The end of 2007, and I have never blogged before. Well, I suppose that late is better than never. It kind of reminds me when I got my first computer, a Trash-80 (or for those of you who don’t remember, that’s the nickname for the Radio Shack model TRS-80). My friends knew so much about computers and I felt like I was behind the times. I still remember spending $1,200 for the computer that did not even have a hard drive and another $800 for the software. I had thought about buying an IBM compatible at the time, but one of my best friends at the time recommended the Radio Shack version. Later on, people were
trying to sell these computers in the Atlanta Advertiser for $35. (I don’t see much of that friend anymore.)

That’s the trouble… so many people with different opinions about what to do. Who do you to listen to, who do you believe, who do you trust? One thing that I have learned as a Christian is that I should listen to my wife. It’s a humbling experience, but most of the time, I would have been way ahead listening to Donna. When we got married we became one.
Of course we have two different personalities with different skills and tastes, different likes and dislikes… but we are still one as God has
made us one.

Have I always listened to my wife? Are you kidding? Of course not. Have I gotten into trouble by not listening to her? Of course I have. On the other hand, have I ever gotten off track by listening to her? I suppose that I have done that too… but the difference is that when I listen to her and act accordingly, we stand or we fall together… and I would rather fall with her than to stand alone.  Somewhere along the way, I had been told that God gives women a special sense to protect their husbands from making bad decisions in business, but that’s not always easy to accept.

I have been in network marketing for quite some time. My first adventure was with Destiny Telecom. I got involved right before it started to fall apart… but I was hooked. The idea of residual income made sense to me, but I had chosen the wrong vehicle… and I continued to make some poor choices. I would take a look at an opportunity, enroll as an independent associate, and then tell my wife. Her response was always the same "That’s what you said about the last opportunity!"

I started wondering why I couldn’t succeed and when I prayed about it, the Lord laid it on my heart that I had acted on my own without my wife’s council. If I didn’t have her support, how could I with a good conscious become successful? Yes, I know that there are successful people that don’t have their spouses support, but they don’t believe that they need it… but I do.

In February of 2007, a friend of mine asked me what I was doing in network marketing. I told him that I wasn’t actively promoting any business. So, he asked me to take a look at a business opportunity with Isagenix. At the time, I thought to myself "Not another health and wellness company", but what I said was "Sure, I’ll take a look." As far as knowing who to trust, this was a person that had previously built a business by sponsoring 9 people and ending up with a downline of over 80,000 associates with a nutritional company.

When I looked at the Isagenix website, I reviewed the key aspects of the business, and I couldn’t find anything that I didn’t like. The company wasn’t a start-up. The management was sound. The products were unique with proven studies and lots of testimonials. The compensation plan was easy to understand and very fair. The enrollment fee was less than $50. I wanted to go forward… so I prayed about it… and I knew that I must talk to Donna before I made a decision to proceed.

"Donna, how about taking a look at this website and tell me what you think. OK?" and she did. She focused on the nutritional cleansing products and and the weight loss testimonials. She had done a simple colon cleanse before, but not with any weight loss expectations… and I had never wanted to have anything to do with them. However, these products were very different.

The timing was right. Our daughter was getting married in four months and Donna wanted to look her best as the mother of the bride, so she asked me "Would you do this with me?"…and that’s how it all began.