12
May

Another Sunrider just offended you!

   Posted by: admin   in The Business of Sunrider

Offense as a particularly useful state of being – but only when the offense one feels is used properly. Most people view being offended as an excuse for shutting down, even going (you guessed it) on the offensive. They refuse to be party to whatever offensive material is being presented to them, whether it’s someone making a sexist joke or a politician’s attack ad.

Consider the kinds of situations that make us feel offended. We take offense when:

  • We are confronted with situations radically different from those we’re used to.

Sunrider just changed the “Plan” again!

  • We experience situations that conflict strongly with our own values.

Someone is running their Sunrider Business in a way we would never do!

  • Our belief systems are challenged or dismissed as inadequate.

Our way of ‘doing’ Sunrider is dismissed as wrong.

  • We are labeled or otherwise treated in ways that are inconsistent with our self-image.

Other ‘Sunriders’ talk about us behind our back.

All of these situations can offer us an opportunity to grow as a Sunrider Business Owner,  by learning about other ways of conducting a Sunrider business that might differ from your own (and which sometimes offer a more efficient, more fulfilling, or simply more reasonable way of doing things), or by increasing our understanding of other Sunriders in our up-line and down-line (offering the opportunity, perhaps, to resolve conflicts before they become intractable), or simply by exposing the gap between the way others see us and the way we see ourselves (which can be eye-opening indeed).

This can only happen, though, when we recognize offense for what it is – our mind’s way of processing unfamiliar experience.

Try thinking about these points next time you’re offended:

  • Offense is not injury. The most important step to keeping a level head in the face of serious offense is to remember that just because something offends you doesn’t mean that it hurts you in any way. Be careful to sort out your immediate, emotional response from the actual practical effect of whatever offensive situation you’re confronting – most of the time, you’ll find your life can go on just fine regardless of this offensive thing.
  • People aren’t stupid. For the most part, people do things for reasons that, at least at the time, seem like good ones.  No matter how difficult it is to accept, you have to acknowledge that many practices that seem utterly impractical and stupid have endured for hundreds or even thousands of years without killing, maiming, or traumatizing the people who practice them.
  • There’s more than one way to skin a cat. The way YOU do things will always seem like the right, best, and only way to do it – but it’s not. Try to recognize the value in the way other Sunriders do things – often you’ll find that it actually manages to accomplish the same ends as your “right” way of doing things.
  • You’re pretty weird yourself. Never forget that to an outsider, everyone seems weird. We are always exactly as foreign to others as they are to us. Try to look at some of your practices from the outside and see just how weird you really are.
  • Clarify, clarify, clarify. Since offense usually arises at the point of some misunderstanding try to  dampen your moral outrage for a second to ask some questions. Although asking a question or two might seem easy, it takes a great deal of courage to ask even the simplest questions – we all want to protect our self-identity by refusing to look ignorant, vulnerable, or unprepared. But of course, we often are ignorant, vulnerable, or unprepared – and sometimes all three. Make sure you actually know what’s going on!
  • Those shoes are tight. You know the saying “Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes”? Well, it’s one of those sayings that are actually pretty true. Try to see things from other people’s viewpoints – and often enough, the offense just melts away.

Of course, there are situations where immediate action is necessary, as for instance when people are being injured. But a lot of us end up with a “think first, justify later” attitude that causes more conflicts than it solves. Welcoming offense as an opportunity rather than a problem is a step towards reducing the conflict around you – by any measure, an entirely non-offensive thing!

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27
Apr

Vitaspray

   Posted by: admin   in Sunrider Products

Vitaspray – Thanks Lisa

When I think of Vitaspray, two thoughts stand out in my mind.
I remember Dr Chen telling us that if people really understood the power of Vitaspray, every child would keep one in their desks at school, every male would have one in his pocket and every female would carry one in her purse. It doesn’t get rid of your problems, he said, but it sure helps you to cope with them better.
Shortly after 9/11 I got a call from a consumer who was already eating the Sunpack foods, but who said she needed something extra as she was tense and struggling emotionally with what had happened. I told her to get a small and inexpensive product, Vitaspray. She was happy to say she had one in her cupboard but had forgotten about it. I told her to carry it around with her and as often as she thought about it, spray three shots of it under her tongue. She called me back just a few days later to tell me how very much improved she was. Then she said, almost verbatim, what Dr. Chen had said. It didn’t get rid of her problems-it just helped her body deal with them better.

Three shots of Vitaspray under the tongue several times a day for the whole family. Such a gift from Sunrider!

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26
Apr

10 tips to save $1k on your cell phone bill

   Posted by: admin   in Misc

I have changed over to a ‘Pay as you go’..from Boost Mobil and I am saving a ton of Money!

Below is a report from ConsumerReports. . . Maybe you can save some too.

10 tips to save $1k on your cell phone bill

Consumer Reports offers tips to weed out unneeded services and extra fees

The average cell-phone user spends about $600 a year on mobile service, while families that talk, text, or use other phone features more than average can spend upward of $1,800. And the bigger your bill, the more you get tapped for service taxes and surcharges, which tack on an average of 14.5 percent.

But you can pay less and keep on talking by following the strategies below. Sample savings shown are per year, unless otherwise indicated.

1. Go prepaid (save $100 to $1,080)
Prepaid is just like a traditional monthly cell-phone plan except that you only buy what you need, you pay in advance, and there’s no contract. Compared with the cheapest monthly plans, we found annual prepaid savings of $240 to $360 for infrequent users with T-Mobile’s Pay As You Go plan, $100 to $220 for an average two-phone family buying Virgin Mobile per-minute packs, and $600 to $1,080 for big talkers using Boost Mobile’s unlimited national plan.

2. Don’t overbuy minutes (save $240)
Review your bills for the last six months with an eye on the billable daytime minutes. You might have bought a plan that included many more daytime minutes than you need, especially if you mostly use your phone when it’s free — during nights and weekends or for in-network calls. Switch to a less-expensive plan with fewer daytime minutes.

3. Don’t buy unneeded services (save $120 to $360)
Voice service is now a cheap commodity, so carriers are pushing smarter, sexier phones and services to wring more dollars out of consumers. For example, Sprint’s 450-minute plans cost $40 a month for just Talk, $50 for Everything Messaging, and $70 for Everything Data, including talk, messaging, Web browsing, e-mail, Blackberry Internet Services, music, TV, GPS, and even NFL Mobile Live. Unless you really expect to use those features, save by sticking with basic talk service.

4. Buy enough of what you use (save $120 to $240)
At 20 to 25 cents for à la carte messaging, buy a bundle if you send a lot of text, picture, or video messages each month. T-Mobile charges the least for an add-on bundle ($5 for 400 messages). Costs for Web browsing will rack up quickly if you pay by the megabyte. So sign up for unlimited service if you must have mobile Internet. AT&T’s $15 unlimited Web add-on is cheapest.

5. Check for employee discounts (save $96 to $432)
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon offer discounts to the employees of companies that use their service. To see whether you qualify, do a Google search for the carrier’s name and the words “employee discount.” You’ll navigate to a Web page that asks for your work e-mail address. Discounts can be as high as 20 percent, though some deals exclude the Apple iPhone or certain service plans.

6. Make temporary adjustments (save $140 to $295 in one month)
Avoid hefty overage charges of up to 45 cents per minute by temporarily switching to a plan with more minutes if travel or a family crisis will cause a spike in usage. Talk to a live customer-service representative to make sure you don’t get hit with surprise overage charges, which can happen if you switch at the wrong time in your billing cycle. Switch back when life returns to normal. Carriers no longer require a contract extension for such changes.

7. Have your usage analyzed (save $300)
Upload an electronic version of your monthly bill to www.billshrink.com for an analysis. The company will then check available wireless plans and recommend those it says are probably cheapest for your needs. The service is free. Another company, Validas, offers a similar analysis for $5.

8. Get local service (save $240)
If you mostly use your cell phone locally, consider Metro PCS, which offers plans in 11 areas, including Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, and numerous cities in California and Florida. The company sells prepaid, unlimited local calling plans for as little as $30 a month. Roaming charges, of course, apply outside the local areas.

9. Choose the best carrier (save $50 to $200 per phone)
Avoid huge early-termination fees and unsatisfactory service by first checking our cell-service Ratings. Then be sure to test the phone and service during the carrier’s 15- to 30-day trial period. If you’re not happy with the carrier, you can quit and port your number elsewhere without an early-termination penalty.

10. Say no to phone insurance (save $120 to $168 over 2 years)
If you upgrade your phone, save the old one as a backup replacement in case you lose or damage the new one. You can eventually get another new phone at little or no up-front cost when your contract comes up for renewal.

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22
Apr

Kandesn Revitalizing Masque – Sunrider

   Posted by: admin   in Sunrider Products

From Lisa Powers! Thanks Lisa

Years ago, at age thirty-four, my mother-in-law told me I needed to start taking care of my skin. It was true. I’d seen a lot of sun. But I’d never found any products that I could use without my skin having an allergic reaction.

But when I went to the Sunrider conventions there were people I’d seen year after year who had even more improvement in their skin. So I asked Julie Herring what the difference was between what I was doing and what they were doing. She asked me if I used the Kandesn Revitalizing Masque weekly.

She said I was moisturizing and nourishing dead skin. She was so right!

After that I began using the Masque weekly and oh, what a difference it made! To this day I see a huge difference when I masque regularly. And these days I use the Kandesn Revitalizing Masque, then the Clay Mask and then the Oi Lin Revitalizing Mask. All three! Fabulous!
For years now people have told me I have great skin and I’m still shocked to hear it because at age thirty-four I could see what was happening to my skin.

But thanks to using Sunrider products, inside and out, my skin looks younger and healthier today that it did twenty-four years ago. What a blessing!

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