TEAM MAXIMUS LIFE with Orrin Woodward

Several times a year people come from all over the country to participate in the LIFE business‘ major leadership conference. Certainly, we come to hear Orrin Woodward, Chris Brady and all the PC inspire and teach us. But more than that, we come to leverage something that just can’t be described without being there…belief!  No one can achieve what they do not believe. This past weekend was one of the best for helping people with their belief.  There’s nothing like getting the community together.  No other event can demonstrate the significance of the impact in the lives of individual life members. I can’t thank Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady and all of the policy counsel members enough. There are many volunteers who give their time, these events are not easy to put on. They each require over a year ahead of time in planning. But it is so worth it.  There were so many people getting recognized.  You cant argue with results.

As individuals we each lack belief and everybody longs to be a part of something these days. It’s inherently built into us as human beings. We want to belong and we want to believe so we can achieve. We want to belong to something that makes a difference. When I meet people and talk about the life business, I love to share my experience and my passion. Many times I am able to do so. However, I pale as to how much difference I can make as an individual by comparison with an event of the magnitude of the life major leadership seminars.

Ryan and Sarah Fronick on our team are some fantastic leaders. They are loyal, hard-working, great students, and most of all they are selfless servants. It’s been a couple years now that Sarah has been able to be a stay-at-home mom, partly due to the financial principles they have learned from life and partly due to the income.  It would be easy for Sarah to just pull up the draw bridge and enjoy her freedom.  However, the Fronicks are the “pay it forward” kind of people.  I can think of only a few couples as on track as the Fronicks with everything the LIFE business teaches and has the offer. Being great servants, they realize the importance in investing in relationships in order to deserve influence. This past weekend investing in one of the relationships has made all the difference in one particular couple, Jeff and Laura, Crabiel. On the way home from the event here is what Laura had to say.

“Hey Superstars!!! I’m still so fired up! Jeff and i spent the whole ride home yesterday listening to cds. We listened to 3 and got half way through a 4th. Since arriving home i have spent alot of time recapping, reflecting, reading through my notes, and most importantly talking to God. Ultimately, this weekend was an awakening for me. It restored my faith in God, and in my God given abilities that the world has so consistently chiseled away at over the years. Its an amazing feeling to be in an arena with thousands of other ppl and not once feel small or jealous or envious, or “not good enough”. I had never felt the level of acceptance and peace that I felt this weekend. I know this is because LIFE is the TRUTH and through a lot of divine intervention, and appointments, God has finally revealed to me my purpose. Thank you Ryan and Sarah. For listening to God and his calling for your lives. For allowing him to use you as tools to lead others to the truth. For believing in us, and staying consistent, and patient with us. We love you guys and look forward to being PC with u real soon! ”

As wonderful as leaders that Ryan and Sarah Frank are, there’s no way as individuals, they could have made the impact in Jeff and Laura’s life that could come close to matching the impact the life major seminar environment does.  Ryan and Sarah know the importance of getting people to these events.  Congrats to them for investing in their Team to create a culture of attending these events.  They are not convenient for anyone, but they are worth it.  Congratulations to Laura, Jeff and all those who attended past weekend and those who will attend the others this coming weekend. Truly will make a difference in our country as we stick together.  UNITED WE STAND!

Again, I’m so thankful to all of the policy counsel members, especially the newest Wayne and Raylene McNamara who make events like this possible. They are a vital component to allowing us to build communities that we are not good enough to build on our own.

Locally in St. Louis, and all around the country our next seminar is February 9, who will you have there. Who will be sending you a text or an email thanking you. Getting people to events is a necessary part of what makes the community aspect of the LIFE business work!

God Bless

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My mentors and founders of The Life Business, Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, have been a prime example of leaders who have “Created a Hunger to Learn.” The Life Business is all about learning the right information.  But simply getting the information is not a recipe for learning it. Orrin and Chris have created a “Learning culture.”

I recently read a Quote by Jim Collins, the author of “Good to great.”  Yes, you can find this book on the LIFE website.  One of the principles he teaches and has discovered about great companies is that they “Create a Learning culture.”  Here is the quote,

“How would your day be different if you organized your time, energy, and resources primarily around the objective of learning, instead of around performance? For many people, their daily activities—what they do and how they go about doing it—would be dramatically changed. Indeed, despite all the buzz around the concept of the “learning organization,” I’m struck by how few people seem to have embraced the idea of being a true learning person.”

I recommend, if you haven’t read AND STUDIED the first night book, do so. Start your “Culture of Learning.”  Next read the “Magic of Thinking Big”, and continue by making your way through the top five books.  Then put “The Cashflow Quadrant” and for further study “The E-myth” by Michael Gerber on your list.  All books you will find on the LIFE website.  A pace of 1-2 books a month is 15-30 minutes a day. It is a good pace for a beginner. Add one more a month and you’re in the professional category.  When it comes to listening to cds, it’s 2-3 a day at least for a professional.   Of course who wouldn’t want to join a Team lead by a professional?  As much as we love all people who join the LIFE business, duplicating a TEAM of professionals is more rewarding than duplicating a TEAM of beginners.

Continue creating that “Culture of Learning” by, becoming an owner and an expert of the TEAM Packs 1-10.  All Team building Cds and packs, you will find on the TEAM website.  Create a hunger in your TEAM for the information that is in them.  Do this by reading and listening, a lot!  Don’t use TIME as an excuse.  Chapter 2 in the “Magic of Thinking Big” deals with excuseitis.  Cds can be listened to, while doing other things simultaneously.  Books can be read at lunch, or getting up a few minutes earlier or staying up later.  We usually waste more than 30 min a day because of our disorganization, and lack of time and priority management.

I had lunch with a Jake, landscape Archetic, recently.  He is fairly new on our TEAM and is married to a wonderful woman, Nikole, and has a son Owen.  He told me he was listening to about 6 cds a day and using his lunch hour to read.  He wants out of his job and he wants to go fast.  He has the same 24 hours in the day that you and I do. He has chosen to align those hours with his goals.  There are many things every day that are good, but will not get us closer to our main goals.  Jake has chosen to put aside some of those good things momentarily and decided to pursue the few things that will get him closer to his goals.  Jake is using a much more efficient model for progress.

This past weekend, Rita and I were privileged to get to know Jake and his wife Nikole a bit better traveling between our hotel and the Major Convention in Louisville, Ky.  We learned that Nikole has been reading during her lunch hour at work as well.  It is a powerful thing when a couple is learning together.  I don’t know who was the first leader in setting the example (duplication!) but I know because leaders are readers, they are both leading.  Nikole has a goal of 50 books this year.  She also has a 20 month old son,  Owen.  I was really wowed at her one book a week goal.   During some additional conversation, she convinced me of her commitment as she also added to her plan to read durimg the time that Owen takes his naps on Saturdays.  Learning this, I was sold on her goal as she proved to me she has a plan to manage her time.  A goal without a plan is a fantasy.

Water boils at 212.  No matter, how long you leave it at 211, it will never boil. Trying to heat more than one pot to boil simultaneously on a single burner at the same time is impossible.  Spreading your time thinly among too many “good” things never gets the LIFE business boiling so you can get progress.  You are going to need some 212 focus. Reading and listening puts the use of both Jake’s and Nikole’s time in alignment with their goals of getting out of their jobs fast and it is duplicatable.  A top leader on the Team, Kirk Birtles, has an important cd in pack 6, the Culture Pack. The cd is called “Team 729 – Warning: For power players only.”  He expounds on these concepts.   If you need additional, help with time management, the book “Eat that frog” can be found on the LIFE website.

You want a Team listening and reading a lot.  If you don’t have a Team yet, the good news is that when you do, you’ll know what books and cds they need for each of their situations that might hold them back from being effective.  It also makes you a professional to know your business and its materials which foster the growth.  Promoting specific things you’ve learned on certain cds, in certain packs, and from specific books is going to be a skill you must acquire. 

Promotion is taught on the “Art of Promotion” cd in the power player pack.  A good “rule” is, if, you do any teaching, teach by referring to the CDs and books. Make the system the valuable expert.  If you were teaching basketball, you wouldn’t, over talk Michael Jordan if he were available.  You’d let him do the teaching.  Help others be responsible for learning from “Mike” and their own packs.

Before any signs of duplication will appear, Your TEAM must see you as a hungry student of the system FIRST.  I said, they “must see.” That means there must be proof, in their eyes, that you are being hungry for that information before they will be hungry for it too! Lead in this area of hunger and it will grow so much easier for you.  You will spend less time and energy by operating at 212 for small periods of time than at any other temperature for longer periods of time. You will be setting up the culture of learning, which will carry you and your Team through any obstacles they will have that will impede progress.

I love what Jake and Nicole have done by fostering a hunger and planning the time that they both read and listen to cds.  This will duplicate well in their team. They have planned everyday to created some 212 time. It is one of the things necessary to create the right culture.  It will allow their team to solve many of their own difficulties (marriage, financial, interpersonal, ect).  In addition, the reading and listening will duplicate creating the “learning organization” that Jim Collins teaches.   

Ask yourself, are leading like Orrin, Chris and Jake and Nikole to create that Learning culture from the TEAM system?  The leader builds the culture and the culture builds the team. Great job for those of you are making that investment in yourselves and your teams as well. It is the single most influential factor to the growth of your TEAM.

Stay tuned my next article in this series will be, “Why WE Are Not Duplicatible” God Bless!

God Bless

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With only the LIFE Business, you could probably figure out how to sell books and CDs and how to sign up people. You don’t need a system for that. With a little determination, you will find a process that works for you. You might even be able to recruit a few others to do the same. In other words, you could carry buckets to deliver water and you could also recruit a team of people to carry buckets and deliver water. This is the typical analogy I use to describe traditional MLM and networking models, the Bucket MLM.  (This post is the 2nd in the series)

Bucket MLM businesses are difficult, because sooner or later the ones who are good at signing up people, get tired and hope someone else will do it. Trying to sustain a signup game is very difficult. I’ve known many people in the MLM industry who have built big organizations and it all fell apart. A volunteer business that is built around the idea of recruitment is not easily sustainable. People who are generally very skeptical of the LIFE business are the ones familiar with this bucket model. They think that’s what we do and arguably so they want nothing to do with it.

Naively though, many of the people that get in the LIFE Business do, see it as a business, but have it in their mind that bucket recruitment is the easy mode of operation which will make them a success. It is in fact the hardest and nearly almost impossible way to build an organization. Innocently, they think this is “simply” a business of recruitment and “sales” and they are willing to play the odds of recruiting enough people and selling enough that someone eventually will do it for them. They usually have “Big Fish” mentality. In other words, because they know some influential people they think are going to have it easy getting a lot of people “signed up.”

If you do get some progress out of this method, then congratulations is due. You are a great sales person or you have lived your life in a manner that has blessed you with influence. Be forewarned, it will almost never last because you are not duplicatable and right now your business depends on your abilities and not a system. Consequentially, it is limited to growth only with in your abilities. In addition, with, you as the limitation, there will not be enough LIFE materials flowing through your organization for it to produce an income which will allow you to be financially independent.

The Bucket MLM way, is actually the way I thought when I got involved. I believed I knew enough people that would join me and eventually it would get so big that I would not have to do anything and before long I’d be rich. I was hit with a rude awakening when not that many people were willing to listen to me. And no big fish ever joined my team to do it for me. By the way, there is a method of sustaining this kind of business. It’s called, “work your guts out forever.” I didn’t have the kind of time that was required nor the energy to work hard enough for this method to work for me. I also didn’t have the influence I thought I had. I am so thankful for the TEAM system to help me develop the culture for duplication to occur. It has proven to be a true pipeline and not a bucket. I would have been sunk if success depended upon my existing level of influence within my circle.

For, the immortal person who gets the bucket MLM of to any kind of a decent start, the good news is they have taken personal responsibility, the bad news is, at this point they are self-employed. It is not our (THE TEAM’s) desire that you be self-employed. This is why Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward have included excerpts on the B-type businesses in The TEAM’s first night book. In addition, this is why we promote the Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “The Cashflow Quadrant.” For your success, and the success of others, it will be mandatory to understand the B-type business quadrant and the importance of systems. In order to have a b-type business, it will be necessary to learn and understand how a b-type business owner thinks. In the “How to get started” pack, there is a cd called, “Team 272 – Think Business” by Chris Brady. If you will learn to think like the wealthy, only then can you become wealthy.

Learning will not be optional

Learning will not be optional for success.  It might have been my biggest obstacle in the beginning. I did not like to read. In addition, where I went to engineering school, they taught me that I knew everything already. Lol.  A hunger to learn is what it will take.  Let me say that a different way.  Since I was not wealthy, it was proof that I don’t think like a wealthy person.  I didn’t like being told that or even discovering it, but it was true.  I had to “confront the brutal facts” as Jim Collins says in his book “Good to great” and not be offended, but enlightened.  By admitting the truth, I could now act on it, instead of experimenting with my time and other people’s time. 

I found that it is not just learning that was important.  One must be hungry to learn also.  In the book “Launching A Leadership Revolution” by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, Chapter 2 begins the “Foundational Qualities.”  “Foundational Quality” number one is “Hunger.”  Hunger is a discipline.  Don’t worry if you don’t feel very hungry right now.  Read the aforementioned chapter to understand what it means to be hungry and how to develop it.  I won’t try to say it better than my mentors have in their #1 best-selling book.  Listening to the TEAM cds regularly will also help you develop some hunger naturally.

A strong desire to take direction from those who have proven they have the answers will also be a big short cut.  Learn to think like a person who is wealthy.  Learn from those who are wealthy and learn in the manner they recommend, not just in the way you prefer.   All people who are wealthy depend on systems, not their abilities.  Robert Kiyosaki very plainly states in his book, “The Cash Flow Quadrant,” that all B-type businesses develop people and/or systems.  The TEAM has a system for developing people.  It’s not your “Job” to develop people here at this time in the journey, it’s your responsibility as a leader to create a culture of learning and leveraging the TEAM system to duplicate and develop people.

Stay Tuned for my next section in this series Called “How to Create a Culture of Hunger to Learn”

God Bless

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One of the 3 keys to wealth, having time, money and influence, is the power of compounding. The life business is set up to help you create wealth by leveraging the team system.  In order to have a business that will duplicate and grow on its own, you will need a duplicatable system. The objective of the TEAM system is NOT really just to give you the shortcut on how to be successful. The TEAM system is designed to give you the shortcut on how to duplicate successfully.  Duplication is the only way you’re going to create the exponential growth needed for a true b-type business as defined by Robert Kiyosaki.  Duplication is not optional when it comes to being wealthy. It is a requirement.  In the LIFE business, wealth comes from assembling large sustainable teams.  We call them communities.  To build and to sustain a community, using a system for duplication is really not optional.

Not obvious to most people, duplication does not happen naturally.  As individuals, we are NOT duplicatable.  This is even less obvious and without experience or trust you will tend to ignore this major point.  People want to do things their own way due to personal preferences and so on.  They think because they do it “one way” everyone else should and will do it that “one way” as well.  Or worse they think everyone should be allowed to do it their own way.  This is nowhere close to being true for success. More on this later.  A leader in the LIFE business understands people are discretionary and discretion is the enemy of duplication.  So it’s not just enough to have a duplicatable system for people to follow, because they won’t naturally comply and follow it. 

For someone to have a true B-type business they will need use the TEAM system as leverage to set up a culture of duplication.  People tend to adopt the culture of their TEAM. They rarely blindly follow a system or someone who has no more results than them.  If you want the business to grow and last, the laws of success here cannot be ignored.  If your business is not growing or your business is shrinking, it is not because the business does not work.  It is not because you can’t do it, or because the system doesn’t work.  It is simply because you are either being discretionary about learning what it takes to set up a culture of duplication, or you’re being discretionary about what you’re willing to do in order to set up a culture of duplication.  Either way, the culture of discretion you set up is destructive to the TEAM’s growth.

Often newer TEAM members or ones who haven’t been listening, reading, and attending the meetings as much as they should, will discuss what “they” think needs to be done to build the team. In addition, they are usually talking in terms of them or maybe a couple of people on their TEAM.  Rarely are they quoting results from a book or someone on the CDs. Beware of following these TEAM members, you will likely end up with their results.  Respectfully, look upline, if needed, to find someone quoting and pointing to the system with results.  You never have to worry about positional leadership on the TEAM because we only recognize earned leadership.

Orrin has been a great example of trying not to be the system for success, but to create a culture of learning from people who have success.  I love Orrin Woodward’s example of a pool to describe culture and then the example outside of himself that follows.   The following excerpt you can find on page 198 in the Resolved 13 Resolutions for LIFE book.  Incidentally, this chapter in his book is called “Leadership Resolution” with a story about Sam Walton’s Leadership. You will find mixed into the TEAM’s system, many of the principles and methods that made Sam Walton successful.  Here is the analogy for understanding culture.

“… Culture is like the water current in a swimming pool when leaders jump into the pool orchestrating (and by example) the community to move in the same direction,  it creates a current that influences everyone in it. (note the idea that the current influences EVERYONE this applies to a good current and a bad current) New members jumping into the pool will be pulled along by the current flowing in a positive direction thanks to a moving leadership team.”

Continuing on with this thought, if everyone is not going in the same direction, there is no current. The reason that some teams have pools with a strong current and some teams do not is because some teams are discretionary about going in the right direction of following the system.  Recognize you can also have a strong “wrong” current.  The culture and the current are the two things being compared. This is why the leader must leverage the system to create the “right” culture and then “right” culture builds the TEAM “properly”.  In our example, with the pool if the current is strong, a new person who wants to go in an opposite direction literally has no chance of opposing the current. However if the current is weak, the current can’t possibly correct a group of people in opposition either.

My next several posts for my blog going to be on a series of articles on creating the right culture of duplication. These articles are really designed for leaders who want to have a business that works. Meaning one that’s growing and sustaining itself.  We know that there’s only a certain percentage of people at any one time, willing to lead. We never want to ostracize a person who wants to be a follower and not yet a leader. Consequently you should be aware; the concepts in the next several articles are more leadership type concepts. People who are hungry for the answers so they can get results are the people who will appreciate the following articles the most. For people who are not so hungry, the articles will be tough on your thinking and your “current” actions.  Remember, although we will always encourage you to live a life of excellence, we will also always love and accept you wherever you are in your journey.

If your TEAM is not growing I can guarantee as you continue reading you will understand why.  When people are called to lead they are rarely ready. So I hesitate to tell you not to read the following unless you’re ready to be a leader because that’s usually not a criteria for someone who steps up.  Again, just know that if you decide to read the blog articles that follow for the next several days and you haven’t been leading, they may seem a little tough for you.  There is no intention to hurt anyone’s feelings, or make anyone feel unwelcome in the life business.  We accept everyone.  If the only thing you’re willing to do at this time is use the life material to become a better person, we are still extremely proud of you. You have stepped into the role of personal responsibility for your life.  For those of you willing to lead and duplicate that personal responsibility into an organization correctly, there is a vast reward greater than you can imagine in the areas of TIME, MONEY and INFLUENCE for you to use however you like. So let’s get started learning…”see you tomorrow.”

God Bless

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Hello to all the members and Teams of Team Maximus. What an amazing event we just had this weekend.  I’m very proud of the representation we had of power players.  The current in the pool is definitely rushing. Make no mistake about how fast your business can grow right now.  Team Maximus has several people who will be new Round table members by the next major.  New levels reached in the business always provides belief for anyone.  Just make sure you have been working hard to get new people to the Opens and seminar for them to see it and your teams will explode.  Our system of cd packs are a Key.  Use them in order for your prospects and you will see them fall in love with the team and our system. If you have a scarcity mentality when it comes to the packs, or feel you want to answer all their questions you are going to be in for some frustration and no duplication.

There are several things that have been put in motion for YOU to leverage to get the same kind of explosion that Claude and Lana Hamilton have demonstrated this past weekend.  First off all of Chris Brady’s teams have come to go there under the umbrella of Rascal Nation. We will still go by our individual teams: team Maximus-Galileo, team Maximus-Spartacus etc. Chris has a website@rascal-nation.com. Over the last day or two we been collecting the commitments on all of team Maximus within the Round table groups of who and how many power player points we are willing to provide for the next major. I know that not everybody is motivated by competition. In my mind competition however keeps us honest. We tell people we had the greatest business in the world we ask in the sign up with us we tell them they can make money but the best way for us to prove that we have the greatest business in the world is to demonstrate that were willing to work together as a team for each other’s success not just our own. Chris will be keeping track of each power player that breaks on his website. Not the specific numbers but percentages of the goal met so far. All of the Roundtable percentages goal met and their teams will be posted and updated regularly.

Chris and Terry Brady have been some of the biggest servants that I’ve ever known in my entire life.  They give it their all because they know my future and the future of many other people’s success are on the line. I’ve never seen them act selfish.  It was not too exciting for me to watch them not be the source of the most power players this past weekend.  This time around I plan on doing my part. Chris Brady will hold regular go-getter conference calls in order that we can leverage it for ourselves and new Team Members. The first one will be November 6.  By then, everybody is required to have held six plans since the major in order to be on the call. I would say everybody’s goal is really just to be a power player every 30 days.  So go-getter is a forgone conclusion for EVERYONE.  If that hasn’t happened for you in the past it’s now time to change your thinking. The current is going to be rushing so fast that if you’ll do the work it will be hard for you not to get a goal.

The question is will your teams work together or they work like individuals will they form death squads and use a the squeeze board and keep track of their plans and be accountable to each other which surely will require putting the Team agenda above a personal agenda sometimes.  These are all the things that make it go fast- people working together. I believe team Maximus has some of the best leaders in the whole country and it’s time to let our colors shine. It’s also time to contribute back to Chris and Terry Brady for the opportunity of a lifetime that they have given to us.  They are some of the biggest leaders in the world and deserve my best because they have always given me theirs. Let’s really KCB this time!

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Raised on a farm, I am blessed to have parents who taught me the value of education and respecting an earned dollar through hard work.  I was always a serious student, and I learned how to get good grades, but what I enjoyed most were the leadership roles I had in student council, colorguard, and other organizations.  Learning how to inspire and serve others was exhilarating as we worked together toward our goals.  This is where I felt the most alive.  I had a strong desire to change the world, and I thought becoming a lawyer might be the answer.  

After a series of seemingly random events, I decided to go to Kansas State University to pursue a double major in Architecture and Architectural Engineering.  My advisor told me this seven-year dual-degree program was a combination of the most time-consuming degree and the second-most difficult degree.  Being choleric, I smugly accepted the challenge.  I made that decision at 17 years old, and I never looked back no matter how many people advised me otherwise over those seven years.  One of those people was my mom, who half-way through this program sent me a letter.  She added up all the years I had left until I had both licenses, and told me how old I would be.  She then asked me if I had considered how a marriage and family would fit into my plan.  I didn’t know.  I was so career-driven, that it hadn’t occurred to me the sacrifices I was blindly making in other areas of my life.  It would be several more years before I would realize this for myself.

The greatest blessing during college was meeting Ryan.  I immediately knew he was the one for me, though I didn’t think I deserved him.  He graduated before me, so we had a long-distance relationship for three years, and then the next year, I lived in Houston for a healthcare architecture fellowship.  The next year, we were married and decided to make St. Louis our home.  I got a great job at a well-known architecture firm and continued working in healthcare.  This was a very promising career track for me professionally, but it required a lot of travel and overtime. 

After a few years of this lifestyle, it finally began to occur to me that I wanted more than just a successful career, thanks to my husband’s leadership.  He saw more for us than what was defined by the lifestyle of two architects.  He began to dream about where and how we would live if we could choose.  I was reluctant to dream-build with him, because I didn’t know how we would put food on the table.  He said he didn’t know, but we would figure it out, and he started trying.  We explored options in real estate, inventions, and self-employed business ventures, to no avail.  We now know that the reason those weren’t successful, is because we were relying on information we already knew to make them work.  We didn’t know what we didn’t know, and it was hurting us.  

It wasn’t until we were reacquainted with my hometown friends, Brandon & Kristina Brazier, that we learned the answers lie in new information from people who have what we want in LIFE. Brandon showed Ryan the plan for the Team opportunity after he realized how dissatisfied we were in the rat race of corporate America.  Ryan tried to explain it to me, and I didn’t get it, but I trusted Brandon and Ryan’s judgment.  We went to a monthly seminar, and the rest is history.  We didn’t understand much about the business, but we knew that these were people who had what we wanted and they were willing to help us.  We saw how applicable this information could be in our personal and professional lives.  Being around the people in LIFE awoke in me the same exhilaration I had in high school leadership roles, mostly the love of learning how to truly make a difference.

Being career-driven, I had some things to learn from LIFE.  I didn’t know it was possible to earn my freedom and live my priorities instead of my obligations.  I didn’t know I could earn a living without having to separate how the Bible says I’m supposed to live my life.  I didn’t know the joy of making an eternal difference in other people’s lives by helping them with their marriage, parenting, faith, or finances.  I didn’t know how desperately this country needs freedom restored, and that I can help.  I didn’t know that retirement has nothing to do with age.  I didn’t know my purpose-the thrill of pursuing God’s definition of a woman of excellence.  I didn’t know how to be a wife of excellence.  I didn’t know the peace that comes from my husband being the spiritual leader of our home.  I didn’t know that being a mom is the most rewarding, challenging, fulfilling and significant career I could ever have, and thanks to our results in LIFE, I now have job security as a full-time mom!

My dream to change the world is coming true thanks to the LIFE business that Chris Brady & Orrin Woodward have designed and implemented.  We are grateful to the Braziers for introducing us to the Team’s systematic approach to a better LIFE, and for the coaching of Chris & Marcia Robinson and mentoring of Mark & Rita Haas in the areas of Faith, Family, Finances, Freedom, Following, Fitness, Fun and Friends.  Do yourself, your friends, and your family a favor and find out what you don’t know about LIFE!  Your legacy depends on it.

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Yesterday’s Scripture Sweet was Psalm 118:5.  “I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.”  I’ve always found the Lord’s response to the Psalmist’s plea quite interesting.  This morning as we discussed this scripture as a family several thoughts rang through my mind.  This ancient recording does not read that the Lord answered him and “rescued him from his afflictions,” “lightened his load,” or “saved him from distress.”  Instead, it simply states that he was answered by being set in a large place.  I am struck by the reality that in the midst of personal adversity, He gives us room to grow.  What a blessing this is!! Yes, he commands perfection (Matthew 5:48), and He offers us His grace along our journey.

I am blessed with friends and family that have also “set me in a large place.”  I feel their grace also as they have repeatedly given me room to grow on my journey through this mortal life.  Michelangelo once shared, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”  As the stone is carved away, the David beneath is revealed.  In that sense, there’s nothing to attaining perfection either.  With the help of the Almighty, we can remove all the obstacles in our life that would stand in the way of perfection. In a grander sense, our inner Davids slay our personal Goliaths on a daily basis.

How is this accomplished?  In many ways, the task seems insurmountable.  In enters LIFE and the Mental Fitness Challenge.  Yes, our greatest tool for perfection is God’s word.  However, we have been given companion tools that are specifically designed to help us along our journey.  The Mental Fitness Challenge (MFC) designed by Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward is a revolutionary way to start our journey to perfection!  Changes come best if we take one item at a time.  The MFC starts out by offering us a baseline view of ourself through the Self-Assessment and 360 degree feedback.  By examining our Wheel of LIFE we can target key areas of our life that are those pieces of stone ready for crumbling.  When we perform the daily steps of the MFC…reading 15 minutes, listening to two audios, watching the video, reviewing our goal, and taking specific action toward that goal…we are chiseling away at the sculpture waiting to be revealed.  The Challenge Group environment helps us to see how the mallet is working in the lives of other LIFE members and customers, and our chisels are sharpened through the LIFE subscriptions and LIFE’s coaching and mentoring process.

What better way to achieve perfection than by focusing on one area at a time! Striving for perfection in business? home? family?  Begin with one area in your life and become perfect in it!  Add trust in your relationships by becoming perfect at always being on time.  Show your wife you love her by becoming perfect at speaking her love language.  Increase your health and wellness by becoming perfect at quitting smoking.  Grow your business by becoming perfect at edifying and validating those you work with.  Share optimism by becoming perfect at avoiding negative self talk.

We have been set in a large place.  As pebbles in God’s canyon, He awaits the discovery of our boulder within.

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This week Rita and some of the roundtable ladies have been invited to visit Terri Brady at her Place in cape coral Fl. We decided to take a few days to deliver her as a family. It’s quite a LIFE experience spending 20 hours in a car with 5 children 10 and under and two “adults.”

We thank the LIFE business for our ability to endure such a task, LoL! Actually it’s been an amazing reflection to think how well the kids did respecting each others “lack of space.” We need to get a few more CDs in Annabel (2 years old) as her attitude about her 3 point harness and racing seat was a little on the negative side, occasionally.

Adam (10) was quite the trooper as he was the one who sat between Audrey (5) who likes to dance in her seat and Annabel who likes to escape from her seat. Aaron (8) gets the honor on the return trip!

We stopped at Walmart (as we always do anytime we are in the car together and I mean always) and purchased a nerf and mini “leather” football. We recently read the book of the month watched a Tim Tebow video so the boys have been hungry to throw. Adam and Aaron were quickly cranking perfect spirals at the rest stops. Alec quickly proved you can play frisbee “by myself” as he doesn’t need anyone’s help – the choleric!

I waited to the last minute to find a condo for a few days so I could negotiate a good price as I was sure anyone would rather rent their vacant condo for even a few dollars profit than none. Gotta keep working on that finance F as we teach our children to be “good stewards of their money.

Between the roof of the suburban, a bike rack and a hitch tote, we brought all the bikes and a pull behind for Annabel. We looked like something Jed Clampet would have put together. We arrived in style to our final Ft Myers destination at about 1am.

What a great time it has been even in just the first few hour of the new day watching the beach totally captivate the attention of all the children. No boredom here! Some sun, a great ocean breeze, and sand and water digging kids!

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Josh Dames

A Hard working Man Learned how LIFE is so much more!

It was just a hand full of years ago when my wife Annie (Dames) got an unexpected phone call that, we would soon find out, would change our life forever. I grew up in a small town in Missouri where I was able to witness and learn from hard working parents, what it took to “get by” and raise a family. I am one of six children and have the greatest family a man could ask for. Growing up the oldest boy, I would like to say that I learned first hand from my father the principles, thinking, and character it took to be successful as a husband, father, and spiritual leader in my home, but that is not my story.  

I want to point out that I have a great father, and I can say that because I have learned things from him that I am able to still implement in my life, but he did not have the life or lifestyle that I wanted. I did learn from him one thing that I believe is a great trait to have as a man, and that is a strong work ethic. Because I learned to work hard, I soon realized that my work became a source of self-worth, or self-confidence. I found myself working 80-90 hours a week with a wife and 3 small children at home.

Not having any other options in my life but to “work hard”; I thought I was on the right track. With much doubt where our financial future was headed, Annie got the phone call. It was then we were introduced to the Team. I got really excited about the financial opportunity that the Team and eventually the LIFE Business had to offer! Working through all the skepticism, the questions, and a wife that was not excited about pursuing anything more, I seen a great opportunity to get us out of the financial trap that I was in. Thanks to Kevin Cobb, he was a great turning point in my life because he met me where I was at, not only by helping me in my finances, but also giving me the information in the 8 F’s. He also introduced me to the association where I learned the most valuable thing in my life! Define, Learn, Do!

  I did not realize that by simply defining what I want my life to look like, (in the 8F’s) learning from someone or a proven system that has fruit on the tree, and then doing what they did, that I would then start to see things change in my life. I would then have the successes that I was looking for.

  This is where I would like to thank my personal Life Coach and mentor, Mark Haas for his example and having done what is required to have results and the fruit on the tree to learn from. Also, Orrin and Laurie Woodward, and Chris and Terri Brady for developing the world’s best proven business information system. This system has helped me to grow in my family life, leadership skills, character, and relationships.

Ultimately I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for his love, grace, and mercy! God Bless!

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 How One woman Learned so much from LIFE and the Proper association.

Annie Dames

When I look at myself today, I sometimes wonder how in the world did I get here? If you could have seen me five years ago, you would completely understand what I mean. How did an extremely shy and insecure girl get involved in a people business, of all things, and actually see some results? I’m not talking financial results, we have seen those as well, but more importantly internal results.

  When I was younger I was very shy, so shy that my mom did everything she could think of to help me break out of my shell. It was the first day of school in fourth grade, and my teacher was doing roll call. When she came to my name she mis-pronounced it, being a Spanish name, it happens quite often. Instead of just speaking up and telling her it was wrong, I just allowed her to call me by the wrong name, and for the next five years (yes, FIVE years) my friends and teachers were still calling me by this mis-pronunciation of my name!! It drove my mother crazy, and she couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t correct everyone. You’re probably thinking the same thing! I was so shy that I would rather be called the wrong name than speak up in class and correct her!

I tell you that because sometimes you see someone in this LIFE business, and you see the finished product. You see them all polished and think they have it all figured out, and that they have never had struggles.  I certainly thought that when looking at all of the leading ladies. I remember thinking there is no way I would ever be able to get enough courage to speak on stage. There is no way this information can give me the confidence of a Laurie Woodward, or the grace of a Terri Brady. I thought only a certain type of person could make it in this business. I didn’t realize that i could become that type of leading lady through reading, growing, and implementing the information.

I am so thankful for people like Mark and Rita Haas and Kevin and Emily Cobb who saw something in me that I was too blind to see in myself! Sometimes you have to go on someone else’s belief for awhile until you can gain it yourself!
  Of all the blessings I have gained from being a part of Team, the one that I treasure the most is my relationship with Christ. I never would have dreamed that through this I would find Christ and ask him into my life. To see my husband take control and be the spiritual leader in our home has been amazing, and because of that, my children are so hungry to learn.

  I look at my relationship with Josh, and although we thought our marriage was good, and it was, I never imagined it could be great!  With great books like A Woman After Gods Own Heart, Love and Respect, For Women Only, and The Five Love Languages, I was able to learn how to be a Godly wife and give him the respect he deserves. Not only did I learn the information, but I had amazing examples in Rita and Terri to help me along the way.
  It makes me cringe to think about where we would be right now, had it not been for those two amazing strangers coming into our lives! We are eternally grateful, and consider it an honor to be a part of this amazing journey called LIFE!  God Bless!

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 A Man learns systematic Success from LIFE and its mentors!

Scott & Angie Ballah

I always had great examples to follow in the area of hard work which is required to achieve success in anything. It was only after being introduced to the Team system and our future mentors Mark and Rita Haas that I realized I had found a cure for the “pain” I had endured as an engineer. Chris Brady, Orrin Woodward, and Mark Haas taught me that hard work alone will just make a person tired. Hard work coupled with a system and the correct information is the true key to success.

I can remember sitting at my desk during work hours and being extremely frustrated about our financial situation and not having a way to be free to make my own choices. People would always tell me “you must be doing very well since you’re an engineer and your wife is a nurse”. Little did they know we were drowning in debt and having to spend more time away from each other and our twins at the time.

The first night I was introduced to the Team business system and what eventually became THE LIFE BUSINESS, I was extremely excited!! All of the dreams I had when I was in college that I thought would be provided through getting an engineering degree were awakened. At first, I only saw the financial benefit of the Team system and LIFE business. I have learned and applied so much about each of the 8 F’s of LIFE (Faith, Family, Finance, Fitness, Fun, Friends, Freedom, Following).

Our marriage and finances were a wreck. I didn’t have much of a spiritual background or foundation. Leadership was not in my vocabulary and I didn’t understand the importance of keeping our freedom (personal and national). I had plenty of friends and fun usually involving 12 ounce arm curls (the results of which were stated in the first sentence).

I am eternally grateful to the Haas’ and the Brady’s for steering me out of that train wreck through their mentorship and the books and CD’s in the LIFE business. Our marriage is amazing (twins plus 3 more)!! We have been able to get out of debt, pay cash for vehicles, help some family members financially, raise our children in a Christian home, have more friends and fun and find a purpose that will affect generations to come. LIFE will never be the same and I’m fired up about that!!!

In Christ,
Scott
“In a man’s heart, he plans his course but the Lord directs his steps.” Proverbs 16:9

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I recently read through an article from Chris Brady’s blog.

He wrote an article about the Tim Tebow mania that’s happening right now with him starting for the Denver Broncos. He points out the many critics who can’t find anything good to say about him. Below is a portion of his article.

“Tebow’s play seemed to justify the claims of the critics. He missed wide-open receivers. He overthrew easy passes. He fumbled. He got sacked in the backfield. He rolled up terrible statistics the likes of which no NFL quarterback could expect to post and still retain his job. All the while the critics howled with their “I told you so’s.” However, one thing Tebow did was win. In fact, his whole team seemed to start playing better. The defense stepped up to an unbelievable level. Receivers started making stupendous catches. Running backs started nearly defying gravity. And Tebow himself seemed to come alive when the pressure was the greatest and pull victory out of the jaws of defeat – several times.

I am writing this article a bit early. Although Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos have won four out of the last five games, anything could still happen and they could end up at the bottom of their division. Their near-miss wins could easily start turning to losses, and if that happens, I have no doubt whatsoever the critics will have a field day once again.

None of that matters, however, because Tebow has already proven something extremely valuable, namely, that while people talk about lack of skill they should never underestimate the power of will. What Tim Tebow brings is leadership. He has that special ability to energize a team of players to each perform at their very own personal best. He inspires, instills confidence, and makes those around him believe that anything can happen if they just have faith. While the statistics bemoan his performance, Tebow proves again and again that there are some components in victory that can’t be measured. There are intangibles to greatness that come from deep within, that defy the odds and mystify prognosticators, and that just simply can’t be contained.

Leadership matters.

Character matters.

Attitude matters.

The will to win matters.

Critics, however, don’t matter.

Tebow has shown all this and more. I personally hope he keeps on winning in his unconventional way, in front of the NFL experts who so haughtily claimed “That’s not the way it’s done here.” The world needs to understand that unconventional doesn’t mean wrong, inadequate, or below grade. Unconventional just may mean revolutionary. 

They said Tim Tebow wasn’t ready for the NFL.

Perhaps the NFL wasn’t ready for Tim Tebow.”

I can’t get over this. I love it. Leadership matters, character matters, attitude matters, but just like Chris Brady says, critics don’t. They don’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing football, becoming a better person or employee, or building a business. They don’t matter.

As much as we say critics don’t matter….Critics hurt. Critics destroy. How can we be mindful of our words and actions so that we do not become critics with our spouses or critics with our kids? Critics with our parents or siblings? Or even critics with our friends? I know for me, the LIFE information has helped me be less of a critic. I’m not saying I’m cured of my criticism habit, but I’m saying it’s gotten a lot better after getting better information. What is it that you like most about the LIFE information, is it the books, cd’s or the association?

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Orrin Woodward’s RESOLVED 13 Resolutions for LIFE book states, “It’s only with a mind that understands, a heart that generates passion, and a disciplined will to follow through, that change is generated inside a person.”  The following is an amazing testimony of a couple who has united their mind, heart, and will towards achieving their dreams.  

“Welcome to Hollywood!  Everybody has a dream!  What’s your dream?  What’s your dream?  Hey mister, What’s your dream?”  As the opening line to Pretty Woman (one of my favorite movies) points out, we all have dreams.  Usually dreams don’t come true without sacrifice.  Sacrifice can be defined as short term loss in return for a greater power gain.  Sacrifice in the oldest records was that of human lives and animals.  The more valuable the offering, generally, the more highly the sacrifice is regarded but the more difficult to make. 

When my dream was to become an Architect, I had to leave my family and friends to go to college.  I am very shy, so this was difficult for me.  Growing up I was taught to go after what I wanted and I could do anything.  My parents wanted a better future for me than what they had.  When I was very young, they owned a health foods store.  At some point the store was not doing well, and their finances went south.  They lost their store and the house.  I was too young to understand what was happening.  They pushed on and on to provide for my sister and I, making sacrifices along the way that mine can’t even compare to.

A dream I always had growing up was to have a family.  Ryan and I met during college.  A year after I graduated we got married, we got a house, then we got a dog and a cat all within the same year.  We both had good jobs, we worked on our house, and we enjoyed playing tennis.  Five years later we had a beautiful baby girl.  A lot of people asked me if I would stay home or go back to work. It wasn’t something I really considered because I just figured I would go back to work.  How would we make it on 1 income? What kind of sacrifices would we have to make on 1 income?  What would people think of me if I “quit” on my dream of becoming an Architect? 

So, I went back to work full time.  I was juggling home, family, work and trying to become an Architect by taking 7 exams.  At this time (about 3 years ago) we were approached with TEAM by our good friends Ryan & Sarah.  They asked me if I wanted to be a stay at home mom.  I quickly answered “no”.  I thought, “what are they talking about?  How am I supposed to be an Architect if I stay at home?”  We declined what they were offering.

A few years later we had another beautiful baby girl.  I honestly considered staying at home this time.  With the cost of daycare and rising gas prices, I questioned if it really made sense for me to continue to work.  Plus, by now my dream of becoming an Architect had been put on the back burner.  However, I went back to work full time again juggling everything.  Since then, I feel like a chicken running around with my head cut off!  We rush to get out the door in the morning, I rush around at work to get as much as possible done so that I don’t have to work any over time, I rush to pick the girls up at daycare, we rush to get dinner on the table, and we rush to get them to bed.  This is our daily routine.  I started to think “I’m going to have a heart attack before they even graduate from high school.”

This stressful busy life that society says makes us successful is just unhealthy.  The worst part is that our only family time is on the weekends.  We also started to go backwards in our finances.  All of this was affecting our relationships.  Ryan and I became short with each other, with our girls, and our patience was always running thin.

What a perfect time for Ryan and Sarah to re-approach us about LIFE!  I was interested, but wasn’t sure we could make it work.  Ryan & Sarah told me I would have to make sacrifices.  I thought “why should I have to make sacrifices?”  They were gracious enough to accept me where I was.  Fortunately we don’t have to offer the lives of our kids or animals to become part of LIFE!  I could tell my husband Ryan wanted this, so I agreed.  I would hear people on CD’s talk about living your priorities.  I realized how backwards my thinking had become.  If my family was my priority, why wasn’t I making it my priority?  We did need to change. 

My new dream is to be a stay at home mom.  I have to make sacrifices, but they are worth it.  Believe in your dreams.  Thank you Ryan & Sarah Fronick, Brandon & Kristina Brazier, and Chris & Marcia Robinson for believing in us!

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The Best Business is LIFE

There is a current post on Orin Woodward’s Blog “Dreams, Dramas, & Creative Destruction” that would help me to explain one reason why I’m so excited to be able to offer the best business on the planet. Which if you are any kinda of Team LIFE business builder at all you should read it near daily and point others to it.  Think! What business owner doesn’t read his top trade articles as a staple to success for “sharpening his saw, regularly?”  Think also!  What other trade has two top 12 leadership experts writing specifics for your success? Orrin Woodward’s and Chris Brady’s insights are awesome!   Anyway here is an excerpt with “Some of the facts, Jack!”

“Orrin Woodward: LIFE is striking at the foundations of the old networking business model. It is taking the best examples of leadership, community building, and life coaching, and marrying them together into a digital age busines Anyways. The benefits to the consumer are lower prices, higher rewards, and best value proposition, making the risk/reward ratios the best in the history of networking.

I have yet to see any legitimate criticisms of the LIFE business model and I am not shocked by this. How can anyone criticize these improvements on the current benchmarks in the profession?

1. LIFE is attracting numerous customers. In fact, one member had a customer sign up over ten customers in two days! You heard me correctly. I said a customer just signed up ten other customers so that he and several of his friends can enjoy their products for free through the three for free program.
2. LIFE has the lowest monthly subscription price on the market – ($50 to $125).
3. The leadership information is taught around the globe on the principles taught from two Wall Street Journal and New York Times best selling authors and Top 30 leadership gurus.
4. LIFE has meetings anywhere in the USA and Canada thanks to internet streaming technology.
5. LIFE flows close to 70% of the PV revenue back to its members (the highest in the industry to my knowledge).
6. LIFE has a 30 day no questions asked return policy. We want satisfied customers or your money back.
7. LIFE products already have thousands of satisfied users. Our best product is the changed lives of our customers and members.
8. The TEAM community building techniques have been benchmarked by nearly every other networking company, with many of the top networking leaders already customers of TEAM’s business building materials.

If any legitimate analyst would like to compare LIFE’s break-away compensation plan with any of the other break-away business models, then I am more than happy to do so. Show me any company that has a break-away compensation plan that rewards its members better? Since no other break-away pays up to 50% on the first type of bonus, I don’t think they really want to go there. In fact, it’s probably why they haven’t. In addition, when the older models pay 4% leadership bonus and LIFE pays 8%, I can see the need to deflect attention from that anyway they can. More telling, when the older models pay a 1% depth bonus and LIFE pays 4%, maybe the “no comment” policy is the right option. Lastly, when the older models pays no depth bonus after three legs, but LIFE compensates another 2% bonus on six legs, it becomes clear why the cat has got their tongue. Another 1% is the reward for nine legs over with further bonuses continuing through eighteen legs currently.”

I think of all the good that can be done with a successful business that builds with a community striving to be better in the areas of the 8F’s.  I’m proud to be associated with Men and women leading their families with financial wisdom.  I love being able to offer people who are struggling with faith, the same books and CDs that helped me get answers.  I so enjoy seeing marriages fortified and even being saved.  I’m inspired as I watch men become  heroes to their wives as they learn from others and the Life information what it looks like to be a leader and a person of character and then fight with a purpose to help others do the same. 

We need more men and women of character in this country.  We need strong families and family values!  We need finances to help us propogate our freedoms to create that kind of community that has the ability to turn back the destruction of our country. We need you to take LIFE and live it as if it’s our last chance to fix what is broken before its too late!

Money, time, and information are tools! What you do with them make all the difference! 

God Bless

Mark Haas

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Chris Robinson

When they say the phrase “you don’t know what you don’t know,” that was me.  There are so many things that I thought I knew that I really didn’t know.    It’s amazing as you listen to other people’s experiences in LIFE and you see how they struggled just like you did, it gives you a sigh of hope.  With that hope, it gave me a desire to ask more questions, and I listened more.  As I dug deeper into the information, I really started to learn principles of success that I never heard before.  I was always taught to work hard, but was never taught the principles of how to win in life.  I was always surrounded with working and working and working.  What a great feeling it is to be on a journey of personal growth-to grow in all areas of my LIFE! 

To learn so much in these areas as far as being a husband, a father, a friend, a servant to others, and not to judge.  The three A’s- Accept, Approve and Appreciate-taught me how to love people for who they are.  As I’m on this journey, I see the ripple effect that is caused by each of us being willing to change.  In my personal life, I see how my willingness to change has impacted the lives of my children as well as good friends and others I have met along this journey.  There’s no turning back.  The better “me” lies just ahead, and I’m committed to learning what I don’t know.

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Because of Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, my wife, Rebecca, and I have had the privilege to be a part of the greatest Team building community on the planet called LIFE!! for the past four and a half years. I can’t begin to explain the thankfulness for the blessings that we’ve have received from mentors in my life like Mark and Rita Haas, Josh and Anny Dames  and a wonderful self directed education that has helped tremendously in my life. You see I have had a deep grounded faith in Jesus Christ most of my life. I would pray and think about ways that I would be able to lead and influence people to the faith that has changed my life.

I would share my faith with people that I didn’t even know and even though I had good motives, at times I would feel frustrated with the fact that I was not able to make a significant difference in there lives an influence them in the faith that had greatly effected my life. I knew that God had placed certain gifts in me but was not sure how to effectively be able to use them. What really happened is that I started to work in a career in the construction industry that started out as really just a means to be able to work until I was able to do the thing that I was called to do.

I was not a stranger to hard work because my family had brought me up that way, providing a great example in my life. I soon later met my wonderful wife Becca and bought a house and had our first kid (Nolan). With having a family came the greatest rewards in life, however I did find myself working more hours to provide for my family, more time away from the people that I loved and definitely had a hard time finding time to a calling. 

I knew that God had placed me in a wonderful position and had blessed me with an amazing family but I still had such a desire to make an impact in the world while he had put me here. It wasn’t but a couple of years later that my brother had introduced me to a leadership development engine called TEAM.  TEAM gave me new insight that there was a better way to live life, and that I did’t have to stay in the rat race like everyone else. But, more importantly, I was able to gain mentors in life that showed me how I to truly lead community of people by gaining influence in the eight F’s of LIFE! I started to learn and grow in my leadership an through an amazing system of information and I started making a difference in more peoples life than I could never have imagined.

I didn’t know it but at the time when I had been introduced to LIFE, God was giving me the tools to fulfill my calling, to make a difference in my family, and to become the person I was created to be. What I learned is that the information that you receive and apply will determine actions, your actions will determine your habits and your habits will determine your results. Unfortunately most of the information that was being taught to me by the world had helped me get in to the position that I was in. 

What I now realize through the LIFE Business, is that if I wanted to get different results I should learn from those most qualified to teach me (hence, someone who has fruit on the tree). That in of itself is what the team has provided in my life. So I can’t begin to put into words what a true blessing the LIFE business has been for my family.

Thank you Chris and Orrin for Serving and developing The Life Business with such Godly intentions

God Bless

Jason Dames

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How do YOU have FUN ?

I’m telling ya, we have had some laughs over the years hanging out with Chris & Terri Brady and Orrin & Laurie Woodward!  You’d think laughing and joking is all they’re in business for if you’re hanging out with Brady’s & Woodward’s in a casual setting.  Mark’s best leadership advice is to, “qualify for everything”.  There’s no chance you’d miss out on the FUN if you knew how FUN the FUN can be!!  We suggest to qualify for everything and come see for yourself that our LIFE leaders sure know how to have FUN!

There’s a Proverb that states, “A happy heart makes the face cheerful,…” Prov. 15:13  another says, “A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.” Prov. 15:30.  After every occasion with Chris & Terri my bones, and my guts too, just plain hurt from the continuous laughter.  That kind of medicine can heal some serious wounds!  They sure know how to lift the spirits of those around them and we have been willing victims!  What a perfect gift to give, the gift of laughter! 

Have FUN with me and lets see who can answer these silly riddles…..

1) What happens when you throw a green rock in the Red Sea?

2) What does an envelope say when you lick it?

3) What weighs more: a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?

4) What ten letter word starts with g-a-s ?

5) What word if pronounced right is wrong but if pronounced wrong is right?

6) How many animals did Moses take on the ark?

7) How many times can you subtract 5 from 25 ?

8) What was the tallest mountain in the world before Mt. Everest was discovered?

9) Why couldn’t Batman go fishing?

10) Solve this riddle       YY U R YY U B, I C U R YY 4 ME

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