What Are We In This For?

As I look at my daughter drinking a chocolate coffee freeze, (yeah, I know, that is a dangerous thing to allow a 10 year old to do!) I was thinking about why someone would be in a business like I was in.
Most who joined, did so when they understood why they actually were in debt as their yearly salary increase fell more and more behind the actual cost of living. This caused them to supplement their income with high interest credit card debt, to the point, when someone actually cared enough to come along at a time when they were ready to hear what the problem was, the finally understood there was the proverbial 2 ton pink elephant in their living room.
We did this thing to actually make a difference in our lives. But, the real way to make that improvement meant to make a real change in our thinking. This has to be, for even if we somehow got a million dollars dropped in our laps, with the same thinking that got us into the previous debt in the first place, would soon leave us in debt again. This can be seen by those who loose all their lottery winnings, and usually end up worse than before.
I actually got into this business because of a failure of my last one.
It is an interesting journey.
I was watching Public Television when they were asking for donations, (You know, during the time they actually have "good" things on!) LATE one night, when I saw this funny Asian guy talking about his Rich Dad and his Poor Dad. It piqued my interest, BUT, when they listed the prices for his books, I thought, NAH!
A couple of months later I saw Rich Dad Poor Dad in B&N, still to high.
Thanksgiving was around the corner, and I was invited to go to my Fiance's parents home. I met her sister and brother-in-law there, somehow the Rich Dad book came up.
When Christmas came, again I was invited, I got a gift from Deb's (We were married a year and a half ago.) sis and brother-in-law gave me a gift. Well, two gifts. Rich Dad and Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert Kiyosaki, that funny Asian guy I had seen months before.
While reading his Rich book, (I have always liked to read) which is a fun read, ONE PARAGRAPH STOOD OUT TO ME. It was to get involved with an MLM to learn business principles.
(Oh, a little aside note: I believe that God cares intimately for us, and will involve himself in our lives in as far as we will allow him!)
I thought, hmm, could I find the reason that my business failed? It had nagged me for some time.
God kept opening more and more doors to go through, (due to my finally doing what he wanted me to do, kinda tithing my actions, brought His blessings in other areas, I might get into those areas of obedience one day, but back to how I got into TEAM) so I walked through them.
Turns out my future sister and brother-in-law was in a company called Quixtar.
I also had a friend at work here in Quixtar as well. I had to make a decision, Deb and I were married by then, so the decision would be difficult. Either join with her sister, or join with my friend. The problem with joining her Sisters group would be the distance, over 400 miles away, or joining here with my friend, I needed to make sure that if I joined I would he helped, and would be around people that I had actual relationship with, and who had an interest in my success.
I decided to join my friend, so I approached him and said "How much to join?" (He had never approached me, so you can imagine his reaction!) Turns our there are more than one organization or groups of people in Quixtar. My friend was in TEAM, my in-laws in another. Again, God at work! (Don't get me wrong, they are godly people.) He wanted me to learn leadership principles.
If you haven't detected it yet, I try to follow God's leading and direction.
So it was of GREAT surprise when I read in the threatening e-mail that Quixtar had terminated Orrin et al. God had led me into their organization, and to read the disparaging remarks from a company that had NEVER e-mailed me before, of those who had helped me grow, was quite naturally discouraging.
THEN I read the qblog, (I didn't know one existed) that told me to Go, just Go. I did.
God was leading me through another door, and I knew I didn't want to be associated with an organization who did not care for me, only that I purchase their overrated high priced products.
So, I guess, God was the one that led me away from AMWAY.
Hey Mike, you might want to bring suit against God next, He is the one that told me to send in my resignation!