A Currency of Love

Over the past 70 years, I have experienced the incredible power and effect money can have on one’s life. The power lies in one's intention and focus.

Focusing your energy on fear or love leads to more fear, depression, and greed, or happiness, joy, success, and being connected with the heart of others. Your chosen path becomes your stream of life and money.

I got caught up in very competitive behaviours from a very young age. I had to have the best and most expensive toy or Christmas present among all my friends.

At the age of 7 years, competition became an obsession such as my footy teams winning, my state and country cricket team conquering all its opponents. With the newly introduced TV in Australia, I sat glued watching the horse race results. Soon I knew all the names of the horses, the trainers and jockeys. Overall, the competitive spirit ruled me.

Competitive behaviour leaked into the field of gambling, particularly horses, and then later every type of medium on offer. I was addicted for forty-five years.

Also, I got caught up in high-profile businesses in the fashion business. I went broke twice and rebuilt each time. Money flowed in and out without me having a conscious awareness of my actions, and it affected so many people. Nearly always in a negative way. This is the power of money.

At the age of 51, I became very sick. I faced death. This woke me up to a huge transformation. No longer could I carry on without taking responsibility for my health and actions. This brought about a complete turnaround in my attitude and intentions. Inwardly, I knew money could be used for the good, to help people and to make connections with people all over the world. The world of technology has brought us all very close together.

In 2009, I became free of all addictions. So, I was free to put my ideas into action. Little did I know that it would be in the field of shopping bags that it would bear fruit.

Today, I am so grateful and joyful with money. I see it as not being mine, but that I am a custodian of this money. And that it is my responsibility to use it in service. I pay my invoices to my suppliers with gratitude that I have received products that can help people on many levels. My wholesale customers are so generous and pay me without me even having to ask them. Now it is my responsibility to take care of your money through your purchase. It is must flow on and continue its life by serving. To use your money to procure all the ingredients that our earth provides us with, to make our natural products.

I have several heartfelt wishes and intentions that money can serve.

1. To demonstrate to the corporate world that money can be part of a successful business without the profit being the motivation. And without the spirit of competition, but with the spirit of cooperation.

2. To create business opportunities for young families so they can work from home and not have to put their children in childcare.

3. To bring back to people wonderful shopping experiences with ECO-AMBASSADORS, which is a rare commodity these days.

Joy in life should be natural in everything we do.