Which person are you?

What you're going to read on this message is very interesting because it's about people. When I got started in Shaklee in 1970, I heard from several people about why they thought I was crazy. They just couldn't understand why I would want to start "selling soap." Of course, my view wasn't about selling soap. My view was about having a future. I had a job but I didn't have a future and I was determined to change that.

 

There are people out there and maybe they are friends, relatives or neighbors, and they feel their job is to protect you and me from making mistakes. Of course they don't know much of anything, but they feel compelled to tell us what we can't do. I'm sure most of you have had the same experience at some point in your efforts to step out and be different.

 

I say all of the above just to share the following with you. This excerpt came from a final lecture from a university professor to his class to end the school year:

 

"If there is a problem somewhere," he said with his dry chuckle, "this is what happens.  Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue.  Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing.  One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture.   One thousand people will argue about the problem.   And one person - only one - will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it."  

"Now," he asked gently, his penetrating eyes meeting each of ours in turn, "which person are you?"

 

Enthusiastically, 

Gary Burke