Jigsaw launched today! A long effort of a team of talented people. Check it out!
I had mixed feelings driving into work today shortly before it went live. I was very excited that all the hard work that had gone into this launch would finally be realized. However, I was also very aware that all my health issues that I have quietly struggled with were going to be made public! The thing about people who suffer with a chronic condition is that, usually, they look fine and can hide how they really feel! So most people who know me simply did not know when I was sick or when I felt well.
Fitting that I was listening to Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life" as I drove to work this morning. He was on the chapter dealing with how God uses our weaknesses to help others. How appropriate was the timing for me to listen to that particular chapter then.
That was the original purpose behind writing a book and then later deciding to do Jigsaw Health. To help people! My physical weaknesses, for which I have sought answers—and in most cases have found the puzzle pieces—were now going to be out there for all to see, but also to help people find their puzzle pieces. Hopefully, a whole lot faster than it has taken me.
I feel it has been such a long road getting here. Often in the past 31 years since I first got really sick—and especially over the past 19 years as I really began to find the true puzzle pieces—I would feel such deep empathy for all the millions of others that I knew were suffering and yet often did not know why. I frequently thought about how I could help them.
A couple of times, I seriously analyzed starting a network of clinics, but every time I went down that path, it just would not come together in a way that I felt would be a successful new venture. There was always just "too much hair on it" as I like to say in describing a proposed new venture that has issues which are not clean and focused.
Jigsaw Health, I think, is very clean and very focused. We want to help people with chronic health conditions! People who are healthy are not our focus at all. Certainly, we have products that even healthy people could benefit from, but they are not who we are trying to help.
I am so proud of the team, our employees, and our vendors who worked so hard to pull this off. Naturally, I am very proud of my son Patrick for really leading the entire effort to make Jigsaw happen. And his wife Lindsay is an amazing organizer of all things marketing! Jigsaw simply would not have happened without the two of them making it happen.
So what you see at Jigsaw is a great beginning, but there is so much more we have planned that will happen over the coming months. Stay tuned!
