As the month of October 2011 began, I couldn’t help but reflect on MoneyWise and our beginning. Just 12 short months ago, Varlin, Barry and myself were gathered in a borrowed boardroom. We sat around the conference table and discussed a company that we were going to call “MoneyWise.” We listed all the reasons why we wanted to bring this company to the world and how it could really help those who would use it. This is the first product that all three of us felt like we would be proud to share with everyone we knew.
For the past couple of years we had personally watched our nation’s financial crisis grow and grow. We watched on the news and in our own neighborhoods as families lost their jobs and homes. We saw businesses close their doors and buildings become vacant. It has been sad to see friends and families struggle just to provide the basics for themselves. But with MoneyWise, we felt like we had found something that could help everyone we knew, regardless of their financial situation. We knew we could be an answer to their problems instead of adding to them.
As we all know, Steve Jobs passed away this month. He was a true visionary who said something when he was wooing John Scully away from PepsiCo that has stuck with me for all these years. He said, “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” When I think of MoneyWise and the opportunity we have to help individuals, and the chance we have to truly change the world, I get very excited.
We live in a day and age in which the rapid pace of advances in technology can confound even the most technically savvy. We can travel to the other side of the world in under a day, communicate with millions with the click of a button (thanks FaceBook) and businesses can make decisions that cause ripple effects throughout the entire world economy. Luckily MoneyWise is all about simplicity and ease. With just a few clicks you are able to load all of your accounts into the system and then you can begin to see your COMPLETE financial situation.
MoneyWise is by far the most robust, comprehensive financial tool available on the market today. We are committed to your success and we are accelerating our efforts to help you capitalize on this great opportunity. This is a very exciting time to be part of MoneyWise. In the next month, the launch of MoneyWise 2.0 will change the playing field again with the addition of business accounts, the ability to add additional people for credit and ID protection, manual data entry, a simple set-up wizard, quickbooks integration, financial reports and a new user interface.
All of you joined this company because you are individuals of action, determined to make better lives for yourselves. Are you preparing yourself for this next phase of MoneyWise’s success story? Are you preparing your organizations for what is about to happen: the next wave of incredible growth for MoneyWise? Don’t wait for the media to give you permission to be productive and to work and to live again. Stop dreaming and start living. If Steve Jobs was still with us, and we asked him to give us a commencement speech for this next phase of success, I doubt his advice would vary one word from what he said in his commencement speech at Stanford University:
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Now is the time to take the MoneyWise tool and opportunity to your very best friends and loved ones. As you do, you’ll see their lives blessed, and you’ll see both these people and the world around you change…one person at a time. Now is the time to start spreading the news!
