Author: Mentor Ben Drake

Lifestyle, until now I had not experienced lifestyle or any life at all. Yesterday I went to an amazing training which was absolutely unbelievable. For me there are experiences I have not known till now, in a way that is good others that is bad. Yet for me there are experiences that I really want to know as a person. It's going to take time yesterday was totally amazing I have never been in such a hotel, it was just awesome anyway for me to have such. I was saying to myself I have never been in such a hotel. Sure I've been in hotels but never as good as the one from yesterday.

Life changing is the best words to use for these last few months even these last 30 months, oh my has it really been over 30 months now since I started this journey, there have been some very interesting experiences most of them. My trip to Korea was certainly a load of fun from Karaoke on the bus to just getting to know people better the culture was even great. For me having been learning so many things about myself these last few weeks, understanding that never giving up is the best thing. Yet knowing I am doing as much work as I can as a person, I am unique person who has his limits and talents and I am glad about that.

Yet I have come to realise the type of life that I have always been wanting and its different from the one I was brought up in. I want to bring up my family in a world where they can reach their dreams, not be shunned or simular for what I believe in. It's going to be nice for me.

What do I mean by that well as I reflect on my past from time to time; prior to joining network marketing there was no life, nothing going for me and I had no confidence within myself. These days I live a life that I enjoy. In the past it has not been too easy for me for a variety of reasons confidence and health issues at least were part of it. Yet these days I enjoy being able to experience and do so much more then what I was once able to do.

When I first came to Herbalife I was not a well person, I had been unwell for years. Health was poor, I suffered from a number of conditions some included depression, tiredness and low energy. It was not easy to work extended periods owing to many reasons, these days I have gone on to see major improvements in own health after losing 36 kilos and over 150 cm of body fat. For me I am unable to remember the last time when I was able to fit into the clothes I do now. It's certainly been a while, for me even seeing those changes. Seeing myself these days able to do things that I never thought was possible.

These days I enjoy walking along and seeing a smile immediately appear on a face as they see me. I have noticed a few of them at times lately sometimes whist in the pool doing my walking laps and I am looking in the direction of someone and you see them go to a big smile on their face. For me I do not know the last time this was going on, before this last 12 months I was not observing or worrying about the body language signals coming from people. These days you are walking along and get hello, walking along at the pool and you have women waving as they see you or they say hello to you and want to know how you are, trying to get my attention and get to know me.

Prior to now, I have not experienced such before. For me this has become just great, my swimming is gradually improving and it is a sport that enjoy even though it is recrational; it is relaxing then again managing to wind down afterwards is great. For me I know of no other company, which allows you to concentrate on your own health and becoming well again, many roles in the past have meant sacrifices to my health by not being able to attend the gym or maintain such at all. As I would work roles that were hard to go to the gym and I found it very hard to attend after work had finished owing to being tired or the travel time from work to home was too long. That was just part of what happened.

These days that is why I go the gym early in the morning and work on sticking to such as best as possible. It may sometimes mean the middle of the day yet I have created a routine around the gym and other things. Regaining my personal health has been the best thing in years to happen. I am glad that I found Network Marketing again; it may have been a challenge, Yet the hardest challenge has been finding employment, which I was capable of staying in, I have had very few positions which I stayed in for more than 12 months. Normally they were part time roles, now having been self-employed for 7 years it has been a journey. To see myself go from the person I was before to what I am now is wonderful.

Right now, I know in my heart that everything will be ok, despite it being rough. I am needing concentrate on myself and what I want from life; it's about not letting others tell me what to do. Anyway for me lately I have been thinking about many things, what makes me happy and what I am proud of. These days I am told I am looking great, a lot better then what I used to there are those people who have observed all the journey. They have said to me you are looking great, you have improved in confidence and more, what is going on right now would of set you back years ago. To see my life where it is now compared to years ago says well it's time for me to concentrate on many things and making what I want from my life possible. I will always have people in my life who I care about, some may not want to improve their health and that is their choice not mine.

For now my health and my life are my priority, I enjoy what I do and I am glad.

I love my life lately; it has been the best I could ask for. The experiences and more, some of them have been ones that can only get better. I have worked my butt off at times; I find that doing volunteer work is what I love. Helping people change their lives, this is why I find Network marketing is wonderful, yet also really enjoy marine rescue. It is about knowing that I have made a difference or helped someone a friend said to me recently it is what feeds your soul and till now I never knew that was such. I am glad to see people changing their lives however also glad that I have made a difference or been able to help them. It is who I am, for me its part of what I am.

Anyway, it has been interesting for me lately learning about myself and who I am. Realising where some of the issues have come up and what needs to be done as well as doing some planning as to what I want to look at for the future. As I see some of those walls I built in the past, I realise that there are people who I feel more comfortable with and can communicate best with. With those people, they ask me to clarify when they do not understand others may not ask. That is good for me learning that I can communicate easier with people, which is awesome. For me seeing those changes happening some of them small yet they have been great. It is time for me to take care of a few things and go from there.

What do I mean by two worlds; well that is a interesting question and right now it's the thing that I have two different sets of friends. The old friends the negative influences and the newer Herbalife friends positive who care, I am not saying my old friends do not care, some of them were great people. There are some great people in that group however I have found that I have more friends through my business now then I have had in ages. So essentially I am living in two separate worlds, I am living in both at times.

Anyway why Herbalife well I found myself at a cross roads ages ago trying to keep my weight down and not having much luck. My health was bad and I didn't know how I was going to control it. I was not functioning well before Herbalife these days I function a lot better then what I did in the past. I can run around and do a lot more physical activity then I used to, I have better friends and have changed so many things in my own personal health and more. Yet finding a more positive group of friends has really helped me to become a stronger better person.

For me I love the products as they have managed to give me my life back, they have allowed me more than most people realise for a guy who had lost hope, was unwell and lost sight of himself and what he believed in. My colleagues managed to help me to become stronger better and a great person, it's also been a lot of other things. For me it's time to finally start working to achieve some of those goals and dreams which I have. To finally say this life which I am in now is no longer the life I am happy to live, I have had enough of it. It's time to build that world I love with good friends, good people and a lovely family. I am glad to have met some great people.

I am in a area of my life where I have no experience and my old friends may not be able to help. Yet that is ok, people come and go from your life for many reasons. It's time to say well I need to move on, I need to build those better friendships knowing that some of the people who are in my life are the best people who I could ever ask for. Thank you guys, thank you to so many people.

I look around and think about all the changes that have happened during these last few months. I have done a number of things, which have shown me what I am capable of doing. Who I can be as a person, lately I have seen many things come about, yet there will often come a time when things change and things will change as life moves on. I have worked on rebuilding my life and move on from a lot of things. For me I have seen so many changes and right now I need time to relax. For me Network Marketing has allowed me the chance to achieve many things, to become a stronger person and that is what I proud of. I know that things will start to improve and I will be capable of caring deeply about another person that is just taking time.