This is a repost of an article which was originally published July 20th, 2012. Life at 300 pounds is tough – every way you want to look at it. Life at 368 pounds, especially at 5′ 2″ tall, is almost unlivable. To those who have never had to carry the equivalent of fifteen or so ten pound bags of flour with every step, every move, every get up and sit down through every task and [...]

Does eating healthy cost? Sure. But so does gaining and losing weight. According to researchers, a lack of funds is often responsible for the added weight we put on. Why? Because genuinely healthy meals containing actual nutrition typically cost more money than processed foods do. So, what to do? If you can’t afford the right kinds of food, do you then starve yourself? Or do you take the cheap way out and stop the hunger [...]

Are you one of the millions of people so busy managing a family, career, hobbies, and friends that you just can’t find the time to eat right? Are you consuming the right amount of nutrition recommended by doctors? Have you been putting off taking care of your health? Are you having a hard time shedding those extra pounds that seem to creep up so fast and are so hard to come off? Are you concerned [...]

As hard as you try, it seems that the Christmas holidays and the winter’s cold have a way of adding unwanted pounds. Come Spring, when what you see in the mirror doesn’t reflect back the look you will want for the Summer, it’s time to take action. But how? The thought of starving yourself, yo-yo diets, “miracle pills”, etc., takes the fun out of trying to get in shape, especially when the results are so [...]

According to the late Zig Ziglar, “You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” In the referrals/promotion/sales profession, then, your first priority is to find out what people want. Folks in that group comprise your “target market“, the individuals you want to seek out in order to help them. And the more they need or want a solution, the hotter they are [...]

The Burns Court area of downtown Sarasota has become the focal point for the United States’ only International Chalk Festival – a celebration of the extemporaneous works of globally recognized masters of street art. What started out in Sarasota in 2007 as a local community event with a field of about a dozen participating artists and a couple of thousand passers by this year attracted over 500 world-renowned artists and some 20,000 very avid fans [...]

“Super Storm,” “Storm of the Century,” “The Perfect Storm,” there are any number of names given to the convergence of at least two major weather patterns that hit the northeastern and midwestern United States earlier this week. The seriousness and longevity of the combined effects of this unusual weather will directly and negatively affect a very large portion of our population. The rest of us will also be impacted in the days and months to [...]

Startling Loss Catherine Horine called the other morning. She had been crying, She had just learned that she had lost something that had been very close to her – indeed, as close as it is possible to get for more years than she could remember. It wasn’t just the fact of the closeness. It was all that they had been through together, the health issues, the consistent and persistent attachment from which she had never [...]

Polls, polls, polls! This candidate is up by three points, this one is down by several, all within the margin of error. Turn on any news source these days and your head will soon spin with poll statistics that can literally change by the minute. To have the numbers make any sense, you have to pay attention to how the questions are asked and of whom. Otherwise, poll numbers can be skewed to say most [...]

Christmas Eve, 1927, young Herb was a toddler witnessing his first real Christmas. The tradition in their home, and in most homes at the time, was that all of the decorating was saved until the day before Christmas, when a spectacular transformation would take place throughout the house. Herb watched in wide-eyed amazement as, room by room, his mother turned each into something truly warm and wonderful. But what most caught his attention was when [...]

Life at 300 pounds is tough – every way you want to look at it. Life at 368 pounds, especially at 5′ 2″ tall, is almost unlivable. To those who have never had to carry the equivalent of fifteen or so ten pound bags of flour with every step, every move, every get up and sit down through every task and routine of daily living, it is hard to imagine. You can ask Ricky Bunch, [...]

We all like to BUY things. But most of us don’t like salespeople. Not because they are mean or evil. We just don’t like being SOLD. We prefer to make decisions for ourselves. So, if you are a LiveSmart 360 Member and you have products for purchase, how do you arrange it so that people buy from you (or from your website) without your selling them something? Let someone or someTHING else do the selling! [...]

If you’ve listened to any of the Conference Calls lately, you’ve heard Sean Murphy and others say that LiveSmart 360 is all about “getting your life back” and “living life on your terms”. Just clever catch phrases? Interesting marketing? Imagine if it is really true and what it means to someone like Jolenia Alexander. Imagine being just two years old and being diagnosed with diabetes. Think of all the childhood experiences and memories that are [...]

Even gifted speakers can use a little help getting started. Sound strange? It’s true. Recently, Kevin Thomas showed up at a mini event being hosted at LiveSmart 360′s headquarters in Sarasota, Florida. His presence had been carefully and secretly arranged by LiveSmart 360 Founder and CEO Mark McCool. But Kevin shocked us when he didn’t know how to start speaking! If you’ve ever heard Kevin speak, it’s like filling your thirst for knowledge and meaningful [...]

What sets you and every other LiveSmart 360 Member apart from the crowd? What gives you an edge that others don’t and can’t have? What do you have that will give you an audience above the noise of the marketplace?  What empowers you with the opportunity to become financially independent in a fractured economy? It’s the empowerment of exclusivity. But first, some context. In a recent real estate study, potential buyers had an opportunity to tour a number [...]