Imagine that! Entrepreneurs Advised to keep day job!

I read this from a Chicago Business Article. I thought it was quite interesting. For as long as I have been in direct sales, they always pushed doing your business full time when in reality that does not fit for everyone. So enjoy the post!

Quit your job and devote all of your energy (and finances) to starting a business: That once sounded like the best formula for entrepreneurial success. But at times like this, when jobs are scarce, would-be entrepreneurs are gravitating toward a safer and, in some ways, more challenging path: moonlighting—keeping a full-time job while nurturing a startup in their off hours.

“In the end, it's probably the smartest thing,” says Barry Moltz, a Chicago-based business consultant and contributor to Crain's small-business blog, Enterprise City. “Because you don't know if you're going to be successful and you don't know if you're cut out to be an entrepreneur.”

Tiffany Kurtz started a cupcake business in 2009 with her husband, who works in automotive retail management. Ms. Kurtz, a marketing executive in the Chicago office of New York-based OmniCom Group Inc., had been thinking about starting a side business for a while. Last fall, she finally decided the time was right.

“The economy was really going south,” Ms. Kurtz says. “And especially in advertising and marketing, people were losing their jobs left and right. . . .You just never know what's going to happen.”

Their business, Flirty Cupcakes, sells baked goods out of a van that cruises downtown Chicago. Because the location and hours of the van (known by customers as “Big Blue”) change daily, its whereabouts are updated through social media. Flirty Cupcakes has more than 3,600 followers on Twitter and 7,300 Facebook fans.

Ms. Kurtz, 40, and her husband saw Flirty Cupcakes as a small venture they could start with their savings. They expected to invest about $20,000 to outfit the van; it ultimately cost $50,000. That included the addition of a generator, a second air conditioner and replacement of the van's floor and walls—twice. (The first time, the city's health department said the van's interior wasn't smooth enough.)

Ms. Kurtz and her husband drive the van on some nights and weekends, but they've hired two bakers and two drivers to help carry the load.

Tricia Gott, meanwhile, is thinking about beer—when she's not working as a lead systems analyst for OfficeMax Inc. With Rich Szydlo, head bartender at Chicago restaurant onesixtyblue, she has launched Big Shoulders Beer Co.

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Empowering Your Life with Selenium! Cancer Fighting

Selenium- Cancer Fighting Mineral

This sulfur-like mineral (pronounced suh-LEE-nee-um) is an antioxidant that apparently helps to prevent cancer and hypertension. (In areas of the United States and Canada where selenium is scarce in the soil, cancer and stroke rates are higher.) Selenium also helps to regulate the action of thyroid hormones.

Good sources of selenium include whole-grain cereals, organ meats, chicken, egg yolks, seafood, milk, and garlic. (Selenium is often added to antioxidant vitamin supplements, too.) In places where the soil is rich in selenium, many plants contain higher than average amounts of the mineral.

Here's another important nutrient - Selenium. Researchers at the University of Arizona have done clinical trials that show those who had more selenium in their blood had lower incidence of colorectal tumors. Selenium has also been found to be effective in keeping the prostrate health.
Selenium is one of the best antioxidants and should be included in your daily supplements. The recommended daily dose for, Women is 50-55 mcg Men is 65-70 mcg.

Why selenium is good for you ?
Selenium is another important mineral for the health of the thyroid gland - it helps it to work properly and reduces goitre. It is helpful in fighting infections since it stimulates increased antibody response to infections and promotes more energy in the body. Selenium is a potent antioxidant.

One of the main activities of selenium is its anti-aging properties and its ability to help rid the body of free radicals, as well as toxic minerals such as mercury, lead and cadmium.
Selenium helps with alleviating menopausal symptoms in women and it also assists men in producing healthy sperm. Tissue elasticity and pancreatic function is also dependent on this mineral.

Groups at risk of selenium deficiency
· Men - men need more selenium than women as it is lost in the seminal fluid
· Chronically ill patients - muscular weakness, muscle wasting, and cardiomyopathy (inflammation and damage to the heart muscle) have been noted in these patients.
· People with large sections of their small intestine removed - these people have impaired absorption of selenium and may need supplementation
· People with severe gastrointestinal problems, such as Crohn's disease - these people have impaired absorption of selenium and may need supplementation
People on specialized medical diets to treat metabolic disorders - people on these diets (ie one for as phenylketonuria - PKU), are often low in selenium due to the restrictions of their diet and may need supplementation People in these groups at risk of deficiency should talk to a medical professional about selenium supplements BEFORE taking them.

Minerals are so important to our health. The body utilizes over 80 minerals for maximum function. Since our soils are so depleted, even if we eat the healthiest foods, we are not getting all the minerals we need. If we don't supplement with good quality colloidal minerals, we can actually be suffering from "mineral malnutrition". Most "cheap" supplements contain only a few minerals (less than 20) and are usually in the metallic or non-soluble forms, which the body can't use.

· Did you know that "selenium": Is an effective antioxidant?
· Neutralizes certain poisonous substances?
· Is used in the treatment of various skin diseases?
· May help deter cancer?

Selenium is essential to mammals and higher plants in small amounts. It is said to stimulate the metabolism, and is an antioxidant, protecting cells and tissues from damage wrought by free radicals. Because its antioxidant effects complement those of Vitamin E, the two taken together, help reinforce each other. These two compounds together are extremely important in preventing free radical damage to cell membranes. Selenium also supports immune function and neutralizes certain poisonous substances such as cadmium, mercury, and arsenic that may be ingested or inhaled. Although it's full therapeutic value is unknown, adequate selenium levels may help combat arthritis, deter heart disease and prevent cancer. Or to look at it another way, low levels selenium may put people at higher risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases and premature aging.

Sodium selenate is an insecticide used to combat insects that attack cultivated plants, particularly chrysanthemums and carnations; the insecticide is scattered around the roots and is carried by the sap throughout the plant. Selenium sulfide is used in the treatment of dandruff, acne, eczema, seborrheic dermatitis, and other skin diseases.

Whole grains, asparagus, garlic, eggs, mushrooms, lean meat and seafood are good sources of selenium.

Don't wait for yet another age spot to appear on your hands, face or neck as the summer sun wanes into autumn this year. Research indicates that you can help to protect your skin from these unsightly brown spots - the result of a life time's accumulation of sun damage - by taking supplements such as selenium and vitamins A and E.

Intake of selenium in the UK has halved in the last 50 years and incidence of skin cancer has risen. Research by Dr Roddie McKenzie at the University of Edinburgh suggests that the most protective effects of taking selenium occur in people short of this vital trace element, which is most of us!

His work has shown that protection is greatest if a selenium antioxidant is taken before exposure to UV irradiation. This reduces damage to skin cell membranes following exposure to ultraviolet light. In laboratory protected cells incubated with selenium-containing proteins only 13% died after exposure to ultraviolet [UVB] compared with 79% of those without selenium protection.
Selenium also seems to protect cells from DNA damage so that sun damage is less likely to trigger the development of skin cancer.

What are good food sources of selenium?
Brazil nuts, offal, cereal grains and fish. As selenium is distributed unevenly in the soil the amount of selenium found in food depends in which area it was grown or reared. It would appear that Norfolk is an area in the UK with good supplies of selenium in the soil, but generally soil levels tend to be low.

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Debbi's Herbal Tips: Sage Tea Recipe

Make your Own Herbal Sage Tea Good for the cold and flu season!

My mom grows sage in her backyard. So I have my own free sage supply. It makes great dressing as well.

It has been said American people would do well if they would use sage instead of tea and coffee. The Chinese make fun of the American people because they buy the expensive tea for their drink and pay a big price for it, while the Chinese buy sage from America for a small price and drink that for their tea, which is a most wonderful remedy.

The Chinese know that the sage tea will keep them well, while the tea that we buy from the Chinese makes us sick, is a cause of great nervousness and one of the causes of insanity. Sage tea is very soothing to the nerves, good for stomach troubles, gas, makes an excellent gargle for the throat, will expel worms, stop bleeding of wounds, good for liver and kidney troubles, a good wash for wounds, good hair tonic, fever reducer, and good for circulation.

This tea should not be boiled, just steeped. Information came from Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss. GREAT READ! THIS IS ON MY BOOK CLUB LIST.

Sage Tea Ingredients
1 tablespoon fresh sage leaf or 1 teaspoon dried sage
1 cup water
1 wedge lemon (optional)
honey, to sweeten (optional)

Sage Tea Directions
1. Bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and put sage in the water. Let steep for about 3-5 minutes.
2. Strain, pour in cup, add lemon and honey, if desired, and drink. You may drink this hot or cold. Enjoy!

Used carefully and properly over time, it has many wonderful benefits, unimaginable to most non-Native people in the Far West. Over-used, or used improperly (if boiled for example), it is poisonous and causes toxic build-up in the liver that can lead to serious damage and painful, frightening symptoms such as muscular spasms that if ignored can lead to death.

Properly used, sage heals the problems that it causes if used without proper understanding of this herb. Anyway, this recipe is a good one, DO NOT recommend that you steep it for longer, as after five minutes the toxic chemicals in ANY HERB always begin to steep out. That is why black or green tea, coffee (and anything else really) all have nasty effects when over-steeped.

Rapper Master P "Percy Miller" support Home Base Business

Home base business is going to be the way to financial freedom. It has already been forcasted to be a Trillion Dollar industry. Network Marketing!

Percy Miller better known as the rapper "Master P" has just joined the home base business. He states: "Instead of spending a couple hundred dollars at the mall, you could put that money towards starting your own small business."

"If you just sacrifice $500 from your weekly personal expenses and invest that in a one-time investment in yourself, you will not only be able to afford more in the future, but you will also be building generational wealth for your family."

Percy Millers hopes his latest business endeavor with his younger brother Silkk the Shocker (rapper) will be a model of success for those attempting to break into this lucrative industry.

He also states: "This is about exposing people to other opportunities that lead to financial freedom. If you can afford to buy Nike Air Jordan collection for $310 or Ture Religion jeans for $250 during this financial crisis, then you can afford a one-time investment into your own business to secure your financial freedom for your future."

We have the idea home based business with just $35 plus initial products to present to your customers of $125-$300, you can have the financial freedom with a little hard work and sacrifice, you can take back the power of your own finances.

I was in the employment staffing office downtown and there where so many people who had been laid off and they didn't see it coming. They were in despair. Most of them been on their jobs 20-30 years and have no other backgrounds or skills to restart the job hunt.

They had NO PLAN B!!!! Take control back from Corporate America and get your Plan B with Soul Purpose Lifestyle. I had the recruiter ready to join us for her plan B!

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