My Trip to Shaklee Headquarters

 

I am so excited to share this post with you!!!

A couple of weeks ago,  I was able to attend Shaklee’s New Director Conference in at Shaklee’s Headquarters in Pleasanton, California.   This was an earned trip that was completely paid for! :)  Can’t beat that!!!

I had an AMAZING TIME!!!

I took a TON of pictures!!!  (I won’t show you all because that would take you all day to look at them, lol.)

But I did want to share these with you because I know that a lot of you are just hearing/learning about Shaklee and I thought that this would be a great way for you to get to know the company a little better.  Shaklee is not just any corporation, Shaklee is all about helping others!  When you join Shaklee as a member or distributor, you join the Shaklee family!! 

WE BELIEVE WE'RE PART OF A MOVEMENT TO MAKE PEOPLE AND THE PLANET HEALTHIER.

But most importantly, all of us at Shaklee are in this because we want to do our small part. And each of our small contributions put together will create that major change we wish to see in the world.

We're proud of the work we do and the people we work with.

 

Here are some pictures of the front of the building.

 

Here I am sporting my Get Clean Shopping Bag, lol!  (I love these and have 7 now!)

 

My friend (also a Shaklee Distributor) went with me on this trip because my husband couldn’t take off work!

The building was designed by world-renowned architect, Gensler, to make a people-friendly, earth-friendly space that reflects Shaklee’s commitment to Living in Harmony with Nature. No matter where you are in the building, you can see sky, trees, hills and fields. Advanced architectural design brings the beauty of outdoors inside with natural light, natural materials, and natural colors.

Before I show you some of the the back and inside photos,  I wanted to share some sweet details with you about Shaklee’s Headquarters and what was used to make it:

Sustainable building materials such as wood panels and doors that were harvested from certified sustainable forests.

Carpet squares from Interface that are made of recycled materials

Task chairs made of recycled materials.

Carefully landscaped grounds that are a living herbal library representing the botanical ingredients in our products.

Motion sensors that turn equipment and lighting on and off to conserve energy.

Window shades controlled by electronic sensors that allow 80% of the light in while shading the building interior spaces from heat. 

Low-E glass used throughout the building to promote maximum energy efficiency.  

Under-floor air distribution for energy efficiency and indoor air quality

Sweeping open spaces that encourage a healthy flow of ideas, information, and, of course, fresh air.

Gathering spaces around a family-style hearth and gas fireplace.

Intelligent site orientation and proximity to public transportation.

At Shaklee, we're part of a movement to make people and the planet healthier. Inspired by the visionary works of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai and her Green Belt Movement, Shaklee began a tree-planting campaign across the United States and Canada on Earth Day 2006, encouraging the company's 750,000 Members and Distributors to organize tree-planting events at the grassroots level in their respective communities.

Earth Day 2009, Dr. Wangari Maathai, Global Ambassador for the Shaklee A Million Trees, A Million Dreams campaign, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and CEO Roger Barnett plant the 1 millionth tree at the Shaklee World Headquarters in Pleasanton, California.

 

Here is the front desk with flags from all the countries that Shaklee in right now!  (soon to be in 50 countries!)

They have most of Shaklee’s products on display!!!  (I am happy to say that I have most of their products in my house, can you tell that I LOVE SHAKLEE, lol?)

 

Did you know Shaklee has…

Over $250 million invested in clinical testing, research, and development

Over 83,000 tests annually for product quality

Over 100 scientific papers, 90 of them published in peer-reviewed journals

Quality far beyond industry standards

and LOTS OF PASSION!!!!!

We think health is the most important thing in the whole world.  Without it, you have nothing else.

So everything that goes into every Shaklee bottle is designed to make you healthy. And to do it so well you tell your friends about it.

Dr. Shaklee's vision was to give people the wealth of health. We still think that's the best idea to build a company on.

I LOVE Shaklee’s supplements!  My family has been using them for almost 13 years now!   Go HERE to learn more about what makes Shaklee different than ALL the other companies out there.

 

I personally TAKE and LOVE Shaklee’s Vitalizer for women and Vivix!

 

Here is Shaklee’s sports line right before they changed the label! I have been recommending these products for years!

 

Ahhh,  Here is Shaklee’s amazing Inch Loss Plan called Cinch!  I am Certified Personal Trainer and recommend this line for anyone that needs to lose 5 - 100+ pounds!!!  It really works and tastes great!

 

Here is the Weight Loss Starter Kit!

 

Here are Shaklee’s amazing line of the highest quality protein powders on the market!  I love this one the best!

 

One of my FAVORITE Shaklee product lines is the Children’s Health Line!  It is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!! I give my kids the mutli-vitamin/mineral and DHA chews daily along with the chewable Cs.  I am proud to say that my kids have NEVER been on a prescription medication before!!!!

 

I also use Shaklee’s hair and body care lines!  The Nourishing Scalp Treatment is great for growing new thick hair!!  ***Here is a cleaning tip!***  Use these products and you will NEVER get soap scum in your shower! again!!  I promise you that!!!  I have NEVER had to clean soap scum in my shower… EVER!

 

Ok,  I LOVE this Skin Care Line!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!! I have been using this line for 8 years and swear by it!  A lot of people ask me what I use on my face, so now you know!  I recommend starting with the whole system!  With just 3 minutes of Enfuselle Nutrition Therapy morning and night, in 28 short days, you'll see your skin age 10 years in reverse – guaranteed!

 

You already know, I LOVE Shaklee’s Laundry Line!  They are all natural and work great!  I need that with 3 young kids!

 

Here is Shaklee’s Kitchen Line! I use these products daily and can’t imagine using anything else!

 

Here is Shaklee’s Hand Wash!  I love it and get lots of complements from it too!

 

Here is our natural cleaning line!!!  If you don’t know what Basic H, Basic G or Scour off is yet, please check out my sidebar!  You are missing out!

 

Here is one of our newest product lines,  Get Clean Water!  The ONLY water system that takes out lead!

Moving on…they had a nice screen waiting for us!

I thought this was neat!

  

I also thought this was smart!  That light bulbs great bright when the city is using a lot of energy.

 

Then, Shaklee will shut their lights off to help the city’s energy!

 

What a great thing to do!

 

Here is another picture of the entrance of the building.

 

Here, I am getting ready to be in a Shaklee video.  (I can’t wait to show you it when it comes out!!!)

 

Someone did my hair and make-up for the event! :)

  

Then I took a tour of the inside!

Here is a wall of all Shaklee’s awards for being Environmental Leaders!

 

At Shaklee, doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive. We've been demonstrating that for 50 years.

As the number one natural nutrition company in the U.S., we've been on a mission to make people healthier. And we've made it part of our job to make the planet healthier along the way.

We were doing it back when green was just a color and biodegradable was barely a word. In fact, we made one of the first biodegradable cleaners ever. And we were the first company in the world to obtain Climate Neutral certification and totally offset our C0₂ emissions, resulting in a net zero impact on the environment. 

Since then, we've made it our responsibility and a conscious part of our culture to do things that help achieve positive social change. And we're committed to being a model of how businesses can help solve some of the world's most pressing problems.

  

In 1915, Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee created "Vitalized Minerals," one of the first multivitamins in the world.  When he founded Shaklee Corporation in 1956, he helped pioneer both the nutritional supplement industry and a distribution method that rewards word-of-mouth referrals.

When everybody else was celebrating plastic and synthetic materials, Shaklee turned to nature—finding the purest natural ingredients for vitamins and making one of the first biodegradable household cleaners ever!!!

Here is a picture of Dr. Shaklee!!!

 

Here I am standing in front of one of my favorite Shaklee products, Vivix!!!!   (It is actually Shaklee’s #1 selling product!!!)

 

Here is a picture of Shaklee’s Presidential Master Coordinators!  (They make an average of almost $600,000 a year!)

 

Here is a picture of Gary and Faye!  I am part of their group and they are sooo nice! :)

 

Here is a wall of some of the Tiffany gifts that they gave out!  This year, I earned Tiffany hoop earrings!!! :) (I hope to show you soon!)

  

Here are more awards for being Health and Wellness Leaders! (They are #1!!!!)

 

Here is Dr. Shaklee’s original leather chair.

 

And here is his original desk and original supplies!

 

Here is a timeline of some of Shaklee achievements!

 

Here,  I am sitting in Dr. Shaklee’s chair trying to look smart, lol!

 

Here is a wall of some of Shakee’s Leaders!

 

  Here is just the start of the wall of pictures of people who have earned Shaklee cars!

 

Here is a picture of one the first products Dr. Shaklee made, called Herb-Lax!!!  I seriously LOVE this stuff.  It is great for cleaning out your colon  (something everyone should do).

 

Here is what Basic H used to look like.

Here is the Alfalfa Bottle!  There are so many benefits for taking Alfalfa!

 

Here is an upstairs sitting room!

 

This is what they bang when they have a million dollar day!  WooHoo!!!

 

We ate a lot of great food.  I took a picture of this because was the biggest pile of chips that I ever saw, lol! 

 

We also had 2 days full of conferences! 

 

We learned more about Shaklee, the business, the products, etc.

 

We were able to meet and ask questions to the Shaklee’s Home Office employees including their scientists and doctors!

 

When the bused picked us up from our hotel, they had the red carpet waiting for us with Rodger Barnett waiting to greet us!  It was awesome!!! :)

That is Rodger!

 

Roger leads the company with one simple, yet compelling vision: The health and prosperity of people and the planet offer the greatest hope for a better world.

Analysts predict that by 2010, health and wellness will be a trillion dollar industry. Under Roger's leadership, Shaklee is in the perfect position to lead the way. It's no wonder Shaklee is about to grow explosively around the world.

He also  talked to all of us!  He is awesome!!! :)

 

We also heard from Dr. Jamie McManus.  She is responsible for leading Shaklee's clinical research efforts in support of product development and distributor education. Prior to joining Shaklee Corporation, Dr. McManus managed Herbalife's Medical Affairs and Nutrition Education department and personally trained more than one million distributors by traveling to more than 44 countries in eight years. Dr. McManus received her M.D. with honors and completed her Residency from the University of California, Davis, and was a practicing Board Certified Family Physician for 15 years.

  Here are some pictures from my hotel!  I loved the trees!

 

We ate, played sports and went rope and rock climbing!

 

We also wined and dinned in the wine country!

    

They also gave out lots of gifts!

 

We ate a fancy dinner!

It was an amazing view~!

 

Here I am with Dr. Jamie McManus!

 

More food! 

 

We drank great wine!

 

Of course, we had Vivix too!

 

Here was my table!

 

I also earned a couple of gifts!

Shaklee treats everyone like family! 

I love Shaklee and feel so blessed to be a part of it! :)

Going to the Shaklee Headquarters really meant a lot to me and it makes me even more proud to work for such a great company that cares so much about people and our environment!!!

If you have been thinking about joining Shaklee as a member, please check out our new member special, here!

If you have been thinking about making a difference for your family finically, please email me today(donahuewellness@hotmail.com)  to learn more about the Shaklee Opportunity and what it can do for you and your family!  I can help you reach your goals! :)

Have a great day!

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SEA EGGS

Shark. Via.

Cuttlefish. Via.

Fish. Via.

Anemonefish. Credit: Silke Baron via Wikimedia Commons.

Plaice. Via.

Squid. From here, with many more beauties.

Brain coral. Credit: Emma Hickerson via NOAA.

Gas-flame nudibranch egg ribbons. Credit: AndyT via Wikimedia Commons.

Unknown invertebrate egg casing. Credit: Scubaben at Flickr.

Whelk. Credit: Karen Checca via redbubble.

Loggerhead sea turtle. Via.

Razorbill. Via.

The amniotic ocean.

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How to Organize Your Children’s Schoolwork

Well, it is that time of year… you know, when school ends!  I am excited and sad at the same time!!!

Today, I am going to show you how I organized all my daughter’s school papers.

Welcome to Week 14 of our Organize your Life series!

I am following the book Organize Now!  for my weekly posts but today (because school ends tomorrow),  I will show you what I did this week instead of my weekly challenge.

I already showed you here, how I keep a file for each child.  Each day, when Grace brought home her work,  I would hang them on the fridge.  After that, I would save them in her file.

 

Yesterday, she brought  home a bag of artwork and worksheets from school so I thought we would make our binder.

I took out everything that I had and we got to work!

 

I picked up some sheet protectors (to protect her work) and a new binder.

 

We started to fill the sheets.

 

It was a lot of fun looking through everything! :)

 

I LOVED this Mother’s Day Poem that her class made for us Moms! :)

 

Grace really liked helping me and looking at all  of her work too!

 

Since her favorite color is pink, we used pink scrapbook paper to decorate the binder.

I also printed out a K (for kindergarten) and her name.

 

Now, we have a nice binder to look at.

 

I love this one picture…

Grace LOVES her book and she has looked at it a million times already, ha!

My challenge for you this week is to make a keepsake binder, box or something like that for your children/grandchildren’s school work and post to here! 

I can’t wait to see them! :)

Please post up your organizing project of the week below!

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Have a great day! :)

Check out our June Shaklee New Member Special:

Join Shaklee with $70 Product Order and Get a FREE Sports Nutrition Pack!

Click HERE for more info!

I will post more about these products soon!  They rock! :)

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ILLUSTRATED: THE 2011 ATLANTIC HURRICANE FORECAST

(Credit: NOAA.)

It's here. The start of the 2011 hurricane season. And so is the seasonal hurricane forecast of Phil Klotzbach and Bill Gray at Colorado State University. Their summary:

We continue to foresee well above-average activity for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. We are predicting the same levels of activity that were forecast in early April due to the combination of expected neutral ENSO conditions and very favorable atmospheric and oceanic conditions in the tropical Atlantic. We continue to anticipate an above-average probability of United States and Caribbean major hurricane landfall.  

 (Via.)

Specifically, for 2011, they're forecasting the likelihood of:

• 16 named storms
• 9 hurricanes
• 5 intense hurricanes

Compare that to the average during the 50 years between 1950 and 2000:

• 10 named storms
• 6 hurricanes
• 2 intense hurricanes

(Sea surface heights captured by the OSTM/Jason-2 satellite. Credit: NASA/JPL.)

The four reasons for Klotzbach's and Gray's above-average forecast:

1. The likelihood of neutral to weak La Niña conditions between August and October, the most active portion of the hurricane season.

One way we track La Niña's characteristic water temperatures is by tracking sea surface heights, which are used to calculate how much heat is stored in the ocean below.

A weak or neutral La Niña generally results in average to below average levels of vertical wind shear. Weaker winds allow hurricanes to grow.

(Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential on 31 May 2011. Credit: NOAA.)

2. Above average May sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic.

As you can see in the image above, sea surface temperatures are already at or above the tropical storm threshold of about 26 degrees Centigrade. As of 31 May, they were about 0.5 above normal in the Atlantic and 0.5 to 1.0 C above normal in the Gulf of Mexico. 

That's kindling to a hurricane's fire.

(Atmospheric pressures at sea level. Anomalies recorded across the Atlantic in May 2011. Credit: NOAA.)

3. Below average atmospheric sea level pressures during May in the tropical Atlantic.

You can see the extent of anomalously low sea level pressures throughout most of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic in the image above.

Lower pressures are gas to a hurricane's fire.

(Simplified view of the oceanic thermohaline circulation, also known as the ocean conveyor belt. Credit: NOAA.)

4. The current phase of the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, which began in 1995, is conducive to bigger and more frequent hurricanes. The forecasters explain it thus:
 

Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO) – A mode of natural variability that occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean and evidencing itself in fluctuations in both sea surface temperature and sea level pressure fields. The AMO is likely related to fluctuations in the strength of the oceanic thermohaline circulation. Although several definitions of the AMO are currently used in the literature, we define the AMO based on North Atlantic sea surface temperatures from 50-60°N, 10-50°W.  

(Hurricane Alley. Image courtesy NASA GSFC.) 

It mostly all starts in Hurricane Alley (above), when storms fueled by hot air over the Sahara Desert meet cooler air over the Gulf of Guinea and roll off Africa into the Atlantic. 

Some of these waves, which begin with a simple thunderstorm—not that a thunderstorm is ever simple—will provide the sparks of energy and spin needed to grow a hurricane a few miles down the line in the waters of the Atlantic or the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico.

(Credit: NOAA.)

Here are the known travel paths of all 1,325 tropical cyclones born between 1851 and 2004.

The Klotzbach and Gray forecast calls for a much-higher-than-average chance of a major hurricane hitting the US this year:

• A 48-percent chance along the East Coast, when 31 percent is average
• A 47 percent chance along the Gulf Coast, when 30 percent is average
• A 61 percent chance in the Caribbean, when 42 percent is average

The video shows 2010's only June hurricane, Alex, and its two-week long birth and death, as it fought its way across the Atlantic, getting torn apart and rebuilding, finally forming as a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

The cyclic passing of gauzy white layers across the screen from right to left marks the transition from day to night, as the data from the visible spectrum of the daytime passes to the data from the infrared at night.

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Cleaning Tip of the Day: Clean Out your Dryer Lint

Hello everyone!!  I am so embarrassed about this post…

Yesterday, when I was doing laundry, I noticed that I wasn’t really getting any lint in my dryer lint bucket.

I thought about it and I realized that I didn’t need to clean out my link bucket in a while because it wasn’t getting full.

I took the bucket out and unscrewed the screw to find a TON of lint stuck in there.

 

 

This is what I found!  Ewww!

 

 

 

I am ashamed to admit to this but that was my first time cleaning out the inside of my dryer.  I told my husband that and luckily for me, he said he has done it several times.  Yay, what a good man! :)

I think I need to add this to my cleaning routine and clean it out at least a couple of times a year!

Do you clean your dryer lint?

How often?

Have a great day! :)

Check out our June Shaklee New Member Special:

Join Shaklee with $70 Product Order and Get a FREE Sports Nutrition Pack!

Click HERE for more info!

I will post more about these products soon!  They rock! :)

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