Jan Ewing 

My Dad always said “Decisions determine destinations.”

You might remember the movie Apollo 13. It was the lunar mission that had major complications after takeoff and had to abort landing on the moon. There was also a real concern that they would not even make it back home.
 

My dad worked at NASA and was part of the team that worked at the Johnson Space Center. This team went through all the possible scenarios with Ken Mattingly and the others team members to get the crew of Apollo 13 home. The concern was that if their trajectory was off by even the smallest percentage they would bounce off the earth’s atmosphere and would forever be lost in space. You see, the team made a decision that day that they were going to bring those guys home . . . and they did.
 

Being the daughter of an American hero taught me many things. One of those things was to never give up on your dreams because if you make the right decisions you will someday end up at your destination.
 

Along that journey, sometimes life can throw you a curve ball. We had a curve ball thrown our way eleven years ago.  My husband was in a severe car accident and life as we knew it changed forever. Our dreams, our hopes our future at that moment seemed to be slipping away and I was helpless to stop it.
 

Ken had a closed head injury, a broken neck and a broken back. He was the width of a human hair away from being a quadriplegic. His closed head injury was significant--he could no longer do the career he was doing at the time of the accident. I didn’t know if he was going to be my sixth child. I was losing my husband; my children were losing their father. I was afraid, my hope was gone, our life’s mission had been completely altered, and we felt it was being aborted. 
 

Then in December of 2008 our dear friend, Tina Reninger, came over to the house with a red box. Little did I know that in that box was the answer to the prayers that had kept me awake at night. Ken started on the Max GXL product and within days we started noticing some significant changes in his pain, his sleep and his joint pain. By the end of December our hope for the future began to change. At the end January 2009 we went to the company’s showcase and we made a decision to pursue this as a business.
 

This decision became one of the most profound decisions we have ever made. We have had the most significant year in our eleven year journey from that devastating accident. This has been not only the best business decision, but it has also been the most incredible health transformation I have ever seen in my life.
 

I have my husband restored, back home, and my children have their father back.
 

If you remember the homecoming of the movie Apollo 13, the joy and elation that those families shared at having their loved ones restored alive and in good health brought many to tears. It took a team to accomplish that feat.
 

Our decision to work with the Max team has and will continue to determine our destination for the good. We now have a team, a product and a business that just might have the most significant and profound impact on the lives of the people we meet.
 

I’m so very thankful for my dad teaching me how decisions determine destination. You see, let me finish my story.
 

My Dad made a decision when he was a boy that one day he would walk on the moon. My Dad was the eighth man to walk on the moon, Col. James B. Irwin: he was Apollo 15’s Lunar Module Pilot.

Decisions do determine your destinations!