Well, my family and I decided to put in a garden again this year but wanted a new location.  We decided on an area where the grass tends to grow twice as fast as other areas.  So, we figured that it must have some good soil and it does get plenty of sun.

So, my father and I borrowed my grandfather’s tiller who has been gardening for as long as I can remember and long before I came into the world.

We took an afternoon and embarked upon this wonderful process.  We tilled off the first layer of sod or grass and cleaned it all out.  We then proceeded to go deeper and deeper with each pass to loosen up the soil.

Once all the area was prepped, I added some sea compost and put in my seeds and gave it a good watering.

In a matter of one week, our radish were already coming up through the soil, our herbs are doing fine and I have even noticed some spinach too!

We do have one little problem, we have a ground hog mom and 3 pups to deal with.  They really like to eat dill and some of the pea plants that we started inside before putting in the ground.  So, we now have to spray our plants after watering with hot sauce.  You need to dilute it of course and it adds a little more time and effort to the whole process.

So, the big question is, what exactly has my garden taught me thus far?

Well, it has taught me two things to this point.  One – If you want to take on a new project, you need to educate yourself and initially put in hours of work.  Two – you have to be consistent with looking after your garden.  This includes watering, protecting the plants from critters, and in due time… cleaning out the weeds!

You can take some of these principles and apply them to life and business too.  When online, you need to put in a lot of time building the relationships initially and then you need consistent contact.  Not necessarily daily but weekly and perhaps it may get to a point where it is only every couple of weeks.

Back to my radish for a minute.  Here is an analogy.  I put in lots of work from the beginning and the radish actually responded within 7 days!  Imagine putting in all the time we do on Social Media and we are able to build a deep relationship with someone in 7 days.  Talk about a reward for all of your initial time and effort.

Now, I need to keep giving my radish daily attention and still take note of the other vegetables yet to emerge.

Call me crazy but I think I will have to do a “part 2” with this post because there are so many parallels with my garden and relationships and life in general!

If you liked this post, I would be honored if you Retweeted it, posted it to Facebook or simply left a comment.

Cheers – Steve

Ultra International is a recent addition (just over 24 months ago) to the network marketing or home based business industry.  The company has been in the distribution business for roughly 20 years but decided to offer an opportunity for individuals who wanted to distribute their products and receive compensation for doing so.   To date it has approximately 5,000 active distributors.

I want to give my opinion on yet another company trying to enter into the Home Based Business Industry.  I will talk about the product line, the opportunity and quickly look at the pay plan

So, Ultra International…….

First and foremost the product line.  They have over 800 products available and are all of sound quality.

They have only selected about 40 products to distribute through the home based business opportunity at present.  They include a Natural Vision Vitamin line, an assortment of soaps, and Pure Selects house hold product line such as shampoo, conditioner, cleaners, etc.

Their anchor product is the Mind, Body and Soul series.  “Mind” is an industry leading antioxidant drink, “Body” is a weight management product and “Soul” is a super food which gives you 10 servings of fruits and vegetables per daily serving.

The enrolment fee is something quite special.  You actually do not need a monthly autoship and you can actually take on a Free position for 12 months.  During this time, however, if you share the business with someone and they purchase products, you receive a 22% commission.  Pretty incredible if you ask me….One of the few business opportunities that allow you to earn without actually recruiting anyone.

Now having looked at the compensation plan, I will tell you that it is a matrix, but unique in the sense that it pays you up to 12 levels deep.   Not too many other plans that pay so deep.  They actually have 8 different ways in which you can earn off of this compensation plan.  Far too many details to share in this short review.

So the decision now lies with you.  Look them up and do your homework not only for this company but for ANY company you are thinking about joining.  It is up to you whether or not you want to find a product or opportunity that really align with your passions and speak to your HEART.

Please be very weary of buying into pre launch hype…as pre launch generally ends rather quickly, and you are LEFT with the fundamentals.   With Ultra International, in my opinion, it is a sound choice because it has been in existence for 20 years yet only 2 years in multi-level marketing.

Jujitsu stands for the gentle art – Ju meaning gentle and su meaning art. The name refers to the fact that Jujitsu was commonly practiced without causing death or dismemberment unlike the Samurai’s more general approach to combat. This has led to a misnomer that Jujitsu is a soft fighting style compared to striking arts like Tao Kwan Do, Karate or kick boxing. In one sense this is true since Jujitsu masters can usually end a fight with out causing serious harm to their opponents.

Jujitsu is also some times believed a soft martial art because of it’s reactive nature. Meaning Jujitsu artists allow invaders to come to them; and then use what an attacker has given. Jujitsu is one of the best martial arts for self defense. While most martial arts are naturally offensive; Jujitsu is more defensive in nature. Plus the dynamics of Jujitsu are nearer to the dynamics of a real fight situation. It is rare if ever you will be loomed by someone who is going to strike the pose of the crane and dare you to battle.  Most people who need to protect themselves do not get any warning. They don’t even know there going to be in a battle until the fight begins. At this point fancy poses and katas are not very helpful. A trained reactive response however could make the difference of dying or surviving.

JuJitsu is perfect for self defense as it teaches the use of minimum force to control situations, you do not have to be young or super fit, it is an activity for all ages and abilities.

The art of JuJitsu embraces the following types of techniques and allows you to defend yourself.

-        Throws

-        Joint Locks

-        Weapon Defenses

-        Punches/Strikes/Kicks

-        Ground Defenses & Grappling

-        Defenses against multiple attackers and more.

The benefits of JuJitsu are many and varied. JuJitsu provides you with the knowledge of how to:

-        Throw an attacker.

-        Fall and not get hurt.

-        Obtain mental health.

-        Become self-sufficient.

-        Become self disciplined.

-        Maintain physical fitness and exercise.

-        Defend yourself against an armed attacker.

-        Defend yourself against more than one attacker.

-        Overcome an attacker by using a variety of wrist, arm and leg locks.

The conduct options for prostate cancer depend in part on whether the tumor has spread. For tumors that are still within the prostate, radiation treatment and a surgery called radical prostatectomy are common treatment options. Watchful waiting is also a treatment option. In this approach, no treatment is set until the tumor gets bigger. Watchful waiting may be the best option for an adult man who has a higher risk of dying from something other than his prostate cancer.

There are treatment alternatives are broadly available today. One or more of these may be chosen by you and your physician once the pros and cons of each are carefully weighed. Additionally, a number of less frequent treatment options are existing.

Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy consists of utilizing of high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. Radiation works by damaging the DNA that is required by cells to grow and divide.

Radiation is centered in such a way as to break and kill as much of the cancer as possible, while minimizing the amount of healthy nearby tissue that is affected.

Watchful Waiting

In certain men, an approach of maintenance active treatment may be used. While dealing is withheld, the patient is monitored closely for signs of change in their disease or the development of new symptoms. If it is determined at any time that the cancer is improving, active treatment may then be started.

Hormonal Therapy

Male sex hormones, such as testosterone, are created naturally within the body. Prostate cancer can develop in response to these hormones, so therapy to block the production or results of these hormones is sometimes used.

Surgery

The principal goals of surgery are to eliminate the cancerous tissue from the body, to remove other structures that may contain cancer (such as lymph nodes), and to minimize damage to any normal, cancer-free tissues and organs that are nearby.

Follow-up care after treatment for prostate cancer is vital. Checkups help ensure that any amends in your health are treated and noted if needed. Checkups may include biopsies, x-rays, lab tests, or other tests. Among scheduled visits, you should call your doctor if you have any health problems.

The best thing about it is that you don’t need a good deal to get the benefits. Even just a few minutes a day can develop your health, well-being and help you:

• Lose weight
• Reduce stress
• Boost your mood
• Help you sleep better
• Increase bone density
• Give you more energy
• Improve your quality of life
• Strengthen the heart and lungs
• Relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety
• Lessen your risk of heart disease and certain types of cancer

How much and what type of exercise you do will depend on your fitness goals, intensity and time constraints, but a full exercise program should include strength training, cardio and flexibility exercises.

There are some fundamental principles that rule the world of exercise, and knowing them can help you set up and control different components of your workout.

In developing an efficient physical fitness program, you must hold to basic exercise principles, regardless of your fitness level.

• Balance – Overstating one part of fitness inhibits your general progress. Include all four of the elements on a normal basis to achieve proper balance.
• Overload – In order to acquire a training effect, the work load of each exercise session must exceed normal demands placed on the body. Find your one rep max lift for each exercise then rest the sum of weight used during each exercise at a level that will cause muscle failure with 8-10 repetitions.
• Progression – The duration and intensity of exercise must slowly increase to improve the level of fitness.
• Recovery – Alternating hard and easy days for each component of fitness or alternating muscle groups every other day, allows muscle repair and growth. Recovery can help avoid burn-out and injury.
• Regularity – A regular fitness program entails exercising the four components of fitness at least 3 times a week. The four components are: muscular strength, cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular endurance, and flexibility.
• Specificity – Arrange your training towards your exact goals. For example, increase your 2 mile run time using specific cardio-respiratory activities such as interval training.
• Variety – Variety is the answer to a lifelong course because it relieves boredom and increases motivation and progress. Your muscles’ memory cells will stop budding if you don’t shock them occasionally with a change in your routine.

Exercising can mean strength training, sweating on a treadmill or even daily activities that we usually don’t think about, like climbing stairs, walking, housekeeping or even going for heavy shopping and walking back from the grocery store. It’s about keeping your body moving. In fact studies have shown that are short stretches of exercise can be just as effective for weight loss and health as longer exercise. This is due to the reality that many people find it easier to stick with shorter exercises.

It is forever essential that you start out with a warm up routine before exercising, this is needed to help avoid cramps during your routine and a cooling down period is also needed after your routine to allow the muscles to relax slowly.

If you don’t have much time to work out then you can do what is know as a cross training workout, this workout will allow you to workout with various equipment and exercise different muscle groups.

The main benefit this type of work out has to offer is that your exercise routine never gets boring and is an excellent way to exercise many muscle groups.

Warming up is still as essential then you could take in such exercises as walking on a treadmill, rowing, stepping and cycling, spending few minutes on each piece of equipment. Remember to cool off with gentle bending and stretching.

It is just as important to cool off after every exercise and this can be done the same way as you did for warming up with stretches.

The key is dedication; it’s about making exercise a main concern in your life by managing your time effectively so that you can incorporate exercise large or small into your daily routine. People who exercise frequently do not have extra hours in a day but have made exercise a priority rather than doing other things such sleeping, watching TV and etc. It’s about making exercise component of your day and stick to it.

You can achieve anything you set your mind to, once you have decided to go for it and have made the dedication then the next step is to start taking action towards reaching your goal, taking the first step is actually the hardest part because it means going out there and actually doing something. Thinking on what it is you have to do is the easy part as is saying you are committed to doing, but doing means facing the strange and putting your plan into action and this stage is very often where most people fail, because things get in the way and stops us from moving forward.

Exercise is physical activity that is configured and is prepared at certain intensity for a certain length of time. We take on in physical activity for health advantages if we wish to avoid disease and delay death. We take on in physical activity for fitness benefits in order to develop some components of physical fitness like cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscle endurance, muscle strength, and body composition.

Exercise such as walking can help you reduce the risk of developing brittle bones later in life and help with problems such as constipation, menstrual problems and pre menstrual problems.

Benefits to your health in the long term are numerous, exercising for as little as 30 minutes per day 5 days a week will reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and the development of diabetes. It can also have a positive effect on people who suffer from high blood pressure, often helping to bring it lower.

Research has proved that any amount of exercise, at any age, is beneficial. And, in general, the more you do, the greater the benefits. Physical activity is an essential ingredient of any weight-loss program, to get the most out of your fat loss while keeping valuable muscle mass. But exercise has many other health and longevity benefits. It can help avoid or improve these conditions:

Type II Diabetes. This disease is increasing at alarming rates and 17 million Americans now have it. Physical activity can develop weight loss and help stop and/or control this condition. Losing weight can boost insulin sensitivity, develop blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and decrease blood pressure – all of which are very significant to the health of people with diabetes.

Stroke. In an analysis of studies, researchers found that being active decreases your risk of having and dying from a stroke. Moderately active study participants had 20% less risk of stroke than less active participants.

Heart Disease. Regular activity fortifies your heart muscle; increases “good” cholesterol; lowers blood pressure and lowers “bad” cholesterol; enhances blood flow; and helps your heart function more efficiently. All of these benefits lessen the risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.

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Heart disease is a word that covers a variety of conditions that concern the performance of the heart; the most common of these is ischemic heart disease, this occurs when there is inadequate blood supply to the heart which is usually caused by fatty deposits building up in the vessels that supply the blood to the heart.

If you have heart disease, all the “healthy-heart suggestions” apply more to you than to other people. No matter what sort of heart disease you have, your general level of physical fitness will find out how well your heart can give back. Also, you’re perhaps at risk of developing heart disease, such as high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, just like other people your age. That’s why you must eat a balanced diet, keep up a reasonable body weight and stay at least moderately active physically.

One of the most significant things that you can do to uphold your health is to learn about your heart disease. Don’t rely on your parents, primary care doctor or someone else to do this for you. Think about your heart disease before having herbal preparations, taking any over-the-counter medications, vitamins, or prescription medications or before having any medical or surgical procedures. Discuss any possible cardiac side effects or drug contacts with your primary care physician, pharmacist or cardiologist.

Living a healthy way of life which consists of eating a right healthy diet and exercise will help lessen the risk of heart diseases, being vigorous and having a daily exercise routine is the best way to keep the heart healthy.

Lack of physical activity is notion to cause over a third of all deaths from heart disease, it is recommended by health experts that we should have 30 minutes of moderate exercise at least 5 days out of 7. Make physical activity part of your every day life. Physical activity fortifies your heart, lungs and muscles. Regular exercise will also help you maintain a healthy weight.

Choose lower fat foods, including fish, poultry, lean meats and lower fat dairy products. Use small amounts of added fats like butter, margarine, salad dressings, oil and fat spreads. Eat more foods with soluble fiber such as lentils, dried beans, oat bran, peas, apples, strawberries and citrus fruits, which contain pectin. Soluble fiber helps to lower blood cholesterol.

Eating in excess of salt can make your body retain fluid, increase your blood pressure and make your heart work harder. Cook with very little salt and use none at the table. Use spices and herbs to flavor foods instead of salt.

Learn to manage the stress in your life. Ask yourself what you can perform to keep it all together in your work and personal life. Learn relaxation techniques and try to laugh every day. Find ways to take greater manage over your work and life.

Judo is a derived of jujitsu and is the correct word used to refer to that art in today’s language. The word judo particularly explains the truer meaning of the art as it is practiced today. The “ju” part of the word means “gentleness” and implies a flexibility of techniques, while the “do” part means “way” and signifies the application of the “ju” principle in the execution of the techniques, not only in the physical exertions of the judoist but also in his mental attitude. The older “jitsu”, which was changed by “do”, meant “technique” or “art”.

The study of judo with no understanding of its secrets – that is, its metaphysical side – leaves one in partial mental emptiness. You must first realize that the study of true judo is representative of behavior and mental attitudes. The subconscious mind is where our behavior guides are collected in an immense reservoir of our years of experience.

Training in judo controls the mind through physical-symbolic exercises, bringing about a maturity of the skill of higher logic. It is the use of this skill that portrays the mental response of the judoist to a given situation when it arises. This calmness of mind is developed in correct judo practice, but the true reservoir of mental composure is built through Zen meditation.

Self-defense in judo is only one basic aspect of this art. The nucleus must be mind control, in order that mastery of the self-defense techniques may be achieved. It is important for us to comprehend that even though Zen originated in a religious environment, it is a philosophy and can be applied to any of our personal beliefs.

Judo uses easy and effective, gentle techniques like grappling, throwing, blocks, body striking etc. which are subdivided further. There are also the different forms out of which ‘Randori’ (free style sparring) is given a major emphasis. Standing and ground phases form the two phases of Combat. This is the essential part of Combat in Judo. In Judo different styles are performed in different parts of the world, among which ‘Kodokan Judo’ is well known and most popular than any other style in this form of Martial art. Though this form is an effective way of self-protection, intense and dedication training are at the basic levels in order to qualify for defending oneself.

With its gentle methods, this complete featured martial art has developed as a popular sport. It is also made an event in the Olympics. It is practically a harmless sport and can be practiced by youth un-harming themselves. Like any other Martial arts it trains self discipline, manage over one’s self and improved mental ability. A phrase is mostly recited among the Judo players which goes like this; “the best training for Judo is Judo”, which seems to be utterly genuine and true.

A supplement is something added to the diet, normally to make up for a nutritional deficiency. Ideally, it should be used as a substitute for eating well. Supplements include the following:

• Herbs
• Minerals
• Vitamins
• Amino Acids
• Other Botanicals

Sport supplements are dozens of dime, but the first that you should look into getting is a good multi- vitamin. Besides from the all-purpose health benefits a multi-vitamin takes into the table, you also ensure that you are getting all the vitamins and minerals your body needs throughout the day; which as a bodybuilder is much higher then the sedentary individual. Multi-vitamins are never a replacement for a healthy diet filled with vegetables and fruits, they should only be used as quality assurance. With that being said, ensure you spend in a well named brand, a lot of time what is written on the labels is not true with what is inside the vitamin so go with companies with a track-record, not the miracle cure pills. Multi-vitamins will not help greatly in building mass quick, but it will aid in recovery by ensuring that your body is getting the nutrients it needs on a daily basis.

There are a number of unique supplements that have a key role in reducing the effects of exercise-induced stress on the body.  They aid in helping the body’s soft tissue, connective tissue, nervous system, immune system, and endocrine system recover from not only intense exercise but the stress of everyday life.  It is important to keep all of these areas healthy and in balance or they will adversely affect another area of the body.

The FDA is prohibited from eliminating a product from the market except it can prove that the product will cause a medical problem. Most health hazards of supplements are learned after the product is on the market. Supplements that are hauled from the market are usually connected to a reported death or serious health risk that is tied to the use of the product.