Affirmations to assist in driving your self belief.

Even with realistic goals, some of us are unsettled or still don’t have the ultimate self-belief to achieve them.  A small tip that I learned from many successful entrepreneurs is to incorporate the self-affirmation principle within your goals.

An affirmation is a declaration of something that is true, it’s used to develop a powerful mindset by putting your mental state into a positive belief.

For example I may want to write a positive affirmation around our example goal.

“I Steve Partos am a successful entrepreneur and earning an extra income from home.”

I would write this down, place it near my bedside, iphone, or on the bathroom mirror or what may work for you and read it EVERYDAY to ingrain that I am a SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR and EARNING AN EXTRA INCOME FROM HOME.

This new, consistent habit will:

• Drive these beliefs into my subconscious,

• Keep my focus on what I DO want rather than possibly slipping into my fears, and

• Assist in my positive attitude towards the actions I need to do to drive my goals.

Committing to this daily success habit will prove to be vital in keeping your mindset right to assist in the goals you have set. Why not also merge a few of these key words into the goals you are setting.

Rewriting the example goal from Tip #1:

“I Steve Partos am a successful entrepreneur and earning an extra $1000 a month from my home business by the 31^st of December 2012 by the sale of my products to over 60 clientele”

Now take some time to think of your initial goal and rewrite it to include a positive affirmation of yourself within the goal statement.

Tip #3 Write It Big and Write It Loud!

So now you should have a framework and some direction on writing the goals for this year, or even the next three years. Now What?

Is it sitting on a small notepad next to your computer, or back in a drawer?  Be sure not to fall into the common trap and let your goals sit unnoticed and away from your daily viewing!

This year I went out a bought a big flipchart with colourful markers. I have written out my goals and dreams in LARGE colourful writing and pinned it to my wall.

Guess what?

It’s IN MY FACE, and I’m not walking past it without reading it, I see it everyday and ready it everyday. I let the colours resonate with my feelings and help me drive to say it everyday.

Be creative, make it your personal style, something that makes you feel happy and powerful and excited when you read it. Don’t let it sit them glum and boring, let it SHOUT at you! Bring you into read and concentrate on those goals everyday!

Sharon and I would love to read your goals and assist them in becoming real for you. Take a moment and fill out the contact form to send us your goals! We will then touch base with you to see how we can help, or just keep them on file and touch base with you on your journey to achieving them!

Now stay tuned – Part 2 of this article will discuss the bigger goals, how to start with the end in mind, derive actions from them to get you there and stay focused throughout your year!  I can’t wait!

May this time be filled with family, friends, love, and wonderful blessings.
We wish you Health, Wealth & Happiness for 2012 and beyond!!!

Steve & Sharon

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I want to sleep in, earn what I’m worth, travel when I want, see my friends and family when I desire, and not to be told when to take a break, when I can take my leave, how much I will be earning or wont be earning!

I want freedom!

It’s a lifestyle freedom that is driving the Generation X and Y to think outside the box of normality within the working environment to achieve more, have more and get more. 

Within today’s modern society we have diverse resources at our fingertips, teasing us with what is available out in the world.   This expanded view is spearheading a shift in the mentality of what few achieved or believed possible twenty to thirty years ago.  Gen X & Y's can't be pigeon-holed into the standard, stereotypical advice that was set with Baby Boomers – go to school, get good grades, go to university, get a good job, have a family and settle for the rest of your life.  Not only are these now obviously ‘pipe-dreams’ in today's modern society, but Gen X & Y's simply want more, have bigger dreams and bigger expectations manifestation of those dreams at a young age.

Gen X & Y's are experiencing the world and tasting opportunities through their connection to social media, Internet and everyday marketing.  This is gives them a 'life-like' taste of what they dream for and also a huge hit of what they feel they are missing out on.  So… what does this make them want?

Everything they want and they want it NOW!

It’s a truth that is having positive and negative impact across many industries.  We are being branded impatient and selfish but ultimately we are ambitious and won’t settle anymore.

Another driving factor is the fact that they are finding themselves increasingly unsettled and unsatisfied with their day job – they simply know it isn’t the whole picture. It's all too clear that jobs aren't secure, many can't afford to rent with the rising real estate costs and thus owning their own home is quickly becoming an unachievable dream.  For a Gen X or Y, slowly working their way up to higher incomes which could possibly assist them with their home/car/travel dreams has become uncertain at best as well.  

With the 'JOB' simply becoming just a daily grind and means to an end…. Gen X & Y's are looking for and sourcing alternatives in droves.

More and more Gen X & Y's want to be independent and are willing to work hard for success. 

A close friend, mentor and successful Generation Y entrepreneur told me “I was willing to fail, and I wasn’t afraid of failure” …”I knew exactly what I wanted, and I wasn’t going to accept anything other than what I wanted”.  This true grit determination for success would generate outstanding results for anyone, of any demographic, anywhere.  This dedication my Gen Y friend had to ensure she achieved her dreams and goals made me appreciate the desire, commitment and drive which would be required to underpin extraordinary results.  

Gen X & Y are now shifting their career paths from the job, long term career path to entrepreneurs.  They are choosing to let go of 'status quo', an outdated culture that is no longer working and choosing to take control of their lives and ensuring their dreams become a reality. 

TIME Magazine summarised the Generation X and Y generation in an article “What Gen Y Really Wants”.

“Many Gen X Workers are opting out of long hours—and they have high expectations for personal growth”  

“Entrepreneurship now functions as a safety net for this generation”

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640395,00.html

Gen X & Y's also have a dream for a better world, a vision not only of giving back but one of halting unsustainable global practises. 

This generation group has a particular 'emotional drive' for correcting what's 'gone wrong' in the world.  The Baby Boomers have pushed through and blundered their way through technologies and global practises with an unprecedented ignorance of their impact on the planet for generations to come. The Gen X & Y's are realising they've been lumped with major global problems and aggressive, alternative choices will have to prevail for the world to survive.  

While not particularly 'pleased' with being lumbered with this responsibility, they are a generation which is ready to rise up and commit to the challenge.  They don't have any choice really now do they?  And they know it!

The Gen X & Y's are looking for sustainable businesses which are sensitive to their footprint left on the planet.   They are also ready for businesses which provide infrastructure to address global challenges. 

Many new ventures and now lucrative businesses are becoming more prominent in the marketplace that falls under ‘social entrepreneurship’. Companies that recongise a global problem and utilise their business to create a social change in the way we operate.

Companies are proving to impact and change our culture and we as Generation X & Y is shifting our mentality to support these causes. It’s not about donating a dollar to a charity; it’s about seeing a transparent change in the world through the operation of their business.

Why Do This Now? 

I could list a hundred reasons of my desire to build my residual income to the next level above the key points I’ve highlighted above. I believe in not settling for less, not being part of the norm and not letting life pass by.

Why NOT put every bit of energy, focus and commitment to achieving this and being not just content with life but ultimately finding a way to create the lifestyle and achieve the freedom I have dreamed of and I am not letting the dreams sit there but become a reality.

Ask yourself, are you doing everything you can today to achieve your dreams tomorrow?

If Not Why Not?

This is the question!!  Well, obviously I'm partially in jest – but there's also a serious side to this.

I've been triggered to write about this today because of an impassioned discussion I've had online with Steve, my business partner in BiW, and some other mums about current proposed changes to Australian vaccination laws for 2012.  It has obviously and quite naturally sparked the whole vaccination conflict which tends to so polarise parents to one side of the fence or the other.  Does this subject need to be debated?  Yes, of course, but the major problem Is that it's hard to get truthful and factual education.  

Every parent wants to do the best by their children.  Unfortunately both the threats and promises of 'deadly diseases which can be cured by a simple and safe jab' put dreadful fears into parents and they make decisions trusting that the 'experts' are telling them the whole truth.

The good news (or possibly the bad news) is that I won't be able to answer that question here in this pst… at least not from my perspective.   The reason being is I see that this great divide in supposed 'facts' about safety and efficacy of vaccinations have put parents in an almost impossible situation in the short term.  The only short term solution is to offer parents personal choice.

At Business in Wellness we feel strongly about the right of individuals to have access to current and accurate education.  We feel that people have a right to choose both wellness and sickness health choices for themselves.  For better or worse, as parents, we also make those same choices on behalf of our children to the best of all of our knowledge at any given time.  This right to choice is a civil right for all Australians.

So, back to the vaccination debate from this morning – the current proposed Australian legislation changes for next year would have parents who choose not to vaccinate be penalised via their taxes (ie: not getting a payment that parents who choose vaccinations do get).  As a parent, I don't want to be paid ANY amount of money to vaccinate my child – so that's not the problem.  It's kind of like selling your child for drug trials!  

It would be logical to poise the question – Why do they have to pay parents to vaccinate?  But, I digress…

Calm Before the Storm

To me, the REAL problem is, that this situation very possibly might just be the beginning – the beginning of potentially further, more strict controls of individual's right's over their own health choices and parent's rights in choosing for their children.  I see this as a REAL sign that some of the more frightening and military-like government control over personal rights in healthcare that we are seeing in the US might very well be following here.  We simply can't sit back, be silent and then say, 'oh I should have spoken up sooner'.

As just one example of thousands, have a read of mommypotamus's post here (link to http://www.mommypotamus.com/war-on-cancer-nope-its-a-war-on-cancer-patients/).  All parents would cry to read this or in our absolute worse nightmares, be in these parent's shoes.  

Horror story?  Yes, of course!  

It will never happen here?  Don't be too sure.

No parent wouldn't even want to imagine being in this family's shoes – but if we were…  How would it feel to have your child removed from your care, like some states in the US, just because you asked 'is there is anything natural I can use as well', or 'can we get a second opinion'.   Imagine that without warning the equivalent of community services arrive without notice and remove your child and force chemo/radiation/surgery (without documented proof of efficacy) AND without the choice of integrating the adjunctive support of complementary modalities alongside.  It's unthinkable and OUTRAGEOUS at the same time.

Just as with vaccine control, the western medicine dogma or status quo, present themselves as doing the right thing for our health and the health of humanity.  They come armed with all kinds of 'facts' and 'proof' which is basically smoke and mirrors.   Should we blindly trust them?  I don't know the answer to that for everyone, but I know that I have lots of evidence in my personal life to show me that's it's imperative for me to be discerning, well-educated, ask questions and be willing to get a second opinion.  Sadly, in this modern day in the western world, we are called to have far more awareness than ever before, to be far more discerning than ever before and have BUCKET loads of common sense on board.

Do I Choose Western Medicine?

Yes, I do!  And, not just for emergency care.  Are you surprised?  Quite possibly…  but here's why.

I'd love to have had a lifetime of supporting my health naturally, of eating a wide variety of locally grown, organic produce which were vine-ripened, and of minimal toxic western medicine intervention.  It would have been great to have had a 'family who was outside the norm of the time' and could see that the indiscriminate use of new industrialised, toxic products should be avoided.  By the 'terrain model' of wellness (where your body as a fully nourished organism is far more healthy and capable of weathering the storms that life throws at it), these would be some of the important lifestyle choices to have been making to give your body the best fighting chance.

Instead I had weekly vaccinations developed personally for me for the first 4 years of my life, the full range of childhood disease vaccinations available at the time, almost full time antibiotics for the first 2 years of life and then with every little challenge for years after that.  Sound like someone born in the 50's and 60's? LOL  Mine is just one example, but I'm sure many of you can relate or know someone with a similar background…  Each of us would have a different list of 'less than ideal' experiences or choices from your health and wellness past, but the point being, they all add up to being incredible stressors undermining our current day health.

So, YES, I think western medicine is a necessity of today, and as I mentioned, not just for emergency care like broken legs etc. We are SO fortunate in western society to have access to the healthcare of today – and in particular, I'm grateful for their diagnostic support. Unfortunately we've gone off-course in caring for our wellness in western society, BIG time.  We are now a society which is in dire need of emergency 're-programming' and 'quick action' on how to care for ourselves from a wellness perspective.  We need to re-learn how to be well, protect wellness and return to wellness.

One of the Dr's I've had the privilege of interviewing says it beautifully (paraphrased) – "Many of our modern diseases are best represented symbolically by a picture of a runaway horse and buggy"  By this he is meaning, the horse has bolted, it's too late to be preventative at this point and you quite often need to throw everything you can at the situation of health imbalance.   In severe and advanced situations, you may need to choose everything western medicine has to offer you today, to stabilise and allow your body to have enough time to integrate the re-building and balancing that complementary modalities can offer.

Enter Integrative Medicine

Integrative Medicine in it's simplest definition can be described as 'using the best of both worlds'.  We're in a place where we can't afford to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' so to speak.   We urgently require a skilled integration of the best what modern, western medicine has to offer in combination with the best of complementary choices.  In using Integrative Medicine for our health – we need to seek out wellness professionals who are happy to work in partnership for our short term and long term health and wellness.  We look for skilled wellness practitioners who know how to say "Gee, I don't know, I haven't heard of that, Let's research together".  Sound like something out of one of your dreams?  LOL, me too!

But all jokes aside – it's coming.  There are more and more MD's and other western medical professionals who are seeing that western medicine as we know it is only part of the story.  In fact, Integrative Medicine is being taught in over half of the US Medical Schools.  The governments of all our western countries are taking note – and quite possibly because of the bottom line – the mighty dollar (or whichever currency is of your country).  In Australia, they are predicting healthcare to quite possibly bankrupt the country by 2017 – that's an emergency!  Learn more about Integrative Health.

Back to Where We Started – Vaccination

I can't leave you without expressing my thoughts on vaccination.  I would read what your doctor or community care nurse gives you and also read information from organisations supporting pro-choice for vaccination.  I recommend the Australian Vaccination Network (www.avn.org) and International Medical Council on Vaccination (www.vaccinationcouncil.org) as a starting point.

When choosing to vaccinate, I choose the following:

• Find a health and wellness practitioner open to both sides in assisting us to make a fully informed decision
• Evaluate risk vs rewards for our child's specific situation
• Delay vaccination until our bubs immune system has time to develop (older than 2yo)
• Separate multi-vaccines
• Use integrative modalities like naturopathy, nutrition for immune support, homeopathy, osteopathy, kinesiology etc.  My children get glyconutrients every day for their immune system support.

And finally, I recommend considering these mandates from the Australian Vaccination Network:

There are a few issues that this government needs to address before they even consider bribing parents to vaccinate:

1. Ask the question: why are these vaccines not working? Why have there been no independent studies comparing the health of the fully vaccinated vs the fully unvaccinated?
2. Pass legislation ensuring that we have mandatory reporting of the vaccination status of those presenting with 'vaccine-preventable' diseases
3. Ensuring that we have mandatory reporting of adverse reactions to all vaccines with independent follow-up of all serious reaction reports.

Exciting Times Are Coming

It is very empowering to know that our health is our responsibility.  Some of us have given our power and authority away to 'expert's or 'authority figures' outside ourselves – and we  can be forgiven for that as we for the most part were educated to do so.  However, today is a new day – we have awareness and insight and can now educate ourselves and make different lifestyle and healthcare choices.   

Make The Choice Today to be proactive with your health & wellness.

It's GREAT news is that there's so much more choice available to us now.   We don't have to just accept western medicine alone or complementary medicine alone, and it's best that we don't.  Get out there and read, network with friends, become informed, find Integrative practitioners with which to work with and take back control of your health and wellness.

I believe that  Truth Will Prevail.   Good Things Are Happening.  

We have CHOICE!    It's both a privilege and a right.

This is a critical point and the a right for which we might need to join together To be grateful for, To fight for and To protect!

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