You must take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Make it happen. How do you want your life or Shaklee business to be? That is a great question and based on this lesson, it is entirely up to YOU the individual for the end result. Our success, yours and mine, is NOT up to the company, it's NOT the products, it's NOT your upline, and it's NOT your downline. All of the above certainly can help make a difference, but the bottom line means that our future success is up to each person to make it happen the way the way you want it to be.

This certainly describes our Shaklee opportunity. Shaklee is designed to reward people for what they do. Rewards in Shaklee will come to you based on, your attitude, your belief in the products, how many product and opportunity presentations you give, how many people you personally sponsor and recruit, how many in-home meetings you conduct, the example you personally set, and how many people you help do all of the above.

This business takes work and it's not always an easy business. Working hard is THE MAJOR KEY. How is your personal work ethic? Do you handle disappointments and adversity in a healthy manner? Do you really understand that obstacles are stepping stones and not reasons to quit?

Think about it friends. What are your goals? Don't have any written down? Write out some Shaklee business goals today.......how many hours per week will you commit to YOUR FUTURE? How many people will you approach each and every week? What is your target for monthly product volume? How many first levels will you sponsor in the next week? The next 30 days? The next 90 days?

Ask yourself some good, hard questions. Think it through. Make a quality decision on how you want your Shaklee business to be. Then get busy and work hard to make it happen. You'll never regret working hard and building a great future for yourself and others. I guarantee it.

This lesson helped to clarify for me what I should be doing to build a large Shaklee organization.

    —Gary and Faye Burke