There are so many dangerous diseases, viruses, and deadly bacteria in our world. People can die in accidents, in wars, or from violence on the street. But even if you are able to avoid all of those things, 100% of all the people who have ever lived in the past have died, and even those who avoided the wars, accidents, violence, and diseases eventually died of old age. You see, there is no cure for old age.

But, if you live a healthier life, you will better your odds of living to your full potential, to a ripe old age. In fact, it has been said by more than one futurist that if you can live another 20 or 30 years, they will have a cure for old age, something that can help you live for another hundred years, and by then they will have solved the problem. Therefore you need to figure out a way to live another 30 years. The best way to do that is to exercise, eat right, and get the right supplements.

In fact, Aubrey de Gray and Ray Kurzweil have both done incredible amounts of research on longevity. Did you know that Ray Kurzweil takes over 180 different supplements per day? It’s true, and he has them all broken down into very small increments and even micro grams. What does he know that we don’t know? He understands there are certain supplements that the body very much needs, and he realizes there are certain anti-oxidants in certain types of foods that we may not get enough of.

The human body responds very well when it has the right supplements, nutrition, vitamins, and exercise. And here’s an interesting factoid; Dr. Terry Grossman who has studied the health benefits of dark chocolate has research which indicates that it could give a boost to your longevity. So if you aren’t eating right, and you have a sweet tooth, then why not eat dark chocolate which has all the proper antioxidants, along with some nutritional value rather than the junk food you are now eating with little or no nutritional value?

Indeed, with just a few changes in your lifestyle, your exercise regimen, and your diet – you may indeed be able to live that extra or 20 or 30 years into the future until science solves the problem of old age. Maybe this strategy might work for you too? Indeed, I hope you will please consider this and think on it.

Let kids help. Tis’ the season for “spring cleaning”, so there is an “abundance” of yard work to be done. Plant flowers together, hand off the lawn mower or start a garden- the healthy outcome of fruits and vegetables bring on is the best reward. Instead of playing “Wii tennis”, try actually “hitting the courts” or install a basketball hoop in the back yard.

According to USA Today, the National Wildlife Federation suggests that kids need to get out of the house and play outside; they call it “green hour.”

Have your kids “head out and explore nature”; there is plenty of it here in New Jersey. It doesn’t have to be structured- just get out there and explore our “great green earth!” Why not head on out to the park or hike a trail, such as the NJ Appalachian Trail or the Delaware and Raritan Canal. What a fantastic workout, you may even see a deer or two!

Get “creative” and build something. Become a volunteer at one of your local parks, there are several who are looking for some help to “build” and “plant trees.” You could try Mercer County Park or Grounds for Sculpture; often they both have “volunteer opportunities” and special events.

Grab a fishing pole! Fishing is very popular among several shore towns. You can even charter a boat or just “hang out” with the family by the dock. Take the tent and make it an “all nighter.” Don’t push your kids- they don’t have to do everything- just get them involved more.

It’s time- time to get yourself and your family healthy once and for all! Are you searching for a Healthy way to Lose Weight with a Revolutionary Diet Approach?

Xocai Healthy Chocolate Weight Loss System has what you are looking for. Xocai Chocolate with “New Age ingredients” is revolutionary! Xocai Healthy Dark Chocolate products are “enriched” with “Super foods” such as: cacao, acai berries, blueberries, cacao fiber, apple fiber, chia seed oil, sunflower oil, and balsamic vinegar: all packed into one delicious protein meal. Other “high power nutrients” are whey protein isolate, 19 amino acids, vitamins and minerals, and low-glycemic sweeteners.

Are you hungry yet?

The Xocai X Protein Meal Shake, which boasts an amazing Total ORAC FN score of 56 500 per serving, can “radically boost” your “antioxidant (ORAC)” intake, which is helping you lose weight at the same time! By incorporating 2 X Protein Meal Shakes into your daily diet (ORAC value of 113 000), you will be packing enough nutrition that your body will begin to cleans and function at its “best!” An optimally healthy person needs at least 10 000, ORAC points daily and most of us have a “toxic free-radical” load – essentially, we need much more! (The average American only gets 1670 ORAC points daily.)

The X Protein Meal is “proven” to help lose pounds, boost energy and make you “feel fantastic!” Because it is made with “pure, whole-food ingredients” that are notorious to support weight loss and nourish the body in all the right ways.

The Xocai X Protein Diet is not a calorie restricted diet approach; therefore, you don’t need to eat LESS. You will completely replace the “junk in your diet” with TONS of Health Promoting Antioxidants! The shake tastes like “real chocolate” because it is REAL CHOCOLATE – the purest you can get! It doesn’t have that “chalky- chemical taste” you often get with commercial diet drinks!

It’s not just about losing the weight – it’s about how amazing you will feel. With the aid of flavanols, epicatechins, protein, EFAs and EAAs; your body is “flooded” with all the right things it needs to “cleanse”, and then “repair” cellular damage. Just two shakes a day will help you feel “energized” and “joyful!” It will give you that, “I can conquer the world” feeling! Not that “tired and hungry” feeling many other diets leave you.

Xocai products are distributed thru the network marketing company, MXI Corp.  If you would like more information on how to get started on the “Revolutionary Xocai Gourmet Chocolate Diet” and Home based business opportunity, please feel free to contact me.

Cary Snowden has posted a new Business Blogger Tip focussed on providing a simple template for writing our own content. And while there are a million ways to write an article yourself, it doesn’t hurt to have a little help, especially when you are just getting started.

Check out the full article titled A Simple Writing Structure For Your Post, and give it a try for your next article!

Conference calls designed for distributors and those interested in the “Xocolate” opportunity

RENO, Nev. (May 4, 2010) — Marketing Xocolate International Corporation (MXI-Corp), the leader in healthy dark chocolate products, holds regular conference calls throughout the week for distributors and those interested in product information. The conference calls are open to the public.

“As a network marketing corporation, it is vital we be in constant contact with our distributors all over the world,” said MXI-Corp Founder and Executive Vice President, Andrew Brooks. “These regular conference calls are a great opportunity to keep that communication channel open and to share the latest information and opportunities with our team.”

The conference call schedule includes:

• “Month-in-review” calls, hosted by corporate the first Monday of the month — 6:30 p.m. PT
• Compensation plan training, held the second Monday of the month — 6:30 p.m. PT
• The Science Behind Xoçai, presented by Dr. Steven Warren — 6:30 p.m. PT
• Business builder training, held the fourth and fifth Mondays — 6:30 p.m. PT
• Quick-start training for those new to the Xocai products, held every Monday — 6 p.m. PT
• Opportunity call, held Tuesdays and Thursdays — 6:30 p.m. PT
• A presentation by Dr. Steven Warren, held every Wednesday — 6:30 p.m. PT
• “The Doctor’s House-Call,” a presentation by Dr. Steven Warren every Friday — 9:30 a.m. PT

“These calls are designed to benefit distributors, and as a distributor, I can say that these calls do just that—supply distributors with guidance and up-to-date information they need to succeed,” said MXI-Corp Ambassador and Multi-Millionaire Member Adam Green, who is also president of Winner’s Circle International.

A detailed schedule of MXI-Corp’s conference calls, along with call-in numbers and pass-codes, is available on the corporate Website at http://mxicorp.com/conferencecalls/.

About Marketing Xocolate International Corporation

Established in 2005, Marketing Xocolate International Corporation (MXI-Corp) is the world leader in healthy, dark chocolate products. All MXI products are focused on potent doses of delicious, antioxidant-rich Belgian cacao. MXI-Corp believes that the high levels of natural antioxidants that are found in its cacao can provide a viable solution to individual nutritional needs. The Xoçai

(sho-sigh) line, which currently includes nine products, is manufactured utilizing a cold-press process, which preserves the nutritional values of the company’s proprietary blends of vitamins and minerals. Nevada-based MXI-Corp is a privately held company. The Brooks family, owners and operators of MXI-Corp, have total combined chocolate sales of more than $1 billion.

Archived press releases can be found at www.AdamPaulGreen.com.

I have included the entire article here.

“Home-based MLM businesses are growing at an accelerated rate due to layoffs, downsizing, mergers, and the need for second family incomes. What many entrepreneurs are missing out on and need to know is that there are allowable tax deductions that may reduce their gross income, thus significantly lowering what they owe Uncle Sam at the end of the year. This is great news! However, it comes with a word of warning. While you might enjoy some big benefits at tax time through deductions, the IRS has some very specific rules as to what it deems to be a hobby vs. a legitimate business expense. It’s essential that you study up to make sure you aren’t playing “audit roulette”!

With the rise in home-based MLM businesses, the IRS is taking a closer look to see if an operation is actually a business or a hobby. If you have a business, you can take losses associated with it as a deduction on your tax return. However, you are not allowed to deduct losses involved with hobbies. The best way to prove you have a business is to have net income, but that isn’t always possible. So, if you find you have losses, make sure to document in detail your business intent as well as your time and effort expended through business meals, mileage, office and promotional supply receipts etc. You don’t want the IRS to disallow your losses because they say your business is a hobby and not a real business.

Once you’ve established that your operation indeed qualifies as a business, then there are definitions of legitimate business deductions. Although every business is different, a broad definition presented in Stephen Fishman’s book, Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn, is: “Every tax deduction has to be reasonable and necessary, and directly related to business.” But, then there are the details, and one detail not to be overlooked is the question, “What is a legitimate deduction and what is not?”

Another equally important detail, as some entrepreneurs have learned only after the tax man has “come a knockin’ on their door,” is to keep accurate records of your qualifying expenses, then consult with and file your taxes using a knowledgeable and qualified tax consultant.

It really is better to be safe (informed and prepared) than sorry, as is illustrated in the case of Brenda Konchar, a Mary Kay representative, who filed her taxes, claiming items as business deductions. To her misfortune, the IRS disagreed because she claimed deductions that exceeded her income. She took her case to the tax court and lost with the court concluding that her deductions exceeded her income, and disallowed the losses. They stated that her pursuit was just a hobby, not a business and that even if she had had what they considered a business, her expenses were not legitimate business expenses.

Some statistics show that small or home based business owners are three times more likely to be audited than traditional business owners. “But that isn’t necessarily true,” says Jan Zobel, author of Minding Her Own Business: The Self-Employed Woman’s Guide to Taxes and Recordkeeping. “I don’t agree that chances of getting audited are greater with a home-based business.” The key is to use the term, “home office” the same way the IRS does.

In reality, your chances of being audited are about 1%. You’re not at a greater risk of being audited if you prepare your return in ink vs. a computer generated return. It also doesn’t raise red flags if you were the first to file your return or if you filed it a month after the deadline. Most returns are audited because of their Discriminate Function (DIF) score, a technique that compares your return’s income and deductions, against national averages.

To learn exactly what the IRS is looking for and to fall within a safe DIF score, you can visit the IRS website and see what deductions apply specifically to your type of home-based business and what documentation you are required to keep. The IRS website provides helpful, comprehensive information for small businesses. It lists a toll-free number in case you need more help with necessary forms and tools.

Another great resource is the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) website at Small Business Advocacy. Created by Congress in 1976, the SBA is an independent voice for small business within the federal government. There are also a myriad of great books and resources out there with even more information if you do a little “Googling”.

You will find it well worth the effort to do a little of your own research, then find a qualified tax consultant who can tell you specifically what receipts and other records to keep so you can avoid the headaches and pitfalls when tax time comes around. Again, the most important thing you can possibly do is to keep detailed records throughout the year!

Running a home-based business offers some great tax advantages that other businesses cannot claim. Unfortunately, many business owners are not aware of the benefits available to them. So, do a little leg work to make sure you fall within the IRS home-based business guidelines and then take every legal deduction available to you!”

So, as you can see, spending a little extra time to educate yourself on what is and isn’t acceptable to the IRS can save you a big headache and a lot of money.

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5 principles you must know and live to be super successful with network marketing-

1) You need to INSPIRE, not just Motivate.

The greek definition for INSPIRE is “breath within”. You need to be the “breath” of confidence and energy to those in your organization. They need to be able to connect with you and embrace your energy.

How?

You have to be a role model and guide to show your team that you are worthy of following, a true leader. Do what you ask them to do, and do it BIG. Show them that you believe in what you are saying, and that you do it daily.

And through your actions and words, let them “breathe” that Leadership into their core, and keep them inspired and wanting to follow you into greater success with Xocai.

2) You MUST pour into them what has been ignored about them.

Most people never get much of any encouragement. That is your job. You must encourage those who not only need it, but all who are on your team. There is nothing more motivating than the right word at the right time. A word of belief, or a word of “I am here with you” can go a long way in keeping people motivated.

You must pour into your team Big Belief, Big Thinking, Big Future, Big Vision, Big Life. You must constantly say the 4 most powerful words in network marketing: “I believe in you.”

If you pour into the person what has been ignored most of their life, they will follow you wherever you go, for the rest of their life. They will become ‘addicted” to your encouragement and the promise of hope that they feel from you.

3) You MUST Praise, not just Promote.

Praise is the secret weapon to motivating people. Many times, we will promote and recognize the new distributors who break rank, and that is important. But praising someone for a valiant effort that may have had little results will motivate many times more.

Why?

People will always appreciate being appreciated for the effort, not just the result. Motivation must have a foundation of praise and recognition. If you have that foundation and praise and recognize your people for their efforts as well as results, you will find that there will be more rank-breaking to celebrate.

4) You MUST introduce new Success ideas and Bigger Possibilities into their heart.

New ideas that enlarge a person are worth their weight in gold in MLM. Have you ever seen someone get ignited when they had an “aha” moment? You need to become the “aha creator” and continually introduce new Success and possibilities into their life. Enlarge your teams’ dreams.

The Million Dollar question:

Why such SMALL thinking?

Ramp your team up with some Success ideas that will expand and enlarge their brains beyond where they have ever been! Suggest Success books to read and CDs to listen to, and take them to empowerment seminars. Get them around millionaires in your upline. Get them thinking BIG.

5) You MUST give personal time and attention to those who deserve it — NOT those who need it.

Nothing motivates more than personal attention in Network Marketing. Focusing in on one person for a time, maybe over lunch or coffee, and pouring into them individually. Personal encouragement is a great way to give personal attention to people.

Find out what is meaningful to them. Find out what they TRULY want in life, and listen to why. Discover what is important in life to them and why. Ask what they want to change more than anything about their life. Ask about family, kids, faith, hobbies, interests, etc.

Find out WHO THEY ARE.

Discover what floats their boat, and get them so excited that they start working 24/7 to get it. That is giving someone personal time and attention. It is worth it’s weight in gold.

You cannot motivate anyone. But you can inspire and pour into them so they will motivate themselves to create a Xocai business that could make them wealthy.

Now THAT is true motivation!

There are scams out there, but for the most part MLM is a very credible and realistic way of earning a great income.  If you’re like me, the first time you heard about an MLM opportunity was from someone who promised you the world and then wouldn’t answer the phone when you started calling with questions.  So many people jump into it with totally unrealistic expectations and pass those expectations along.  That is what has tainted the MLM industry.

Michael L. Sheffield of Entrepreneur.com explained it beautifully when he said, “Many distributors feel overwhelmed by the details that surround the business…it’s no wonder so many people become confused and disillusioned, and drop out way too soon.

You can’t do it all or learn it all in a few weeks or even a few months. Think about this: We go to school for 12 years and college for four years to get a job that pays us $30,000 to $50,000 a year. But when we join MLM, if we aren’t making $10,000 per month in short order, we’re ready to quit.”

The problem for most people is joining the right team of people in the right company.  This is precisely the reason that this website was created- to find those people that have a genuine interest in working hard to achieve something great.  There is enormous potential in MLM.  Truthfully, in the right company, there is NO limit to your income potential; but it doesn’t come without hard work and sacrifice.  That being said, I still believe that ANYONE is capable of doing it, especially with our help.

Feel free to call me personally.

Adam Green 801-809-7766

I’ve had many employees tell me that payday is the best and worst day of the month for them. They are so happy to get paid for their efforts but when they take a look at their paystub their heart drops; seeing how much money is being withheld for taxes.

The truth is- employees are taxed more than anyone. So why do more people seek out employment than start their own business? It’s difficult, and most people don’t know where to start. Owning a business isn’t for everyone, but not enough people know that they ARE capable of starting a business; especially a turn-key business like most home-based businesses or franchises. The big difference between the two is COST. It can cost upwards of $100,000 to start a worthwhile franchise, while it typically costs between $200 and $1500 to start a worthwhile home-based business.

From here on I’ll focus on home-based businesses, as they are a more realistic option for most people. Getting started in the right home-based business is about finding someone who has done it themselves that can give you the mentorship you need and a realistic expectation of what’s involved. Once you know what’s expected of you it’s just a matter of keeping yourself motivated and working toward your goal.

First issue of “XoCase” magazine now available

RENO, Nev. (Jan. 5, 2010) – The inaugural issue of “XoCase,” a Marketing Xocolate International Corporate (MXI-Corp) distributor and customer magazine, was published this week. “XoCase” will be published on a quarterly basis for Xoçai distributors around the world.

“This 36-page, inaugural issue is filled with everything distributors and customers need to grow their businesses and to learn more about the products,” said Andrew Brooks, founder and executive vice president of MXI-Corp. “We already have great plans and articles in the works for the second quarter edition.”

This issue includes an introductory letter from co-founders Andrew and Jeanette Brooks, calendar/event listings, a Xe product highlight and distributor success stories.

“This magazine is a great distributor tool,” said MXI Ambassador Adam Green, president of Winner’s Circle International. Green will be featured in an upcoming issue of the magazine. “The magazine is a great way to introduce the Xoçai products and business opportunity.”

Also included in this issue is a feature by Dr. Steven R. Covey titled, “7 Habits for Network Marketers” (page 18). Dr. Covey’s article, part one in a seven-part series, provides tips on finding success in network marketing.

Steven Warren, MD, DPA, was interviewed for an article—“What the Doctor Ordered”—where he makes the link between high-quality dark chocolate and improved human health. The question-and-answer format of the article (page 22) allows Warren to directly address consumers’ questions. He responds to a variety of questions, including the science behind antioxidants, what drew him to research chocolate, and the difference between cold-pressed cacao and the traditional chocolate we consume.

The magazine is included in cases of product. It can also be purchased in packs of 25. The magazine is published by Bennett Communications in Orem, Utah.

About Marketing Xocolate International Corporation

Established in 2005, Marketing Xocolate International Corporation (MXI-Corp) is the world leader in healthy, dark chocolate products. All MXI products are focused on potent doses of delicious, antioxidant-rich Belgian cacao. MXI-Corp believes that the high levels of natural antioxidants that are found in its cacao can provide a viable solution to individual nutritional needs. The Xoçai (sho-sigh) line, which currently includes nine products, is manufactured utilizing a cold-press process, which preserves the nutritional values of the company’s proprietary blends of vitamins and minerals. Nevada-based MXI-Corp is a privately held company. The Brooks family, owners and operators of MXI-Corp, have total combined chocolate sales of more than $1 billion.

Archived press releases can be found at www.AdamPaulGreen.com.

In this interview, Adam Green discusses how scheduling his day has helped him waste less time and be more successful.