Health Makes the Difference: Peter Ajello

Health Makes the Difference            
Correlating Weight Loss and Financial Success
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By:  Pamela Rossow

Shedding 200 lbs. through sheer grit 5 years ago to recently breaking a company’s sales record of $500,000 in only 2 months, Peter Ajello has not only earned his title as “Weight Loss King,” but he has also revealed that weight loss and financial success are key ingredients in the same recipe. His “tell it like it is” tips are applicable to anyone who wants to improve their physical and financial health.

“I’m motivated to hit $1,000,000 in sales by the end of the year.” Peter Ajello is anything but a typical salesman. As Project Manager of Nu-Crete Surgeons, LLC, a subdivision of Xtreme Polishing Systems that specializes in commercial and residential concrete floor polishing and design, Peter is passionate about his job after dropping pounds. Friend and owner of Nu-Crete, Chris Lavin, named Peter “Salesman of the Month” because his sales broke every previous company record.

Lavin is also confident that good health means increased sales. Lavin was so inspired by Dan McDonald AKA “Life Regenerator,” that he hired a raw food chef to prep meals for Peter and his other employees. Peter commends Lavin’s support along with Peter’s partner, David Issan. “I really couldn’t have done any of this without Dave,” Peter says, and, “Chris offers such a healthy working environment.”

Peter wasn’t always the picture of health and financial success. In 2007 and weighing 445 lbs., he was tired—too tired from consuming junk food to work full-time at XPS in Deerfield Beach as a salesman for Chris Lavin. He was lethargic and embarrassed to face clients. He was eating himself into a financial tailspin. He had a hard time dragging himself off the couch to go to work.

After self-reflection—or maybe it was the $15,000 bet from his buddies that he couldn’t drop 100 lbs. in 5 months—Peter found his will power and polished it till it gleamed. By using weight loss principles, he put his mind over body and lost 200 lbs. without stomach staples or gastric bypass. He became “Boca’s Biggest Loser” and documented this narrative in his book “Mind Over Body.”

He didn’t regain his life. He earned a new one—filled with compassion, success, a great lifestyle and much gratitude. Peter Tunney, acclaimed modern artist and Peter’s mentor stated, “Say only what you mean, be humble and embrace life—then you will have success.” Peter did and has reaped the rewards. He encourages anyone who wants physical and financial success, “If you speak from the heart, am grateful and work hard just like I trained hard, you can achieve any goal.”

Peter Ajello, seen on “The Doctors” show, is the author of “Mind Over Body” available on Amazon and rated 5 out of 5 stars. “Mind Over Body” chronicles Peter’s journey from 5XL shirts, size 56 pants and a diabetic stroke to weight loss success. His second book “The Chocolate Diet” is scheduled for release before Valentine’s Day and reveals how he shed pounds with the help of special organic chocolates. As a guest speaker, Peter has toured the country encouraging thousands of people to take their weight and in turn, their success, into their own hands.

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For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Peter Ajello at 954.678.8160 or email Peter at peterajello@yahoo.com. He invites you to visit his website at peterajello.com.

 

Birth

I birthed a new blog–different feel, new name, challenging myself to come up with most of my own photos. Drop by if you’d like. You’re always welcome . http://landup.wordpress.com/

Stickiness Factor: Ways to get people to stay on your website

Stickiness Factor:  Ways to get people to stay on your website
By:  Pamela Rossow

I’m talking bubble gum on the bottom of shoes sticky or simply—the “stickiness factor.” Maybe you have already heard these words used to reference the length of time people hang around to peruse your site. Whether it’s a blog or business website, the “stickiness factor” is imperative. What does your site have to offer—not only draw people in—but to keep them there once they land? Depending on whether your site is for personal use or business, the following are some “sticky” tips you can pick and choose from.

• Create a poll or quiz.
• Post something humorous—people do like to laugh.
• Make the most of multimedia—add some music or an inspiring YouTube video.
• Post a ranked list of useful websites.
• Ever thought about a vlog?
• Make sure to include sharing icons for posts and pages—Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn etc.
• Interlink your posts—link articles, poetry, quotes etc. internally and externally.
• It’s all about content—keep it fresh and interesting.
• Provide some info. about yourself (short bio and pic) whether it’s on a page or in a link.
• Have some pages for readers to browse—make sure they’re noticeable.
• Engage your followers—this means responding to their comments, ask questions etc.
• Host a forum on your site.
• Make sure your RSS feed and email “follow” icons are visible so people can visit again!

Day and Night Car Photography~David Stroncek

So I recently had the pleasure of meeting a guy named Dave Stroncek. His wit impressed me but even more so was his eye for photography. Not only is he co-owner at The Muscle Car Guys (check out the Facebook page), he enjoys jumping into his car and heading out to take pics of whatever it is that strikes him as interesting. No need to say more. The pics speak for themselves. Enjoy!

 

Words

You can say anything you want, yessir, but it’s the words that sing, they soar and descend . . . I bow to them . . . I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down . . . I love words so much . . . The unexpected ones . . . The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop . . . Vowels I love . . . They glitter like colored stones, they leap like silver fish, they are foam, thread, metal, dew . . . I run after certain words . . . They are so beautiful that I want to fit them all into my poem . . . I catch them in midflight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives . . . And I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them, I let them go . . . I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves . . . Everything exists in the word . . .From Memoirs by Pablo Neruda (NY: Penguin, 1974), p. 53.

Bradbury’s Brainy Bites

Work is done for the day so time to ponder.  I was thinking about Ray Bradbury tonight.  He’s the author of two of my favorite texts: Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine.  He has penned so many inspiring words I have trouble choosing only some quotes (a few are taped to the shelf above my desk).  Long story shorter (I can never guarantee short), here’s a few of my faves:

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” ~Bradbury

“He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often–he searched for a simile, found one in his work–torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people’s faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?” ~ Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” ~ Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

“You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a hopped-up car, you know why? Because it’s full of flavors, full of a lot of things growing. You’ve time to seek and find.”~Bradbury (Dandelion Wine)

“Are you happy?” she [Clarisse] said. “Am I what?” he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.” ~ Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. “ ~ Bradbury

“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,”I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . .” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” ~Bradbury

 

“You’re either in love with what you do, or you’re not in love.” ~Bradbury 

 

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ~Bradbury

Soul Mates

If soul mates do exist, then Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband, Robert, seemed to have been such.  Elizabeth penned possibly my favorite poem (number 43) from her Sonnets of the Portuguese.  We’re still celebrating Poetry Month so here you are!

 

 

 

 

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

 ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Happy Blogoversary (to me)!!!

Friends, you’re invited!  It’s a party over here on Pamanner’s Blog!  Chocolate cake with chocolate icing!   Happy Blogoversay to me!  Happy National Poetry Month to us!!!!! Yay!  To celebrate, I’m sharing one of many poems (from poets I consider my favorites) along with a little boy’s recitation I find adorable.  What’s your favorite poem?  Feel free to share a link in the comment section!  Enjoy and stay for a while (there’s ice cream too)!  xo

 

 

 

 

 

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz

~Pablo Neruda

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.

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The Flash

 “There is such a place as fairyland – but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

~L.M. Montgomery (The Story Girl)

Dear Readers,

L.M. Montgomery has been one of my favorite writers from the time I was a tween and I first read Emily Climbs.  I was enamored by her main protagonist, Emily, who loved writing, life, nature, and was filled with “gumption.”  She experienced “the flash” and from the moment I read about her experience in the text, I felt at home between those pages I eagerly devoured (metaphorically speaking of course ).  Emily writes, “Words are such fascinating things. . . The very sound of some of them–’haunted’–’mystic’–for example, gives me the flash. (Oh, dear! But I have to italicize the flash. It isn’t ordinary–it’s the most extraordinary and wonderful thing in my whole life. When it comes I feel as if a door had swung open in a wall before me and given me a glimpse of–yes, of heaven).”  Lovely!  She summarized for years how I felt as a small child when stories would sneak up from behind and demand I write them by nightlight (risking my mom or dad catching me awake when I was already supposed to be fast asleep on a school night). 

I hope never to forget the feeling when I capture a moment so real, so intense, so full of passion or grief or joy.  When I am allowed glimpses into my past from my muses and these backward glances overwhelm me, I can once again BE that barefoot four-year old child riding a green bike with a suede banana seat or I can taste honeysuckle nectar on my tongue or I can inhale the neighbors’ perfumed orange blossoms that fill me with summer calm.  I am so grateful for emotions that may be expressed in words, words that are as real to me as this laptop I am typing on or the comfy bed I sleep in or the stir fry I will later make.  Today, I was granted this gift of just BEing and I am thankful.

xoxo,

Pamela

Award

I am humbled and honored to accept this award from a good friend, A, and his blog Raising Amelie. What more could a woman ask for?   A stick, a puck, and writing?  I’m passing it along to five other bloggers whose sites I love to peruse. . .

Thanks again A!!!! xo

 

1.  Raising Amelie

2. Pure and Simple

3.  Danroberson

4.  Glittering Soot On Her Lashes

5.  Meanderings and Reflections