Monday, August 27, 2007

The Power of Love and the Rent We Pay.

Love is a powerful gift. When we are loved and when we love we summon the power of unselfishness that can brighten up even the darkest of days. We can never give or receive too much love. Here is a personal message of love from FreeLife International's CEO Ray Faltinsky

Dear Friends,
A very wise and spiritual man once said, "Service is the rent we pay for the life we live."
I believe that statement is profound. Life is a precious gift. At FreeLife, we have a principle that we try to practice constantly. It is the principle of "Constant and Never-Ending Improvement."
Similarly, we ought to practice "Constant and Never-Ending Service." Then, the life we are privileged to live takes on such meaning and value.

Young Casey Mayor lay in an Army hospital in Texas. A roadside bomb in Iraq left him with a mangled left leg. He was alone, discouraged, and after 12 surgeries, uncertain about his future.
Then she walked in. She was a secretary at the hospital. She came with movies, small gifts, and home-cooked dinners. She came to cheer him up because he had no family or friends close by.
Nicole Cartmill wanted him to know that somebody cared—and that his service to his country was appreciated. Young Nicole instinctively knew what many people never come to understand in their lives: Service is a verb!

It really is. It is love in action. And often, it is given in small doses over a long period of time. Then, Nicole Cartmill made another discovery: We can never love anyone who we do not serve!
When Spc. Mayor returned home on convalescent leave, he talked with Nicole every day. Finally, he returned to Ft. Bliss, and while still in a wheelchair and in front of a small crowd at an airport in El Paso, Mayor popped the question.

"I told her, ‘I’ve never met someone like you before,’" he said. "She started crying and she said, "YES!"
Last February 13, they married. Then Casey Mayor made this profound observation: "Something so bad turned into something so good."

That’s what service does. It helps bad things become better, eases burdens, lessens pain, and provides a fertile seedbed for love and appreciation.

When you think of how meaningful the first four words of our mission statement are—TO SERVE EACH OTHER—it gives us the opportunity to frame our FreeLife business in an entirely new context. We can truly become a "service" business, reaching out to millions of people who need our help.
We have wrapped our FreeLife business around core principles that encourage us to be of service every day. For instance, consider the all-encompassing Law of Giving. The more of anything you give, the more you get back. Or, how about the Golden Rule that tells us exactly how to treat others? What of the Principle of Abundance that allows us to view the world and people in it with generosity and appreciation?
How about the concept of being a FreeLife Family that we so strongly encourage? Is that not a welcome mat to the wonderful uniqueness that each person brings to us?

In my mind as I write this, I can hear the wonderful chorus of GojiKids throughout the world whose lives have been so blessed because all of you have given so much. Their "silent song" is a testament to the difference that every single bottle of Himalayan Goji Juice can make.

Recently a man approached me in a parking lot as I was sitting in my car. He looked desperate. He plaintively asked, "Do you happen to have any jumper cables? My battery is dead." He was stuck, and I remember that feeling.

So do you. You’ve been stuck before, haven’t you? Not moving forward—in a rut—unable to get enough energy and motivation and desire to fire up your own engine and become the person you know you can be.
I told him I was sorry that I didn’t have any cables with me but I could call a service station for him on my cell phone. Instead, he approached several more cars, finally finding a Good Samaritan who got him going. I saw him shake his hand and open his door with a smile on his face, until his tail lights faded in the distance.

In FreeLife, we ought not to just carry jumper cables in our trunk, but in our hearts. Then we could always give someone a needed boost of enthusiasm, a charge of encouragement, or a helpful push to get them going.

It is so true. Service is the rent we pay.
Love,
Ray

I can say this without reservation - Himalayan Goji Juice is truly love in a bottle. People ask me all the time how is it different than all the other health drink juice products. And the best I can describe it is like this - suppose we were given a drink. Now suppose we were given a drink by someone we cared about who in handing it to us looked us in the eye for a minute and these words came across their lips as they handed us a drink, "I love you won't you please take this drink as a token of my love!" Doesn't the second scenario feel a whole lot different - that is Himalayan Goji Juice - a whole lot different.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

A Story of Perceived and True Value with Two Morals!

I saw a story the other day dealing with what we value and our knowledge and perception. The story took place many years ago and in a story a rich man had a valuable jewel and he was wanting to educate his servants on how valuable information was still valuable even if it wasn’t seen as valuable in the eyes of the beholder.

The man told one of his servants to take the jewel and show it to a farmer in a field and ask him how much he would be willing to pay for the jewel. Of course the farmer not understanding the value of jewels offered him very little. So he next went to a blacksmith and asked him how much he would be willing to pay for the jewel. And once again the blacksmith like the farmer not understanding the value of jewels offered him very little.

And this went on as he continued to contact many people until he found a jeweler and gem specialist. Because the jeweler understood the value of this precious jewel only he offered the servant what it was worth.

As the moral of the story two principals were at play here or perhaps there are two morals of the story.

One moral was just because someone’s lack of knowledge doesn’t comprehend the value of something. It doesn’t make that object any less valuable. The same is also true with information.

The second moral is our actions and what we are willing to pay and for what determine what we value in life. And have we taken the time to properly value those things.

How much is your family worth to you?
How much is your health worth to you?
How much is having the resources to or being able to make a difference to others worth to you?

I know after reading this story it really got me thinking. What were my priorities?

And my friend what are your priorities?

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And so until next time this is Nick signing off saying take care and take goji!

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