Reflection time

Yesterday in the Minneapolis newspaper the following comment was made by the head coach of the Minnesota Wild NHL hockey team, Mike Yeo.  

 

"A big part of me for getting better is I take time for reflection and evaluating myself."

 

This article really made me think so I took some time to reflect on a few things. This isn't entirely new to me because it seems like I'm always hearing things or reading things that make me think. I reflected on this thought......what did we do to be so fortunate to have the kind of business we have? 

 

Faye and I aren't any different than you or anyone else. I was 31 and Faye was 25 when we got started and in my mind we both had jobs but there wasn't much of a future in either job. I heard an idea, checked it out for 4 months and made a decision. This might be the only difference between me and some people who don't have the lifestyle of their dreams. I made a decision that I wanted what Shaklee offered so I committed to that idea and for the past 44 years have stuck to that commitment.

 

Has it been easy? No! Has there been disappointments? Lots of them. Did we grow fast like many others did? No! Did I experience any failures? Yes - and this is probably the major reason we succeeded. We were willing to fail but yet not make the big failure of quitting just because things didn't always go the way we wanted them to. As has been said by many people...we failed our way to success.

 

I think what we did was make a simple commitment about doing whatever it would take to work hard at building this business regardless of what might happen. Failures are lessons and I learned that very early in the game. I had lots of lessons to learn.

 

Are you committed to this idea of building yourself a future that is absolutely amazing? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen? If you are all I know is you will never regret working hard at this business. Reflect on this thought today and see what you come up with.

 

Enthusiastically,

Gary Burke