Bigger, Broader, Faster

When we started donating to a family fighting Leukemia 2 years ago we were doing it on the backbone of our personal training business. We started by donating 10% of our personal training sales. We donated somewhere around $600 at that time. Down the road we were told that through "Disability" the bills had all been taken care of.

Fast forward a couple years. A client of mine mentioned that someone she knew was diagnosed with Leukemia. We didn't want to wait to help as we immediately started donating 10% of what we brought in. As we learned the previous time, people come out in droves to help and it wasn't something we were trying to profit from so we also donated 50% of new clients. The first check we gave to that family was somewhere between $240 and $270 but as I handed it to them I couldn't help but feel like we could be doing more, faster.

With some time spent brainstorming we came up with meanwell because we  wanted to donate the proceeds to certain causes in our community, we didn't want to limit the beneficiaries and we wanted to do something positive. We wanted to do something that would benefit everyone. The name meanwell comes from our slogan that "Nobody's perfect but nine times out of ten you just need to meanwell." Everyone makes mistakes but when you do you just need to realize that you are human. If people want to overachieve....be my guest. I would like to think that I meanwell more than 90% of the time. As a whole, as a community and as a nation we do NOT meanwell nine times out of ten. There are people out there that don't feel that they can change their attitude. Some of those that do believe that they can change their attitude don't because they don't think that it will make enough of a difference. We have every intention to change that.

Our goal in our first four weeks of existence was to donate $1000 to causes in our community. The four week mark ended Friday and we reached $834.50. We also sold $340 worth of presale Orange meanwell shirts so you could say that we nailed the goal. The only reason I dont feel that we really acheived the goal is because that initial money is going towards the purchase of the shirts that will later be sold. It won't be donated quite yet. But it will.

"Nobody's perfect but nine times out of ten you just need to meanwell."