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I am originally from saginaw, michigan. Where i grew up with my sister, Monique and my mother. I attended arthur hill high school and went on to attend multiple colleges. I was working as an automotive engineer for 10 years before I was exposed to a leadership development business called The Team. That business idea allowed me to leave my engineering career after 18 months of building my community business. I owe all my success to my great friends the Huber family, who introduced me to the idea and also my mentors Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. Because of their leadership and guidance we have been able to build a truly blessed lifestyle and we are one of the co-founders of the LIFE business. God bless.
Finances, Orrin Woodward Team

2 Days until the launch of www.the-life-business.com

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We are approaching the launch of LIFE founded by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady.   This has been a long and laborious journey to get to this point but I am sure everyone would agree that every step has been worth it. In Columbus, Ohio we are about to do something that has never been done before. We truly have a chance to be a part of history. How many chances or opportunities come along where you get to be part of a historical event. We are merging 4 different industries. Self improvement, life coaching, network marketing, and community building into one and in the process we will do something that blesses the millions of people who decide to join with us.

When these type of events happen it is always interesting to watch and see how people make decisions about their future. Most people tend to look at their immediate future and make decisions that will have a major impact on their long term future. We have financial issues, stress of life, time issues, babysitter issues, other people’s opinions ( who aren’t financially free ) and many others. I will save you the excuses of football, sick pets and party excuses that I have heard in the past. This weekend is designed to radically change your future. You’ll be able to hear from the 7 founders of LIFE and many other leaders that have achieved big success in the past few months. You will get all the information about the LIFE business, the web site, the pay plan and how to move forward with this information. You will also have a fantastic time because you will be with your team mates and in a very positive environment. The odd part about this is that very few people think about the future but instead think about what is happening NOW. I understand that there are powerful emotions that sway the way we think and how we feel. With that said, that doesn’t mean that we should let emotions or feelings be the only deciding factor for our future. If we let emotions and feeling determine the steps of our lives we would be a mess. I would have run many drivers off of the road, given away my kids and ate every piece of meat at Texas de Brazil. Kidding of corse, but Steven Covey talked in his best-selling book – The Seven Habits of Highly Affective People, about habit 2 and habit 3 which are, begin with the end in mind and put first things first. Robert Kiyosaki states there are 3 keys to wealth. Delayed gratification, the power of duplication, long-term thinking. We have 2 multi millionaires, that have helped many people achieve wealth, and they both say to think about the future not right now. Yet we still find it hard to make the right decision. Is it because this event is not mandatory but requires us to think through and analyze if we should or should not go? This is where the feelings and emotions that I listed above kick in and the big one – do I think this is going to work for me.

All I am saying is please don’t let the emotions and feelings of the immediate keep you from making a decision that can change your life or cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future. If we had to work this weekend we wouldn’t even give it a second thought whether we should go to work. Well maybe one or two thoughts but we would still go. If we had a chance to go to a concert or sporting event we would “figure out a way”. If something broke in the house and needed to be fixed, we would “Figure out a way”. If there was something a commercial convinced us we had to have we would quickly justify why we should spend the money to get it. As a country and as individuals we have sadly let the immediate control our future. That is exactly why we are in the position we are currently in.

God Bless and cant wait to see history this weekend.

Family, Orrin Woodward Team

Marriage communication – why is it so difficult for us ?

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Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult for humans to communicate.  Is it just me or do humans seem like they are talking all the time.  If you could follow the average person around per day and count how many words or how long they talk you would be amazed.  We all have a family member or a friend that we wish would shut it up, once in a while.  If you have kids, WOW,  just watch them.  It is amazing to see how they can go from one subject to another, to another, to another and yes to another and they don’t wear out!  I had a couple ,that we were in business with, and they had some marriage issues.  We took them to see a mentor to get some help.  Hint – if you go to see someone who can help you, you should probably listen!   This guy talked for an hour and a half straight!  I mean he did not come up for air one time.  He must have had an extra air tank hidden in his stomach lining or his kidney.  I am convinced that the strongest muscle in the human body is the jaw bone.  Now I must qualify all my statements with the knowledge that I don’t speak very much at all.  As a matter of fact I could go days without talking and be perfectly fine.  OK let’s get to why I started all of this.

Last night me and the Mrs. had to have a talk about something that happened between us.   It wasn’t fun but it was very productive and we have a better understanding of how each of us sees the issue.  Oh, guys, this talk didn’t happen after laying in bed for  3 hours feeling the tension, then finally falling asleep, and then hearing those words that all males loves to hear.  “Can we talk”?  AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!   That is how all our talks used to start.  They also used to be championship fights of: who could protect their turf, call the best names, make the other person feel the worst, and throw in some belittling and  disrespect.  The crazy part was we never consciously thought about trying to do those things.  We didn’t start our talk and have the thought,  I cant wait to make her or him feel like garbage.  Actually, we were both trying to get to same end point but we had lots of obstacles in our way that made the conversations more difficult than they should be.  If you get rid of the obstacles then it becomes easy to have a conversation like we did last night.

The key foundation of any relationship has to be established on moral authority and speed of trust.  When you don’t have that, every conversation will go bad.  When you do have it every conversation will have the potential of going well.  There are obviously other unique things, to us individually, that we need to work on as well.  Last nights conversation was one of working together as a team to problem solve something.  Which is what you are when you are in a marriage.  You are 2 different people, different personalities, different weakness’ and strengths but you are a team, you are one.  At the beginning of our marriage we were two people living together and we defiantly didn’t think of it as being one person.    In the beginning I didn’t have moral authority because there were some blatant sins that I needed to deal with.  Until those were solidified our foundation would have been on sand and all other changes in myself wouldn’t have the same impact.  Then I had to start dealing with my selfish nature.  Instead of looking at everything from my angle and how it affected me.  I had to understand that she had an angle also and try to see from her side.  Initially we couldn’t have that kind of communication face to face.  We would go to different parts of the house to cool off and call each other on our cell phone.  Stupid, I know, but it worked for us.  Then we started to build trust with each other and that allowed us to admit areas that we knew we were weak in.  I had to learn that when she was weak, crying or sad that was not the time to get mad but that was the time to comfort her and let her know that we would overcome this challenge.  It seems like it was more complicated than that but it wasn’t.  We just kept doing that process over and over again.  Lots of times we had to have our mentors involved so they could help us see where our thinking was off.  In the beginning we changed just because we were more worried about letting our mentors down then changing for each other. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that this was a quick or easy process.  It  has taken us 5 to 7 years to get to a really solid foundation.

Lets go through some basic thoughts to get  you moving in the right direction.  Side note – these don’t have to be big huge jumps or changes.  Every big success is a bunch of small success put together.  Forgot where I got that one so it is now a Bill Lewis original.   Most of what I am going to recommend revolves around reading.  Confucius says, ” By three methods we may learn wisdom:  first, by reflection, which is noblest: second by imitation, which is the easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.  Reading allows you to reflect on yourself.

1. You have to start working on yourself – if you have moral flaws or trust issues  with yourself then growing with another flawed person is going to be really hard.  Recommended books: How to win friends and influence people,  What to say when you talk to yourself, Speed of trust,  Bringing out the best in people, Leadership and self-deception, The pursuit of holiness.                                                                                             These should help start to identify things about yourself that we need to work on.

2. Love language – find out how your partner wants them to be filled, not how you think they want them filled.  Start doing some small things. Recommended book – 5 love languages.

3. Start to understand how each other process things.  Recommended book – DNA of relationships, love and respect, 5 languages of apology, personality plus.

4. Learn better communication tools.  Recommended books – crucial conversation, courage.

5. Use a mentor.  You need someone who is unemotionally involved and has results that you want

6. Read the bible.  Every issue we have in marriage communication reverts back to some sin we have in our life.

There is so much that goes into this topic that you could devote an entire blog just to this subject.  So I recommend that you seek out as much information as you can and continue to grow and become better.

God Bless

Following, Orrin Woodward Team

Your Life Can be Great

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Since this is my first blog, I thought I would give some information on how I arrived at this point and some basics on what it takes to start moving to great. It started when I was introduced to the-team.biz and the-life-business.com.  As this blog progresses my intent it to help many people to

1. realize that they can be great

2. give them some direction on how to accomplish that

3. start to achieve it by really believing it

Dont get me wrong. I am not stating that I am great or that my life is great but I do associate with great leaders and read great books. As Charlie “tremendous”Jones says, ” you will become like the people you hang around and the books you read. ”

I was going through my life and was being very average. I was good at a lot of things but never focused my time to try to become great at something. I wouldn’t have even thought about it that way because I was convinced that the people in life that have succeeded did so because they were blessed with something that I was not blessed with. So because of that thought process, any time I was ok at something, I didn’t know that other people were just ok at things but then they really applied themselves and put in the 10,000 hours of mastery that Malcolm Gladwell talks about.

All of that changed when I was introduced to a group of leaders that where do nothing else except striving for greatness by being excellent in every area of life. Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady were the 2 gentlemen leading the charge with this community of people striving for greatness. As soon as i was exposed to this group I could tell that something was different. I wasnt even qualified to tell what it was but I could feel it. They were talking about things that were the exact opposite of what conventional thought would say and I was hooked. It is very intoxicating to be around great people. Anyone that has ever been part of a winning team knows what I am talking about. Their best-selling leadership book Launching a Leadership Revolution outlines what they were doing and is the foundation for the incredible organization they have put together called Team.

We are now on the verge of launching what I believe will be one of the greatest business ever put together, LIFE. I believe that because the process that started to work on my own pre-suppositions of thought, like, success is for them, this is just the way that I am, Im just not good at things, I didn’t have a dad, we are just broke people, I am a minority. All of the things that held me back before, I now know is a bunch of hogwash, whatever hogwash is.

I want as many people as possible to experience the trial and tribulations of striving for greatness and even if you don’t reach the greatness that you pictured. Because you did strive you at least know what it feels like to give your all to something and in the process you and your family will better humans, better parents and better friends. Please visit the links of my friends and get their perspective also. Whatever you do, find something and give your all to it and don’t let people who are happy with good keep you from being great.

God Bless