Pay It Forward
I happened to find the movie "Pay It Forward" on one of the channels this past weekend and watched it with my wife. I thought it was one of the most inspiring films I've ever seen. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet. It also dawned on me how this movie was a perfect demonstration of how being involved in the network marketing / MLM industry enables us to potentially positively influence so many people around us by the use of the same "leverage" depicted in the movie.
The story line goes something like this... Beginning as a seventh-grade social studies class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on... if succussful, the resulting network of good-doers ought to comprise the entire world. Trevor's attempts to get the ball rolling include befriending a junkie and trying to set up his recovering-alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt) with his burn-victim teacher (Kevin Spacey), who posed the assignment.
I don't want to spoil it for people who have not seen the movie, so i'll stop here... but I think this is precisely what we in the industry aspire to do - to change the world by providing superior goods and/or services to the marketplace (e.g. bring better health to the world through superior dietary supplement) and also by introducing the opportunities to people the possibilities of financial/time freedom... "paying it forward" and eventually bringing health, wealth and happiness to the world just like Trevor did.
One of the quotes from the movie by Haley Joel Osment (Trevor) that stuck in my mind was this:
"I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses."
Hmmm... food for thought...
Enjoy the movie!!
The story line goes something like this... Beginning as a seventh-grade social studies class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on... if succussful, the resulting network of good-doers ought to comprise the entire world. Trevor's attempts to get the ball rolling include befriending a junkie and trying to set up his recovering-alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt) with his burn-victim teacher (Kevin Spacey), who posed the assignment.
I don't want to spoil it for people who have not seen the movie, so i'll stop here... but I think this is precisely what we in the industry aspire to do - to change the world by providing superior goods and/or services to the marketplace (e.g. bring better health to the world through superior dietary supplement) and also by introducing the opportunities to people the possibilities of financial/time freedom... "paying it forward" and eventually bringing health, wealth and happiness to the world just like Trevor did.
One of the quotes from the movie by Haley Joel Osment (Trevor) that stuck in my mind was this:
"I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses."
Hmmm... food for thought...
Enjoy the movie!!
posted by Hiro at 4:47 PM
2 Comments:
Hiro,
Good Website!
Keep it up!
Regards,
Wiling
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Wiling,
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regards,
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