July is known as the "Independence Month."

Independence Day has so much meaning.... I want to encourage you to think about what having your own business can give you when it comes to independence. It is as if you are signing your own declaration of independence. We are proud to be Americans where we do have the freedom to have our own business. We need to be proud of the profession we have chosen as well.?

Ilene Meckley

Let's become Independent of Credits Cards with 21% interest rates, car payments, car insurance payments, jobs that pay us minimum wage and jobs that don't recognize a job well done.

Let us think BIG! Not small and comfortable!

Let's look forward to the mail (big commission checks and no bills), incoming calls ("We would like to offer you a 0% credit card for life"

instead of "Your bill is overdue) and e-mails that say the same.

Let Us look for women that Mary Kay needs to represent this incredible company.

Let us be Consultants of Excellence and Pride!

Pride of what we have done not what we want to do!

I have such incredible belief in this Company!
I want this Year to be a Year that gives us goose bumps in the morning

and just before we fall asleep.
I want the consultants reading this to stay true to the saying that
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away."

You are an important part of an important Vision!
The Vision to Do More, Ask More and Live More!
I say this with my faith and kept word, that we will be everything God intended us to be!

A New Year's Prayer

Father, we surrender this past year and give it up to you.

We give you our failures, our regrets and our disappointments,

for we have no more use for them.

Make us now a new person,

forgetting what lies behind

and pressing on towards that which lies ahead of us.

We give you all our hopes and dreams for the future.

Purify them by Your Spirit so that our will shall truly reflect

Your will for us.

As we stand on the threshold of another year,

encourage us by our successes of the past,

challenge us by the power of Your Word,

and guide us by the presence of Your Holy Spirit.

Amen.