Showing posts with label mentor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mentor. Show all posts

Monday, May 12, 2008

Donating Blood

Are you afraid of needles? Admittedly, there are different sizes of these, and some just look HUGE! Maybe it is the size or maybe the temporary pain that makes people afraid of them. There are things a person can do to get through this fear in order to donate blood. So, how do you become a hero if you are afraid of needles? I do not know if I can really answer that in a way to calm the fears of someone terrified of needles. Maybe it is just an issue of mind over matter. I tell myself I am doing it to help people, as one donation can save as many as three lives. It is not something I need to do on a very regular routing. You can give six times in a year, as you are only eligible to give every 56 days. So what is an hour of my time if someone needs my help? I am not going to be losing the blood for long, as the body quickly replaces it. It only takes an hour to give – less than 10 minutes for the actual donation. I have enough to share, as the average adult body contains 10-12 pints and you are only giving up one.

There are several blood types: A, B. AB, and O. There is also the negative or positive aspect. Type O blood donors are a critical member of the life-saving team. It is the most common blood type, so it is also the most in demand. If you are O-positive, more than 1/3 of the population can be transfused if they have O-positive, A-positive, or B-positive. If you are O-negative, you have the universal blood type. In emergencies, this means your blood can be transfused to anyone, regardless of their blood type. As a Type-O donor, you can save more lives in more ways than any other blood types, so you are what is refereed to as a her"O" (hero) donor. Actually, anyone who donates blood is a hero to anyone who needs it.

The American Red Cross is a wonderful organization that comes to people’s rescue in the time of need. This can be in the time of disaster, casualties, diseases, or sickness. Thankfully, because people donate blood to the American Red Cross on a volunteer basis, there is a blood bank from which patients can get what they need in either quantity or blood type. Because of certain diseases, a person may require a full transfusion – it is there for that. Blood loss from an accident or surgery may require several pints – it is there for that.

There is a 97% chance you know someone who will need a blood transfusion. Every 2 seconds is how often someone in America needs blood. So next time you see the ad for the American Red Cross wanting your help to save lives, please consider doing it. Just take a deep breath when you arrive, tell yourself it is for a good cause, tell the assistant it is your first time and that you are nervous (they will help calm those fears) and just look the other way when they are ready to insert the needle. You will be surprised how much difference that can make. It is like having a honeybee or wasp land on you. If you don’t know they are there, you do not know when (or if) they are going to sting. But if you start freaking out, even when they just start swarming around you, you tend to tense up and get scared, and it makes things so much worse.

Donating blood is a good example of teamwork. I look at it with this analogy comparing it to my online business that I can work from home:
Patient + donor + Red Cross = blood for those in need
Mentor + help + Internet = success for building an online business

Either way you look at it, teamwork is what makes either of these scenarios work.

Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to earn money online.
www.InternetToWealth.com

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

What's the New "BUZZ" on the Internet?

Honey, according to the dictionary definition, is a sweet sticky yellowish fluid made from nectar. Honeybees are what carry the nectar to the beehive where it is stored in a honeycomb.

Rumors and speculations have been flying about like honeybees about the next thing to hit the Internet that’s comparable to Microsoft and Google. Ground level members had been sworn to secrecy about all the details that had been revealed to them until it officially launched on April 1, 2008. The joke was made about that being April Fool’s Day, but the joking response was that only fools would not see this tremendous income business opportunity. Admittedly, Internet marketing is not for everyone, but for those who know how powerful it can be, they will not want to miss out on taking a look. By watching a webinar via the Internet and being on a conference call, we members now have the answers to why we had been sworn to secrecy. Wow! This business has got to be the best thing since sliced bread! See what the "BUZZ" is all about that is bringing people to it like bees to honey! We offer a team of business leaders that are willing to help people get their online business going. They WANT people to succeed! This business is the most advanced duplicatable cash-generating system on the Internet!

I like to look at this with this comparison:
Business (honeycomb) + people (honeybees) + teamwork (beehive) = money (honey)

Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to earn money online.

http://www.internettowealth.com/

What's That Smell?

I was recently visiting with a lady that mentioned a problem she was dealing with, and I gave her a couple of suggestions. She said, "Well, you should write a book of your household hints!" I don’t have enough hints to publish a book by any means, but I am more than happy to share them with people. These three hints concern getting rid of odors.

1. To keep your trash from stinking, don’t throw food scraps in it. Instead, put them in a disposable container (like a cottage cheese carton) if it has liquid in it so you don’t run the risk of clogging up the kitchen sink. If it is more of a solid form (and this includes bloody meat wrappers), place it in a plastic grocery sack. Either of these temporary trash containers can then be put in the freezer until your trash goes out that week. No more stinky trash!!!

2. When preparing fresh fruits and vegetables to eat, there is some waste that goes in the trash or down the garbage disposal. Rather than doing that, try keeping a small plastic bucket under the kitchen sink to throw those scraps in. If you plant a garden, this makes wonderful compost material to put in it. Just think – no stinky trash, less work on the garbage disposal, and a benefit for your garden. Just remember to empty the bucket with regularity or it will become stinky. If you don’t have a garden to dispose of the waste, just put it in the bag in the freezer mentioned in hint number 1.

3. Dry coffee grounds work wonders for absorbing odors. I specifically use these to sprinkle in my puppy crates that have a wire grate over the removable waste tray. The coffee grounds absorb the waste products so you don’t smell that horrible distinctive odor when they eliminate, but rather you get a burst of coffee smell that reaches your nose throughout the house. Use your imagination for dry coffee grounds as an odor eliminator. They can even be sprinkled on carpet and left set to absorb odors and then vacuumed up. Coffee can be good for something besides drinking!

The freezer, the garden, and the dry coffee grounds. This is what I call diversification and teamwork. If one doesn’t work, try something else. Those are also two principles I use in my online businesses. My Mentors4U team and I can help you to diversify your income. We are business leaders that are willing to help people get their online business going. We WANT people to succeed!!!

Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to earn money online.

http://www.internettowealth.com/

Killer Dust Balls!

When I was growing up, my mom gave me the regular task of dusting the house. Because I did this so often, I got to where I absolutely despised that chore. I would rather wash a stack of dishes six feet high than get out that dust rag. I asked her once why I always got that job and she said it was because she didn’t like to do it!
Once I left home and was out on my own, I did not do this chore with nearly as much regularity. One day when my mom stopped by my house, she called attention to the fact that I had quite the layer of dust covering my furniture. I just looked at her and asked, "You know why I leave that on there don’t you?" She gave me a funny look as if she couldn’t imagine there could be a reason and asked, "Why?" I said, "Well, because it’s a protective coating for the furniture."
I know my mom couldn’t believe I had come up with some lame excuse like that. As long as it was undisturbed, you didn’t really notice it. But with having four little boys, they naturally thought it was as fun to draw in the dust as it was on foggy car windows. I just couldn’t see much sense in dusting because it seems like all you are doing is wiping it off and the next thing you know it is right back on there. I don’t think you ever actually get rid of it – you just rearrange its location.
It wasn’t too far down the road that my mom brought me a little present to hang on the wall that she had done in counted cross-stitch. Amongst five gray pompoms she had glued on were the words – "This house protected by KILLER DUST BALLS!" I had to laugh, but I display it proudly!
Keeping the dust at bay is something I try to do for my online businesses however. It’s best to keep them polished and running smoothly. If I don’t, they soon don’t function properly. I also have a mentoring team that helps me keep my businesses polished. As with their help, whenever my mom would get out another dust rag and assist me, it didn’t seem like near the chore to accomplish as it did when I was doing it by myself. Teamwork does make a difference!

Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to earn money online.

http://www.internettowealth.com/

Construction Zone Ahead

With four little boys and all their toys, it didn’t take us long to realize that we had outgrown the house we had originally purchased shortly after we got married. The boys were doubled up in bunk beds, and there was no room under them for dust bunnies because that area was used for storage for all their "stuff." There was one closet in the whole house and it was totally full. When the boys were ages 2, 4, 6, and 8, we decided it was time to put on an addition to the house and remodel the original part of it, so we started drawing up house plans. We also knew there was no way we could afford to do what we had planned if we hired it done because of the cost of labor, so we knew it was up to us to make it happen with our own hands. We knew it would take time, as my husband had a full time job to work while doing it. We also did not want to go into debt, so to save money we advertised for used lumber. We ended up tearing down seven buildings on an old farmstead. We traveled about 34 miles round trip almost daily to accomplish the demolition project. We hauled the lumber all home and went through the grueling work of pulling nails out of the boards. Just before winter hit, we accomplished the feat of having it all sorted, stacked, and covered with tarps to protect it through the winter for the beginning of our huge project in the spring.

The hole for the basement was dug in March and then we got spring rains, which slowed down plans. Once we got momentum, we were able to get the 30’ x 40’ two-story addition up and enclosed before winter hit again. This also included getting a new roof put on the old part of the house and tying it in to the new roof over the addition. That was an experience in itself with a month’s work getting the old roof off, new rafters up, sheeting on, and shingled. Luckily, there was only one really bad rainstorm that came through in that month. My husband was in the attic area trying to hold tarps in a way to make a trough or funnel for the water to flow down to keep it out of the house during 50 mph winds. I was inside the house running around with butter dishes, cottage cheese cartons, and ice cream buckets, trying to catch any leaks that were making its way into our living quarters. What a nightmare!

Once the addition was on, we were able to work inside from then on out. We worked on the upper story first to complete it. That was followed by the lower story. Our boys now had their own bedrooms and closets for all their "stuff." We even had one room designated as a playroom where they could drag out their toys to play with and not have them strung throughout the house. Next on the list was remodeling the original structure of the house, which was close to 100 years old. We had to hang tarps or blankets for dust and dirt control at the openings into the addition. Taking down the old lath and plaster from the walls and ceilings was such a disgusting job. There was dirt that had remained from the "Dirty Thirty’s" dust storms in Kansas. We put drywall back up and painted as we worked our way through the house. The kitchen was the last room to be done, as it required the most work with installing new cabinets and countertops. Last on the list was putting down all the flooring in the house. We had not done any of that yet so we didn’t have any of that dirt tracked across it. Then at 3 ½ years from the time the hole was dug for the basement, to the final stroke of the varnish brush on some trim around the doors and the baseboard, we could officially say, "It’s DONE - all 3,760 square feet of it!!!!! We have a new house!"

What an experience it was to help build and remodel our home. Believe it or not, I actually learned to swing a pretty mean hammer with the rest of the crew – which was basically my husband and my father. I even finished shingling three roof slopes out of four by myself while my husband was at work. I did not want to have a "chase the rain" game again. Once of that was enough! I often compare that whole construction experience with that of my online business. Both require planning, setting a goal, lots of work, and continual maintenance. Just as a house will not build itself or be free of the need for personal attention, neither will an online business. It also takes team work in both cases to make it happen, and that is something my business offers with a great mentoring team to help people succeed.

Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to ean money online.

http://www.internettowealth.com/

Monday, April 7, 2008

Headlice? Get me a Nit Picker!!!

I don’t know if anything can quite compare to the feeling of when you discover someone in the house has headlice. It leaves a horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach, you become overly anxious about the whole situation, and worst of all – your head suddenly starts to itch and you swear you feel something crawling.

My husband and I have been foster parents for 8 or 9 years. We had never dealt with headlice on ourselves or any of our own children through all their years in school, or any other previous foster children. I was absolutely horrified at the discovery of the lice on three out of the four foster kids when we took this particular group in to our home. And they didn’t just have a case - they had a chronic case!

We had been told by the children’s home before they arrived at our house that they had been treated twice while they were there so they should be okay. Boy, was I naïve. About a week later, I decided to take an old comb through the one little girl’s dry hair. With one swipe I knocked the comb out on the counter, and at least a dozen lice of various sizes went scampering. Horrified doesn’t begin to describe how I felt. First thing I did was rush out and get an over-the-counter product to treat their hair. Afterwards, I did some research and found out that was not the thing to do because the product had pesticides in it that can be absorbed through the skin and cause nerve damage. So I got online and did some research and found a product they guaranteed to work. I knew it had better because I have really long hair and I didn’t want those lice taking up residence on my head!

Exterminating headlice is not just a matter of getting them off of the head, but also the job of getting them out of the environment so you don’t get reinfested. So I ordered the product online and went to work as soon as it arrived with 2-day shipping. Not only did I treat all three kids’ heads, but I also did a total environment cleaning. I washed up all the bedding, bagged up stuffed toys and dolls and throw pillows for two weeks, and I vacuumed the house from top to bottom – including the furniture like the sofas where they set to watch TV. With that first treatment, I combed 90 lice and eggs (or nits) out of just the boy’s hair. I couldn’t believe it! What was nice about this product was the fact that it consists of only natural ingredients so it is totally safe. It can take up to ten days for eggs to hatch, and I knew it probably did not get rid of all the eggs the first time, as it says on the instructions. So I treated the environment and heads again in four days. I knew the product was safe enough to do it that often, plus I wanted to get any lice that may have hatched after the treatment, but were not old enough to lay their own eggs. With the second treatment on the boy, I got out 30 lice and eggs. The third treatment four days later was 14 and the fourth treatment was only 2 or 3 specks that may have been a part of a bug or an old shell. Regardless, I wasn’t taking any more chances at missing one, so I did one final treatment - and I combed nothing out of any of their heads. I was so elated!! Of course, I kept inspecting their heads on a regular basis and yes, we had exterminated them!!!!!!!!!

I recommend this product to anyone who is dealing with headlice. You can visit the volunteer headlice hotline website to learn more about this product. I became a volunteer after what I had been through so I could be a support and team member to others. There are several volunteers on the site, but if you would like to visit with me in particular, I would be more than happy to assist you. Just look for ’Linda’ on there and it will give you my contact information.
Being a team member for the headlice hotline reminds me of my online businesses. We have team members with those too that help others to succeed by showing them how to market effectively to earn money online .

Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to earn money online.

http://www.internettowealth.com/

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Help For Your Online Business

Why do people fail in their online business? One of the biggest reasons is due to lack of support and help. When you go to work at a JOB, someone trains you so you will know what to do. New employees could be instantly fired within the first 15 minutes of work if they had not been trained properly. It takes time for an employee to learn the ropes of a new job before they feel confident enough to do it on their own without asking a lot of questions. The same scenario could be applied to an online business. How can we do something we don’t know how to do without someone taking us by the hand to show us the way? I have a great team of business leaders that are willing to help people get their online business going. They WANT people to succeed!!!!

Author: Linda Dougherty

A Dozen Good Reasons to Own an Online Business

Having your own online business is very exciting. There are many things to be said for owning your own business, and being able to do it online is even better. Just think.......
1. No driving to the job - saving you time and gas money!
2. No driving to work on icy roads, in the fog or rain, or being stuck in traffic jams!
3. No circling through the parking lot to find a place to park!
4. Not being around sick people in the office during cold and flu season!
5. Not having to work around other people’s vacation days in order for you to take your own!
6. Being able to take a coffee break whenever and however long you want!
7. Being able to take a nap without making the boss mad!
8. Not having to spend money on clothes to fit the office scene - wear jeans and t-shirt, sweats, or your pajamas instead!
9. No more alarm clocks - except to maybe get the kids off to school! Then go back to bed if you want:)
10. Being able to stay at home with the kids or babysit grandkids (depending on your situation)!
11. Being able to multi-task: work online, do laundry, cook dinner - all while at the same office building - HOME!
12. Being able to get the help you need online or by phone from the people you are in business with who will mentor you to help you succeed.
This is the kind of business I found. I knew these online businesses were out there, but what I hadn’t done was find the right match until now. With my Internet business you might agree with any of these dozen reasons for having your own online business as a passport to your wealth.


Author: Linda Dougherty
Specializes in working with people to show them how to market effectively to earn money online.
http://www.platinumtowealth.com/