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Who Needs Mary Kay?

A lot of women who are smart, successful, ambitious, and motivated, are already on the right track to personal success. We applaud those women, and for the most part, wish we could be like them.

There are others of us who do consider ourselves to be smart, successful, ambitious, and motivated -- yet still find ourselves on the wrong track. We have these great talents headed for a nowhere career, or a great career that means nothing and will take us nowhere.

There has been this dichotomy for a very long time that Mary Kay was an older lady, and had old-fashioned values (which like certain music has again become fashionable) and somehow the popular image of Mary Kay is of a very old matriarch, or even sacred cow, if you like. Yet, somewhere in there, Mary Kay has become "retro-chic."

This bothers us, because our perception is that the more we learn about Mary Kay Ash, the more "classic" we find her to be, and realize that her business plan, and her products, were based upon a certain "universality."

Mary Kay will probably never get the full credit, or recognition, she deserved, for identifying with, and truly liking, that sub-species known as "women." Mary Kay, unfortunately, has been turned into such a super-hero that she doesn't appear as female at all, when the fact is she did what she did because she was female, and was motivated by her interest in raising female-ness to an art form, in business, culture, economics, etc.

In short, Mary Kay's motive in running her business was to give women a chance to be themselves in their own natural medium.

The Rockefellers, the Hunts, the Vanderbilts, and the Carnegies of America have all repaid their love of American principles by establishing philanthropic interests which might replicate, to some extent, their own ladder of success within the American culture.

The primary difference between Mary Kay and the above-named families is that Mary Kay didn't wait until she died to help other people. The secondary difference is that Mary Kay spent at least a third of her life helping other women climb the same ladder she built. 

What distinguishes Mary Kay from these names is that she did not establish a dynasty, but a living, working legacy. Mary Kay wanted no monument to herself; she needed no statues, no plaques, to remind Humanity of her accomplishments. She wanted the flowing lifeblood of Femininity, in all its glorious power, to bloom and to speak for itself through accomplishment and success.

So who is "the business of Mary Kay" for today? The rich, the powerful, the clever, and the beautiful?

Hardly.

The Mary Kay business, today, is for who it's always been for; those women who may not have much, may never have had much, but know enough to dream, and to take a chance upon their dreams.

Mary Kay is not for those who feel they know how the world works; Mary Kay is for those who can imagine how the world might be.

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