R3Global is always bringing you new inspiration and motivation to get you through the week.  As we head into our first Dream Days event of the season in Stamford, CT, we hope you are ready to jump into this new chapter of your journey in MonaVie, with both feet!

The following is a true story that the team at R3Global takes to heart when thinking about how we can support our distributors in the best way possible.

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Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam.  After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands.

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He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison.  He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience. One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, as a man at another table approached him and said, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”

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“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb.

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“I packed your parachute,” the man replied.

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Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, “I guess it worked!”

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Plumb assured him, “It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

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Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. ”I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said ‘Good morning, how are you?’ or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor.”

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Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.

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Now Plumb asks his audience, “Who’s packing your parachute?”

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Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory – he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute.

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He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

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R3Global is ready to support you until the end.  Are you ready to do your part?  All you need is the will power, great tools, a great product, and a ‘parachute’ to help you get there successfully. We want to pack your parachute so that you can be the best you can be in this business!