President's Message - The Wellness Company September 2001

Melaleuca is quickly becoming known as "The Wellness Company." I feel that nickname is well deserved. No one delivers total wellness as completely as Melaleuca. In fact, in my estimation, no one comes close! Not only do we deliver physical wellness through some of the most effective health-oriented products in the world, we help promote wellness in almost every aspect of a person's life.

As human beings, we have several facets to our experience of living. To truly have a happy, healthy and productive life, we need to be healthy in all aspects. We should strive not only for physical health, but also strive to be healthy financially, socially, intellectually and spiritually. The two obvious areas where Melaleuca can make an impact in our wellness are physically and financially. But Melaleuca continues to have a major impact on the other aspects of people's lives as well. We advocate that we not only avoid overlooking those other aspects but consider optimizing the contribution that Melaleuca makes in these other areas as well.

Physical Wellness

Our physical health is in order when we can meet every day with enough energy and vitality to accomplish every task, conquer every challenge, and savor every experience of that day - not only when we are twenty, thirty, or forty years old but when we are fifty, sixty, seventy and yes, even eighty years old. When our health is gone, we may still be alive, but we will no longer be living or enjoying life. Daily nutrition and exercise have everything to do with maintaining our physical health, and no one provides better nutrition supplementation than Melaleuca.

Financial Wellness

Financial wellness is more than being able to pay our bills and still have a little extra cash. It's when we don't have to worry about a job loss or pay cuts, when our work doesn't take too much time away from our family, and when we're on our way to being debt-free that we have financial wellness.

Our financial situation can either bring a lot of stress and worry or a lot of security. Melaleuca's business opportunity was created with economic wellness in mind. We can have true peace of mind when our house is paid off, our savings and retirement funds are secure, and our future plans are not limited by money, and many have proven that with Melaleuca, all that is possible. We can all decide to be financially well. It is only a matter of commitment, hard work and dedication.

Social Wellness

We are socially well when we have many friends, when our name is spoken with trust, when our home is a welcome stop and when we are respected for our willingness to help others. Melaleuca provides a tremendous opportunity to make new friends and numerous opportunities for social activities.

Our family relationships, the most important relationships we have, are also part of social wellness. The pace of our society takes away time from our family and sometimes causes people to sacrifice family relationships to the degree that this most precious part of our lives gets almost totally ignored. What a tragedy! The atmosphere of our homes should be one of togetherness, tenderness and understanding. Without time together that can never happen. I have heard hundreds of stories from Marketing Executives who say the most rewarding part of building their Melaleuca business is being able to spend more time together as a family. They no longer have to leave home to go to work before the kids get up. They can take an afternoon off to be there for an important game. They create stronger relationships with their spouse by building a business together. We can all have these wonderful blessings, if we commit to working on family relationships. I believe this is one of the most vital commitments in our lives.

Intellectual Wellness

One of the most vital parts of our bodies is our mind. When our minds do not function properly, we are in major trouble. Mental health is more than physical health, although our physical health can indeed affect our mental health. New documentation appears almost daily that good nutrition can have a major impact on our mental health. But intellectual health goes far beyond that. To be intellectually healthy we should always be learning, increasing in knowledge, reading good books, staying current on the news, seeing new places, and exploring nature. There is so much to learn! We can never learn it all, but the more we learn the more we gain in understanding, and the more meaningful life can become. It takes time to learn - and sometimes money. Melaleuca can help us with both time and money.

Spiritual Wellness

Spiritual wellness is a taboo subject for most companies. That's too bad. We could all benefit from talking more about spirituality and even more from thinking about it. Spiritual wellness is when we have a clear conscience, when we wake up with a feeling of peace about who we are and what we stand for, as well as having a relationship with our Creator. Having a clear conscience is quite a bit different than having no conscience. Some of the leaders of our great nation seemed to have gotten those two concepts mixed up lately.

I have often thought about being eighty years old (that still seems pretty old to me) and looking myself in the mirror. I imagine saying to the face staring back at me, "I know you. I know everything you have ever done. I know every thought you have ever had. I know your every secret." And then I have imagined saying to myself, "And knowing all of those things, I really like you and I trust you to always do the right thing." If, when I am eighty years old I can make that statement to myself, I feel I will have passed the test of what life is all about.

I know that if I am able to say that to myself, it will not be because I did not make any mistakes in my life. I have made many mistakes! Some were really bad ones! If I can say that to myself, it will be because I tried to correct my mistakes and learn from them and make things right. I feel if I fail in that test, I will have failed in everything important in this life.

My point is this: It is my pledge to you that in building your Melaleuca business, you will never have to compromise your values, or your spirituality, or your honor. To the contrary, we will continue to advocate that people look inside themselves, evaluate their standing as they measure themselves against what they know is right, and to make the changes within themselves to be everything they want themselves to be.

Melaleuca would never advise someone on religion or on what values someone ought to incorporate in their lives, but we would advocate that people look inside themselves to determine for themselves what values they hold dear and then live true to whatever those values are. Only if we live true to our own values will we be able to like ourselves - even when we are older than eighty years old.

Melaleuca is an advocate for people to be truly well in all aspects of their lives. Melaleuca can be a major contributor in almost all areas of wellness, both directly and indirectly. We will continue to strive to be worthy of the title, "The Wellness Company." We hope that you capitalize on both the title and the concept.

Sincerely,

Frank L. VanderSloot

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