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Shocking Revelations about Dan and Lisa Hawkins Life

Posted by Orrin Woodward on April 29, 2017

Anyone looking for the rest of the story on Dan and Lisa Hawkins need look no further. This article exposes the facts from the fiction about Dan and Lisa Hawkins? How did a former auto mechanic (Dan) become a bestselling author of Swing and become job optional? Moreover, how did a former daycare provider become a stay-at-home mom to five beautiful daughters in a 8500 square foot mansion on twenty-plus acres? How did they do it and is it legitimate? This is the question that must be asked and answered. Since I have had a front row seat in their progression from blue-collar workers to business owner leaders, I am qualified to share the inside story.

One of the first things to realize about Dan and Lisa is that they were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Indeed, they struggled to even pay their bills despite both of them working upwards of 50 hour per week. The first revelation I can share about this couple is that hard work alone did not ensure financial success. Dan and Lisa began their business by selling their fancy sports car and using the saved money to begin investing in business. Like most people, the Hawkins family failed financially by spending when they should have been saving and saving when they should have been investing. Fortunately, the principles taught in the Green Box Financial Fitness Program, a program that teaches the Defense, Offense, and the Playing Field (The Financial Matrix) of finances, helped Dan and Lisa develop Financial Literacy. This launched a financial revolution in their household that is still ongoing today.

Second, Dan and Lisa’s humility led them to recognize that they didn’t know what they didn’t know. Hence, they committed to a reading, listening, and association program to create habits like those who produced Financially Free results. This program produces results, for Dan went from a person with little to say to a bestselling author who has sold thousands of copies of Swing, his book, literally selling out at his first book signing, spending hours signing everyone’s copy of Swing. Shy and introverted when he started his business, Dan has blossomed into one of the best teachers and leaders in the entire LIFE community. Whereas many communities have 10% making all the money and the rest trying real hard, the Green Box community is different. After all, anyone who merely applies the Defensive principles, even if he never shares the Green Box with anyone else, will, at a minimum, become debt free. This is what makes Dan and Lisa part of something so special, for the worst thing that happens to a person who applies the Green Box is they get debt-free by reading, listening, and associating within the community. People, in other words, can change when they change their environment because people become what they associate with. Consequently, if you want to be financially free, then you must associate with people who live financially free.

Third, Dan and Lisa are some of the most kind, giving, and encouraging people you will ever meet. They speak around the world in front of thousands of people, and yet they always have time to listen to the people seeking to make changes. Perhaps this is so because Dan and Lisa have never forgotten that they were once those people, people looking for encouragement and hope that their lives could change, even when times were tough. Dan shares so many personal struggles in Swing, a book that it is difficult to read without one’s eyes leaking, as he transformed from a shy, introverted personality into the impressive leader he is today. Lisa has grown into one of the top communicators in the entire community, inspiring so many with her stories of learning to complete rather than compete against each other.  These two leaders have proven that there is no substitute for consistent application of proper principles over time.

Above all, however, the most shocking revelation is that Dan and Lisa accomplished all of this by offering others the same opportunity to live Financially Free. This is what makes LIFE different than all of the other Direct Sales companies, for the business is not designed just for high achievers; instead, it’s designed to help everyone live debt and increase incomes, but the high-achievers just do it faster! The only thing, in other words, a person has to lose by joining LIFE is their debt. Naturally, some people have worked with Dan and Lisa without losing their debt, but how can a person, who does NOT read, listen, associate, and apply, expect to eliminate debt without changing his actions? This would be like blaming the exercise bike manufacturer because someone bought bike, didn’t use it, and didn’t lose weight. J

In summary, Dan and Lisa have passed the test. Their business model works and their community has documented tens of millions of dollars in debt reduction in less than two years! They are champions because they followed the process, accepted responsibility, and serve people consistently. To be sure, although anyone can do what Dan and Lisa did, few will ever focus as consistently as they did, but they still win, just not as fast. Through associating with winners like the Hawkins, everyone can escape the Financial Matrix, live their dreams, and do so debt free by following the principles in the Green Box!

Please share if Dan and Lisa have made an impact in your life.

Sincerely,

Orrin Woodward

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Green Box to Financial Literacy

Posted by Orrin Woodward on April 11, 2017

People around the world wake up everyday with a goal to make money, money designed to help them stay ahead of advancing bills, inflation, and taxes. Few, however, have a plan to escape the Financial Rut and live their dreams debt free. Instead, most merely work to live and count the hours until the weekend to enjoy a few days of freedom until the grind returns. Why is this so? Why, in short, do so few people live their dreams without enslaving themselves within the Financial Matrix debt system? Lacking knowledge of how to escape the Financial Matrix, most people simply surrender to the financial circumstances that overwhelm them. Sure, some seek to save and others to invest, but few seem to do enough to break out of the Financial Rut, because they lack of Financial Literacy. Fortunately, the Green Box Financial Fitness Program, can change this. On one hand, it’s very difficult to save one’s way to wealth in the Tightwad quadrant, but on the other hand, it’s practically impossible to make enough in the Status quadrant to be secure. Indeed, it’s not until a person understands Financial Literacy, marrying making money (Offense), saving money (Defense) and how the Financial Matrix entraps people (Playing Field), will he truly enjoy Financial Freedom.

Financially successful people must synchronize Building (Offense) and Budgeting (Defense) to achieve Financial Freedom just like healthy people synchronize breathing in and out.  One without the other is results in catastrophe. Perhaps nothing confirms this truth as clearly as the 2009 Sports Illustrated article, which stated that 78% of NFL players were either bankrupt or under significant financial stress after only two years of retirement. Wait a minute. How can people who make millions wind up busted just a few short years later? To be sure, this sounds shocking at first, but with some reflection, it really isn’t that surprising. After all, these young men were trained in football, not Financial Literacy. Many go from penniless to the penthouse practically overnight, spending (and borrowing) money faster than it comes in. Sure, while they have the big contracts, they can afford to live in the Status quadrant, servicing their growing debt, but when the retire, many face an insurmountable financial dilemma, namely, how to support their lavish lifestyles without the big contracts. 78% of former NFL players, evidently, fail the test and are forced to sell or surrender assets they never truly owned.

Needless to say, these circumstances affect more than just NFL players, since anyone who achieves financial success is at risk without Financial Literacy. Which leads me to the real question that should be asked – why isn’t Financial Literacy sought out by all who aspire to achieve financial success? Naturally, I’m not surprised by the innumerable stories of Lottery winners falling back into bankruptcy, because they received no training on either Offense or Defense, but I am shocked by the amount of entrepreneurs who do not invest the time to learn the Defensive and Offensive principles necessary for Financial Literacy. Think about it. If one is going to promote the importance of building businesses and making ongoing incomes (which is all fantastic, by the way), why not also teach Financial Literacy to ensure the success is enduring rather than fleeting? What’s the point, in other words, of grinding day and night, merely to build castles in the sand and watch them wash away during the financial storms? To me, this is the height of folly and poor leadership.

Financial Fitness Pack

In consequence, the purpose of the Green Box Financial Fitness Program is to simplify the principles of financial success, teaching people how to stop spending when they should be saving (Defense) and stop saving when they should be investing (Offense). The dismal statistics, 99% fail at one or both of these principles, is mind blowing! Thankfully, the Green Box can change this and set people FREE. If the reader is tired of living in one of the sub-optimized Financial Matrix Quadrants, whether the Broke, Tightwad, or Status one, the Financial Fitness Program has the information and the Green Box community has the inspiration to help a person escape from the Financial Matrix!  Isn’t it time to change your family’s financial legacy, setting yourself free by helping others get financially free? The answer for me and my family is a resounding yes!

Sincerely, Orrin Woodward

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