Extra! Extra! The Rats Are Running! The Rats Are Running!

Extra! Extra! We interrupt this blog for a very important announcement: Dust off your noses, groom your whiskers, kink your tails & dig out those ratty sneakers. United Way’s Scotiabank’s annual Rat Race gets underway Thursday June 12th 7:30pm

Join Toronto’s finest rats as they scurry an exhilarating 5k through the heart of Toronto’s financial core to raise money for the 2008 United Way campaign. This year’s goal is $108 million. Whether you’re a rat or a sponsor know that your dollars help thousands of grateful receipients including yours truely. With out you there would be no way.

To sponsor a rat or make a donation please visit http://www.uwgt.org/events/ratrace/2008/home.php

 

Thank You

Bill C-51 Threatens Canadians Right To Self Determination!

Folks - Bill C-51 threatens your rights & freedom to take care of yourself, family & loved ones. The Canadian government is attempting to deny our rights to access, obtain & grow natural health products including vitamins, supplements, herbs, medicinal plants & fruits, even things like dandelions, cranberries & blueberries. Furthermore Bill C-51 is attempting to prohibit people from selling, giving advice, and treating people with natural health products.

This bill has passed a speedy second reading in the Canadian House of Commons, yet no mention has been made in the media of this attempt by the Harper government & Big Pharma to deny us our right & freedom not only to take care of ourselves, but to even obtain basic vitamins, supplements & herbs to enhance our daily life. They are also attempting to deny us access to allopathic & homeopatic medicines whihc have been around since the dawn of time.

May 10th is a National Day of Action here in Canada. If you value the rights & freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, make your voice heard.

 ‘(NaturalNews) A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada’s Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is “therapeutic” automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new “enforcement” powers to the thugs enforcement agents who claim to be “protecting” the public from dangerous unapproved “therapeutic agents” like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian…), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government’s thugs enforcement agents to: Raid your home or business without a warrant
• Seize your bank accounts
• Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
• Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from you

C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a “controlled activity,” and anyone caught engaging in such “controlled activities” would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other “controlled activities” include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized…)”

http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html

If you value your freedoms which are your constitutional right as a Canadian, write your MP, sign petitons, get out there & protest. Don’t let US Big Pharma bully us into surrendering our rights & freedom to determine our health & well being.

 

 

 

Your Daily Smile

Always visualize your success with happiness,
Then enjoy the journey as well as the process.

You already know you can have anything you desire,
Just let the good vibrations take you higher!

For more inspirational thoughts visit Andy Dooley @ http://andydooley.com & Mike Dooley @ http://www.tut.com 

 

The Four Pillars of Successful Entrepreneurs

Just a little something to think about courtesy Ken Blanchard author of ‘The One Minute Entrepreneur’

The Four Pillars of Successful Entrepreneurs

1. Pillar 1: Sales Must Exceed Expenses
2. Pillar 2: Collect Your Bills
3. Pillar 3: Take Care of Your Customers
4. Pillar 4: Take Care of Your People

This caught my eye this morning while I was surfing. Irregardless of what business you’re in, I feel this is invaluable advice. Be well.

It’s… Tax Time! No Need To Panic…

That time of year is fast approaching. Yes it’s tax time once again. First piece of advice - don’t panic. Even if you’re totally disorganized & keep all your financial papers stashed in a box. Note: this advice is primarily for business owners. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re a business owner.

There’s just three things you need to know right now. [1] It’ll take you about a day to get organized. [2] The basic information the tax man wants to know is how much you made & how much you spent to make it. [3] Get a professional to do the actual filing for you.  OK, let’s break it down.

[1] Haul out that box with all your financial stuff in it. The one with all your receipts from the post office, printer, web host, office supplies, rent receipts etc. etc. You know the one, hiding in the corner over there. If you’re super organized this is already sorted according to expenses. If not, you’ll have to do it now. What are you waiting for? Start sorting!

1. Postal,
2. office supplies,
3. entertainment,
4. charity,
5. web master,
6.  web hosting,
7. DNS registration,
8. liability insurance
9. professional association memberships
10. legal & or accounting fees
11. outsourcing fees / sub contractors ie other massage practitioners

[2] I think you get the picture. Now total each amount up & write it down.  Separatelytotal up how much you made (earned) not forgetting to keep the amount you collected for the government (GST etc) seperate. Do it up in a basic spread sheet in Word & print off a couple of copies.

[3] Filing your return. There’s 4 ways you can do this. Yourself, have a friend, relative etc do it for you, a generic accounting firm say H&R Block, or a professional CA.  Methods one & two are the poorest choices, very simply because you’re not familiar with all the little government details to give you best tax rate. Generic accounting firms are better, but they really specialize in personal tax returns, not business. Getting a professional CA to do it is your best bet. It’s their job so they already know more about taxes etc then you & I will ever know. (or want to)

Choose an accountant who specializes in small business with a proven track record. They may even already be a client of yours.  Think you can’t afford an accountant? Think again. It may even make the difference between paying taxes & getting a refund. Besides, you may even get a new client & your accountant fees will have paid for itself.

If you happen to live in the Toronto ON area, I recommend the services of Bennett Gold ( http://www.bennettgold.com ) & SBLR Acumen ( http://www.sblr.ca )

Not to mention, now is an ideal time to market your on site massage service to local accounting firms who are working virtually 24/7 in April.  Need a little os site tax time relief in the GTA, check out my corporate site @ http://www.inmyhands.ca

Ladies, Let’s Rock The Planet

Need a little uplifting & motivation? Check out this way cool mini-video created by Kim Duke of Sales Divas .com http://www.salesdivasmovie.com/  Her goal is to share with 1 million women around the palnet. You can watch the movie without signing up, but drop her a line & lshare your feelings. Please share this.

 

Bloom Where You Are!

This post comes courtesy Melani Ward @ http://www.9keystosuccess.com

” ‘Bloom where you are’. I’m not sure who said that but I love it. As women, we have a tendency to think we can always be better moms, better business owners, better athletes, better wives, better friends, etc. But, the truth is, every gift we bring to the table right now is exactly enough. Wherever you are in your life right now is the perfect place for you to be - to have the relationship you want, to complete the program you’ve always wanted to launch, and to be who you’ve always wanted to be. So, don’t wait for it. Now is all you have and it’s absolutely, completely and utterly enough.”

If you have a goal, plan, dream, idea you want to do or accomplish. Go for it! Now! While the idea is fresh in your mind. You have all the resources you need right now to get started. The only person standing in your way is you. Because if you wait for the time to be right, to be perfect, it’ll never be.

The right time is right now.

Welcome To Your Success!

Looking for tips, ideas & strategies to build a successful on site massage business? You’ve come to the right place. While this blog is geared towards corporate on site massage business owners - everyone can benefit from the ideas expressed here.  Here’s the most important strategy you can implement right now! If you want clients, go get ‘em. New clients won’t be beating down the door. You need to take action to get them. You need to do the marketing to get your clients. Plain & simple. I can suggest tips & strategies you can use. BUT you need to do the work. If you don’t take action, your business won’t be going anywhere, except backwards.

An Irish Friendship Wish

Here’s a little helpful prayer to see you on your way. You are more than welcome to share.

May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;

May the sun always shine on your windowpane;                 May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;

May the hand of a friend always be near you;                     May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

I wish each and everyone of us, peace & love, abundance, happiness & success.

Remember, make success a permanent address.

Helping is Contagious

Everytime you help another person, you’re not just helping that person. You’re helping people who will benefit from the help given the person you’re helping.

And the cycle will then continue. Helping another person is very contagious. And it can spread fast.

Very fast.

And sometimes, more often then not, what will most likely happen that the help first given by you, will come right back to you from people and places you never expected.

Help always has a way of finding its way back to it’s original sender.

Something to think about courtesy of Brian Kim @ http://www.briankim.net