Lindsay and I continually work on our marriage and full headedly believe that our marriage is partially the result of our association with World Wide Dreambuilders and the people in this organization we hang around with that also have great marriages.  I won’t say it’s 100% because of this because you still need to apply what you see, hear and learn and I think we do a good job at that.  Lets just say at the highly unlikely event that we end up leaving or quitting, our marriage will be better for it because of what we’ve learnt from the people and great organization we were a part of.  That won’t happen because we’ve seen example after example in succession of how this works at continually building a great marriage and family life.  Nothing anyone says can shake my tree because we are experiencing it first hand and seeing the fruits of our labour.

Something I’ve learnt over the years, outside of World Wide Dreambuilders and in World Wide Dreambuilders is that you NEED to work on your marriage constantly.  The minute you take your marriage for granted or start to slack is when you start having problems.  A great first book I’d recommend is The 5 Love Languages which I am about 1/3 rd the way through.  Just understanding exactly what Lindsay loves will do wonders for our marriage.  She’s already told me her love languages so it makes sense, but to read the book really hits home and makes it sink in even more. 

As much as the comment makes me feel good we still have to keep working hard at our marriage and try to set that example in a day where marriages are falling apart more often then in the past.  I could be wrong but that’s just my perception from what I’ve seen in my life and in the news.  I have to give a shout out to Bridgett and she made a great comment a few posts back about her take on marriages and divorce.

I really think people don’t fully understand what we do here in Alberta.  I don’t mean to put anyone else down by any means but I think what we do in Alberta is quite different then what others have done in the past and what people even do today.  You have to keep in mind that Amway Global and World Wide Group are neutral companies, it’s the PEOPLE that end up giving them a bad name.  Yes there were a lot of douchebags in the past that ended up keeping people’s bonus’s and really doing bad things, but I can tell you that’s not the way Amway Global is these days or how World Wide Dreambuilders operate.  We build business with trust, friendship, honesty but most of all integrity.  We build business a bit slower then most of North America but it’s because we invest a lot of time into people to make sure there is a right fit and that they get all the information and are ready to accept the offer to go into business.  That process could take 4-5 weeks depending on the person.  So you cannot tell me we just “sign people up” because that’s a lie.  We want high quality people who want more out of life then what the average is currently giving them. These are those 2%’ers I talk about.  This is just part of how we build business here in Alberta.

You can read a ton of negative things on what we do, but I’ll tell you what, you’ll find negative stuff about just about anything. Mother Teresa, The Pope, Obama, Canadian Tire, Any Successful Company, etc… You’ll find negative for just about anything if your looking for it.  Google is the bathroom wall of the world.  If you look you’ll also find positive,  which is one of the reasons why I decided to write this blog.

This blog is about my personal experiences with World Wide Dreambuilders and Amway Global, two companies that we choose to contract with.  Amway Global doesn’t give us the training and mentorship at all, they give us a membership and say thanks, see ya later.  World Wide Dreambuilders is a company we choose to use for training and mentorship through a business model.  The key word is we choose to.  Are we held at gun point and told to buy this tool or that tool or do this or do that? No.  LOL.  We are free people who choose to do what we think is best for our organization.  We’ve seen the people before us, the people that directly coach and mentor us and what they’ve achieved.  We’ve also see the kinds of marriages, the kinds of relationships and the kind of personal growth they’ve had and we choose to associate with that because WE LIKE WHAT WE SEE.  I love treating my wife like she is a queen, I love serving my wife and reading a book that helps me understand her love language so that I can serve her better.  Was our relationship bad before?  No, it was/is a good relationship, however I don’t want average, I don’t want just good, I want GREAT, I want an amazing relationship and I see that with every person that is coaching and mentoring us in this business.  This is just one prime example of what World Wide Dreambuilders has given us.  I would be willing to pay a hell of a lot more for what we get out of this.  An amazing marriage for one thing is priceless. 

Trust me, there is negative everywhere in life, you will always be surounded by it and you need to make a choice of what you do to deal with it.  I try to be a positive influence on the people who read this blog and the people I come in contact with. It’s something that I have to continually work at because I was one of those negative, skeptical, ignorant people out there that used to write bad things about companies and alike.  I’ve since learnt that got me nowhere and I was never moving ahead.  Now I can happily say I am moving forward in so many different ways that negativity just doesn’t phase me.  Say what you will