Starting To Cultivate A Life Of Purpose

In his latest book, What Is Your WHAT? Discover The ONE Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do, award-winning author and my friend, Steve Olsher (founder of The Reinvention Workshop), reveals his proven process that has helped thousands of men and women cultivate a life of purpose, conviction, and contribution by identifying and creating a plan of action for bringing the ONE thing they were born to do to fruition. This timely step-by-step guide will propel you towards achieving peace and prosperity sharing your unique gift with the world.

This book features inspirational stories of trial, tribulation, and triumph from public figures such as Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan, Mari Smith, and Jack Canfield. Steve sat down with them and others to discuss how they made their critical shift from pursuing commodity-driven opportunities to honoring their singular focus and direction in life. What Is Your WHAT? will help you discover what puts fire into your soul.

In advance of its release, I’ve been able to arrange with Steve for you to receive a FREE hard cover copy, while supplies last. Grab yours here: https://ar117.infusionsoft.com/go/wiyw/JerryTeplitz

 

Is Getting 8 Hours Of Sleep What Our Bodies Really Need?

It’s common knowledge that we need 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, but is it really true? There was
an experiment done in the 1990s where participants that were left to their own devices would sleep for four hours, then they would wake up for one or two hours and they would fall asleep for a second four hours.

Using historical records, historians have uncovered  diaries, court records, medical books and other evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct segments. With the coming of street lights this cycle began to
change and by the 1920s, it was gone from our awareness.

If you wake up in the middle of the night, you may still biologically be in this cycle.
So if it happens, just relax and you can use the time to meditate or think of your dreams.
(Reported Mercola.com June 18, 2012)
 

Mistletoe May Be Critical For The Health Of A Forest

A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences suggests that mistletoe may actually be a keystone species in a forest. What the researchers did was compare species diversity in three woodland forests. One had mistletoe, one did not and one had the mistletoe removed. After three years, the forest with the mistletoe had gained a few new species of birds and the mistletoe free forest showed no change. In the third forest where the mistletoe had been removed, a third of the animal and insect species disappeared.

The researchers believe that since mistletoe produces and drops its leaves in spring, summer and winter, it provides nesting when all the other branches are bare. The leaves also contain nutrients that give insects and ground-dwelling animals food when there is little else to eat.

So…next time you kiss under the mistletoe keep in mind that the mistletoe is
kissing the life of the forests.
(Reported Discover blog/80 beats/2012)

 Organic Milk Is Better In So Many Ways

If you are able to by organic milk in your area consider the benefits it provides you.

1. There are no synthetic growth hormones in organic milk

2. There are no antibiotics in the food that the cows eat

3. The cows aren’t raised in huge feedlots

4. Grass fed cows produced higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid.
In a study by Harvard researchers, people with the highest levels of linoleic acid lowered their heart attach risk by 36% compared to people with the lowest levels.

5. Organic milk has higher levels of brain-boosting omega-3 fatty acids than regular milk. The omega-3s protect your brain and reduce inflammation while lowering the risk of chronic diseases such as arthritis.

6. Organic milk lowers the level of insulin growth factor-1.
Higher levels of this factor have been linked to higher rates of premenopausal breast cancer.

7. And last, it tastes better!
(Reported Prevention, January 2013)

  One Benefit Of Meditating - We Become More Compassionate

Researchers at Northeastern University wanted to see if a person is able to become more compassionate by meditating. They taught one group of people who had never meditated how to meditate and had them meditate for eight weeks. The participants were led to believe that the purpose of the research was to examine the impact of meditation on their memory, attention and other cognitive functions. The control group was just placed on a waiting list for a future meditation course.

After the eight weeks, the participants came into a waiting area where they found three chairs. Two were already occupied, so they sat in the third chair. As they were waiting, a fourth person entered the room using crutches and wearing a boot for a broken foot. The person audibly sighed in pain as she leaned uncomfortable against a wall. The other two people who were sitting were working with the researchers and ignored the person in distress.

Here’s the interesting part: only 16% of the people from the control group gave the woman their seat while 50% of the people from the meditation group did so.

Another study supported this finding that compassion increases with meditation. The researchers found that even brief training in meditative techniques can alter neural functioning in brain areas associated with empathic understanding of others’ distress. So…imagine the level of compassion if the majority of people became meditators. This could be the key to finally experiencing peace on Earth!

Meditation Alters Genes For Immune Function, Energy
And Insulin

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that meditation triggers changes in gene expressions in the body that affect immune function, energy metabolism and insulin secretion.

The study published in PLOS ONE involved 52 people. 26 were long-time meditators, 26 had never done it before and were trained in the meditation technique used. Blood was drawn before they meditated, immediately after and 15 minutes later. While both groups had rapid changes in gene expressions, it was more pronounced in the long-time meditators. The functioning of mitochondria was increased during meditation. Pathways involved in inflammation were suppressed and insulin pathways were altered.

If you’d like to learn how to meditate, you can learn everything you need to know in 6 pages in my book Managing Your Stress in Difficult Times: Succeeding in Times of Change. You can find it on my website at Teplitz.com under the Products button or you can purchase it on Amazon.
(Reported Commonhealth.wbur.org/2013)

Online Care Rental Company Gives Great Customer Service

I’ve been renting cars for many years from the website www.CarRentals.com. They offer special deals on the price of cars from different suppliers. I’ve found that they usually have the lowest price.

Recently, I had a problem with one of the rental companies. Afterwards, I emailed CarRentals support about the situation that I encountered. You may have experienced writing to support folks and either never getting a response or it taking a long time to hear
back from them. CarRentals response was totally different. I heard back from them the same day and it wasn’t just a form letter. Their response answered
what I had written. VERY IMPRESSIVE! So…to get great car rental rates and great customer service, check out their website.
 

Washington State Voting On Requiring GMO Labeling On Foods

The State of Washington has a citizen’s initiative on the ballot for November to require Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) containing products to be labeled so consumers can choose whether they want to buy that product or not. The GMO companies like Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers of America are flooding the media with false statements to discourage the public from voting to implement this required labeling of products. One example of a false statements is that the relabeling labeling would cost taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

This is totally false as demonstrated by research by the European Union, They found that there would be no actual increased costs for redoing the labeling. They have required labeling since the 1990s and there has been no increase in grocery costs from changing the labels.

If you’d like to financially support the labeling of GMO foods, you can go to www.OrganicConsumers.org to give a donation. This battle is for our health, our kids and grandkid’s health and the health of the planet.

UPCOMING: Switched-On Seminars Coming To
Norfolk, Virginia in November!

I will be conducting my Switched-On Seminars in Norfolk Virginia on November
19 and 20.

These are revolutionary, research proven brain
rewiring seminars that make immediate changes in
how you succeed.

The Switched-On Selling, Switched-On Network Marketing and the new Switched-On Start-Up Entrepreneur Seminars will be on November 19. Depending on which seminar you decide to take, you will received a customize participant manual for that Seminar.

The Switched-On Management and the new Switched-On Advanced Entrepreneur Seminars will be on November 20. You will also received a customize participant manual depending on the seminar you select.

To learn more about the seminars and to register, go to www.Teplitz.com and select on the Specialized Seminars. You’ll get a drop down menu and then select Switched-On Seminars. You can then select the seminar you are interested in learning more about.

Keep in mind that there are special lower prices and a bonus gift if you take advantage of Early Bird Registration.

Finally, I am now certifying people to be Instructors of most of my Switched-On Seminars. You can now get certified Long Distance from the comfort of your home.

To learn more about The Switched-On Start-Up Entrepreneur Seminar, go to: https://teplitz.com/Switched-On_Start-Up_Entrepreneur_flyer2.pdf

To learn more about The Switched-On Advanced Entrepreneur Seminar, go to: https://teplitz.com/Switched-On_Advanced_Entrepreneur_flyer2.pdf  

Finally, I am now certifying people to be Instructors of most of my Switched-On Seminars. You can now get certified Long Distance from the comfort of your home. To learn the details, go to https://teplitz.com/Switched-On-Instructors/Instructor.pdf

THANKS, THAT'S IT FOR THIS MONTH!