Hello friends, my name is Joel Haasenritter. I am hailing you, hailing to you,
live from sunny Phoenix Arizona. Although
the Sun has basically set already. But I
just wanted to take a few minutes and
share with you a little bit about my
path off of energy drinks, why I don't
use them anymore, and what I'm doing
instead. So if any of you know me, you
know my past has been riddled with I'll
call them "some hour bottle" bottles of
energy. In fact a friend of mine back in
Georgia, we were walking to my car, and
opened my trunk, and he saw bottles and
bottles of empty "some hour energy" in
there and turn to me and said, you know
that's not really good for you right?
Well I'm a serial entrepreneur which
means that I'm always on the go, and on
top of needing to work with some health
issues that we've had in our family and
in our household, I'm constantly going.
Just constantly living that lifestyle unfortunately. So I needed an answer. And
my answer was these "some hour" bottles of
energy. So I had them stashed in my glove
box, I had them stashed in my tool case,
in my lunchbox, you know anywhere that I
knew that I was going to be, because I
knew that if I had a drop in my energy, I
needed to be at a hundred percent. And so
that was my answer to it. I didn't really
have a good alternative to it, even
though I knew it wasn't great. So on top
of friends and family always throwing
those caution lights at me, saying you
know you're kind of overdoing this, I
would gauge it out right? Because on the
bottle it says you can take two of those
in a 24 hour time period. So I would
always try and stretch a little bit and
see when I should take maybe half a
bottle here and maybe a full bottle
there so I could prolong my energy. So,
but a conflict was growing of course,
aside from the cautions, and that
conflict was as we continue to find, to
search for answers with our own health
journey, and trying to live a healthier
lifestyle, then the conflict was using
something like that too, as a supplement.
And if you would just take some of the
ingredients off of most energy drinks
and google that,
with the terms "dangers of" and you'll see
why there's a pretty dramatic conflict
with trying to live a healthier
lifestyle and using those as a means of
energy supplementation. So about, I guess
thirteen years ago,
I'm sorry thirteen months ago, we were
introduced to Young Living and the first
thing I brought home was a little bottle
of peppermint. And so this was the little
bottle here, it's peppermint vitality, and
I'll just take a second to mention just
the sidebar here that the vitality, the
white label that Young Living has, is
certified safe for internal use. You can
also use it with with cooking and that
sort of thing. I would not recommend you
use any essential oil internally that
has not been certified safe for that, so
just a little sidebar. But I would take a
bottle of, a drop of peppermint, I would
put that under my tongue whenever I was
feeling a little bit lethargic, and then
I would take this Ningxia red juice. And
this I would just do daily two ounces
every day as just as kind of a
supplement to what I was doing. So I had,
if I had a picture of it, you would
see my my toolbox on the ground next to
the piano I was working on, and you would
see the bottle of peppermint vitality,
and you would see a little packet of
Ningxia, and then you would see my bottle
of "some hour" energy, because I wasn't
quite convinced that this would even do
anything for me. So you know how if you
haven't seen your niece or nephew in a
while, maybe six months, maybe a year, and
then you see them again and you realize
how much they've grown and it kind of
takes that little "aha" moment to say, wow
they've really grown. They've really
matured more than I thought they would.
It took me about four days, four or five
days, to realize I wasn't reaching for my
bottle of "some hour" energy. And here's
where the "aha" moment happened for me, as
we were trying to live a healthier
lifestyle. "Aha" moment is this, my energy
didn't drop because I had a deficiency
in caffeine. The body doesn't produce
caffeine. It produces energy based on the
nutrients that you put into it. So how do
you get those nutrients? Eat a balanced
meal with lots of fruits and veggies,
hopefully
organic fruits and veggies, drink
adequate supplies of water, get adequate
sleep, exercise several times a week. And
this is what the body needs to produce
energy. It doesn't produce, or doesn't
have a lack of energy, because you have a
deficiency in caffeine and you go to the
clinic to get a caffeine injection right?
Of course I'm not saying don't use
caffeine, and a lot of people do, and use
it successfully. A lot of studies show
that it's healthy in certain areas and
for certain things. However to try to
model, use that as a balance for a
lack of nutrients, that was the "aha"
moment. And what I realized then, is that
Ningxia especially, was filling in a lot
of those nutritional gaps that I was
missing partly due to my diet, probably
due to lack of sleep, all of these things
that come together because everything
affects everything. And, but after four or
five days, and realizing that I wasn't
needing this bottle of "some hour" energy,
it was like wow. This is not only just
helping me, and a drop of peppermint
whenever I felt lethargic, but it was
causing me to take a little bit of what
was unhealthy for me in my lifestyle, and
turn that around to something that was,
that was a lot more healthy. So we'll
go into this in more detail, If you have,
if you have any desire to. But the
ningxia berry comes from a region of
China. And the antioxidant levels are off
the chart. We all know that blueberries
and pomegranates and acai and all those
fruits are extremely beneficial because
of the antioxidant levels in them, and
the ningxia berry is somewhere close to
ten times the amount of antioxidants as
is in blueberries. So after I realized
how it was helping us, after I realized
how this purity level, the therapeutic
level of essential oils that Young
Living offers was helping our family
with immune support, with emotional
support, and with continuing on our
healthy journey, then my, of course, "aha"
moment was, okay how do I get this
cheaper? And so, for most of you that I'm
speaking to, you are already Young Living
members, as you have a wholesale account.
You also have the option to join
Essential Rewards.
The Essential Rewards is by far the
absolute best and most inexpensive way
to continue your healthy journey with
Young Living. And so what Essential
Rewards is, is it's basically their
auto-ship program. Except, unlike most
autoship
programs, you can cancel at any time,
there's no annual membership fee, you can
change the date that the order processes,
and you are encouraged to switch around
the products that you, that you get
monthly, to begin swapping out the things
that you have in your house normally,
household products, for instance. The
things that are, that are going to
benefit your health. Begin swapping those
out you know one month at a time type
thing. We've been doing this for about 13
months now. You know health is a, it's a
marathon, it's not a sprint.
So the thing that I love about the
Essential Rewards program is for the
first three months, as soon as you enroll,
you get an automatic ten percent back in
dollar for dollar points. So this isn't
points that you can use on a backpack
that you would never order anyway.
This is points that you will use dollar
for dollar for a future order of things
that you need and love. So after the first
three months, for months four through
twenty four, you get 20% back on anything
you order through Essential Rewards. And
month twenty five and on, and as long as
you're in the program, you get 25% back,
again dollar for dollar points. So this
makes it an easy and affordable way to
actually begin changing out things that
are unhealthy in your lifestyle, for
things that actually support your
lifestyle, healthy lifestyle that is. And
for anybody that is perhaps using energy
drinks on a daily basis like I did, and I
did this for years guys, I did this--I
would order them by the caseload,
literally. So if anybody's doing that as
a mentality, I would just challenge that
and say, you know this is not what your
body needs for energy. And so try to
supplement with healthy diet etc.
The things that your body will use to
support your energy ongoing. So I hope
this has been helpful for anybody out
there that's interested in more. Anyone
from the Living Well Now community can
help you, and until then I wish you lots
of wellness, purpose, and abundance.
