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July 2009
Welcome to Chaga
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Pat and Ivan Schoone are from Nebraska and Pat has operated an insurance business from their home, and Ivan is a Lay Minister at the local Methodist Church. Their mission with the church is to help children. |
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Building a Better Life! Hi! My name is Rosalie Ferris and felt compelled to share my story. I am in my mid fifties and have felt the need to find a product or supplement that would help me with the inevitable aging symptoms such as lack of energy, and the everyday aches and pains. I began a religious regimen of Chaga 6 to 8 months ago and my degree of well-being has gradually increased over the past few months in a subtle but delightful way. My energy level and my overall health have become increasingly even and sound.
In the meantime, I've lost 17 pounds, gained more fitness and strength
than I've had ever in my adult life and have dialed up my spirit of
adventure. I am in awe of this life force laden product and how it has enhanced my life. I have learned the hard way the value of the autoship process that Chaga International offers and I will be sure never to run short again! I just feel too darn good when it is in my system to ever do without.
Sincerely yours,
Success Tip of the Month
New Member Placing new Members in the Binary tree is very important to effectively building your business. Strategic placement is what builds momentum - what we call power legs and is what creates consistent Cycling Binary Cycle Commissions and Matching Bonuses. Placement in the Binary is the first part of the enrollment process. A new Member must either let the default place him or her in the Binary structure, or follow instructions from his /her sponsor for specific strategic placement. If you are not sure you understand the value of proper Binary placement, please view the Chaga Longevity Compensation Plan video presentation.
If you are not sure you understand the value of proper Binary placement, please view the Chaga Longevity Compensation Plan video presentation. There are also important Compensation Plan training documents such as Build Your Dream Team and New Member Binary Placement Guide which are in your Back Office Resource Center. These documents explain the specific strategy for proper placement and effective business building. Please review these documents – knowledge is power! Building your Binary the right way will maximize momentum, team support and your commissions and bonuses.
Compliance Corner
Policy Reminder –
Chaga Policy is to only allow one Membership per
household.
This policy is in place to ensure that all of our Members benefit from our
Longevity Compensation Plan as much as possible. One Member or a husband and wife having two Chaga Memberships is not allowed.
Customer Service
Order Processing There are several important reminders regarding order processing:
Should for any reason your form of payment is declined either during an attempt
to place an order, or during monthly autoship processing, be aware that it
is your credit card company declining the transaction, not Chaga
International. To rectify the problem, you should simply contact your credit card company. Should the transaction be declined due credit card on file expiring, you can simply update this information in your Chaga Back Office. Anytime you receive a new credit card please be sure to replace or update the information in your Chaga Back Office so that you don’t miss any order shipments or become ineligible for any commissions by being inactive in our system.
In Our Next Issue... Chaga and
Weight Loss |
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They have established
a youth group at the Church and have found that this is their mission.
Their town, Upland, which is only has a population of 160 people, has had
a high rate of vandalism. Since starting the youth group the vandalism has
stopped. The children are from low income families and many have
just one parent.
“Our drive is for helping people so it just makes sense that we would become part of Chaga International to help people improve their health, and to provide the financial opportunity that the Chaga marketing opportunity offers people.” |
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Pat & Ivan became
part of Chaga International one year ago this June. They have both
improved their health by taking Chaga. Pat and Ivan
were the first Chaga Members in Nebraska. “Ivan just recently had his yearly physical and all the areas tested have improved. He doesn't take any medications and still doesn't need to - even if his Doctor continually tries to offer him prescriptions for everything that other men are taking at his age - he simply doesn't need them. He has had white hair for many, many years and now some of it is turning black. I recently hurt my knee in January and had surgery which has created several other complications. I don't take medication so Chaga was what I used for pain after the surgery and it helped tremendously to get through all of that." "Before taking Chaga, I got headaches quite frequently - since taking Chaga they have almost stopped. If I get one now, I just take a couple extra drops of Chaga and they go away. In the past year Chaga has just become part of our lives - everyplace we travel it goes with us”, says Pat. |
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“It’s been an
exciting time watching our team grow and to see all the changes that
little bottle of Chaga has done for all of our team." "We were fortunate to qualify for being able to attend the Leadership Workshop in September in Las Vegas, so we had the honor of meeting Steve Gould and Michael Tidd and got to see firsthand how sincere and loving these Founders are about Chaga International. We also got to meet many other leaders in the company and have maintained many of those friendships. It was great to be with so many people with the same vision that they all had about Chaga International.” |
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“The way this company
is designed is to help you build residual income - we really got to see
how that worked when I had my surgery. I was going to doctors at
least three times a week and had to travel quite a ways to get there.
After the initial doctor visits - I had to go to therapy at least three
times a week and spend much of my time exercising trying to get as much
use of my leg back as possible. During that time - which has been
over 4 months - we weren't able to pay much attention to our Chaga
business, yet we got a check every Monday! Our income from Chaga
during that time really helped to get us through all of the expenses we
were incurring”, says Pat. “We appreciate the support that Chaga International has provided for us. Steve Gould has set up a very duplicatable system and is constantly improving it - making this business a very simple turn-key process. We have also been honored to have Rich Gould, Chaga International's Success Coach, fly here to Nebraska from Florida four times this last year to help us with building this business. Rich has not only become a very good friend - but he is helping us develop our team leaders so we can share this with many more people. He has always been there for us.” “The best part of this year has been being able to help people with a wonderful product and creating our New Chaga Family. We will be friends forever - it's great to be with such a positive Company that helps us to improve our health and it’s exciting to know that this company is going to be our future." Pat & Ivan Schoone |
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It is important for Chaga Members to ask themselves what they want from our business opportunity and what they are willing to do to get it. We recognize and respect that Members have all different levels of time, ability and all have different goals. For those looking for real financial rewards, it is important to examine how they approach and treat the business opportunity. At our Leadership Workshops we cover many aspects of our business. One of the areas we cover is having the attendees ask themselves, "am I treating this as a hobby or as a business". When most people are asked this question, they begin to understand how perhaps they are treating the business one way and expecting the results of another way. Because of the nature and freedom of this business, it is easy for people to treat the business opportunity casually as a hobby yet, expect business results.
It is also important
for those looking for business results to realize that if we treat the
business like a hobby then that is likely what will be duplicated within
our Team.
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It is also critically important to understand that you set the pace for
your Team. So if you treat the business casually, do not participate
in company activities, are easily distracted, are not consistent or
reliable, and set an example of treating
your business as a
hobby, your Team will likely duplicate that effort and attitude. |
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The possibilities with the Chaga Longevity Compensation Plan provide the opportunity for you and every Member of your Team to benefit in ways that will change lives. That is something to take seriously. By participating in the Chaga Mission you have opened the door to limitless possibilities - limitless potential. What we have created is a goldmine. You can take as much of the rewards as you like - you just have to put in the time and energy. |
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Share the Mission - Share the Rewards! |
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Healthy Living
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With so much information on the potential negative effects on our health
by using artificial sweeteners, it is a wonder why so many people still
consume these man-made substances. Products like Aspartame are in many diet
drinks and Splenda is the newest sugar substitute. The FDA admits this is true, but claims the amount consumed may be low enough that it shouldn’t raise concern, yet Aspartame has had the most complaints of any food additive available to the public. It’s been linked to MS, lupus, fibromyalgia, and other central nervous disorders. Possible other side effects of aspartame include headaches, migraines, panic attacks, dizziness, irritability, nausea, intestinal discomfort, skin rash, and nervousness. Some researchers have linked aspartame with depression and manic episodes. It may also contribute to male infertility. The concerns are many. |
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Almost all of the
independent research into Aspartame found dangerous side effects in
rodents. The FDA chose not to take these findings into account when
it approved Aspartame for public use. Over the course of 15 years,
those same side effects increasingly appeared in humans who were
vulnerable to the chemical structure of aspartame. |
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Due to the well-known concerns of consuming Aspartame, many of the new diet foods and beverages that come onto the marketplace will use Splenda as a sugar substitute. Few of us are really aware of how many new Splenda products there are in the supermarkets. We’ve been told that this artificial sweetener is different from all the past failures — Sweet’N Low®, NutraSweet®, etc. — and according to the claims, that this Splenda is the perfect sugar substitute (as sweet as sugar, but no calories). Products featuring Splenda are promoted and perceived as “natural” because even the FDA’s press release about sucralose parrots the claim that “it is made from sugar” — an assertion disputed by the Sugar Association, which is suing Splenda’s manufacturer, McNeil Nutritionals. The FDA has no definition for “natural,” so the term is used in many misrepresentations relating to products we use every day. Splenda is the trade name for sucralose, a synthetic compound stumbled upon in 1976 by scientists in Britain seeking a new pesticide formulation. It is true that the Splenda molecule is comprised of sucrose (sugar) — except that three of the hydroxyl groups in the molecule have been replaced by three chlorine atoms. There are numerous responsible experts that say that Splenda is unsafe. Clearly, Splenda is the latest in a succession of artificial sweeteners that claim at first to be healthy, only later to be proven to be full of side effects. These same authorities say that Splenda has more in common with DDT (a pesticide) than with food. The manufacturer’s own short-term studies showed that very high doses of sucralose (far beyond what would be expected in an ordinary diet) caused shrunken thymus glands, enlarged livers, and kidney disorders in rodents. A more recent study also shows that Splenda significantly decreases beneficial gut flora. In the eleven years after Splenda was put on the market, no independent studies of sucralose lasting more than six months have been done in humans. Further, none of the trials that were conducted were very large — the largest was only 128 people studied for three months, making us wonder, what happens when you’ve used sucralose for a year, or two, or ten? Then there’s the fact that Splenda, as a product, consists of more than just sucralose—it’s made with dextrose, and sometimes also with maltodextrin, neither of which were included in the original studies and trials of sucralose. So the reality is that we are the guinea pigs for Splenda while the FDA turns a blind eye. Self-reported adverse reactions to Splenda or sucralose collected by the Sucralose Toxicity Information Center include skin rashes/flushing, panic-like agitation, dizziness and numbness, diarrhea, swelling, muscle aches, headaches, intestinal cramping, bladder issues, and stomach pain.
With all the new
Splenda products on our shelves, it looks as if we are now in the process
of another grand public experiment — without our permission. And we
may not know the health implications for decades. Those of us that are health conscious can easily avoid the risks of Aspartame and Splenda but high fructose corn syrup is harder to avoid. The key is to consume it in moderation. Our kids in particular are bombarded with high fructose corn syrup, as it is in so many juices, soft drinks and snack foods. Many contribute this to the epidemic levels of childhood diabetes and child obesity. |
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With a little effort you can find fruit juices that are natural with no sugar added. Brands like Juicy Juice do not contain high fructose corn syrup or any added sugars. Thankfully some other major drink brands such as Snapple and Sobe, see the growing negative documentation and potential health concerns of artificial sweeteners, and are beginning to change over to natural sweeteners, like natural cane sugar.
More companies need to be responsible and look at consumer safety and well
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Be naturally sweet and your body will thank you! |
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Passion - An Essential Ingredient for Success! Many of the greatest people that ever lived, who changed the world and those who became notable leaders did so with a passionate belief in themselves and in their cause. People who changed the world like Albert Einstein and Bill Gates, were driven with passion to moving human civilization forward.
People who have been
very successful or achieved great things, will all tell you that they are
passionate about what they do. That is the key. People who
excel and reach their goals all have one thing in common - PASSION!
From musicians and artists to inventors and athletes, to people
just like you who become the best they can be - have the common thread of
passion. |
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In our industry, I
have seen people accomplish amazing things because they are passionate
about making a difference in peoples lives. They were passionate
about being part of a business opportunity that gave them the path to
personal and financial success. They were passionate about being a
part of something bigger than themselves. |
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This applies to you in your personal and professional life. Particularly in networking and building a sales team, your passion is essential for success. It shows people that you are a person committed, one who believes in what they do, and one who gets fulfillment from impacting lives in a positive way. Passion allows people to FEEL your conviction. Passion is also contagious and passion makes the people you interact with make note of your positive energy. Your positive energy will make people feel good and open doors for you in business as well as on your journey through life. Being passionate in what we do helps to give us a sense of meaning and fulfillment. Passion is essential to building a life of abundance. The real thing we all strive for in life is happiness, and happiness starts with bringing passion into your life! Passion means being involved. Passion is energy. Passion moves fear to action. Passion energizes your business and your life. Bring Passion into your life and you will see amazing things happen all around you! Live Abundantly,
Steve Gould |
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