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Hey D! - You are a good observer. My P5 is a great business building system for Business Owners and professionals at large.

What's on your "Not To-Do" list today?

Best,

Ali

Hi Daniel. Just noticed your message from November. You asked if Eric Lofholm has helped me to improve my intellectual capital niche. I suppose it depends on what you mean. He has helped me to think bigger about my business. He has helped me to finetune my niche market. As for the intellectual capital, I finished a book and a home study course since I started working with him. I hope that answers your question. Have a great week!

Hi Daniel, thanks for the note. To answer your question, the company I work for (Sephora) is volunteering some of their top make-up artists to apply their talents at a women's shelter for the holidays to help them along the path to feeling better about themselves and just give them some cheer. I'm developing a similar program for breast cancer patients and a professional dress/makeup sub-program with LA Youth at Work, which is an organization that teaches underprivileged kids important resume and interviewing skills for job seeking and higher education opportunities.

I've also really admired Curve magazine for featuring fashion designers who step out of the box and use diverse models. I've met a few great photographers who don't balk at using their talents to do the same for their portfolios.

At Micheal's LA BYS event last month, I had the opportunity to meet an amazing artist who is putting together a creativity workshop to bring life, introspection, and personal fulfillment back to people who've let their creativity wither away - she's targeting 40-somethings and 50-somethings. She's a really great person to talk to on top of being a fantastic artist, so I can see her program really going places and doing a lot of good.

These are just a few of the ideas and projects I've come across in my own personal little circle within the last month or so.

I believe art is inherently a medium for change, and I'm just using the 'stereotypical' basis of visual arts. I used to work for a corporate company as an Illustrator/Designer/Assistant to the Art Director and sometimes it's too easy for us to take the bread & butter work as the Holy Grail. We get fixated on the technical perfections, producing something that's visually fantastic without really testing the potential of where it can go further.

While we all need to eat and pay the bills, I do think we never stop growing as artists and, because of that growth, we're able to see more and more opportunities to do great things and create great work. For example, your profile info is exactly what I'm talking about - we can work, get paid, but do so in a way that helps our clients really meet their full potential. Or we can volunteer, not get paid, and still do something great. It's just a matter of keeping our eyes and ears open to a need that's out there and not ever, not once, stop poking at our art and talents to see where it can go further.

I hope the way I worded that makes sense, lol. I'm very tired and caffeine-deprived. : )

Hi Daniel,
Yes, I am in South Africa... until Tuesday, when I fly to London! My husband and I will be being location independent for a few years (at least - if we like it we'll just stay that way, modern nomads, moving around the world and doing the work we love). We spent 6 months just outside of Philadelphia a few years back - in Malvern. I enjoyed Philly - regularly trained in to work at a glass-blowing studio in the city. Enjoyed the snow too! I'm sure you're going to have a fantastic time in SA - safaris are GREAT fun - enjoy!

Hey there Daniel, thanks for the note and thanks for noticing (which means you took a few min to look at my page)! :) Looked at your website as well... looks like you are doing some cool work out there in Philly, love the 'web' logo for your website, talk about a 'sticky' web presence! ;)

To answer your ? about Xango, yes it's a good product, but to be honest there are lots of healthy 'functional beverages' out there with beneficial, super anti-oxidant properties and well after 5 years of marketing Xango (and building a nice business and residual income there) I realized that the value proposition was just not there...bottom line is all these drinks are $2 bottles of fruit juice that are being sold for $40 ($25 wholesale) to fund the compensation plan, which in a free enterprise model is okay, but from just a health conscious consumer looking for a healthy product viewpoint, I would say look elsewhere my friend! And the other thing is it worked great for some and did nothing for others, so we had to guess if it would work for some, and bottom line not all people respond same way to products and so are left guessing what they need to look, feel and perform best! I have found and answer to that, you might find interesting in fact (as you are obviously interested in health and wellness) their is a new wellness breakthrough out there that ends the guessing game (about what will work for you and is best for your body) and alllows you to ASSESS instead and get exactly what you need, based on a DNA healthy aging assesment...then a personalized product is created just for YOU and your unique gentic blueprint and even customized to your lifestyle...its very cool!

No more 'one size fits all' when it comes to your health, no more 'super fruit juice cure-alls' This is the biggest breakthrough in nutrition, health and wellness in decades...The future of health and wellness has arrived my friend, the genetic and wellness Revolution is here and it to is BIG! :)

Check out http://www.jared.DnaWellnessSolutions.com to learn more about it, could be the solution you are looking for, or certainly a part of it!

Cheers mate, great to 'meet' you here have a great day Daniel and keep thinkiing BIG!!

To Your Healthy Success!!

Jared Maidenberg

Daniel,
Great to meet you and the book that you're looking into looks like a good read, although I haven't read that book yet. I am familiar with the author's works though. It seems like the overall premise of the book is about fasting to dip into fat burning to release toxins. My advice would be to make sure that you're well hydrated and that you're not constipated. Also if you're on medications you should consult with a physician before trying the recommended diet. Let's keep the dialogue going...

Mike
www.akdocmike.com

Hi Daniel,

The one person I motivated to turn her business around was ...my former coach who decided to take my advice about the importance of marketing to take his practice to a next level...so as to impact more people's lives.
Denis

Daniel. Thanks for the kind words. BRILLIANT way to be likeable AND relevant! You'd may be amazed at how many people send blind invites to connect via social networking when they don't know someone. Strange.

Thanks for your nice comments on my manifesto post about being in the moment. What is your business your thinking big about growing?