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StartupNation Honors Nation’s Top Home Businesses of 2009

Tiffany Parks-Wear The Earth (http://www.WearTheEarth.com)

Wins Top Ten Honors in Business Competition in the Greenest Category

Henderson, NV – November 17^th 2009– Tiffany Parks/Wear The Earth has been recognized by StartupNation (http://www.startupnation.com) as a Top Ten business in its 2009 Home Based 100 competition under the category of  Top 10 Greenest home based businesses http://www.startupnation.com/PHP_ROOT/hb100-2009/winners-greenest.html.

Many of the StartupNation Home-Based 100 submissions revealed that business owners are bucking the current economic downturn and finding business success in these tight times. Historically some of today’s most well known businesses started in a downturn, including Microsoft and General Electric.

“The 2009 ranking shows that the home-based business is more relevant than ever. The current recession has spurred a new wave of home based businesses as a response to loss of jobs, the need for supplemental income and the sheer passion for blazing your own trail and running your own show,” said Rich Sloan, co-founder of StartupNation.com, one of the leading small business networking and advice websites. “Home based businesses are the biggest block of all businesses in existence and we expect numbers to grow ever greater as extra bedrooms, kitchen tables, basements and garages become host to the innovative thinking and pursuit of success by millions of Americans.”

“I am honored and thrilled to have been selected as one of the top 10 greenest companies.  This is an incredible accomplishment for me.  My business has caused my life to change in so many ways.   I want to thank everyone who supported Wear The Earth with their votes and kind words” Said Tiffany Parks owner of Wear the Earth (http://www.WearTheEarth.com)

Wear The Earth was selected from among thousands of contestants by a StartupNation judging panel, which issues the ranking results annually in the November.  Read More……

4 Steps To A Lighter Life~

1. Make a list of your priorities & keep it in a visible place to remind you how you want to spend your time and money. Track how you spend your time like you balance your checkbook. A chaotic day is equal to a bounced check.

2. Commit to making and being mindful of small changes. Choose one thing in your life that is getting out of control & decide today what you need to do to get it back on track. The confidence you build by seeing success in one area of life can help you gain victory in others. 3. Find Balance. Consider the areas of your life that consume the most time. Explore more efficient ways to handle these areas. by living a more balanced life you become more effective and help enrich the lives of those around you. 4. Set aside time for important activity in your life. Decide when you are going to do it and black it out in your day planner. If it require an investment of money or space, make it. Your commitment to an activity will result in a higher level of satisfaction.

To put your own life on a diet, begin with one or two of these actions. As you implement more you will SIMPLIFY your life

Happy Holidays~~Tiffany

Read the Article by Gregory Paul Johnson.

1. E-mail party invites rather than snail-mail them. There are some great ghoulish Free e-mail greetings online.
2. Make your own costume or buy one at a second-hand shop. An old sheet still makes a great ghost.

3. Trick or Treat with a reusable bag.

4. Walk instead of driving. If you must drive try car-pooling.

5. Look for locally grown pumpkins for carving & apples for bobbing and other seasonal fruits and veggies

6. If you don’t already compost, Halloween is a great time to start. You can add post-Halloween jack-o-lanterns to your compost bin, along with fallen leaves, food scraps, and other organic, biodegradable yard and household waste. Compost creates excellent soil for your garden

7. Teach your children to keep candy wrappers in their re-usable trick-or-treat bags until they return home, or to dispose of them in trash cans along their route. Preventing candy wrappers from becoming Halloween litter on the street is the right way to treat the environment. Take along an extra bag when you take the kids out treat-or-treating, and pick up litter along the way to help clean up the neighborhood.

8. Make use of all pumpkin parts. After carving a pumpkin, make sure to save the seeds. Bake them and serve them to party guests or feed them to our fine feathered friends, the birds.

9. Candy…No Halloween is complete without CANDY! There are plenty of healthy candy bars on the market these days. From organic chocolate to organic lollipops—available online and from local organic groceries, health food stores, or consumer cooperatives. Try honey sticks or fruit leather at health food stores or tea shops. These organic candies can satisfy your sweet tooth without compromising your health, and they are produced using methods that don’t damage the environment. Choose treats that use little or no packaging . Whenever possible, buy locally produced treats from local merchants.

10. Experience nature. Visit a pumpkin farm. Pick fresh apples. Talk a long walk outside. Look up at the sky. Notice the moon. Enjoy your planet.

Living an Eco-friendly lifestyle and reducing waste and pollution should be a daily event, not a special occasion. With a little thought, you can apply the strategies you use to have a green Halloween to the way you live every day.

Happy Halloween~~Tiffany