were different, better. They never backed down. And things have turned out really well for them. “It all ended up working out perfectly,” Kim explains. “Art and the Alinas got home on November 2. My birthday was the seventh. We were announced as new Corporate Directors on the ninth. I hit this major goal that I’ve been working for all year, my family is all under one roof, everybody is happy and healthy, and I have a thriving Melaleuca business. It just feels like everything came full circle. So no matter how crazy things are in your life, you just have to keep pushing through those hard times and everything will work out. Everything settles.” It has been said that adversity introduces us to ourselves. This past year Kim and Art have been introduced to themselves over and over. And now, we proudly introduce them to you and invite you to join us in congratulating them on becoming Melaleuca’s newest Corporate Directors 3.
“Sometimes you have an expectation that you’re going to hit a goal and you don’t,” Kim says. “And we see a lot of people give up over things like that. But you can’t give up just because your expectations weren’t met. I like to use the example of a meme I saw that showed two guys digging. They are both just digging, digging, digging. And the one guy, he finally gets sick of it and quits. But the second guy, he digs just two inches further and finds his gold. That’s grit. That’s consistency. That’s success. And sometimes you just have to learn to roll with the punches.” Everything Settles Despite the many challenges they have faced, Kim and Art never gave in to Piaget’s magical thinking. They never quit because things didn’t go their way. They never got mired in negativity, wishing things
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