Getting on Track with Life
A MESSAGE FROM CEO FRANK VANDERSLOOT
Life does not wait for us! It continues to go on whether we are ready for it or not. Our bodies get older…our children grow up…birthdays go by… time goes on. We cannot stop it—in fact, the older we get, the faster time seems to go. Time is our most precious commodity because it is the stuff life is made of. To waste time is to waste life itself. While I’m quite positive that there will be a life after this life, I’m not really sure what it will be like. And I don’t believe we can count on being able to catch up in “the next life” with everything we wanted to do in this life. To me, that means we need to be really careful with how we use our time here and now. One of the greatest tragedies I can imagine would be for someone to come to the end of their life and realize that they had not accomplished the purpose for which they were born. I cannot imagine a worse hell than that! Once
our time is used up, there is no way to get it back; there is no way to redo or relive the time that we have spent. We can change before it is too late, but we cannot go back. What a wonderful time to be alive on this earth! Our lives are so much better than if we would have lived just 100 or 200 years ago; we have so much more opportunity than those who lived then. Life is more convenient and more pleasant. We live in this great age of jet travel, television, electric heat, microwaves, the Internet, and mosquito repellent. The opportunities of what we can do with our lives are boundless. I believe that access to these opportunities gives us more responsibility than those who have lived decades or centuries before us. I can’t think of a more wonderful time to live. I really want to make the best of it! We have all experienced key moments in our lives when we have
“As long as our motivation for change is love for others and a desire to do good, we can accomplish great things.”
6 JANUARY 2018 | MELALEUCA.COM
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