Great Leaders Go Far

Do you want to know one of the biggest keys to network marketing success? Soaring leadership. If you want to create big success and develop a solid residual income as a Vemma Brand Partner, it’s critical that you fine-tune your leadership skills as you train others in your group.

Lead Now for Tomorrow’s Growth
Winston Churchill said it best: “The price of greatness is responsibility.” As your downline grows and your income goes up, your leadership reach will go further and further. That’s why it’s imperative that new Brand Partners work from day one to hone their leadership abilities. Start by identifying a mentor — someone with a proven track record, whose leadership style appeals to you. Use them as your guide or coach in making decisions, planning meetings, and developing your organization.

Your Personal Online Brand
The most successful Brand Partners have a carefully maintained online presence. Your website, personal blogs, and other sites need to be professional, friendly, and approachable in order to attract similarly successful business prospects. You should have a consistent “brand” and personality reflected across social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. While there are some places that you can be a bit more casual, remember a good leader is someone that others want to follow. Every word you write online and every photo you post should be something you would want to show to your most important business prospects.

Are You Leadership Material?
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be charismatic, charming, or an exciting storyteller to be a good leader. You don’t have to hold your audience rapt for a three-hour speech, and you don’t need to be super outgoing. In fact, many great leaders are a bit introverted — think of Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Thatcher, and John Adams. The key to being a good leader is to go beyond just snagging an audience, and actually influencing what your audience does after they hear you. If you say things that get people thinking, and then get people doing, you’ve become an effective leader.
As a leader, you must know when to talk and when to listen. It’s important to discern what and when to share. Take time to reflect on past performance and thoughtfully plan future goals. It’s imperative to ensure there’s ample communication and everyone understands the direction and goals for the group.

What’s in a Leader?
So, what makes you an effective leader? A good leader is defined by his or her ability to influence others in a positive way. This means you need to have vision — you must have a sure goal and clearly mapped out milestones along the way to achieving this goal. You must communicate this vision to those whom you lead. Your role as a Vemma Brand Partner is to help others embrace the vision and hope, so they’ll create the future you’ve shown them.
A final key to leadership is to treat others respectfully. Resist the temptation to make a mean joke at someone else’s expense. Stand up for people who need a hero. A great secret to success as a Vemma Brand Partner is to serve your downline with genuine concern for their well-being and their success. Your sincere interest communicates something that words alone cannot. Respect creates a team atmosphere, where everyone feels unified and works together. Once you find yourself leading a real team, you’ll discover an incredible source of excitement, energy and momentum — something every leader dreams of!

Great Leaders Are:
• Self motivated — they take action
• Collaborators — they build teams
• Consistent — their online presence is a natural extension of their leadership
• Insightful — they reflect on past actions and their results
• Respectful of others — they inspire others
• Success-driven — they formulate a plan for success

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Burn Fat Faster with Vitamin D

Could a common nutrient be the antidote to an overweight America? Explore the surprising benefits of a vitamin that's hiding in plain sight

 

It was supposed to be a routine study.

At the University of Minnesota 2 years ago, Shalamar Sibley, M.D., was examining how calorie reduction might affect hormone pathways. On a hunch, she decided to test one more variable: vitamin D. "Researchers have been tracking the relationship between low vitamin D and obesity," says Dr. Sibley. "So I wondered if people's baseline vitamin D levels would predict their ability to lose weight when cutting calories."

Her hunch paid off—big time. People with adequate vitamin D levels at the start of the study tended to lose more weight than those with low levels, even though everyone reduced their calorie intake equally. In fact, even a minuscule increase in a key D precursor caused the study participants to incinerate an additional half pound of flab.

Dr. Sibley's study is just the latest indication that vitamin D could be our special ops agent in the war against body fat. "In the past decade, there's been an explosion of research on vitamin D," says Anthony Norman, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California at Riverside. For example, a study at Laval University in Quebec City found that people who consumed more dietary vitamin D had less belly fat than people who ate less.

What's the big deal about D? It comes from milk and exposure to sunlight, right? Well, not really. Or at least, not enough of it does. More than a third of American men are deficient in the nutrient—even young, healthy men who live in sunny states. And many more American men—over 50 percent—have suboptimal levels.

"Vitamin D deficiency is one of the most commonly unrecognized medical conditions," says Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of medicine at Boston University medical center and author of The Vitamin D Solution. "And that deficiency negatively affects every cell in your body—including your fat cells."

Gimme a D! Gimme Another D!

One reason vitamin D has flown under the research radar for so long is because it's more than just a vitamin—it's also a hormone, one that plays a role in a remarkable range of body processes. "In the past 20 years, we've found D receptors on up to 40 different tissues, including the heart, pancreas, muscles, immune-system cells, and brain," says Norman. He should know, having discovered the vitamin D receptor on intestinal cells back in 1969. So think of vitamin D as your body's multitasking marvel: Heart disease? Adequate D might be equal to exercise in its ability to ward off this number one killer of men. Blood pressure? D helps keep it down. Diabetes? Yep, studies show that D can combat this, too. Now add to this list the potential to ward off memory loss, certain cancers (including prostate), and even the common cold, and it should come as no surprise that D may also help solve the riddle of your expanding middle. Here's the rundown on the many benefits of boosting your vitamin D.

1 You'll eat less but feel more satisfied.
When you have adequate vitamin D levels, your body releases more leptin, the hormone that conveys a "we're full, stop eating" message to your brain. Conversely, less D means less leptin and more frequent visits to the line at the Chinese buffet. In fact, an Australian study showed that people who ate a breakfast high in D and calcium (a mineral that works hand in hand with D) blunted their appetites for the next 24 hours. Vitamin D deficiency is also linked to insulin resistance, which leads to hunger and overeating, says Liz Applegate, Ph.D., director of sports nutrition at the University of California at Davis.

2 You'll store less fat.
When you have enough D in your bloodstream, fat cells slow their efforts to make and store fat, says Dr. Holick. But when your D is low, levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and a second hormone, calcitrol, rise, and that's bad: High levels of these hormones turn your body into a fat miser, encouraging it to hoard fat instead of burning it, says Michael B. Zemel, Ph.D., director of the nutrition institute at the University of Tennessee. In fact, a Norwegian study found that elevated PTH levels increased a man's risk of becoming overweight by 40 percent.

3 You'll burn more fat—especially belly fat.
Vitamin D can help you lose lard all over, but it's particularly helpful for the pounds above your belt. Studies at the University of Minnesota and Laval University found that D triggers weight loss primarily in the belly. One explanation: The nutrient may work with calcium to reduce production of cortisol, a stress hormone that causes you to store belly fat, says Zemel.

4 You'll lose weight—and help your heart.
One of Zemel's studies found that a diet high in dairy (which means plenty of calcium and vitamin D) helped people lose 70 percent more weight than a diet with the same number of calories but without high levels of those nutrients. What's more, a German study showed that high levels of vitamin D actually increased the benefits of weight loss, improving cardiovascular risk markers like triglycerides.