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Here’s just a quick, simple idea for everyone who may be
concerned about possible over-indulging during the holidays.

I am a real health nut and have been for the past thirty years.
I’m constantly studying and looking for new ways to improve my
health, or keep it as good as it is now, and I often run across
good health information.

I would like to share some of what I’ve learned here with you.
This invaluable information is presented in a wonderful book I
read recently: Water - for Health, for Healing, for Life -
You’re Not Sick You’re Thirsty! by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj.

If you’d like to read it too, it is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/3sdg2 . This information in this book is
probably the most basic, simple, valuable bit of advice on
health I have ever read. Everyone should know this.

What I learned has been a revelation to me. Do you drink water?
At least eight glasses a day? Most of us do not drink enough
water, if any! After reading the book and asking people about
their water drinking habits, I was shocked to find that many
people hardly ever drink water. Good, clean, pure water!

Water is such a major part of our bodies! In a fully hydrated
body, blood is 94% water, and our cells should be 75% water for
optimum health!

When we get dehydrated, all our cells are no longer functioning
as they should. Over a long term, this dehydrated condition
creates serious health problems. Short term symptoms include
pain and discomfort which, unfortunately, often are medicated by
painkillers, instead of remedied by simply drinking a couple of
glasses of water. The information in this book is amazing and so
simple to implement!

The Holiday Season Secret is this: Half an hour before each
meal, and two and a half hours after each meal, drink two
glasses of water.

If you continue this practice for up to three weeks, you could
lose about eight to fourteen pounds (maybe less during the
holiday season). This works for people of any age - young or
more mature. You may have heard of some celebrities who lost a
lot of weight following this practice.

Try this out, and tell your friends and relatives about it too.
Maybe you could have a little contest with your spouse or within
your family and compare after the first of the year to see who
did the best! And, hopefully you won’t stop there. Make it a
habit and you’ll be surprised when, in a few weeks, you will
have lost weight and have more energy - all without dieting.

What you needed was WATER. Simple, inexpensive and very
effective!!! Your drinking water should be filtered to rid it of
unhealthy contaminants, such as: arsenic, lead, petroleum and
chemical discharges, fertilizers and many more extremely
unhealthy, poisonous substances found in all municipal water
systems.

Don’t forget: 8 glasses of WATER a day minimum, depending on
your body size! A person with a larger body should drink more,
No other drinks will be a good enough substitute. However, you
can add a squeeze of lemon if you don’t like plain water.

My Warmest Wishes for a very Joyful Holiday Season to You and
Yours!

Health, Love, Peace and Happiness to all!

Aila Noake

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I was reading an article the other day that referred to honesty
as the one true secret to happiness.

Is there one true secret to anything?

I was asking myself this question while preparing an outline for
one of my live events. I have often spoken on this topic during
one segment of my seminars. I decided to take a step back and
really ponder the one true success principle with exercise and
fitness.

I have visions of Billy Crystal and “Curly” riding though the
open prairie in the movie City Slickers. This is when “Curly”
tells Billy Crystal the one secret to life.

I am reminded of the great Earl Nightingale, who spoke of the
secret to success - “You become what you think about.”

Everyday, I see thousand of books on the one and only way or one
secret to everything from great sex to making a million dollars.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a single secret to happiness
in life, to money problems, to relationships and to health and
fitness?

Does it exist?… I think so. I can at least speak for the
health and fitness secret.

I am going to give you the answer, at least in my eyes, by
attacking it from both ends.

For a lot of people, being healthy and fit is a common goal and
yet a puzzling mystery, in terms of how to accomplish it. There
are varying opinions, thousand of books, websites, etc.; how
does one decide which are the best?

Believe it or not, I do not think there is a single exercise or
single routine that is the only way to get fit or the only way
to get healthy. I do think there are certain principles that
apply to a perfect routine. I also think there is a secret
principle, and if followed many of the other benefits and
by-products of fitness tend to fall in line.

It is simply this: Move as the body is designed to move.

At first glance you may think that a 3-year-old could figure
that out. Actually, most 3-year-olds do a better job of it than
most adults. Moving as we are designed happens naturally for
them. Somewhere between this ripe age and adulthood we develop
some bad habits.

Hobbies, sports, exercise routines, work-related tasks; all lead
to poor postures, inflexibility, weak muscles, joint pain, body
compensations; which all lead to poor movement patterns. And we
wonder why we are a country that is overweight with orthopedic
and other health-related issues.

A lot of this stems from how we learn to exercise; beginning
with an improper warm-up/flexibility routine, to how we exercise
and with the type of equipment we use. This usually only
exacerbates the already poor mechanical problems that exist from
our daily work and home habits.

But, hey, it is not our fault; we are only doing what we have
learned. It is not our fault we messed up a perfectly
functioning movement system. Right?

Then, we combat the problem with pain relieving drugs, creams,
and “corrective” exercise routines and equipment. This is not
our fault! We are only doing what we are told!

How do you know if your routine allows you to move correctly and
like you are designed?

Ask yourself these questions first: Am I at my ideal weight? Do
I look and feel the way I want to look and feel. Do I have joint
pain and /or muscle pain? Do I take medicine or apply creams on
a regular basis for orthopedic-related problems? Do any of the
exercises in my routine make me uncomfortable or cause
discomfort when performing them? Are any of the exercises I
perform far from resembling how I move or work on a daily basis?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then you probably
need to work on your movement mechanics; both with exercise and
your daily habits.

Begin by exercising on your feet and in multiple planes of
motion (3, to be exact). Next, allow the muscles to go through a
range of motion that is sufficient for proper lengthening while
under tension. Then, the muscles need to unload to release that
built- up energy. All this will help to produce more normal
mechanics.

The planes of motion are sagittal, frontal, and transverse,
(straight ahead, side to side and rotational). Every movement
has parts of all 3 involved at all times; one plane may just be
more dominant, depending on the particular movement.

Coupled with all 3 planes, movement must be performed through
the available range of motion to allow for proper loading and
unloading of the muscles and joints. Then you will have a
winning recipe for proper movement. Throw in balance, speed and
resistance changes and you have a great fitness formula.

The body will respond much better because it understands what
you are trying to do. The body is working with muscle synergies
(groups of muscles working together) rather than isolated
individual muscles (as with certain machines and routines). This
is how the brain recognizes normal movement; in terms of
synergies. This is what we abandon over time and why we develop
the movement problems we do.

You are actually giving the brain the information it needs to
allow you to be successful. It is a two-way street. If you give
the brain good information, because you are moving properly (and
in a way that makes sense to the brain), it will, in turn send
back helpful information to make you move better. Literally
scratching each other’s back.

Why would you sabotage you own system by confusing your own
brain?

Which brings me to the other end of the “one secret” answer.

Your brain does not care what you feed it. It will react and
respond based on the information it receives.

If fed positive thoughts, new learning experiences and proper
movement patters it will respond, in turn, with ways to make you
successful; in terms of positive thinking, more knowledge and
better fitness levels.

If you feed your brain garbage, such as negative thoughts,
passive experiences and improper movement choices, it will give
you the same in return. It is like a garden. Whatever you
plant… that is what you shall receive.

I guess Earl Nightingale had it right. You do become what you
think about.

I would like to add a little to that.

You become what you feed your brain. Feed it proper movement
patterns, positive thoughts and new learning experiences. You
will become what you focus on… what you give your brain to
focus on.

And that my friend… is the secret.

“Life’s strict rule is this: You get more of what you focus on.
Ignoring this, we abandon our healthiest, concentrative energies
and court emotional upheaval.” Marsha Sinetar

Bill Brooks of The Brooks Group wrote an article several years ago about his organization’s research into sales performance. Bill’s research partner analyzed 178 top sales performers from the United States and another 450 from Germany who, as he stated, “…were at the very peak of their game.” These top sales professional were analyzed in two key areas behavioral style (personality) and core values. Here’s what the Brooks Group researchers learned about sales success:

A sales or service industry professional’s personality has little or nothing to do with his or her sales success levels. The Brooks research found that there was a broad spread of personalities and sales styles across the groups of sales professionals assessed and that “personality characteristics pegged to success” was not a factor in the sales success equation. In truth, the successful sales performer’s personalities varied as much as the products or services that they sold! However, in assessing each sales professional, 78 percent of these top performers all shared the same basic value and that this core value was the key to a sales professional’s consistent sales success. What was the value? Across two distinct cultures and a diverse group of industries the core value driving top sellers was their keen interest in making a lot of money!

What does this research mean to a sales or service industry professional?

1. Personality and style are not nearly as important to your sales or business development success as your core values.

2. If you are not motivated by “financial gain,” it doesn’t mean you will fail at sales. However, it does mean that you only have about a 22 percent chance that you will become a top sales producer.

3. If you’re not motivated by making money, as 78 percent of the top sales producers in the study, you will most likely always be an average or below average sales producer.

4. To be a top producer you need to work for an organization that gives you the opportunity to earn as much money as possible. The “opportunity” to make money helps to stimulate this vital core value and give you the driving force needed to succeed at selling.

5. You must understand that motivation to reach the top comes from withinfrom your values. Your core values are part of your internal “operating system,” that makes you who you really are.

6. You really need to find out what “turns you on” and then go for it. You see, there are hundreds of interests that are important to people with core values other than working toward high economic gain.

Top sales professionals and service industry “rainmakers” earn a lot of money. But as Bill Brooks says, “They also want to earn a lot of money. It fuels their self worth and sense of well being. It’s how they measure their success.” However, I have observed in my coaching sessions with the top producers that they have additional values that complement their drive to earn money. Most of them are also driven to solve a prospect, customer or client’s problems and to meet the needs of those they sell, doing something to deserve the money they are driven to earn.

VIRDEN THORNTON is the founder and President of The $elling Edge®, Inc. a firm specializing in sales, customer relations, and management training and development. Clients have included Sears Optical, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Deloitte & Touché, Bank One, Jefferson Pilot, and Wal-Mart to name a few. Virden is the author of Prospecting: The Key To Sales Success and the best selling Building & Closing the Sale, Fifty-Minute series books and Close That Sale, a video/audio tape series published by Crisp Publications, Inc. Menlo Park, California. He has also authored a Self-Directed Learning series of sales, coaching & team development, telemarketing, and personal productivity training guides.

Virden assists clients through a unique personal coaching (telephone)program. He has taught at the Center For Professional Development, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas and the School Of Entrepreneurship, Marriott School Of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. You can contact Virden at Virden@TheSellingEdge.com or learn more about him at http://www.TheSellingEdge.com.