Neways North America Sends Aid to Haiti Earthquake Survivors

SPRINGVILLE, Utah, Jan 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In response to the earthquake that recently ripped through Haiti, Neways North America (www.neways.com/usa) is sending more than 6,000 hygiene items to assist survivors of this tragic event.

"How can you not look at the news and see the devastation and not want to help?" asked managing director Thierry Sorhaitz. "I am so grateful that I work for a company that cares and responds to those in need." Neways North America partnered with Globus Relief, a nonprofit organization, to ship its donation to Haiti and is very grateful for their trusted partnership.

Globus Relief and Neways have worked together on many projects.

"Thanks to donors like Neways, Globus Relief is able to make a timely response to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake," said Globus Relief's director of donor relations, Darlyn Eddington. "With our distribution channels in place, the Neways donation of hygiene products will help meet the critical needs of those suffering such devastating losses. Thank you, Neways." This donation was put together quickly, thanks to the combined efforts of many Neways employees, including the stock-room employees who prepared the shipment, the driver who rushed it to Globus, and others who organized the aid.

"It's great to see us all work together for the benefit of others," said Sorhaitz. "It's a wonderful feeling to know that you're thinking outside of yourself and to see everyone coordinate and come together for the common good." Neways communications coordinator Megan Lavin's husband has family in Haiti. "I know that these products will make a huge difference in survivors' lives," she said. "It adds extra meaning to know that my company's products will be benefiting people so close to my heart. It helps me feel like I was able to contribute and add my small part." If you wish to donate, please contact Globus Relief at 801-977-0444.

About Neways Founded in 1992, Neways is dedicated to helping families transform their homes into Healthy Homes. With dozens of safe, effective nutritional and personal care products that are free of questionable ingredients, the company strives to make the world a healthier place, one home at a time.

In addition to providing exclusive products, Neways enhances people's lives with a home-based business opportunity. About half a million active Neways distributors share the products in 29 countries, with nearly half of the company's annual revenues paid back to distributors as commissions.

For more info, contact Rick and Julia Irrgang at 928-801-2248

The Best Business Keeps Getting Better

Conversation From the Corner Office:
Posted by Rick Irrgang
02.04.10

I was reading through some of Richard Brooke's older articles today and found one that rang a resounding bell. As I find my self unemployed for the second time in as many years. Julia and I give thanks that we made a really good decision 4 years ago to supplement our "not" so regular income with the company we choose to do business with called Neways. Without it, we'd be having a very hard time dealing with having NO JOB. Do you see your self in this position today or know someone who is? It's not fun. Sleepless nights, constant low level irritation and not having the money to do the things you truly want to do, it's just not fun. Please take a few moments to read the following. Perhaps it will ring true with you too! Julia and I have found a way to live an Amazing life and we can show you how to as well.
When you are done reading, we invite you to scroll back to the top of our blog and listen to a dear friend of ours on the subject of "Creating Wealth". It might be the best 38 minutes of the day.

The Best Business Keeps Getting Better
Posted By: Richard B. Brooke
Date Posted: October 21, 2009

"(MLM) is the best-kept secret in the business world."
— Fortune magazine

"Dollar for dollar, (MLM) is the best investment I've ever made."
— Warren Buffet

It’s a grim economic picture these days. Businesses are downsizing, going virtual or going offshore and taking our jobs with them. That’s bad news. Making matters worse, the recession that is gripping our economy — while showing some signs of recovery — has hit many of us hard. The unemployment rate is hovering around 10 percent, a 26-year high. And there is a widening gap between the richest and poorest Americans as these rippling job layoffs ravage household budgets.

Not everybody is struggling. Many of us who have pursued Network Marketing have gone from relying on an employer to pay us and take care of our security, to us “getting it” that we are our only security. What was once considered risky — starting your own business — is rapidly becoming known as the smartest way to reduce taxes, increase your income, build net worth and create free time.

So just how promising is Network Marketing? Could it be the answer to the financial security you’re looking for? And just as important, is this industry tested and proven?

To answer these questions, I’ve included a link to an educational and eye-opening video I recently recorded called The Industry. It takes a good, hard look at this 60-year-old industry from an insider’s perspective as I explain the proven merits of the Network Marketing and how it can truly offer a viable solution to a lifetime of financial security.

I encourage you to take a few minutes and watch The Industry because the truth is, for most of us, the traditional business approach is out of reach.

Why? Hundreds of thousands in start-up capital — all at risk and far more than a full-time effort with competitors around every corner. There are no solid mentors and no life beyond the business.

Network Marketing provides an alternative for those serious about their net worth and their freedom.

In his best-selling book, The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach says, “the beauty of this industry is that it’s all done for you. The only thing you need to do is find a reputable company — one that you trust, that offers a product or service you believe in and can get passionate about.”

Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad says, “you’re actually building an income-generating asset. Direct selling gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.”

And what once may have been looked down upon as a peddler’s opportunity is now seen far differently by those that should know. In the past few years alone, Network Marketing has been showcased in Forbes, Fortune, USA Today, US News and World Report and the Wall Street Journal.

“The best-kept secret of the business world.” That’s how an article in Fortune magazine described Network Marketing in August 2004.

In 2002, Warren Buffet got many people’s attention when Berkshire Hathaway purchased a major Direct Sales company. Buffet now owns three Direct Sales companies and has said, “dollar for dollar, it’s the best investment I’ve ever made.”

Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Records and a host of other Virgin companies, founded Virgin Cosmetics in the UK — a Direct Sales company. The list of major MLM investors reads like a who’s who: Bertelsmann, The Body Shop, Crayola, Hallmark Cards, Jockey, Nestle, Remington Industries, Sara Lee, Unilever and Time Warner.

In his most recent book, The Next Millionaires, Paul Zane Pilzer forecasts 10 million new millionaires in the U.S. over the next 10 years, and predicts many of them will be people who are getting involved in their own Network Marketing business now.

Network Marketing has grown every year for the past 20, jumping over 91 percent in just the past 10 years. Today, more than 40 million of us enjoy annual sales of $30 billion in the U.S. and $100 billion worldwide.

Every week, an average of 175,000 new people in the U.S., and an additional 300,000 worldwide, get their starter kit, learn their products and start offering their opportunity to others. Some will persevere with a personal vision of fun, health and abundance and go on to live extraordinary lives. Others will not harness this personal power and will move on. Either way, the opportunity to be part of a great movement in our country and the world is available to all of us.

We cannot deny that we are smack-dab in the middle of the opportunity to change our lives and the lives of our families for generations to come. Not just with the wealth we can create, but with the wisdom to live lives worthy of such abundance. What we do with it today, tomorrow and every day is entirely up to us. As good ol’ Henry Ford said profoundly: “If we think we can, we will. If we think we can’t, we won’t.”

It does not take a Ph.D to figure out how things won’t work for you. Actually, any idiot can decide that fate. It takes vision, courage and creativity to figure out every day how it will work for you.

Make it happen for yourself. Do it ANYWAY!

www.RichardBrooke.com

How Hard is it to Spell "D"?

Conversations From the Corner Office
Posted by Rick Irrgang
02-02-10


How Hard is it to Spell ‘D’?

According to a paper in the current British Medical Journal, “more than 50% of the adult population (in Great Britain) had insufficient levels of vitamin D and 16% had severe deficiency during winter and spring”. Another recent study found that an alarming 69 percent of pregnant women (and 78 percent of women who aren’t pregnant) are vitamin-D deficient. Indeed, it is estimated that 77 percent of the U.S. population suffers from vitamin D deficiency.
This is a matter of urgent concern, given that 17 different cancers have been linked, at least in part, to vitamin-D deficiency (the lower one’s vitamin-D status, for example, the higher the risk of breast cancer and colon cancer.) Vitamin-D deficiency is also associated with strokes, asthma, autoimmune disorders, Parkinson’s disease, bone disorders, chronic pain, unsteadiness, poor balance and weakened immunity. Vitamin-D deficiency has been linked to a higher risk of heart disease among American children.
John Jacob Cannell, MD, of the Vitamin D Council, cites the connection between vitamin-D deficiency and influenza infection. According to Cannell, the majority of in-patients are vitamin D deficient.
Way back in 2003, the journal Clinical Epidemiology called vitamin-D deficiency an unnecessary pandemic. So why are public-health officials not jumping on the crisis and its remedy?

For more information about Vitamin D and other essential nutrients. Please visit our website at:
www.livesafeandhealthy.net
Or contact us directly at 928-830-2248. We can show you how to have a healthy home.

Toxins in Your So-Called "Organic" Health & Beauty Products

Conversations from the Corner Office.
Posted by Rick Irrgang
01.16.10 

Toxins in Your So-Called "Organic" Health & Beauty Products

Do you use Jason Pure, Natural & Organic, Avalon Organics, Kiss My Face ObsessivelyOrganic, Nature's Gate Organics, Stella McCartney 100% Organic, Giovanni Organic, Head Organics, Eminence Organic, Physicians Formula Organic Wear, Good Stuff Organics, Desert Essence Organics, or any "organic cosmetic" certified by Ecocert?
Hate to break it to you, but these so-called "organic" personal care products aren't really organic and actually contain hazardous ingredients that would never be allowed in products certified to USDA organic standards.
Yesterday, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), along with certified organic personal care brands Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Intelligent Nutrients, and Organic Essence, filed a complaint with the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), requesting an investigation into the widespread and blatantly deceptive labeling practices of leading so-called "Organic" personal care brands, in violation of USDA NOP regulations.
The complaint, filed on behalf of the estimated 50 million regular consumers of organic products, argues that products such as liquid soaps, body washes, facial cleansers, shampoos, conditioners, moisturizing lotions, lip balms, make-up and other cosmetic products produced by 12 different corporations have been advertised, labeled and marketed as "Organic" or "Organics" when, in fact, the products are not "Organic" as understood by the average health and environmental-minded organic consumer.
Read the complaint
In addition to the complaint, Organic Consumers Association's Coming Clean campaign has launched a boycott of cosmetics that claim to be organic, but aren't certified to organic standards as required by law.
Read more
We're encouraging our members to switch to USDA certified organic body care and cosmetics products, as part of a New Year's Resolution to "be more organic" in 2010.
Switching to organic health and beauty products is easy and affordable. The simplest personal care regime involves shaving with an organic shikakai shaving gel, washing your body and hair with organic soap, following that with an organic hair rinse, and then using a baking-soda-based organic deodorant and finally moisturizing with an organic lotion or balm make of vegetable oils.
On our body care page, we've listed 26 different health and beauty brands where every single item under the brand name is certified to USDA organic standards.
Learn more
We need your help to get the USDA to take enforcement action based upon our legal complaint. Please write to the USDA today.
We're also collecting the stories of consumers who have been defrauded by fake organic health and beauty care companies. Do you feel shammed? Please share your story with us.

To assure you and your family you are getting 100% safe and effective ingredieants in your personal care products, please visit us on the web at www.livesafeandhealthy.net. Purchase online for a 30% discount
Cheers from Rick and Julia
9280-830-2248

Your Best Year Ever? Yes 2010 Will Be If, You Want It to Be.

Conversations From the Corner Office.
Posted by Rick Irrgang
01.05.10

Happy New Year. As we get ready to tackle an other year, what are you going to do to have the best year ever?  Julia and I are excited about 2010 and are committed to making it our best year ever with Neways. What that really means is that we are committed to helping a lot of other peopla make 2010 an extraordinary year of prosperity where you have the time, money and good health to enjoy the lifestyle you really want.

I came across a very interesting list of 62 ways to make 2010 your best year yet. Please enjoy, save print and share this most wonderful list.

62 WAYS TO MAKE 2010 YOUR BEST YEAR YET
Kindly donated by Mr Robin Sharma
World Class Business Coach
1. Remember that leadership isn't about your position. It's about your influence.

2. Get fit like a pro athlete.

3. Lift people up versus tearing people down.

4. Protect your good name. An impeccable reputation takes a lifetime to build. And 60 seconds to lose.
5. Surround yourself with positive, ethical people who are committed to excellence.

6. Remember that even a 1% daily innovation rate amounts to at least a 100% rate of innovation in 100 days.

7. Believe in your dreams (even when others laugh at them).

8. Measure your success, not by your net worth but by your self worth (and how happy you feel).

9. Take an intelligent risk every 24 hours. No try-No Win.

10. Read "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist".

11. Watch "Man on Wire".

12. Regardless of your title at work, be a team builder.

13. Remember that business is all about relationships and human connections.

14. Say "please" more.

15. Say "thank you" more.

16. Know your Big 5: the five things that need to happen by the end of this year for you to feel its been your best year yet.

17. Read your Big 5 every morning while the rest of the world is asleep.

18. Read "As You Think". At least twice this year.

19. Be willing to fail. It's the price of greatness.

20. Focus less on making money and more on creating value.

21. Spend less, save more.

22. Leave everything you touch better than you found it.

23. Be the most positive person in every room you're in.

24. Run your own race.

24. Stay true to your deepest values and best ideals.

25. Write a handwritten thank you note to a customer/friend/loved one every day.

26. When you travel, send love letters to your kids on hotel stationary. In time, they'll have a rich collection to remember your travels by.

27. Read "Atlas Shrugged".

28. Be a problem solver versus a trouble maker.

29. Rather than doing many things at mediocrity do just a few things-but at mastery.

30. Honor your parents.

31. Commit to doing great work-whether anyone notices it or not. It's one of life's best sources of happiness.

32. Give more than you receive (another of the truths of happiness).

33. Have your 1/3/5/10/25 years goals recorded on paper and review them weekly.

34. Be patient. Slow and steady wins the race. The only reason businesses that went from zero to a billion in a year or two get featured in magazines is because 99% of businesses require a lot more time to win.

34. Underpromise and then overdeliver.

35. See part of your job as "a developer of people" (whether you work in the boardroom or the mailroom).

36. Wear your heart on your sleeve. When people see you're real, they'll fall in love with you.

37. Be authentic versus plastic.

38. Read "The Alchemist".

39. Remember that life wants you to win. So get out of your own way.

40. Consider that behind every fear lives your next level of growth (and power).

41. Eat less food.

42. Drink more water.

43. Rest when you need to.

44. Read "SUCCESS" magazine.

45. Write your eulogy and then live your life backwards.

46. Demand the best from yourself.

47. Remember that the more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

48. See everything that happens to you as an opportunity to grow (and therefore, as a precious gift).

49. Be obsessed with learning and self-development.

50. Become comfortable alone (you are the only person you get to be with your whole life).

51. Smile. It's a stunningly effective way to win in business and life.

52. Reflect on the shortness of life.

53. Be bold when it comes to your dreams but gentle with those you love.

54. Remember that success is dangerous because it can kill drive/innovation/passion and going the extra mile. Be successful yet stay hungry.

55. Read "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

56. Be of deep value to this world.

57. Own beautiful things but don't let them own you.

58. Use excellent words.

59. Laugh more.

60. Don't complain, gossip or be negative.

61. Plan as if you'll live forever but live as if you'll die tomorrow.

62. Feel free to pass these lessons on to those you want to help.

The High Cost of So-Called Cheap Food

Conversations From the Corner Office
Posted by Rick Irrgang, CEO of my life
12.23.2009

I ran across an interesting article about food today.  Julia and I do what we can to protect our health. From what we eat to what we let come in to contact with our skin, it all makes a big difference. Please enjoy today's feature. If you'd like to know more about protecting you and your family, please contact me at rick@lifesafeandhealthy.net 

The High Cost of So-Called Cheap Food

Over the past 65 years, chemical agriculture, factory farms, and now genetic engineering have devastated public health, wrecked the environment, and destabilized the climate. The U.S. public now spends $2.4 trillion dollars a year on health care, $800 billion of which is directly attributable to consuming chemical-laden junk food.
After poisoning us with cheap food and destroying the environment, Big Food Inc. turns us over to Big Pharma and the Industrial Health Complex to repair the damage, or rather to keep us alive long enough to extract maximum profits. But from the warped perspective of the for-profit health insurance industry, overweight and diseased people aren't very profitable. That's why health insurance corporations spend $350 billion per year trying to avoid coverage and deny claims. The vast, paper-pushing bureaucracy the for-profit insurance industry has created to help them avoid providing services soaks up 31% of all health care spending!
If we shifted the 31% of health care spending taken up by the administrative costs of the for-profit health insurance industry to a single-payer, universal health care system, we could cover the uninsured without increasing total health-care spending. The Organic Consumers Association supports single-payer, universal health care, with a focus on preventive health, diet, nutrition and stress-reduction.
However:

IF PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS A BILL THAT TAKES AWAY OUR HEALTH RIGHTS, THAT FORCES AMERICANS TO BUY OVERPRICED, INADEQUATE COVERAGE FROM THE FOR-PROFIT HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY, OCA WILL LAUNCH A BOYCOTT!

Eventually, we have to stop arguing over who's going to pay for out-of-control health care costs and restore public health! The real solution to our health care crisis is to stop subsidizing chemical and GMO food and farming, along with the destruction of our environment and our climate, and make the long overdue transition to organics. Then, under universal healthcare or Medicare for All, we can shift from health care that treats sickness caused by unhealthy food and an unhealthy environment and lifestyle to health care that promotes wellness.

Best wishes for a healthy wealthy 2010 from Rick and Julia Irrgang

Are You Living in a Healthy Wealthy Home?

Conversations From the Corner Office.
12-16-09
Posted by Rick Irrgang

Are your personal care products safe? As we come near the end of the year and start making plans for 2010, why not make plans to make you and your home a healthy wealthy home? Did you know that you can get paid to make the change? Let us show you how.
Please read todays post and see if you home is a healthy home.


Dangerous chemicals contaminate our polluted
world, yet we often turn a blind eye to the potential
dangers from chemicals in our everyday lives, even
though they can be avoided. This is especially true of the products in our bathrooms.
What is on the ingredients list?
You may be surprised.
Harmful or Carcinogenic Ingredients Commonly Found in Products
Diethanolamine (DEA) (shampoos, body washes, bubble bath, shaving cream)
Triethanolamine (TEA) (moisturizers, cosmetics, deodorant, toothpaste, body oils, washes)
Sodium Laureth Sulphate (SLES) (as above)
Propylene Glycol (moisturisers, shaving cream, deodorants, baby products)
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) (shampoo, bubble bath, shaving foam, cleansers etc)
Sodium Fluoride (toothpaste)
Alcohol (mouthwash, toners, baby products)
Talc (baby powder, make-up, foot preparations)
Glycerine (moisturizers, lotions)
PABA (sunscreens)
PEG (cosmetics, make-up, shaving cream)
Artificial flavours (toothpaste, mouthwash)
Artificial colours (make-up, toothpaste, shampoos)
Ether (nail treatments, shampoo, conditioner)
Coal Tars (shampoo, conditioner, hair dyes, soap, skin care, cosmetics)
Aluminium (antiperspirants)
Acetone (nail polish remover)
Formaldehyde (antiperspirants, nail treatments, perfumes)
Fluorocarbons (hair spray)
Dioxins (shampoo)
Petrolatum or Mineral Oil (baby products, washes)
This list is not exhaustive and the above ingredients are found in many more products than just those
indicated.
Unique Cancer Risk from Cosmetics and Personal Care Products.

Dr Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, states that mainstream industry cosmetics
and personal care products (CPCPs) are the single most important, yet generally unrecognized, class of
avoidable carcinogenic exposures for the overwhelming majority of citizens in major industrial nations. The
reason for these unique risks reflects a complex of individual and interactive factors such as:
• Interaction between different ingredients: even though a specific ingredient might not be in itself a
“frank” carcinogen it might be a “hidden” carcinogen that may, under certain conditions, have
carcinogenic properties when it combines with other ingredients in a product.
• Prolonged duration of exposure: the concern is that daily exposure, over a lifetime, of toxic ingredients,
many of which are left on skin, has a cumulative negative effect.
• High permeability of skin: the skin is highly permeable to carcinogenic and other toxic ingredients,
especially following prolonged exposure.
• Effect of wetting agents on skin permeability: the permeability of skin to carcinogens, besides other
toxic ingredients, is further increased by the presence of wetting agents or surfactants, probably the
most common class of ingredients in the majority of CPCPs.
• Bypassing detoxifying enzyme: carcinogens in CPCPs pose greater cancer risks than does food
contaminated with carcinogenic pesticides and other industrial carcinogens as they are not detoxified
by the liver but reach the general blood circulation without this protective detoxification.

Frank & Hidden Carcinogens
Acrylate
acid orange 3
Acrylate copolymers
amorphous silicates
Benzyl acetate
blue 1,2,4
bromonitrodioxane
bronopol
bronopol (2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol)
butyl benzylphthalate
Butylated hydroxyanisole
butylated hydroxytoluene
Ceteareth-3
chlorhexidine
Choleth-24
chrystalline silica
coal tar dyes
DEA
DEA-Cocamide & Lauramide & Oleamide condensates
DEA-cocamide/lauramide condensates
DEA-MEA/ Acetame
DEA-Sodium lauryl sulfate
diaminoanisole
diaminophenol
diaminotoluene
diazolidinyl urea
Diethanolamide-cocamide, lauramide & oleamide
condensates
dioctyl adipate
disperse blue1
disperse yellow3
DMDM-Hydantoin
ethoxylated alcohols
ethyl alcohol
fluoride
formaldehyde
glutaral
green 1,2,3
hydroquinone
Imidazolidinyl urea
lanolin
Laureth's
Methacrylate copolymers
metheneamine
Metheneamine
methylene chloride
Morpholine
nitrophenylenediamine
Nonoxynol
Oleth's
Padimate-O (octyldimethyl para-amino benzoic acid)
PEG's (polyethylene glycols)
polyoxymethyleneurea
Polysorbate 60
Polysorbate 80
polyvinyl acetate
polyvinyl pyrrolidone
p-phenylphenylenediamine
pyrocatechol
Pyroglutamic Acid
Quaternium-15
quaternium-26
red 4,9,17,19,22,33,40
saccharin
Sodium/Hydroxymethylglycinate
talc
TEA
TEA-Sodium lauryl sulfate
titanium dioxide
Yellow 5,6,8

Wow, are you interested in learning more? It was this list that we read that started our commitment to sharing Our safe and effective products with the world.