How Can They Be Happy All The Time?

Tape: The Treasure is Within You

Speakers: Rob & Olivia Shannon

Stock Number: BWW192 (4 Message CD)

Recording Type: ‘Basic Mix’

Brief Review:

This is a brief speech at a Nardone - Melillo function. Olivia tells us that there are those people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened and then admonishes the crowd to make things happen through Quixtar. Rob suggests that we should be happy all the time, in deed, the leaders are happy all the time. It is a choice to be happy all the time, and the power is within you.

Motivational Aspects:

“In the whole world of Quixtar, we have the best teachers, mentors and friends.”

“Who is here because they want to be wealthy? Because they want financial freedom? Because they want personal freedom? Everybody, of course.”

Olivia talks about the rewards of the business being the friends that you will make. She comments that the money is there…it is coming. While I assert that it is a good thing to gain friends, this business has simply proven to be very unethical and ungodly in it’s practice. I myself have accumulated a lot of friends, but those that I made in the business, only two have contacted me since they know I left the business and acknowledge that I will not be back.

Cult-like aspects:

Olivia introduces her speech by saying how blessed everyone is to be in the Nardone – Melillo family [The appeal to family seeks to capture those looking for something to belong to.]

“I believe today more, than ever, if you speak it, and claim it, and work it, it will happen. No question about it, because it is happening all over.” [Doctrine over person – if you do not succeed at this, it is your fault, not the system’s fault.]

“Focus on your first goal. Your first goal is core…Q12 core.” [If you just work hard enough, you will make it. While I do not discredit hard work, problems arise when you follow a plan such as Quixtar, particularly when the costs of core are so expensive.]

Rob does a scary edification of Angelo Nardone and Rex Renfrow saying that there is an extra edge about them that you don’t even find among people in wall street or even in the faithful church going people.

Catalog of covetousness for those materialistic people:

I am not sure if this was done for medical reasons or wardrobe reasons (He never detailed), but Rob had a hip replacement surgery to ‘add 5 millimeters to this leg.”

Other Interesting Notes:

“Before the wealth, and before the freedom, you need to decide to make a difference. You need to decide that you are going to have a positive impact in some bodies life. And a life of just plain old existence really doesn’t benefit many people, does it? Through the Quixtar business, we have that opportunity to just reach out and help. But unfortunately, not everyone is going to be receptive to that, as we know. And those guy’s, those people we make clients.” [I pull out that quote because it shows a few problems. The first, is that people are assumed to NEED Quixtar, thus, they need helped. The reality is that more people do NOT make success in Quixtar. There is an average net income of $115 in Quixtar; Next, the ‘us verses them’ syndrome appears, note again, “we have the opportunity to…help…not everyone is going to be receptive”. And finally, you can see that this particular group is not about retailing products, but growing a network, which fits the definition of a Product-Based Pyramid Scheme.]

Rob poses the question “How can they be happy all the time?” [The answer is that they are faking. For an example, I was in the audience during the taping of Dave & Jan Severn’s ‘What Makes You Come Alive?’ (BWW40). His mother had died a few days before. No one in the crowd could tell. Why? He put on a smile. It would have been entirely appropriate to talk about it in such a meeting where they talk about love and family, and heart, but he didn’t. Why? This is a negative, and a standing rule in Britt World Wide is that you never pass negative anywhere. There are many more examples, and even some examples that could contradict those statements, but the bottom line is that they Bible is very clear that there is a time for everything, among the examples of that are laughing and mourning (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). In deed, the tapes goes on, “Chose to be happy now, regardless of the circumstances.” Let us chose to be happy when our parents die, children move out, it is not consistent with biblical teaching…it is not consistent with reality.]

CORRECTION - I need to correct a statement from above (I will leave the original intact) - I comment above, "you never pass negative anywhere", that is incorrect, you can pass negative to your immediate upline (the person you are counseling with), but you should not pass it anywhere else.