[Originally this email was written five months after my May 2007 horse accident.] 

Dear Sunrider Business Leader,

Last week I rented the movie Evan Almighty. It was a great laugh and ... surprisingly ... a great lesson was driven home which doesn't often happen in movies. If you have seen the movie, there is a scene where Evan's wife becomes frustrated with Evans' attempts to be Noah and build the ark.  So she had taken her three son's to visit her parents. During a stop at the restaurant, God paid her a visit as a waiter and said that she looked a bit down. She admitted that she was and God asked her a question. He asked, "Do you suppose if God wanted you to have patience that he would just give you patience or would He give you the opportunity to have patience?"  She caught the message.

Having been given the opportunity to have patience this last five months while recovering from my horse accident, this scene really struck home.

Bob Goshen, when asked the question, "What do most distributors in networking do?" He would reply, "They quit."

It is my personal belief the reason most people who start out to succeed in the networking business fail is that they lack patience. We tend to want everything now ... fast and furious ... when in fact the development of most businesses takes time and patience. For example, I have some friends starting a business in the service industry. It took them six months to investigate the business, one year to get it open, and will probably take a year before they start making money ... all this time they were sinking a boat load of money into it. Now that takes patience. I had another friend who started an almond farm with a group of investors. From the time an almond tree is planted into the ground it takes seven years before the first crop comes ... and their farm was wiped out in year five by a flood. Dealing with business really takes patience. Sort of makes starting a Sunrider business really sound appealing.

Patience pays off. Most of you have heard, probably on numerous occasions, my three Sunrider stories ... first, hepatitis in 1982. Then in 1995, a horse fell on me and shattered my ankle and hip and I recovered in record time. My third story is about another horse falling on me (you'd think I'd learn) and breaking up my leg, back, and ribs ... and while people are amazed at how healthy I am, how well I look, my third story isn't about the amazing Sunrider products. It is about the money!

Ask yourself this question ... if I and/or my spouse got into an accident that kept us from working for 6-12 months, what would our financial situation look like? My neighbor, a cabinet maker by trade, came by to visit me numerous times. After about three months and I was a long way off from being able to do anything physically meaningful, he sat in my living room, shook his head, and said, "Paul, if this had happened to me, my family would have been bankrupt." Tragically, if this happened to most people they would be in a financial world of hurt.

Well, here is my new story ... not only am I not in a world of financial hurt, but my income has gone up during the last five months!  I like to think that this is the payoff of 25 years of patiently building a business every day, of every month, of every year to create an organization with solid leadership that is here to stay.

So if I have any advice it is to be patient as you ... 

• Share Sunrider's financial and health opportunities with other people, and then be thrilled when they come into your life.
• Develop leaders, and then be thrilled when one catches the vision of what Sunrider can offer them.
• Make plans ... that may not work out, and then be thrilled when they do.
• Encounter challenges in the course of your Sunrider business by being thrilled when other things are going right ... like when products and checks arrive on time, events are great, and Sunrider solves your problems promptly.
  

Sincerely,

Paul Jensen

Be patient about what isn't happening ... and do something today to make something happen.