Story 6:
What was the secret for Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. to generate over 500 million dollars in annual revenues each year?
Founder Mary Kay Ash had a famous motto,
“God first, family second, career third.”
In 1963, Ash opened her first store in Dallas. In only a few years, she achieved her stupendous success by building a cosmetics empire to empower women.
In all her decisions, Ash sought God first.
The business models in her days were mostly high-pressured direct sales. Aligning with Divine guidance, Ash centralized her business model on delivering values first.
Ash trained her team to think like consultants, instead of saleswomen. Her team taught women to use Mary Kay products as a tool to improve appearance and raise self-confidence.
By prioritizing customer satisfaction, the sales continued to grow incessantly and abundantly.
Mary Kay products sold almost $200,000 the first year and quadrupled to $800,000 by the end of the second year in 1964. Ash also grew her sales force from nine people to 3,000 consultants in a few years.
Even though the pink Cadillac was the highest reward for Mary Kay consultants, Ash never failed to remind women that a successful career could only be sustained if choosing God first and family second.
Teaching the right orders in life, Ash dedicated her life to enriching women all over the world, “God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.”
Lesson:
The right orders in your life will become your wealth.
If you examine all areas of your life now, you’ll see obvious results where you place the most attention.
If you study money, you’ll accumulate more wealth in time. If you focus more on family, you’ll enjoy more harmonious and satisfied relationships.
If you ignore one area to obtain another, there will be a price at the end.
As a field nurse, I’ve worked with plenty of wealthy patients who had previously ignored their health and relationships.
Guess what? These patients would later trade their hard-earned money for health, and when they needed support the most, the family was not available.
On their deathbeds, they wished they had more faith in God and were more attentive to their loved ones.
There are universal laws regardless of whether you’re rich or poor. If you follow these laws, you’ll flow in the rhythm of the universe.
One universal law is the law of compensation. You reap what you sow!
There is a consequence for every action you choose.
I’ve received money from the least expected sources because I sowed a love seed.
Like many medical professionals, I was taught to follow doctors’ orders. However, I always listened to God’s voice within.
Years ago, I was deeply concerned with my neighbor who lived alone and was on a blood thinner for her heart condition. If she experienced internal bleeding alone at home, she could die without help.
I reached out to her out-of-town daughter. It took many calls and many hours of medical research to convince her that her mother needed intervention for home safety.
When the daughter finally came home and took my neighbor to the cardiologist, the doctor declined to switch medicine.
Together, the daughter and I sought the right doctor. We finally found a compassionate cardiologist who placed my neighbor on baby aspirin, which enabled her to live safely for another ten years until she passed away naturally.
One day, in my wildest dream, I received a heartfelt thank-you card from her daughter, and with it, a big check for my love to her mother.
Unbeknownst to myself, the money had been hidden in a belief I live by: God first, people second, and everything else will go well.
Upon calling God first each time, He kept a promise, “I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know (Jeremiah 33:3).”
Money is just a game of life and will flow in effortlessly, with the right orders.
If you fail to lead your life with clear orders, don’t be surprised at how others will lead you to a nebulous aftermath.
Now, open the money door with affirmations:
I AM partnered with God
I AM living life with Divine orders.
I AM greeting money at every turn.
Let the money truth be engraved in your heart.
Your right order in life is MONEY.