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Why The Berry Tree?

I get asked that a lot.  Why should I join the Berry Tree?  What makes the Berry Tree so different?  What’s in it for me?  What makes your team so special?

Let me ask you:  Do you believe in diversification?  Do you believe there is a better way?  Do you honestly believe that there are people who are strangers to you that earnestly want to help you?  Do you want to be healthier and feel better?  Do you want to help others?  Do you want to be a part of something that is bigger than yourself?  Do you want to be totally debt free?  Do you want to spend more time with your family?  Do you desire to be part of a community that cares?  The answer to these questions and many more are so much of what the Berry Tree is about.

Yes we are an mlm company.   Contrary to what many think, mlm is not a dirty word.  In my opinion mlm stands for liberty.  The freedom to do the things that matter rather then being in bondage to a job that allows very little or in some cases no freedom.  For goodness sakes who wants to work, eat, and sleep only to do it again the next day.

The Berry Tree offers much more than just a paycheck.  We offer diversification – you can earn more than one check for the same effort.  Time freedom, a healthier you, a way to help others are all yours when you join our team.

I don’t know you.  I don’t even know if the Berry Tree is right for you.  But what I do know is that our team cares and we are with a winning company.  We are rooting for your success and hear to help you every step of the way.  We truly care about those who join our team.  We care about you as a person and we care about your success.  We provide support, training, friendship, and a community that cares.  The founders of this company go out of their way to help educate us.  And to give you just one example of how we care more about other people than ourselves is our “Save A Child” campaign.   

Do you want to be debt free?  We can help you achieve that.  Do you want to be apart of something bigger than yourself, we can help expose you to a whole new world.  The sky is really the limit here.  The only limit to where you can go is you.

So, it’s up to you.  Do you want to stay where you’re at or do you want to step out and diversify?

Click Here if You Want to Be Apart of Our Team.

Are you a numbers kind of person?  If so, you’re gonna love this.  Have you been in any of the “old school” home businesses where you had to do hotel meetings and white board presentations?  If so, you as well are going to love this. 

Now, one of the things I like best about the Berry Tree is that it is so automated you don’t have to do meetings.  But for those of you who still like the dry erase board thing - this is for you.  Which I must admit, when you look at the possibilities written down of what this business can do for you - it’s exciting.  Art Phelps, who is one of our industries leaders has taken the dry erase board presentation to the next level.  Check it out… 

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That’s right, I hate to admit it but I’ve been scammed.  I don’t know about you, but when someone is talking to me I try to be discerning in what they’re saying.  But I’m sure this time the person was thinking “gotch ya”.

We were at one of our favorite restaurants eating a late lunch.  We had the 2 kiddos with us.  We were ordering from our menus and the kids where ordering from the kids menu.  When the waitress took our order she asked “do they want lids”?  She was referring to the kids drinks.  For our 10 year old we said no, but the 8 year old we said yes.  (ok, our 8 year old is a boy – need I say more as to why he gets a lid (smile), and I mean that in the sweetest way.

When our waitress brought out our drinks I thought it odd that she brought our daughter such a huge glass of milk.  But we were talking and I didn’t give it much thought except for the initial shock. 

We had a great meal.  Got the check, double checked the bill, and long and behold, for my daughters drink we were charged a full adult price instead of the child’s price.  I thought wow, that was smooth.  Normally, you’re asked would you like a small or lager – if you say large you know you’re going to be charged more.  Never in a million years would I have thought by “do they want lids” that I was being upsized.  What a sneaky approach, we had been scammed.  Needless to say I was not happy – I don’t like it when people try to pull a fast one on me (or anyone else for that matter).

Yes, it was only $2.29 instead of $.99, but it’s the principle of it.  Deception is one thing I have a very low tolerance for.  It just goes to show us that in all of life we need to be aware of what’s going on.

As Ike prepares to hit the gulf coast we lift up our fellow Texans and all who may be impacted by this hurricane.

Austin caught a break on this one, we’re just expecting some wind and of course rain. 

Our prayers are with those who had to evalucate, who are caught in the path of Ike, and for all the first responders. 

Be Safe!

I still remember as if it were yesterday just turning on the TV hearing what had happened and then bam here came the 2nd plane.  I’m sure a lot of you can remember what you were doing as well.  Our prayers go out to the families who lost loved ones.  We honor those who lost their lives helping others, those who lost their lives serving our country, and those who defend her still today.  We want you to know - we have not forgotten!

I hope we all can use this day as a day to remind us on how the whole country came together.  May this day spur us to help our fellow man.  See someone in need - lend a hand. 

United We Stand!

Hello,

I hope you take this in the spirit it is given – and that is, our true desire to help people.

As part of working at home, one of our goals was to be debt free.  When I say debt free I mean all we own is paid for in full.  That means no credit card debt, no car payments, no mortgage payments – no debt period.  Today we are debt free.  It was not easy.  Just to give you a brief history our daughter is Epileptic and our son was 2 months early, with not the best insurance our medical bill added up.  We were very much in debt and there was a time we didn’t know where our next meal was coming from.  So, we know for a fact what I am going to share with you works.

One of our long term goals is to help all our team members achieve the same thing – to be debt free.  One mark of a good leader is wanting the best for their team and helping pave a way for them to achieve total success.  Part of being a total success is being debt free.  Is your team leader debt free?

It all starts with a budget.  When new team members join our team, we ask them what is their marketing budget?  We get a lot of resistance when we ask people to write things down.  This is just our human nature.  We are too busy to write things down, we try to keep it all in our head.  I don’t know about you, but I can’t keep it all in my head – more power to those who can.  Sixteen years ago when we started our first home business, we didn’t’ write things down either and we were knee deep in debt too.   

But when it comes to wanting to be debt free, if you truly want to be debt free and be free from the bondage of owing people money you have to have a budget.  And to do a budget you must first start by writing things down.  The point is if you refuse to do a budget than chances are you really don’t want to be debt free, you’re just doing lip service.  Some of you may not like that, but it’s the truth.  That is one principle I hold very dear and that is honesty.

Most of us don’t even know where all our money goes.  We were no different.  When we first started this journey years ago, we fought tooth and nail from doing a budget.  We had a general idea of where our money went, but once we started writing things down we had a few surprises.  When we first started, we didn’t see the real power in writing things down - We do know!

Before you can have a budget you need to know where your money is going.  Start tracking every penny you spend – and YES I mean every penny.  When you do a budget it’s best to do a zero budget.  So if you spend 65 cents on a pack of gum write it down.  Do this for a month, really see every aspect of where every cent goes. Carry a little notebook around or keep it in the car to capture your spending.  Once you do this, you are in a better position to have a budget that actually works.

So, the first challenge is if your true desire is to be debt free, start tracking where you spend every cent for a month.

This is not easy.  It takes a determined mindset.  You have to commit to your goal.  (sound familiar, this is a key principle in building a successful home business)

To Your Success!

Julia

I read a story today I wanted to share with you. It has some great application that we can all apply.  

The goal – to make a coffee table as a Christmas gift.  Thru this one little activity this guy learned he could achieve any goal he set for himself with confidence.  After you read this you as well can take the lessons learned and apply them to any goal you want to achieve.

A Vision –

He had a vision.  He had a picture in his mind of exactly how it would look and got it down on paper, so he could continually check to see what he was currently doing against his vision.

A Plan –

Before he cut his first piece of wood, he drew up a detailed blueprint.

A Timeline and Deadline –

He planned what he was going to do each day, the steps he would take to accomplish his daily goal and had an end date of completion.

Action Plan –

Each day he only focused on that day’s activities and didn’t worry about the rest.  He knew that if he followed his plan he would meet his ultimate goal.

Motivation –

His motivation was that he was making a gift for his wife.  He knew what it would mean to her.  It kept him moving forward. 

Help –

He had lots of help.  His dad helped him put a plan together.  When he got stuck his friend helped him out.  It was a team effort.

Good Resources –

He had the right tools.

Persistence – (oh, so key)

If something didn’t pan out like he thought it would he adapted and moved around it.  He didn’t let a few steps backwards stop him from moving forward.

Learning Curve –

He knew in the beginning he had no idea what he was doing.  He did know that if he took it one step at a time and relied on the things he had in place – his vision, plan, help, resources, etc that he would learn as he went and grew more confident with each day that his vision would become a reality.

These are valuable tips we can all use and apply to any goal we want to achieve and watch our vision become our reality!

This past weekend I heard a great story that really brings home a key point we can all benefit from.  Have you heard of BUDs Training?  It’s Basic Underwater Demolition seal training.  As you know, our Seals go thru some very intensive training.  Well, in this case a seal had gotten injured and could no longer continue in training.  He became a postmaster on a Navy ship.  As the ship was about to leave port the mail was delivered in 2 huge bags about 4-5 feet tall, 2-3 feet around – so as you can imagine these bags were extremely heavy being stuffed full of mail.  This ex-seal, who was a very skinny guy, was observed carrying both these heavy mail bags at the same time.  He first slung one over his shoulder and then the other, upstairs, downstairs until he finally reached the mail room.  He was later asked, “Why did you put yourself thru all that, why not just do one bag at a time?”  He responded with, “Accomplish the Mission!”  His mission was to get the heavy bags of mail to the mailroom and that’s exactly what he did.  Nothing distracted him, there was no winning or complaining on how hard it was, he focused on his mission and got it done.

This is the same laser type focus we should have in “accomplishing our mission”.  The first step is to identify your mission.  Some of us have a few different missions.  For example, as one who home schools my kids, one of my missions is to give them the very best education.  I need to harness my energy, focus on the task at hand, and let nothing get in the way of me accomplishing that mission. 

Another mission of ours is to help people have successful home businesses so that they can have more time to do what’s important to them.  We are very focused on this Mission.  Our goal is to help people, and we can think of no better way then to help people live a better life, which involves lots of things. 

I would like to encourage you on your mission.  Ask yourself…

            1.  What is my Mission?

            2.  What steps do I need to take to accomplish my mission?

            3.  Then take out all massive action. (I’ll write on this more later)

Just think of where you would be if you had that same passion, drive, commitment, and focus as the sailor did on I must “Accomplish the Mission”.  Wow, close your eyes and see where that can take you!

As Gustav approaches and is on the minds of all most everyone, we too wanted to wish those still left on the coast and those who remain to protect and help the very best.  Our prayers are with you.

We are also mindful of those who have already evacuated.  It was great to hear that 90-95% of the people have already made it to a safe shelter to wait out the storm.  Here in Austin, we have already received a couple hundred people from the coast to wait out the storm.  Our prayers are with you as you wait in such uncertainty.

It seems the governement is on top of things this time.  President Bush has arrived here in Austin to first hand see how things are being handled.  I was glad to here the Mayor of New Orleans (and all local bodies of gov.) step up to the plate.  Our local governing bodies are our first responders and need to be proactive and on top of things so they can best help their citizens.

Again, my hats off to all those who stay in harms way just to protect the empty cities and aid those who need assistance - these are real life heros who put their life on the line for the common man - Thank You!  May God grant you a hedge of protection as you serve in the path of destruction.

As we go thru today, may we be ever so mindful of those in need.  I would encourage all of us to put out our helping hand to someone in need.

I don’t know about you guys, but with homeschooling, running a home biz, managing my household, helping out at church, taking the kids to scoccer & girl scouts, mentoring other women - I need a boost to get thru the day.  You know with the lack of nutrients in our foods these days we need supplements to provide our bodies with the vitamins and minerals we need to run.Some people use energy drinks to get a boost. 

I can’t drink them, they make me too gittery.  Did you know a lot of them like Red Bull, Amp, Full Throttle have anywhere from 30-58g and higher in sugar.  A lot of that sugar count comes from High Fructose Corn Syrup.  So what does all the sugar do - it gives you an instant boost then BAM you drop like a rock.  Who needs that?  Also, not only energy drinks but also a lot of the foods we eat have High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).  Read the labels!

Did you know HFCS is man-made from refining cornstarch and has a hugh impact on our bodies.  At least natural sugar signals our bodies “you are full”, HFCS does not so in turn you can eat more.  Can you guess the result of that?  HFCS can also elevate your triglycerids levels and upset the balance of important trace minerals in your body such as copper and chromium etc.

I found a great natural way to boost not only my energy but also improve my stamina and mental clarity.  It has No Caffeine,  No Stimulants and nothing artifical.  Matter of fact its full of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, fiber, super antioxidants, chlorophyll, herbs, phytonutrients, enzymes - as you can see just an 8oz serviing is packed full of nutrious ingredients that are good for you and naturally Boost your energy throughout the whole day.  Plus, don’t have time to drink it before you leave for work no problem - it comes in a very handy single packet you can add to water and drink it on the go!  It tastes great and gives me an abundant amount of energy for the whole day.

For more details go here - Berry Boost