it's not for everyone, but it's NOT A SCAM

I am sooooo happy that I was finally able to help someone through Pharmanex. That lucky person is a friend and college classmate, May. My group introduced the company and products to her and she was thrilled because she would benefit a lot from it. Case in point: her chronic asthma. One speaker shared that using one of our products, CordyMax, helped strengthen her lungs such that a couple of months after taking it, she no longer needs to bring her inhaler when going out--something she could not afford to do before. May hopes the same would happen to her. We are all positive it will be so.

Anywho, we both had a facial care of In and a makeup session with Elmer before having a very late [second] dinner with the gang at Shakey's in Blue Wave. He made her up all sweet and nice while he made me up telenovela-antagonist-glam, if you get my drift. Said he based the makeup on our personality. Haha. We had fun, even though we both are not used to wearing makeup.

It was all in all a fun, productive day for all of us. I'm so happy I met In, Elmer, Weng, Bless and everyone else on the team. In the short time I shared with them, they had already helped me to become a better, more positive person.

In relation to this, I was reading other blog entries by various people regarding Nu Skin, Pharmanex and MLM businesses in general. Not that I am biased because I am part of it, but I find most of the negative entries and comments rather amusing and slightly misinformed. If I had a weaker will, maybe I would have gotten disheartened and just quit altogether. But then again, I could have done that first time I read those posts when I was asked to join by a [then] total stranger, no less.

You might say it was risky or stupid, joining when there's all this negative hype and feedback by all those bloggers and commenters. But believe me, I had my own share of doubts and discouragement from family, friends and Franco--in fact we even fought about it. He was adamant that it was a scam and that I was a big fool for falling into that trap. It stung, but I just held on to the thought that he just didn't want me to get into a mess I couldn't get out of instead of focusing on his words.

But the bottomline is this: I sincerely believe that the company could indeed help improve my life and those of others. That is why I took that risk. There were no promises of easy money or get-rich-quick schemes. Just like with everything else, for it to succeed, effort must be made. It is a legitimate business--its reputation is just getting tarnished by some misguided partners. Most people there are honest, hard-working people. And, contrary to popular belief, are an educated and cultured bunch. I've met doctors, accountants and engineers who gave up their jobs to work full-time for their businesses. Tell me, if you're a licensed professional earning more than decent money, would you give that up for something much less?

I am neither trying to convince nor asking anyone to believe me. I believe that you who are reading this is much too smart for that. All I want is for people to at least know my take on the whole Pharmanex/Nu Skin/MLM issue. I am a real person and this is my experience I'm talking about, not just some shit I heard from so-and-so. Think about that before jumping to any conclusions.