CafeFit Coffee Review

One of my favorite aspects of being a coffee expert is the fact that I never have to buy coffee, and I have the opportunity to sample pretty much everything related to the bean. CafeFit, out of Ft. Lauderdale, recently sent me a sample pack of several of their blends to check out. I have to admit I was a little bit hesitant. I’ve tried several diet and purpose-driven (drink it and it’ll do this) blends of coffee in the past and most them are really nasty. This one was just the opposite.

CafeFit sent me their…

Diet Blend, which promises to curb your appetite, burn fat, and increase energy. It uses several extra herbs to expand the natural thermogenic factors found in caffeine. I only drank the Diet Blend long enough to try it out mainly for taste and quality, so I can’t answer for the diet effects. It tasted great. There’s no hint on the packaging regarding the origin of the beans, but with the company’s Florida location, I’m guessing South American, probably Columbian. For the diet effects I wouldn’t mind rolling this into my regular routine so that it comes into line with my food and supplement intake in a more monitored fashion. 

Focus Pure Blend, which promises to increase focus and productivity. Now, this one I only drank at night when I was most tired and unfocused but still in need of finishing major projects for the next workday. It really did seem to make a difference. Like other brain function expanding herbs and drinks I’ve tried, it seemed to clear up my processing ability and sharpen my focus on detailed tasks. An extra dose of Vitamin B-12 is the main neural enhancing ingredient added to the blend.

and the…

Organic Mushroom Blend, which detoxifies, invigorates, and energizes. I hate mushrooms, or at least I hate eating them. It’s a texture thing. Even before watching Dr. Lecter eat brains in the movie Hannibal I always thought mushrooms  felt like brains in my mouth. Ground up in a coffee blend I can handle. I can even handle 14 different types of mushrooms, which is what CafeFit uses in this blend. When I tried the first mug I expected a certain amount of mushroom taste or earthiness to infuse into the coffee. It did but in a good way. The mushroominess enhanced the natural coffee flavors. The detoxifying effect also delivered as promised. I always allow some of my fellow coffee aficionados to help try out the samples I review in order to give me a second opinion. One of my friends told me that his, how shall we put this, gaseous emissions increased greatly with the Organic Mushroom Blend. I know, too much information, but where did you think the toxins went? It’s instant proof that it’s working.

In my expert opinion, I would rate CafeFit coffee as the best in the category of healthy, diet, herbal, purpose-driven, fortified coffees that I’ve tried thus far. If you decide to try them out, check out their club membership option. Like any nutritional supplements, the coffees would be best used as a regular planned addition to your diet. For instance, Focus Plus at work, Pure Energy in the morning, Dieting Blend during the cut phase, Immune Builder when feeling sick or traveling, and the Organic Mushroom as a regular monthly detox regimen. That’s just my idea. You can mix and match in whatever way best suits your needs and lifestyle. The club membership gives you a discount and regular delivery though, which is a bonus.

Call them up. Tell them Dr. Dave sent you.

Screw It Up Enough and You Lose the Ability to Decide

It’s true, if you screw something up enough, you’ll lose the ability to make decisions for yourself. Let me explain. Free will and the ability to govern many parts of our lives are one of the basic freedoms in life. Given that, we often squander everything we have and lose choices and options regularly available to us.

Let’s say you have a _____ problem that’s affecting your health. If you refuse to do anything about it and it keeps getting worse, you lose your options. Your doctor might make decisions for you in an emergency room followed up by more decisions by a primary care physician. Instead of making small choices in life that could have amazing effects like exercising 30 minutes a day, eating sensible, and drinking more water it now becomes take these pills that cost $4 a day, take this medicine by poking a needle into your belly, go to therapy, and start this really tasteless new diet. You gave up all your choices and handed them over to your doctor.

Let’s say you have a _____ problem that affecting your relationships. You might not be able to keep up physically with your kids or family and so they just move on and start doing more and more without you. It might ruin your sex life with your spouse and make him or her more susceptible to temptation and the urge to look elsewhere for satisfaction of those needs. Because you don’t face the problem, you’ve just given up those choices and possibly your family in the process. Eventually they’ll make choices without you and around you.

Sometimes there are problems where you try to ignore things, pretend they don’t exist, refuse to seek help, and refuse to change. It never works out well that way. If you’re not careful, you end up giving away all of your decision-making abilities until there’s nothing left of you. You’re nothing but a bundle of emergency repairs made by doctors, therapists, and counselors who have no vested interest in your life unless you’re paying their bills.

Why don’t you take a look at your life today and see what you need to make a decision about? Are you overweight? Is your business failing? Is it an addiction- drugs, alcohol, gambling, or porn? What can you decide today before a banker, a tax agent, the police, or an ER doc has to intervene? What can you do differently before your family makes a last ditch effort to show their love through an intervention?

Please, please, please do it today! It’s not too late right now, but it might be tomorrow.

 

Hostage Negotiators and Their Coffee

Here’s another coffee-centric television scene for you from a show, albeit this one from a show that has already been cancelled. It’s from Standoff from Fox starring Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt. The show centered on the negotiators for an FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Hope you enjoy the coffee-ness!

Although it’s off the air, it was a decent show if you like any of the involved elements. I enjoy negotiator dramas because of my counseling background, so it appealed to me. The entire show is on Hulu, which was where I watched it.

Top 3 Life Changing Scrubs Episodes

My wife and I just finished watching a marathon multi-week session of all the Scrubs episodes on Netflix instant play. I always loved the show and it was really cool to watch them in order. It’s crazy how so much of the show reflects things in my own life. Because of this, I compiled my top 3 life-changing episodes for you…

1. My Musical (season 6, episode 6). I hate musical episodes on tv shows. They all seem to want to do it and it’s so completely idiotic it makes me want to strangle the writers. This one though had some really cool songs. I never thought I would enjoy a song called “Guy Love”, but I did. I recently found a friend in Ryan McRae that made me feel like I finally had a dude relationship like Turk and JD, a real bromance. (I think I’m the Turk and he’s JD). There’s also a really cool song called “Everything Comes Down to Poo” that is quite informative.

2. My Coffee (season 6, episode 3). It’s a coffee-centric episode. How could I not love it?

3. My Perspective (episode 9, season 6). This one forever changed how I complete my bathroom stops. It’s true that humans are the only animals that stay dressed for two-zies. I just don’t pass out like JD does.

As you can see, season 6 rocked! My only sadness about the series as a whole was the mysterious last season at the med school. It sucked. They ended the regular show in such an awesome way, it was a travesty to continue it in such a sad, sad way.

For more Scrubs…

Scrubs: The Complete Collection.

Scrubs.

More Notes from the First Ever World Domination Summit

World Domination Summit Notes from Day 2…

Check out HERE for notes from day 1.

Slight disclaimer about my seminar notes…These are only some of my notes transcribed from my journal. They’ll give you a general idea of some of the wisdom I picked up, but not the overall feel of the conference and the awesome networking that was done. For that, you’ll have to attend next year. I’m also omitting all of the million dollar business ideas I picked up. For those, you’ll have to sign up for one of my coaching sessions, where I pass off many of my ideas to my clients. I can’t do all these ideas myself, and I’m not gifted for everything that pops into my head, so I often pass that energy on to my clients who are better able and more suited.

From Neil Pasricha, author of The Book of Awesome

• Live with attitude, awareness, and authenticity
• Regarding authenticity, check out Rosie Grier’s needlepoint book
• He asked us to sit down and think about 5 awesome things from this week. Mine were…

1. Meeting really neat new people
2. A huge bookstore (Powells) to hang out in
3. The receptionist at the hotel knew me by name
4. Nice gym at the hotel
5. Tons of coffee shops to check out

From Andrea Scher and Jen Lemen, Mondo Beyondo

• Make a Mondo Beyondo list- Not a bucket list, not a to-do list, but a list of the most crazy ultimate things that could possibly happen
• Trust, courage, vulnerability, intuition, flexibility, openness- exercise these things to make living your dreams more possible
• Look at the core experiences in your life and find the passion experiences in them. What makes them awesome?
• If you don’t like where you are, change the rules.
• Change the parameters.

From John Unger, artist

• For most of John’s lecture I had this burst of creativity and most of my notes are packed with project ideas. Listening to John’s lecture was a phenomenal experience and the exhibition of a true artist’s journey from poverty to acclaim.
• A subsistence job (working for the man) will not make things better. It’ll just keep you alive and pissed off.

From Chris Guillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity and WDS founder 

• Chris lectured on travel hacking.
• It’s less stressful to travel with less stuff.
• VisaHQ.com is a good place to help with foreign visa acquisition.
• Check out onebag.com.
• Get a duplicate passport if needed while you’re mailing out your primary to get visas.
• For award travel book it far out or close up but not in-between.

Right after Chris’ lecture I ran halfway across Portland with my new best friend Ryan McCrae to win a scavenger hunt. Our prize for taking the right pics was a sweet hammock from Color Cloud Hammocks. Check out ResLifeGeek for Ryan’s passion!

From Laura Roder, How Not To Do Everything Yourself, social marketing impresario

• You do not have to spend your life on crap that you do not like.
• She asked us to pick 3-5 changes that we need to make in our lives. My choices…

1. Charge more for my services. I undercharge for what I do.
2. Find competent people to do things for me and delegate more.
3. Decide what is and isn’t a waste of my time and don’t compromise on that.
4. Choose behaviors that I enjoy and use that to find people to work for me. Example- self-motivation.

• Be a mentor, not a boss.
• Hourly pay is counter-intuitive- You need them to work as fast as possible and they need to work as slow as possible. Consider salary or project-based pay.

From Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty

• Take bold consistent action in the face of uncertainty.
• We’re wired to avoid situations where uncertainty exists or make decisions where we might be wrong or be judged.
• Remove judgment and exalt experimentation.
• Try the zillion sum game- Will it benefit me? Will it benefit the person on the other side? Will it benefit some person who has never seen or heard of it?
• Ritualize your workflow practices, either the actual creative process or everything around it.
• Explore working in burst to renew energy and willpower.
• Practice reframing (cognitive appraisal) and tell a different story or look at things in a different way.

SEAL Team Six Book Review

I receive a lot of books to review for various reasons. Most often the publishers send them over or people either recommend or loan books to me. Every now and then though I’ll see a book at the store that I just have to read right then. I don’t want to wait until it goes on sale or until the much cheaper paperback version comes out. This was the case with SEAL Team Six by Howard Wasdin and Stephen Templin. I saw it on the endcap the other day at Wal Mart and knew I needed to read it right then.

I’ve been a fan of the Navy SEALS since I was a wee lad and they first received notoriety with the 1990 Navy Seals movie starring bad boy Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn. After graduating high school I had the opportunity to visit the UDT/SEAL Museum in Ft. Pierce, FL. At the time, the museum was being run by Chief James Watson, a plank owner in the SEALS. He was a very likeable guy and ran a pretty good operation at the museum. I still have an autographed copy of his book Point Man on my shelf.

My fascination with the SEALS was further fostered by Richard Marcinko’s book Rogue Warrior. He was the founder of the super-secretive SEAL Team Six of which this book’s author was a decorated member. Wasdin has a few unkind words to say about Marcinko and his books in this one. It’s not the first time that I’ve read that in a Navy SEAL memoir. Marcinko made a lot of enemies and non-friends during his time in the service.

This book fostered my high regard for both SEALS and the upper tier found even in that high speed, low drag organization. I’ve read about BUD/S and SEAL training so much that I think I could quote the class syllabus, but Wasdin didn’t spend an unnecessary amount of time there in the book. He told enough to relate the most important experiences but instead used most of the book to tell us of his experiences elsewhere.

What I like most about this book is the telling of another chapter in the Battle of Mogadishu fiasco. I’ll admit after reading Blackhawk Down and watching the movie half a dozen times I never knew the SEALS were involved. Both the book and the movie mainly played up the Rangers and Delta Force involvement. But SEAL Team Six and Wasdin were right there in the mix. As a matter of fact, he was shot several times during the battle.

I’ll stop there in an effort not to spoil any of the details. If you’re a fan of military history, special ops, or just good human interest stories where the ending isn’t always perfect but reflects real life, then you need to read this book. It’s a great one.

References…

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper.

The Rogue Warrior Collection.

Blackhawk Down Literature.

 

The Best Way to Screw Your Employees

I visited a new lunch spot in Garden City SC that I shall leave unnamed the other day to check it out. It was a non-chain restaurant, and I was looking for an alternative hangout near my office. I had a great meal there and a wonderful interaction with the staff. As soon as I returned to the office I promptly sang out its praises on Facebook and declared it as one of my new fave lunch spots. After all, if I had a wonderful meal, why not let my network of friends in on it. I also went on the company’s Facebook page and thanked them and their lovely “cupcake maestro”. What followed after my compliments gave me a great lesson on how not to treat a team.

                In short order I received the following message back from the owner. The message has been edited only to remove the names and correct the writer’s punctuation, which was atrocious….

                Hi David this is *** owner and founder of ***. I always appreciate positive feedback about my company from clients, but more so when it benefits the company in its entirety. I love *** to death. She is my right hand here, but, just so you know, I myself do a lot of the baking here at *** and many of the flavors we sell are my recipes. True that *** spends most of the time in the back baking from 8:30 to 3:00. Our business hours are from 10:00 to 6:00 so a lot more goes on after she has departed. That should not go unappreciated. I have plans to take *** to a franchisable level, so it is important to always maintain comments within the brand as a whole. So, anyhow, I look forward to seeing more comments from you on Facebook , but I would appreciate it if they supported *** business in general.

                I couldn’t post my initial thoughts on Facebook as they were of the more crude and angry manner, but I did post this on my wall…Yikes! Complimented a new restaurant in a post yesterday and mentioned one of their star bakers by name and got scolded by the owner for singling out somebody and not just the store as a whole. Way to go on the employee support, man!

                These were some of the comments I got back…

Mike wrote: “Small minded man who refuses to be part of his own team. Sounds like he’s more concerned with PROFITS than people. Nice call.”

Honey wrote: “That figures… If the whole team can’t get a trophy no one can. “

Teresa wrote: “That is pretty lousy.”

Amanda wrote: “Oh! Wonder if he’s hiring!!?? LOL!”

Nick wrote: “dislike.”

Johnny wrote: “I guess I wouldn’t recommend his restaurant anymore. I’d hate to get it wrong.”

                After taking some time to gather my thoughts on what a fool the owner seemed to be, I answered him back in order to give him a chance to get it right. He didn’t. As you’ll see from the following interaction, he kept digging his hole. From the wording, you might be able to guess which place it is. I mean, how many lunch spots on the south end are famous for cupcakes? If you really want to know where it is, e-mail me.

                From me…Thanks for writing me back. I have to admit that I’m just a little bit taken aback by your response though. I’ve been involved in culinary writing for a while and never been scolded for making a positive post or article about a business or individual in the business. As a matter of fact, I always try to focus on the individuals because no matter how good the food, the decor, and the prices are, people keep coming back if they feel a sense of community and a sense of kinship with the people involved behind the counter. When I find a business I like, I do everything I can to help and bring in customers. That’s what I consider to be my true goal with my restaurant reviews and interview articles. I even sent my wife in there today to check it out and she brought back cupcakes to our neighbor to give them a small taste of what you offer. You’ll seldom catch me writing a bad review of a food or place unless they really deserve it. I don’t like writing negative items. If a place doesn’t impress me, I’ll simply ignore them and find a good place to talk about instead.
                I’d planned to write an article about the shop and you for my column next month, and I’d planned on including a lot of what I heard you talking about with the gentleman at the counter, from your experiences in Spain that helped shape you, about your wife and her influence, how you choose your roast beef, Anita and her cupcakes, and whatever else we talked about when I interviewed you. I’m not sure you would’ve liked what I had planned though, because the article wouldn’t have been a marketing fluff piece about ***. It would’ve been about the people, the stories, and the history involved.
I can completely understand your concerns about branding, future franchising, and support for the business. I’ve been a small business owner myself for a very long time and come from a family of successful entrepreneurs. I do, however, feel that you’re going in the wrong direction with your concerns. I think of companies like Zappos.com, where the individual personalities are given a chance to shine and the end result is that people separated by miles and miles who communicate only by e-mail become friends over a pair of shoes and a financial transaction. I’ve become friends with several people on their social network team simply because I posted positive comments on their company Facebook page over my most recent shoe acquisition last week.
                I feel like you’ve done a disservice to *** and the other employees by making it seem like it’s a team effort with an anonymous team. My comment was nice, fair, positive, and certainly not in error. What I wrote was like complimenting the chef after a great meal. How would you feel if you complimented a chef and the owner came out to let you know that it was not proper form to do so because of marketing issues, branding efforts, future franchise opportunities, and the team effort involved? I’m not sure how you’d feel. I know how I’d feel. I’d probably give the chef my condolences, wish him luck finding a better owner to work for, and likely never enter the restaurant again.
                I don’t subscribe to the tenet that any publicity is good publicity. I do believe that good publicity is always good publicity. That’s all I offered, just a little good publicity. I enjoyed my meal, my experience with your staff, the decor, and the cupcakes and wanted to interest my network of friends and foodies in a new lunch spot. I apologize if I did something you felt was wrong. I intended no harm.

                His response…You make many good points in your response, one importantly about complimenting the chef. Can you actually tell me if the cupcakes you ate or your wife for that matter were actually baked by ***?

                Can you believe he actually tried to tell me that the cupcakes I handpicked with the baker right there telling me all about them might’ve been his and not hers. Seriously, does it really matter if I loved them and was planning on coming back for more? 

                Another response from him… By the way not that you said anything wrong , but you posted on the wall of *** and that is a company , a company that with or without the actual staff remains a company , I invested everything I have in this , and all of my time , away from my family at nights I leave they asleep in the morning . So as I said before , *** has been a great find for the existence of *** and to me personally as a friend, but as proprietor I market and sell my company. When I speak with my clients I let them know that all of our recipes are personalized and prepared by me and the well trained *** staff. Can you not understand that making a post like yours apart from truly being incorrect makes me personally look like a liar? If it were posted on your personal Facebook page or somewhat…then
no harm done… but this is *** official Facebook page. All staff take credit for what goes on there. There is more than one Maestro here.  All ingredients, food items that enter on my premises are strictly
researched and hand-picked by me and *** elaborates on the baking products provided , as do I. Believe me when I say , I am not at all frustrated about this , but before more comments on the same term arise , I would only hope that the facts be carefully taken before hand.

                And yet another e-mail from him…As I said,  no harm done.  I hope you enjoyed your meal, and I am now even more sorry that I didn’t get the chance to sit down and chat with you ,as you probably noticed I do talk a lot . Maybe in the near we will have that opportunity, and so far as the articles that you write , I think that’s marvelous. It wouldn’t be upsetting to me at all . Correct me if I’m wrong,
but writing an article focusing on the staff is awesome becaus6e it gives everyone a chance to shine, but truly my major concern right now with a major crisis on hand is consolidating this business so that people like ***, ***, ***, and myself have a place to call our job. That and pleasing my clients. I am a servicial person.  I’ll do anything for anybody at anytime. I love people, and I love what I do ,so I
look forward to having you by for lunch again soon.

                 

Well, I hope you enjoyed this little interaction with a local restaurant owner. The moral of this story is that if you wish to compliment someone at a restaurant and have to ask the owner’s permission first, then find a new place to eat. This guy turned me from a stark raving fan into a hater in less time than it took me to pay for a cupcake.

References…

Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers.

48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal.

Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make.

Addicted to Multi-Level Marketing

I opened up a dialogue the other day on my Facebook page that received a big number of responses, so I thought I’d translate it over here to the blog so that a wider audience could weigh in.

This came about because someone I know hit me with a multi-level marketing ambush. I won’t tell you who this is, as he will probably read the post and might be offended. Or maybe I should tell you so he doesn’t ambush me again. You see, this person has twice ambushed me with an unsolicited MLM sales pitch. He’s sneaky, but aren’t they all? I am a believer in self-employment, self-determination, and damn-the-man kind of thinking in regard to employment. I also believe that MLM businesses are a great way for many people to achieve financial independance. But let me emphasize that MLM businesses don’t give anyone an excuse to bypass the niceties of etiquette  and the core respect that you should have for friends, family, and even strangers.

So let me step off my soapbox and let the crowd speak. The following are some of the responses I received in my post about people being addicted to MLM…

Jason said…yes…there should be a support group for this

Rhonda said…What do you mean by addicted? I am not sure how you get addicted to joining MLM’s…explain please! do you mean hopping from one to another?

Susan said…Those people that invite you to 9 parties a month for different stuff they’re selling??? I know a few of those. They quickly end up with their messages in my “spam” folder!

Peggy said…ok for the “other side” … I recently joined another MLM because I like the product (DO NOT want to create a business) but I save ALOT by being a distributor … so it was worth it to “join.” just sayin’ …

Rhonda said…Its that way for a lot of people Peggy…it is usually the way to get the best price.

Peggy said…yep … and so for as long I use the product for me it’s worth it. I was very very very clear with the upline that I would NOT attend meetings, recruit, etc. anyway — it can get kinda crazy

I said…I’ll admit that I’ve been involved in 4. I know some people though, that are involved in a new one a month, and it seems like an addiction, especially when they only communicate with you to offer you the next big thing.

Peggy said…I would agree with you there Dr.Dave! I am currently involved in 2 — Send Out Cards and Boresha. And I have “customers” in both … and I USE both products all the time … so whether they ever make a “profit” they are worthwhile to me. And yes, I thot long and hard before joining either because of having joined some others that bombed on me … Xango, Shaklee, need I go on?!?!

I said…The MLM biz’s that I like best are the ones that don’t seem like it when they’re trying to pitch something to me.

I said…So, full disclosure now that Peggy’s out there, what groups have y’all been involved in?

Jason…I use PrePaid Legal and heavily researched selling it but decided not too – I like the idea of MLMs and have researched several but I have never found one I was seriously interested in doing.

Rhonda said…Currently Diamond Coach for Beachbody and LOVE it! (P90X, Insanity, Shakeology, etc…)Years ago I had been involved with a couple others and did not like it at all… there are definitely keys to being involved and one is patience. You d…on’t get rich over night…and the other for me is having amazing products that I believe in. I don’t focus on the selling aspect, I focus on relationship building with people. If I can help you, great, if not maybe I make a new friend or two!!

I said…I started with Quorum in high school. My wife was Mary Kay. Right now I use PrePaid Legal & Advocare. Jason and I have a common friend in PPL. I didn’t know Beachbody had a MLM. Right now I use mine for personal benefit like Peggy & don’t sell it unless people ask.

Rhonda said…We use PPL but I didn’t know it was an MLM either.

Peggy said…both of the ones I am in started with using and loving the product. As I told friends about them, and they expressed interest I figured why not “join” and get benefits BUT I refuse to “sell” so that people want to cross the street, change their name and hide their face when they see me coming!! I still have problems with a Shakelee “friend.”

Rhonda said…Yea Peggy…I started by using Shakeology and had no intention of working the business, I just wanted the best price possible. I started working the business at the end of January and I really love it. You cant use the “sell” approach…its tacky and can create major issues with people.

Rhonda said…Good question Dr David!!!!! Lots-O-Response.

Jason said…Ive worked at several offices were was that serial MLM’er that every time they walked through the door there was a new product/program. I didn’t want to be like them, thats what has kept me away from most programs. Plus there was only so many of the orange Vemma energy drinks I could drink in a day.

Rhonda said…If you think about it though…most every business is a “pyramid”. There are bad ones out there, of course…but any business is designed like a pyramid.

Peter said…Just started with Visalus. Love the product – company looks good too.

Stephanie said…started with Zija and it’s my first MLM. I love the product whether I build or not, but have made money so far. As long as I can pay for my nutrition, weight loss, detox, and skin care i’m good. I wouldn’t take on another MLM though. Don’t see how people can do so many, but that’s b/c I have 3 little ones at home.

Rad said…David I have something that I would like to share with you. All you need is your spare time and the desire to give your family the financial security you’ve always wanted……….;)

Lois said…I started on V3, a weight management product for myself, people ask me what I’m doing and have been selling it, (not working at it) and making around 2,500 to 3,000 a month. Now, thats a fun kind of bonus!!!

 

I had fun with this one. Hope you enjoy it too. What’s your take on MLM’s?

My Awkward Coffee Creamer Commercial

Here’s a short vidblog about a new International Delight coffee creamer and their super cool marketing effort. Hope you enjoy! I also mention home-made peanut butter, my sexy wife, my 1 month old son’s rock climbing adventure, coupons, and coffee. Courtesy of Dr. David Powers at www.drdavidpowers.com.