Today is a very special day for me. My book, Better Living With Whole Foods: The Delicious & Nutritious Guide To Looking Great & Feeling Younger!, is going to print today.

I have been working on this project for quite some time and this is a monumental step towards realizing my goals and dreams.

I am in the process of building a companion website for the book, as well as a fully optimized interactive blog. There will be more interaction, more information, and a more pleasant experience for you and your friends.

Also, I joined Blog Culture today. It’s a blog directory and social networking site. It’s a great place to list your blog in order to build traffic and generate links. Make sure to link up with me if you join. My username is myfitlife.

Peace.

This is a simple credo that, if followed, will catapult you towards success in business and in life:

“Do all the good you can.

By all the means you can.

For all the people you can.

As long as ever you can.”
– John Wesley

Peace,

Al

I hope you had a great weekend.

Mine was fantastic.
I attended the Health Freedom Expo in Long Beach, CA. It was really good for me.

If you haven’t been to this event, you should make a point of attending. It is held every year in Long Beach and Chicago.

Holistic health is my forte, so I really enjoy being surrounded by the energy contained in these types of events.

It is always interesting to see what the new fad is every year. Last year it was Nikken water systems, Goji juice, and cell phone protection devices.
This year the flavor of the day is water ionization machines and acai berries.

I’ll write more on these subjects on upcoming posts.

The cool thing about this event is the fact that it has a ton of informative seminars held all day long. In fact, at any given time there are as many as four seminars going on at one time. Very interesting and very cool.

This event was very grounding for me this year.
It helped to give me a renewed sense of who I am.

I help people achieve vibrant health through holistic fitness & nutrition. And I’m really good at it.

I was put on this earth to make a positive impact… to clear up the confusion and help people take control of their lives.

Well, enough about me.

I’ll end this by saying that I look forward to making a huge impact in 2008. There are collaborative efforts being made between myself and other individuals that are very exciting for the coming year and beyond.

Have an awesome week.

Alexander Morentin
My Fit Life
www.fitness-for-women.net

I hope you had a wonderful Valentines Day. It was an awesome day in Southern California.

Now, it’s the day after…
This is the time of year when thoughts of New Year’s resolutions start to fade away.

How are yours coming along? Are you on a path towards achieving your goals or have you let your aspirations fade away?

I ask these questions because I am a success coach. I help people achieve their goals and want you to achieve yours. 
The trick behind goal achievement is keeping motivated, excited, and fully charged about whatever it is you want to accomplish.

Here is a simple tip that will help keep you motivated on a straight line path towards achieving your goals:

Write your goals down and read them every day!

Doing this one simple action will catapult you towards achieving everything that you desire.
Here is what I do when I want to achieve a goal that is important to me.

1. Write down the exact goal that you want to acccomplish. Be specific. Don’t say “I want to lose weight.” Say “I want to lose 3 inches in my waist and fit into my red sexy dress by June 15!” It is very important to be specific.
2. Backward plan your goal. Imagine it is June 15 and you have achieved your goal. Imagine all of the steps that got you there. Plan backward from June 15 to the present day. Be clear on everything you need to do.
3. Write down how acieving your goal will make you feel. How will it benefit your life? Why is it important to you to achieve this goal?
4. Read this goal everyday, first thing in the morning, and dedicate yourself to achieving what you desire.

Taking this plan of action can be the difference between happiness and disappointment; the difference between achieving your goals and letting them slip away.

I wish you success and happiness in the coming year.

Have a wonderful day,

Alexander Morentin
Author/Success Coach
Better Living With Whole Foods

The New York giants just won the Super Bowl!

Can you believe it?

This is arguably the greatest Super Bowl upset of all time.

I am not a hardcore football fan, but I am extremely happy that the Giants won.

That being said, there are some key points that you should take away from this:

• Begin with the end in mind
• Have a clear vision of your goals 
• Develop a clear plan of action based on your goals
• Assess your progress and update your program on a frequent basis
• Strive for constant improvement, but don’t worry about perfection
• Never give up hope

This Super Bowl upset should set you on fire with enthusiasm towards achieving your goals!

I am going to use the New York Giants as a huge motivating factor towards achieving my goals for the coming year. I am more excited now than I have been in a long time.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions towards achieving your goals.

I wish you the best in everything that you do.

 Alexander Morentin, C.E.S.
My Fit Life
http://ocfitnesschallenge.com

Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

I want to share a quote with you that is the core of the vision for My Fit Life. It is paraphrased from Mother Teresa:

“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into what you are doing.”

Peace,

Alexander Morentin
My Fit Life

Self magazine recently named the Women of Orange County the fittest in the nation. According to the magazine Orange County women spend about 1 1/2 hours a week exercising.

The magazine states:
“The O.C.’s yearlong beach season motivates women to exercise an average of 96 minutes a week, compared with 68 minutes in least-fit Huntington, West Virginia. There are 39,000 acres of parks, 150 miles of bike trails and 40 miles of coast.”

We also ranked 3rd in “healthiest Eaters”, 4th in “Least Smoky”, and 6th overall as the “Healthiest” place in the country; down from 4th overall last year.

I am very pleased with this poll because my health and fitness company, My Fit Life, is located in Orange County and I specialize in women.

Note: We are very fortunate in Southern California to have easy access to gyms and healthy eateries.

Congratulations ladies. Bravo!

Alexander Morentin, C.E.S.
Author: Better Living With Whole Foods

One of my friends just emailed me this article from Parade.com:

“Who doesn’t want cleaner lakes and rivers? Some senators, it seems. A bill making its way through the Senate is asking that animal waste be exempt from a law that helps protect our nation’s waterways. According to a Congressional study, 1.4 billion tons of waste is generated by animals on megafarms in more than 40 states. That’s 130 times the amount of waste that the entire American population produces in a year. Not only does this pollution kill fish and aquatic life, it also seeps into our drinking water. Tell your Senators how you feel at www.Parade.com”

Some of these huge commercial megafarms house more than 100,000 head of cattle. These cattle live in deplorable conditions and are fed an unnatural diet, which wreaks havoc on their digestive systems. This not only affects our ecosystem, but also the quality of the meat that is produced for our consumption.

This is one of the main reasons I am a vegetarian. By not eating commercial meat, I am voting with my dollars and telling these large corporations that I will not stand for the mistreatment of farm animals and Mother Earth.

Progress can be made if we collectively take a stand.

Well, that’s enough for today. I'’ll get off of my soap box now.

Have a wonderful day.

Alexander Morentin, C.E.S.

It’s true. Disneyland is closing the “It’s A Small World” attraction to install bigger boats that will accomodate bigger riders. 

When the ride was first opened the boats were built to accomodate a 175 pound man and a 135 pound woman. It seems that, with the increased weight of todays population, the boats are routinely bottoming out.

 Al Lutz reported on MiceAge earlier this month that Disney will next year rebuild the ride system of the It’s A Small World attraction at Disneyland to add larger boats and a deeper flume, to prevent what’s become a common occurrence — the 1960s-era boats “bottoming out” and coming to a stop, due to the excess weight of today’s riders.

“The new flume will follow the exact same path as the original, and it will travel past sets that are in the exact same locations. But the extra depth of the new flume and the added buoyancy of the new boats should allow for several hundred extra pounds of churro-loving park visitors to pile into the new boats before they bottom out and bring the ride to a stop,” Lutz wrote.

According to Robert Niles of www.ThemeParkInsider.com , this is becoming a common occurrence in theme parks across the nation. According to Niles, “parks are adding “plus-sized” seats to roller coasters, “test” seats at the beginning of ride queues, and in some cases, rebuilding ride systems entirely.”

Isn’t this a shame? 30% of the American population is clinically obese and 65% are overweight. This translates into 90 million Americans clinically obese and 195 million overweight.

These numbers are staggering. If you have been thinking about starting a weight management or exercise program it’s time to get off the fence and start… today!

If you don’t know where to begin, I can help clear the confusion and set you down a straight line path towards health and fitness. I have developed proven methods that guarantee your success.

Have a wonderful day,

Alexander Morentin
Health & Fitness Consultant
www.myfitlife.net

The future of raw milk is in jeopardy in California. It seems legislation was quietly put into effect that will make raw milk illegal as of January 1, 2008.

We cannot let this happen. If we do, then what’s next? In September legislation was put into effect that made it mandatory to pasteurize raw almonds; now this.

We need to take action today or we will lose more and more of our rights.
Read below for more info from Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures, on how you can help.

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We need your help to save raw milk in California. The entire raw milk
movement is being attacked when raw milk is attacked in California or
any place. You the consumer is being attacked and being denied your right
to chose living whole foods.

It is time to fight for your health and your lives, because that is
exactly what is on the line. Sterilized and preserved food brings on
immune depression, allergies and illness. Antibiotics then make it all that
much worse. 80 percent of the human immune system is made up of
bacteria in our gut. When they die we die!! We need good bacteria badly. The
crisis in MRSA and VRE infections are directly associated with weak
immune systems and antibiotic abuse. Most all chronic diseases and immune
depression are healed by whole bio-diverse and enzyme rich foods….raw
milk. Raw milk is at least 800 times more biologically diverse than
even good yogurt.

Please go to www.organicpastures.com for specific directions on what to
do and who to call. Addresses, contact information and legislative
representative names are available here:

http://www.organicpastures.com/ab1735_landing.html

High on our priority is our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the
Secretary of Agriculture A.G Kawamura, and all the state legislators. 

This a raw milk health revolution….do not let it be our generation
that lost this fight. We owe it too ourselves and our children to win
this and place these GOT DEAD MILK protectors on notice that this is a
democracy and due process and representation still matters.  Sneak Attacks
will not be tolerated by the raw milk consumers or producers of
California or our nation.

You are requested to attend a rally and press conference at 1130 at the
Fresno Farmers Market at Shaw and Blackstone avenues on Saturday
October 27th. I will be speaking to the press and they need to hear your
voices loud and clear. We expect a huge turn out and we need everybody
that can come. Raw milk will be on sale for all that come. Movie stars are
invited…Arnold needs to hear from you.

Try your best to attend the rally wear a shirt that supports raw milk
and your right to eat whole living foods!

Stand now and be counted!!!  See you in Fresno at the Farmers Market on
Saturday.

Only living milk brings life!!

Mark McAfee
Founder OPDC
1-877 RAW MILK
http://www.organicpastures.com 

“When you are right you can not be too radical, when you are wrong you
can not be too conservative”. MLK.

Raw Milk and Living Foods are Right!!

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Thank you for your support of Raw Milk and the Whole Foods Movement!

Alexander Morentin
My Fit Life
www.myfitlife.net