Watched this after talking about it the other day about someone who understand selfless acts and it’s just another reason why we build this business. I cannot wait to do something like this for my parents. Doesn’t HAVE to be a truck but we’ve got many different ideas of how we can give back and honour our parents and that excites me big time.
Whatever it is you do from small things to big things, honour your parents!
Now that my wife and I are parents and we’ve had a few days now to see how we communicate under what sometimes are frustrating circumstances. Having a new baby really brings change to your marriage and ways of doing things as you no longer need to worry about just yourselves. It’s quite an amazing experience we are having with our new little one however I can say without a doubt our experience with our new baby would be quite a bit different if it were not for personal growth.
So what do I mean with personal growth? I mean things like reading books, listening to audio’s like podcasts and getting around an association that has the qualities that we like or were looking for. Almost two years ago my wife and I had what we considered to be a pretty good marriage. We communicated, we hardly had any “loud volume conversations”, and we were in love big time. Now don’t get me wrong we don’t look back at where we were in disgust, we look back at where we were and look at where we are now and have seen huge improvements in our communication and overall relationship.
How I can measure that is how we’ve dealt with some of the frustrations of being new parents with little sleep and everything else that comes with that. We’ve been able to stop what could have been massive blow ups which only would have caused our baby to become agitated. Babies feed off parents big time and if your frustrated, yelling and upset, then so will your baby and it’s no wonder people end up pulling their hair out. That would have been my wife and I pre-two years ago had we not had the personal growth through World Wide Dreambuilders and the association we get to plug into.
World Wide Dreambuilders in no way forced things on us or did things for us, the organization only enabled us to take advantage of great books, audio and association that we applied to our lives and have seen hands down success with. Not only with our baby and our relationship but in all aspects of our lives and for that we cannot be more thankful. I’d hate to see what we would have been like today with our baby had we not personally grown, It would have been a nightmare with a lot harder sleepless nights, fights galore and a stressed marriage relationship wise and financially. There is no other organization that I know of that puts family and relationships at the top priority and because of that we’ve done the same with aspects of our life and it’s damn good.
If I can impart any of what I’ve learned through WWDB, that’s read books on all areas of life. The biggest one that has helped us is “Your Personality Tree” and “The 5 Love Languages”. Just those two books will help you understand your mate in ways you never thought. Check them out!
Wow, this story of selflessness is pretty darn cool. Earlier today one of my coaches and personal sponsor bought a 2010 Dodge RAM Sport for his dad. They surprised him earlier today with it parked in the garage with a huge bow on it. They bought it a few days prior and paid cash for it, which the dealership said almost never happens these days. What’s amazing is for the fact they were able to do something selfless like that and not even think twice about it. I know there was no way my coach could ever repay his dad for all the things he’s done for him over the course of his life and even if they were to give him a cheque for x-thousand dollars he would never accept that.
The thing with this is people that are in debt living paycheck to paycheck would never even dream of something like this because there is no way to achieve it. When you are in debt (whatever it is, credit, home, car, LOC) you’d take that large amount of money and put it on debt. You wouldn’t think I’d love to do something nice for my parents for everything they’ve done for me and buy them a vehicle. When you live debt free there are so many options that open up.
There are other examples of this starting to come up in our organization where people are giving back, paying it forward, spoiling parents, etc… and I cannot wait until we are in that position where we can actually think about it and do it if we so choose. I have a few ideas in mind on what I want to do to give back to my parents. Why? Because my parents are the best damn parents in the world. They sacrificed so much of their time, energy and money so that we could live the best life possible when we were growing up. We were allowed to play whatever sport we wanted to and of course the main sport in our household was hockey. We didn’t play just any hockey we played Rep hockey which is twice to three times if not more expensive then house league hockey. Thousands of dollars a year. My parents sacrificed a lot of things so that we could play hockey, they sacrificed nice new vehicles, they sacrificed many wedding anniversaries by driving past each other while my brother goes one way to hockey and I go the other way. They sacrificed their time and money so that we could live whatever life we wanted to. Do my parents deserve to be spoiled? YOUR DAMN RIGHT THEY DO! Could I even think about doing that working my current job being in debt? NO. So we’ve made a change to make that happen so we can honor our parents and give back to them for all the sacrifices they made.
I’m pumped at the limitless possibilities that will be happening in the next few years for us and for what we can do with our family.
Last night we had some amazing friends over who are building this amazing business with us and we asked them to share what their dreams and goals were and why really they are building this business. It was pretty inspiring and you really don’t fully understand your friends or people for that matter until they open their heart and share the dreams and goals they have for life and where they want to end up.
We also had the chance to share with them because they had asked us and when I watch my amazing wife share what she wants in life it’s pretty amazing. She really opens up her heart and ends up getting teary because she wants it so bad. That’s what it takes, you really need to want something bad enough that it hurts in order for it to come to fruition.
It really got me thinking again about our goals and what we want in life and I figured I’d put those things down again. I always love writing them out because it really gets me thinking and honestly just shows you the kinds of things that will be available in what we are doing. We know this because we’ve seen it first hand in our coaches and also their coaches and beyond.
This year we will have Lindsay retire from her job and never have to work for another man again. She will no longer have to work for someone that tells her when she has to be in to start her day, no longer tells her when she can have lunch and really no longer has control over her paycheque. Of course she will still work but it will be working on our future through our business. So maybe it’s semi-retired. 
Either way she will now be home to raise our kids when we have them and won’t need to drop them off at a dayhome or daycare. WE will be raising our kids and instilling our values into them, not someone else. That is goal number one for us right now and why we are spending a lot of time building our business.
We also want to become debt free as some of my previous posts have shown and we will achieve that this year. We are making some tough choices and really streamlining our life so that we can get the most out of it for the short term. There will be some sacrifices however having a shot term mentality doesn’t work for us because we have HUGE long term goals and the old adage small term pain for long term gain really applies. I know some people reading this know that for sure.
Moving on with our life we want to move out to Kelowna where we may end up renting for another year or two while we have our house built and paid for in cash. Renting isn’t necessarily a bad thing as we will end up saving far more then what equity would be build up in our house and with how much we’d be paying down in our mortgage. We will end up raising our kids out in Kelowna and either put them in private school or have them home schooled with a personal teacher. Our kids will get first hand teaching instead of being in a school full of 30-40 kids where it takes 10 times longer to teach kids because the class can only go as fast as the slowest kid. By this time I will have also walked away from my job and will be at home raising my kids as well. Being able to take them out in the afternoon and go hiking or skiing for their physical education instead of a 60 minute class at school. How cool is that?
Lastly family is key for us and we want to be able to spend a lot of time with our family so as we continue to grown our business we will help to retire our parents before they need to. When you really look at what it would take to retire them you start to get a sense of, we can do that. They don’t need to work or be on the “Work till you die program”. We want our parents to enjoy as much time with our kids and our family as possible. No longer will their be handcuffed to their jobs so they cannot see their grandchildren grow up.
These are just some short term goals that we have in the next little while and as we continue to grow this business where the work we did a year ago is still paying us today, we will continue to help other people do the same as us and help them realize they too can achieve dreams and goals like this or whatever their dreams and goals are. We fully believe this is possible and we will make it happen.
Obviously we have much more dreams and goals then this, but this is just the start for The Guthrie’s and we could not be more excited to be doing what we are doing. We have been blessed for sure!
I just have to give a shout out to my awesome parents. I’ve told my parents what I’m doing in World Wide Dreambuilders and how I’m building this awesome business and at first I was worried what they would think. The Amway association we have really rubs people the wrong way sometimes and it’s because of a lot of wrong doings from the past. The big thing that was missing from the past was the mentorship and training programs that help people build this business. So when I told my parents I was worried they would give me a song and dance and say what your doing is ridiculous and you should be ashamed and on and on and on. Instead I got quite the opposite. In fact by the time me and my mom had a chance to talk over the phone and really get into the meat and potatoes of what we do she reminded me of myself when my wife was just building the business herself.
The funny thing is I get a lot of my scepticism from my mom so when she started asking me the very same questions I was asking my wife and my now mentors I sorta laughed inside. However this time it was me who was doing the answering of those questions and putting the stuff she read on the internet to bed. That’s the funny thing is people automatically go to Google and search for “Amway” or “world wide dreambuilders” or all sorts of stuff and find a lot of negative stuff and more and more a lot of positive stuff. Google is like the bathroom wall of the internet. If you want to find negative stuff you will find it. If you want to find positive stuff you’ll find that too. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and is just that an opinion. I sat on the outside long enough and gathered facts to know that what I was getting into was NOTHING like what was ont he internet, or on Dateline or whoever else has done a report or blog or whatever about this. Can you not form your own opinion?
So I answered my mom’s questions with THE TRUTH as I know it and have experienced it. My mom walked away better informed of what we are doing and wh
at this organization we are a part of is about. In the past my parents were both approached by someone in Amway who totally lied to them to get them to show up to a board plan. They were furious and felt lied to and rightfully so. Do we do that? NO! We are open and honest about what we do and why shouldn’t we?
I just have to say thanks to my parents especially my mom for listening to what I had to say instead of putting me and my wife down for what we are doing. I really appreciate that and it’s awesome to have your support! You get a gold star!
Love you guys!