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Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People DoWe were in the insurance business for 18 years. Life was rosy and we wereenjoying ourselves bringing up our children. Then the 1987 recession happened.My insurance sales plummeted and our income could no longer support the family.We lost our beautiful house and two cars. Friends and relatives deserted us. Our once happy family disintegrated before our very eyes. My wife and I were veryworried. The future seemed bleak. Shocking as it may sound, many of our friendseven suggested that it was better for us to commit suicide with our children!

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It was at this time of despair that anincredible opportunity presented itself – theAmway Business Opportunity. When Arjun &Thanavalli introduced us to the business, we signed up without hesitation. We had nomoney, no house, no cars, no friends and no relatives, but we were excited and eagerto start building our own business. As thesaying goes, “the empty pocket is not aproblem, but an empty head is the problem”.

Nineteen years have gone by and we haveno regrets. We constantly remind ourselvesthat, “our dreams must be big enough, so that the challenges we face becomeinsignificant in comparison”.

The key to our success is attending as manyAmway meetings and functions as possible,in addition to reading up on companyliterature, listening to motivational cassettes,associating with successful Amway leadersand always keeping a positive mentalattitude. The most important of all is to usethis business opportunity and provide properleadership to as many people as we can.Qualifying as Executive Diamond DirectDistributors in August 2005 was a greatachievement for us. We know that things willget better. Today, we live in a comfortablesemi-detached house and own four cars.Our three daughters have had goodeducation. They are married and we areproud that they are doing very well in theirAmway businesses. Our eldest daughter andson-in-law, M Sivagnanam & Santhi DewiChellaiah, are Executive Diamond DirectDistributors, our second daughter and son-in-law, B. Mugunthan & Sarina DewiChellaiah are Founders Diamond DirectDistributors, and youngest daughter andson-in-law, A Gopi Nathan & Sharmilah DewiChellaiah are Emerald Direct Distributors.

We have been to Australia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, the Amway HQ in Ada, Michigan, Hawaii, Korea, Tokyo, Europe, the Alaskan Cruise, Melbourne, South Africa,San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and Madrid withour family, all fully paid by Amway.

The Amway business has brought ushappiness, uncommon freedom, financialsecurity, free travel holidays, and mostimportantly, family togetherness. Today, I spend most of my time at the club houseworking out to stay healthy and stay inshape, while my wife occupies most of hertime by shopping both in Malaysia andabroad. As the popular Indian saying goes, “if you know how to keep your wife as a queen, she will keep you as a king”.

We would like to congratulate all the caringleaders and Distributors in our organisationfor having placed their confidence in us andfor their wonderful teamwork. We are gratefulto Founders Diamond Direct DistributorsGladstone & Violet Pereira, all the leaders inAmway, and Amway Malaysia staff for theirsupport. Also, thank you Rich & Jay for theAmway Business Opportunity!

Remember, “tough times never last,but tough people do”.