| It started out like any other Sunday | | | | It was at that point that I became |
| morning. My wife Stephanie and daughter | | | | overwhelmingly thankful that I had been |
| Allie and I got in the car to drive 20 | | | | able to spend 27 years of my life within |
| minutes to morning church service. The | | | | the network marketing industry. |
| radio was still on from the night before | | | | One of the greatest benefits of network |
| playing low in the background. WLW in | | | | marketing is it gives everyone who |
| Cincinnati, I had been listening to the | | | | participates the opportunity to live a |
| Reds play the Giants out on the west | | | | life of significance. |
| coast on my drive home from the office | | | | Please stop and think about that. There |
| late Saturday night. | | | | are a lot of professions where you can |
| A special report came on the radio and | | | | make a great income. However, how many |
| consciously none of us were paying | | | | of those professions also allow you to |
| attention to it, I can vaguely remember | | | | touch the lives of so many other people |
| something about crash and Lexington, Ky. | | | | in such a positive way? Not very many! |
| When the report ended, I asked my wife | | | | Other than the ministry, I can think of |
| & daughter did they just say something | | | | no career that gives each of us the |
| about an airplane crash in Lexington | | | | opportunity to make such a positive |
| Kentucky? | | | | difference in the lives of our fellow |
| Neither of them had consciously focused | | | | human beings. |
| on the report or heard anything. I | | | | Most network marketing companies offer |
| immediately changed the channel to a | | | | products and services that can make a |
| local Lexington station, and for the | | | | major difference in the lives of some |
| next 18 minutes all three of us listened | | | | people. Think about some of the |
| in shock as the tragic details of that | | | | testimonies you have heard about your |
| morning were revealed. Of course our | | | | product line. Some people have almost |
| pastor started the service with a prayer | | | | been brought back from the dead with |
| for the families after we arrived at | | | | some companies nutritional products. How |
| church. | | | | would you feel if you were the one that |
| When the service was over, everyone was | | | | shared the product with that person? How |
| buzzing about the details of the | | | | can you put a dollar value on something |
| morning. We went out to eat with my | | | | like that? |
| parents as we normally do every Sunday | | | | Look at the tens of thousands of people |
| during lunch time. When talking about | | | | whose financial lives will never be the |
| the crash my dad kind of summed it up. | | | | same because of the awesome Network |
| "That is why we all need to learn to | | | | Marketing Industry. |
| live life to its fullest everyday" he | | | | The lifestyle, cars, vacations, freedom, |
| said. | | | | our industry offers is awesome. But when |
| My thoughts were everywhere I thought | | | | our life here is done, the thing that is |
| about how many times I had personally | | | | going to really matter is, were we able |
| taken that exact same flight the 6:10 AM | | | | to make a positive difference in the |
| from Lexington to Atlanta. How none of | | | | lives of others? We should all be |
| us are promised tomorrow, and what my | | | | thankful that network marketing gives |
| dad had said about living life to its | | | | each of us the opportunity to live a |
| fullest. | | | | life of significance. |