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We are very excited that Teachers from the Napoleon Hill Foundation have agreed to help The Jenilee Foundation get started. Many of the clients of the Naphillfoundation.Org include Doctors and Lawyers.
The Jenilee Foundation is an independent NON Profit organization. Our mission is to provide support in every way possible to the world renowned teachers of Self-Improvement. There’s never been a time more important than now for all of us to take control of our own destiny’s BUT we’ll need help doing so. Where to turn? To the best ,of course. They’re teachers and Authors such as Napoleon Hill and DR, Wayne Dyer that have been attributed to having helped millions of people in the area of Self Improvement. Dr. Napoleon Hill has written the most successful book (Think and Grow Rich) ever written on personal Self Improvement. Dr. Wayne Dyer is the Father of spirituality as said by Oprah herself and well connecting with God and your purpose in life is something that every person on earth can relate too. I personally know their work very well and can say without a doubt that they among others helped save my life.
We intend to promote the work of Dr, Wayne Dyer, Napoleon Hill, Robert Kiyosaki, Louise Hay, Eckhart Tolle, Suze Orman, Warren Buffet among others by hiring their teachers and lectures for seminars on various subjects that will be held at our Jenilee Retreats. We will invest with other investors to purchase/build properties for the Jenilee Foundation. The Jenilee Foundations workshops will run throughout the year. The non profit foundation will offer seminars that’ll include topics of spirituality and personal Self Improvement (i.e. retreats for stress management, Religious Events, Spiritual Retreats, Corporate Retreats, Rest and Relaxation & fun Retreats). In fact we are currently in talks with people from the Napoleon Hill Foundation. They have graciously offered their help to us to get the first seminar off the ground. We are honored to accept the help from such a prestigious foundation. We also intend to offer free on-line “positive thinking” and “feed your subconscious mind” course(s). We intend to help as many people as possible by pointing them in the direction of filling the need that they may have in regards to Self Improvement.
When finances permit we will pay someone to develop an educational and informative website to be utilized as the “go to place” Self Improvement Resource center.
We need your help…
The foundation is in need of website funding:
$1000 for computers x 4= $4000
$ 4000 Website Development & Maintenance
$ 2000 Office equipment (printer, desks, chairs, fax, phones, filing cabinets etc..)
$ 900 x12 months rental space
The Jenilee foundation needs help (money) to pay:
… for the filing of the corporation papers & filing for “special tax status” $2800
pay for printing materials and mail outs $4000
hire staff from only the best Teachers/Authors of Self Improvement. We need to cover their travel expenses, meals, accommodations’ plus any speaking engagement fees. DBT approx. $1500 per person for a 2-day seminar.
Fees to book retreats to hold the seminars DBT approx. $800 for 2 days x 6 seminars
Hotel & Car rentals for quest speakers
Funds or companies may donate promotional items or items to put up for Auction for fund raising events (hire an event organizer, promo items, staff) DBT
Can you make donation of a minimum of $50, $75, or $100 so we can start today to help as many people as possible with improving their lives for the better.
Future vision: we’ll go into poor countries using our resources to fund The Jenilee foundation plan of: (hire engineers, translators, and Naphill teachers and Wayne Dyer’s work etc…) to use visual aids (such as videos) to help teach the people how to plant food, harvest food, build roads, how to get water. Basically to help them get out of poverty cause God gave them the same gifts as us the ability to control our minds to whatever outcome we desire. They just need the “proper education” and help cause the truth is the people that were born unlucky in the “ovary lottery” as said by Warren Buffet speak to our character or lack of, not theirs. What I mean is there is no reason why there are still hungry people on earth.
Without God nothing is possible.
My name is Joanne Davis and here’s why I am starting the Jenilee Foundation. This is a slice of my life as it is in 2008 thus far, in short version form, of course. Today is the 29th day of September 2008. On October 5th 2008 will bring with it a 3 month anniversary since beautiful Jenilee Gundrum passed on in a car crash to do more of what I believe is God’s/Source work -Good . Jenilee’s mother , Cindy, is my best friend. My ego likes to refer to Cindy as “my” best friend but she actually is a best friend to many people other people aside from myself, including Jenilee and her 3 other daughters. I think a more appropriate way of describing our relationship with Cindy would be of “soul friends”. There is almost nothing I wouldn’t do for her and her family. She has brought so much joy to my life and been there for me and my family in some of the darkest moments of my life. It hasn’t been easy for her raising 4 girls, for the most part alone but she prevailed. The girls are sweet and kind souls like their mother.
I do not feel that I have been blessed with the gift of being a wonderful writer but I will do my best to write what I mean and mean what I say.
This year has brought with it a time for crisis but more importantly a time of love and appreciation. But most importantly it has brought me to the place where I have most unequivocally connected to my LIFE’s PUPOSE., connecting to God/Source and the intention of why I am here, why we are all here-to connect with God & to do good unto others This year has personally been one of the most trying times for me and many of my loved ones and here’s why…
Oh where to begin but I guess I’ll just pick up in the month of February 2008. February was the month that everything started to “hit the fan” sort of speak with my business. The business that I started from the ground up while I was a single mom, was strangled by the lack of cash flow. This was my means of supporting my half of the bills. Things were a brewing before Feb 2008 but “hit the fan” started to kick in somewhere in and around that time frame. The truth be told I had become very emotionally detached from my business. I felt I had no longer the desire to do what I was doing. I actually hated it. I hated a lot of things and was becoming more and more frustrated that I didn’t even realize how much so till recently. I didn’t like how I felt about many things about my life. Many things were going on that included a large corporation and I, not good things. I have learned not to mess with those guys even if I think it’s about “the Principle of it” or some might call it the right thing to do. The right thing I’ve come to learn is to protect your family and one owns piece of mind. And let’s leave that there, alone if you will.
A wise man once said circumstances do not make a man but rather reveal a man. I quoted that quote because (I quoted that quote, that can’t possibly be right- see I told you I wasn’t so good at this writing thing) but this will bring me to my extremely important point in just a little bit so hang in there with me please.
March was a month where all that was left of me was a faint heart beat. I said to my husband “I feel like I am going to die” and he said “Well everyone has to die sometime”
I could literally feel an energy running through the veins in my arms/ God running through my veins as I lay there in a state of deep depression. Like I said I felt like a wee bit of a pulsating heart. I seemed doomed.
Then ,what seemed like at the time a most unusual thought considering how depressed I’d felt .The thought was clear and precise in that I actually believed it. The thought I had had was “I will survive this, I will come back from this to be better than ever, you‘re going to be more than just okay,. The next thought I had was “where the hell did that come from?” Come back from this? HOW?
To make a long story short my life was falling apart at the seams but during this time I had made a decision that since all the signs were that a decision, that was out of my control was going to bring down my business as I knew it. I’d better start to prepare. I had been studying the subject of money ie. real estate & financial education during all of this to make a better life for my family & loved ones. But I felt I needed more, something I couldn’t put my finger on till I came across Wayne Dyer teachings among others on Youtube. As a wise man once said “when the student is ready the teacher will appear” I know that to be true.
These spirits which is now how I’ve come to know them have been blessed with the abilities to teach/convey the message of God/Source the message of the importance of spiritual awareness connecting to God and your life’s purpose through their writing and other forms of communication by God. They are intended to be doing what they and what God wants.
I was intrigued beyond believe how just listening to someone talk about spirituality/God could give me so much comfort. These were some of the darkest days of my life. We had our house up for sale with no buyers for 4 months. Open house after painfully open house we finally “got it” and hired a reputable realtor with very little resistant from us adjusted the price. But it was too late for my marriage as we knew it. We had allowed life to take it’s toll on our marriage. But we still hung on emotionally & physically. Telling each other how we still loved one another, still did stuff together. We eventually sold the house and I stayed with my best friend Cindy (my best friend is-the mother of the girl that died in the car crash) and her girls till the move to the US was to come to be-2 weeks later. My husband and I had planned for the last year to move to the US but upon consideration he felt he would not be happy there and changed his mind in the end. I was devastated but felt out of love for him the only thing I could do was to support his decision. Our dream of a life together was not to be. Devastated we were both but our egos wouldn’t admit to it. Our beautiful marriage with everyday problems but nevertheless our beautiful marriage was over. But I only now realized that and here‘s why..
On June 23rd was the closing day for the sale of our house we (my husband and I) were cleaning up the last of the things in the house. We talked that day , made a little love and said how we both thought we were each others soul mates. He said he was to come and visit us in the US, I excitedly asked when? He said a few weeks but that was not to be as the most unimaginable event took place.
On July 5th 2008 after spending 2 weeks with my best friend and her girls she (Cindy drove myself and my 2 children to the hotel near the airport where we were to take a 6:30 am flight the next morning. I, along with my 2 children left to the US - going to find my version of the “American Dream” A part of me was terrified but a bigger part of me was excited I could feel purpose running through my veins. My purpose in life was to inspire people so I felt I was doing the right thing even though just about everyone thought I was crazy. I feel so strongly that all that has happened in my life has brought me to the point of self realization of the fact that we are all born from God and we are intended to be here for a purpose. Regardless of what’s happened in our lives we, if we focus our thoughts (the link between us and God) to thoughts of how can I serve the universe/how can I serve God using the talents that have be given to me at birth in the form of (the abilities to control my own thoughts) to whatever it is that one desires. For each Individual it‘s a matter of different strokes for different folks. We will all be happy if we just “get that” and enjoy a life with all of life’s riches not just the monetary ones but that too. A blissful, meaningful life with sound health and piece of mind. I believe that we know that we are doing what we are intended to do when we are serving others in a capacity that we’re capable of and when “we feel good doing what we love to do“ The “feeling good” is an energy, a sign, if you will, that you are connected and living on purpose. ”I agree with Wayne Dyne that our life’s purpose is to connect with God’s/Source.
To finally make it to my point…The news of what had taken place that fateful day, of July 5th 2008 at approximately 8 pm, only 2 days earlier, seemed like it was a bad dream a nightmare. How could it be, I still think that everyday. On July 5th upon returning from dropping us off at the hotel near the airport Cindy had a brief conversation with Jenilee just before Jenilee was to leave for work. She worked 3 jobs by the way. Jenilee said “ Bye Mom I won’t see you for awhile “I love you” were the last words as she scooted out the door. Jenilee was to start work at 9 o’clock that night but never made it there. Often, as many 20 year olds do she usually met up with a friend after work just to hang out. She usually worked on Sundays too. So nothing seemed out of sorts of her usual routine when there was no contact from her. Everyone just assumed she either was at work or just hanging out with friends as she had many friends. Her mom left messages on her cell but just thought Sunday she was at work and she would call her when she finished. Then the unimaginable happened. It was like a scene from a movie. Every parents worst nightmare. The phone call came in first from her ex brother in-law. He said Cindy the police just contacted me about Jenilee. She told me she knew instantly as many parent do. She screamed she’s dead isn’t she??? She demanded he tell her the truth and he did. Cindy grief stricken, in a state of total bewilderment, fell to her to her knees- Howling like an animal. The pain of that day has seemed to lesson with time a little but only someone who has lived the unimaginable pain themselves could really know what’s it’s like. The next days seemed surreal. Still do at times.
So the task of making funeral preparations began. As you can imagine it was a week of hell on earth. But with a lot of love and drawing strength from one another but most importantly by the divine grace of God we are all still alive and here today. I say that because when I saw my husband in HomeSense 8 days after the funeral with another cute tall skinnier blond woman which he did tell someone 3 weeks later to tell me that “she’s only a friend” I honestly thought about putting a bullet in my head the following week. All the pressures of the year were taking a toll a toll on my being my desire to be. Watching Cindy and hearing her and all of her family howl likde animals cause the pain was so bad was becoming unbearable even for me. If it weren’t for my 2 amazing children and the fact that I knew Cindy and her family needed me so desperately I may of continued the contemplation of the bullet in my head.
But here’s the good news. If it weren’t for all that happenings we wouldn’t be here today with the task ahead. The task of connecting to God and our life’s purpose to do good unto others, serve the universe. Jenilee is still very much alive in the metaphysical world and I intend to give comfort to Cindy, and all of the Gundrum family which includes all of her many friends and the love of her life Trevor. By never resting till they can actually see physical evidence of that truth.
It took me awhile to get to my point but I sometimes have trouble articulating my point - my apologies.
I believe that there is a deficit of spirituality and of financial education. Wayne Dyer is the father of spirituality and God knows how we all could use some advice on how-to connect with God. With regards to the subject of finances Robert Kiyosaki well he is one of the best teachers of financial education.
p.s I spoke at the funeral service for Jenilee. I asked that people spend time thinking of something they could do so they would have something to say when they ran into Cindy and her girls in everyday travels. I knew if we could all do something in memory of Jenilee that in itself could bring her comfort and possibly an answer to the question of “why did this happen“. All the good that has already come and will continue to come was because of Jenilee, I promise you that Cindy.
And so began The Jenilee Foundation, that my dear Cindy is what Jenilee inspired me to do…
Sincerely,
Joanne Davis Co-Founder The Jenilee Foundation
We are also currently looking for board members.
How may we serve you God…?
