Kyle Drew posted on October 31, 2009 18:13
“Thank you.” That’s what the nurse said to me yesterday when I was visiting a friend in the hospital. I asked what she was thanking me for. She said that she watches Know the Cause every day and that since she started doing the Phase One Diet, the numbness in her feet has gone away.
“Thank you.” Doug was doing a seminar in Oklahoma City last weekend. A woman approached me and said that she’s wearing her shirt tucked into her jeans for the first time since high school. She wanted to thank Doug for telling us over and over again to C-H-A-N-G-E because since doing so, she lost the weight she’s been carrying for decades.
“Thank you.” At that same seminar, a young man came up to me and asked if he could introduce his mother to me. They had flown from California to OKC just for the seminar - specifically to thank Doug. Five years ago, she was given 8 weeks to live because she had end-stage liver and gallbladder cancer. She couldn’t walk, couldn’t go to the bathroom on her own, and couldn’t believe there was an answer out there that could help her.
She saw Doug on TV and immediately began the Phase One Diet. In a matter of weeks, she had not only gained her strength back, but was driving again. Five years later, she’s alive, thriving, and taking a plane trip across the country just to extend thanks to the man she credits with her life-saving strategy.
I hugged her, and couldn’t stop hugging her. I cried with her. I stood there, mostly just listening – awestruck by the testimony.
Since joining Doug’s team in 2005, I’ve had the great privilege of hearing countless “Thank You’s” from people all over the country, either in person or by letter.
Truth be told, though, I don’t deserve any of that. One reason is because I’m simply a disciple of the Kaufmann Fungus Link message who was blessed enough to become part of his team. Doug is the one who has spent 40 years developing this message, writing books, creating the TV show, and spending countless hours helping countless people. Those of us who get to be a part of this have simply ingested what took him decades to develop. (Thank you, Doug.)
The other reason that Thanks aren’t in order is because these people with testimonies had to actually implement the program into their own lives. Doug can’t make you say no to donuts. I can’t open your mouth and force caprylic acid down your throat. The guests on the show can’t force you to go out for a walk every evening. At the end of the day, we thank Doug for the massive work he’s done in putting the program together, but then we’re the ones who have to actually do it.
Years ago, I heard the self-help guru, Zig Ziglar speak at a conference. People were thanking him afterwards, and some said, “I got a lot out of your talk today.” The next year, he was back at the same venue and he said, “Today, when you come around and shake my hand, don’t tell me that you got a lot out of my talk today. Instead, tell me what you’re going to do about it. If you just got a warm feeling from my talk, you don’t need me for that; you can get that from a warm bath! I’d rather you tell me exactly what you’re going to do to change.”
I’m incredibly thankful for messages of hope and strategies for health success. I’m a huge fan of companies who make products that actually work when you take them every day. I’m thankful to be exposed to tips and techniques and inspiration merely by clicking on the TV or going to the Internet.
Having said that, let me share one of my flaws. My tendency is to take all of that information and inspiration in, and then wait for something to happen to me as if simply knowing something new will magically transform my life. For years, I took in more and more information, analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the data, re-worked it and re-thought it, and then… did nothing with it.
The real power happens when you get the right information, and then act.
What does this have to do with Thanks?
Well, believe it or not, I’m actually thankful for the opportunity I’ve had to be sick, try out different strategies, and find the ones that work. I admit to being a person of faith, and I believe that those illnesses have worked together for my own good and the good of those I get to speak to. Doug is this way, too. Coming back from Vietnam, riddled with illness, he would never have expected that God had something valuable to teach him – and millions of us – through that experience. But now, we all have a life-saving series of strategies, thanks to the health crisis of one man back in 1970.
I’m not one who thinks you need to get sick in order to be thankful. But I am one who wants to look for the blessing and wisdom in every circumstance. Truth be told, there are times when the only way a person will truly experience exceptional health is if something serious gets their attention. I hope that’s not what it takes for you. Instead, I hope that it is merely the Thank You testimonials I’ve listed here, and those you hear on the show each day that motivate you.
If you’re in good health today, please be thankful. Millions of people would like to be in your shoes.
If you’re still working your way back to good health, you, too, have reason to be thankful. There’s a health philosophy out there that produces hundreds of “Thank You’s” every single week. I’ve experienced it, myself. My family has experienced it. It works. It works so well, that people who were given only weeks to live will be willing, five years later, to fly across the country at no small expense just to say, “Thank you.” But please don’t wait for your situation to become that dire. Implement the Fungus Link strategies today; you’ll thank Doug for it later!