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July 30th, 2011
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The 8th Big lie in MLM
There is a reason why so many of us have chosen the company we have.
Granted the person on this video has been with the same company as I have for many years. I've seen so many folks flock to the next greatest latest biggest thing only to be disappointed when the company goes belly up. Not only that but they end up with the feeling it's their fault. If this has happened to you? Don't you believe it! It's not your fault. The rule of thumb here is fly by night, die by day!
I don't know if the company we have settled in is for you or not, but you know the old saying if you can't beat em join em. This is a trend I'm seeing.
What's so sad, when I see some of these fly by night companies take away the residual income focus & dreams. When folks decide to just start marketing the tool's and systems, they will never get to the walk away income they so desired.
The truth is they are only as good as their next sale. Also they have to stay on top of the greatest latest thing to keep income coming in. It's a never ending circle of what do I do now with no real answer. I doubt when they started their own business they wanted to become a commissioned employee to their business.
This is a personal invitation from me Dennis Harlow to take a closer look at why I do what I do.
Just fill in the form or call 731-924-2998
I cant help but wonder how many people complain about the pollution on our planet? I wonder are those same people adding to the pollution or are they active with a solution. I once was told that if you talk about something important but fail to do anything to change it your just using up valuable air that others who are making a difference need most.
I found a great article that I wanted to share that makes sense called?
Cleaning House: What Went Wrong?
By Linda Mason Hunter
My Grandma Nelle used vinegar and water for most household cleaning tasks. She had a few baking soda tricks up her sleeve, and later added and scouring powder to her cleaning cupboard. She didn’t know it, but today we’d call such habits “green.”
“Green” means seeking the least harmful solution for both environmental and human health reasons.
If you live green, you strive to reduce your negative impact on the planet in small, everyday
ways, living with nature instead of trying to subdue it.
It means choosing alternatives that have less of a toxic impact on your home and the environment.
A good place to begin a program of green living is by evaluating your household cleaning products.
Green cleaning is simple, yet powerful, both intimate and global. By choosing eco-friendly formulas and tools, you transform your shelter into a place of comfort and health while doing your part to protect local waterways, soil, and landfills, promoting the health of the entire community.
We can, as Gandhi implored, be the change we wish to see in the world.
Soap: A Brief History
I am a child of the 1950s, prepubescent witness to the advent of television in every living room. With “Howdy Dowdy” and “Winky Dinky’s
Magic Window” came commercials for an increasing array of household cleaners. Though only seven or eight years old, I watched in wonder the early evolution of video advertising.
Household cleaning products were some of the first products advertised. After a couple of years, the same brand promised “New Improved” making me question: What was wrong with the product in the first place? What was added to make it better? Why does it matter?
During the 1960s synthetic chemicals initially developed for warfare found their way into America’s cleaning products and into our homes.
Cheerful ads promised to get clothes “whiter than white,” “cleaner than clean,” and bring “sparkle” to the toilet bowl. “Better living through chemistry,” as a popular advertising slogan from DuPont proclaimed.
To date, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than 75,000 synthetic chemicals are registered; 250 billion pounds produced each year in the U.S. alone. Only a fraction of them have been tested for human health concerns.
We’re beginning to learn just how harmful exposure can be. One recent study, for example, conducted over 15 years, found that women who work at home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than those who work outside the home. Scientists concluded this was a direct result of increased exposure to toxic chemicals, many of which are found in common household products. Not good news.
The cleaning aisle of a typical grocery store contains more than 400 synthetic household products, everything from all-purpose cleaners, disinfectants, glass cleaners, carpet cleaners, polishes, pesticides, stain removers, oven cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, mold and mildew removers, spot removers, and air fresheners.
Our near-obsession with cleanliness has become an $18 billion industry that pollutes the environment, harms our bodies, and may endanger future generations.
We’ve become dependent on these chemicals. The average American family uses 40 pounds of commercial cleaners a year.
Whenever we have a housekeeping problem—whether a coffee stain or mold and mildew or a dirty kitchen floor—we reach for a commercial product concocted in a laboratory, a brew of harsh chemicals designed to get the job done quickly but almost never gently or even safely.
Buyer Beware
Scientists at the National Toxicology Program found 150 chemicals present in the home are associated with allergies, birth defects, cancer, and psychological disorders. Some of these chemicals may be in common household cleaners. They include:
Ammonia: Glass Cleaners may contain ammonia. The fumes from ammonia can irritate the skin,
eyes and respiratory system.
Aromatic hydrocarbons (naphthalene, organic solvents, trichloroethane): Used in degreasers,
deodorizers, air fresheners, all-purpose cleaners, liquid laundry detergent and pesticides.
Many are likely human carcinogens.
Alkyphenols: Found in multisurface cleaners, liquid laundry detergent. May have hormone-disrupting effects.
Butyl cellosolve: Found in metal polishes and grease removers, a petroleum-based solvent that
can irritate nasal passages and cause liver and kidney damage.
Phthalates: Found in air fresheners, multipurpose cleaners. May cause birth defects and
reproductive disorders.
Petroleum distillates: Found in floor waxes, furniture polishes, degreasers, all-purpose cleaners.
Can damage lung tissues and dissolve fatty tissue around nerve cells.
Chlorine: Found in sanitizing and bleaching agents, tub and tile cleaners, and pesticides.
Ranks high in the causes of child poisonings in the U.S. and may cause reproductive,
endocrine and immune disorders.
You get a whiff of their unnatural odor just walking down the cleaning products aisle of a grocery store. You can tell they’re harsh during use because they redden your hands, make your eyes water or your nose run.
At the same time our industrial lifestyle is harming our bodies, it is polluting the environment. Phosphates, nitrates, and borates in detergents essentially “kill” lakes and streams by causing algae to grow out of control. Toxic waste is another problem; the average home generates over 25 pounds of hazardous waste each year, much of which can be attributed to cleaning products.
Tap water, too, is a concern. Many synthetic chemicals – from agriculture, industry and household cleaners -- end up polluting rivers and streams, eventually finding their way to the local wastewater treatment plant.
And because utilities are only required by law to test for 87 of the most harmful chemicals and microorganisms, many synthetic chemicals are not treated and can easily end up in your tap water. Such alarming facts have spawned a growing interest among consumers of green products.
But it is “Buyer Beware” in the marketplace. The prevalence of “greenwashing” muddies the waters, confusing consumers. When investigating whether a company has “green” credentials, look for these words:
* Biodegradable
* Formulated without dye
* Nonflammable
* Contains no ammonia, acids, alkalis, solvents, phosphates, chlorine, nitrates, or borates
* No volatile organic compounds
Searching out eco-cleaners with integrity is worth the extra effort because home is a place where you can take control. By switching to healthy cleaners, you do your part to make the earth a healthier place for all living things.
Home Green Home
Good planets are hard to find. We should do everything we can to minimize our destructive impact on this one. Here are some suggestions for greening your home:
• Shop wisely. Buy green products whenever possible.
• Avoid excess packaging.
• Purchase products that are easily recycled.
• Purchase unbleached paper products.
• Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents.
• Choose furniture made of natural fibers, whole wood, metal and glass.
• Avoid using aerosols.
• Use low-VOC paints and low-VOC adhesives.
• Don’t use chemical pesticides on your lawn or garden.
• Have your air conditioning and heating systems inspected annually.
• Reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Conserve water. Fix leaky faucets and install low-flow showerheads.
• Drive a fuel-efficient vehicle (40 miles per gallon or better); or bike, walk, car pool, or ride the bus to work and run errands.
Linda Mason Hunter is the co-author of Green Clean. Melcher Media, 2005 and Creating a Safe and Healthy Home, Creative Publishing International, 2005.
Many years ago we were at one with nature the great outdoors was exactly that great. Now with pollution invading our forests, rivers, streams, mountains, oceans, air, food & homes we search for answers to fix what we have done to our planet. Does this sound familiar to you?
More and more people all over the world want answers. What can we do, How can we do it and what do I need to do to help? The answers are right in front of us but we need to search for them. It's our responsibility for our planet! We live here we need to fix it. You may be saying we've tried but it keeps getting worse?
Yes your right lets see why? By simplifying the problems we can get a real vision of the problem. Lets look at things we do know that work to day in other areas?
- Diamond cutters use diamonds to cut other diamonds why? A diamond is one of the hardest surfaces known to man so in order to cut one without chipping or breaking it is to cut it with one. If we were to use something else it would be damaged and wouldn't be worth anything and diamonds would not be precious.
- Contractors use concrete for foundations not blacktop why? Concrete hardens fast and can hold tons of weight loaded on top of it. It also stands firm in wind, rain, heat, snow etc. Where as black top gives in the elements and softens in heat. So using blacktop for a high rise building or skyscraper would be disastrous.
- Car frames are made from metal not wood why? If we made the frames from wood we wouldn't have a car for long. Wood would buckle from the heavy weight of all the components that makes a car run like the engine, transmission, axle, etc.
There is no doubt that we have a serious problem with pollution on earth right? But yet we use chemicals to try & fix the problems with our forests, rivers, streams, mountains, oceans, air, food & homes etc.
The more chemicals we use the worse it gets. Are we starting to see a pattern here? I think so.
Now that the planet is in real trouble we are looking for ways that are green so the planet can fix its self from our past failed attempts to make the world a better place.
Just like the the examples earlier the simplest way is the best way. Nature has been around for much longer than we have. Living in harmony with nature is the simplest most effective way to fix the planet along with our health.
Green Business or Green Technology if you will is what the world is turning to for the future of our planet. This is all good for us. So it's fair to say that green business or green technology is here to stay and grow into a huge business!
You see when we use chemicals in our daily lives it not only hurts the planet but everything that lives on it also. You don't believe it? Okay then tell me why is it that 90% of all poison exposures occur at home & 218,316 reported poison exposures in 2005 were from household cleaning products? Or how about 90% of our time is spent indoors. EPA reports that air pollution is up to five times higher inside than outside. Indoor pollutants come from all sorts of chemicals we use to make our lives easier every day—paints, carpets, furniture, household cleaners, personal care, among others.
EPA studies indicate that elevated concentration of household chemicals persist in the air. Long-term exposure to chemicals inside our homes may be harmful to us and our families.
The following household cleaning products are designated as household hazardous waste by the EPA, and “improper disposal of these wastes can pollute the environment and pose a threat to human health”
- Chlorine Bleach is the chemical most frequently involved in household poisonings in the U.S.
- Degreasers may contain petroleum distillates, which can damage lung tissues and dissolve fatty tissue around nerve cells.
- Glass Cleaners may contain ammonia. Ammonia fumes can irritate the skin, eyes and respiratory system.
- Oven Cleaners can be one of the most dangerous cleaning products, which can cause severe damage to eyes, skin, mouth, and throat.
- Toilet Bowl Cleaners can be extremely dangerous cleaning products, which can be harmful just by breathing the fumes—and fatal if swallowed.
SODIUM HYDROXIDE
Inhalation is immediately irritating to the respiratory tract. Contact can cause severe damage to the eyes, skin, mouth, and throat. Can cause liver and kidney damage
May be found in:
Dishwashing liquids
Laundry products
Oven cleaner
Scouring cleansers
Tub and tile cleaners
HYDROCHLORIC ACID
Can cause severe damage to skin. Can be harmful to health, just by breathing the fumes.
Can be fatal if swallowed.
May be found in:
Odor eliminators
Toilet bowl cleaners
BUTYL CELLOSOLVE
Can cause irritation and tissue damage from inhalation. A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the acute exposure limit.
May be found in:
All-purpose cleaners
Cleaning wipes
Degreasers
Floor polish
Rug shampoos
Toilet bowl cleaners
Tub and tile cleaners
Window cleaners
The fact is that: 81,000 CHEMICALS REGISTERED WITH THE EPA IN THE LAST 30 YEARS,
and fewer than 20% have been tested for toxicity!
These deadly chemicals are the cause of our health & planets problems. Can you change it that's the bottom line here isn't it? Yes but you need to take action.
Quit waiting for someone else to take the first step. If your not part of the solution your part of the problem. You may be saying but it's so expensive to change to a better product without all the chemicals?
You can save $3,400.00 a year using Green cleaning products instead of what your using now with a stronger cleaning solution than what you use now. Why people love basic H2
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