Healthy Finances w/ Gary Bolton
When we passed in the aisle the elderly lady in the group grabbed, hugged, and was thanking me as she was crying. ..
““I would never be without pain if I didn’t have an operation.” ”
Meanwhile, back at the farm…
Gary on the Italy incentive trip.
This week’s Impetus is a synopsis of an interview with Diamond Nikken consultant Gary Bolton. Gary has a thriving Nikken business and is a great leader and mentor to us all. Much of Gary’s business focuses on digital marketing. This has been a very successful model for Gary and his many team members. Often, they lead the top retailer and top volume categories month to month. Many of us affectionately call Gary “The Professor” as a tribute to his knowledge and efforts in helping many of us share Nikken’s products, philosophy and business.
Here is Gary’s response to a few questions that Heather and posed to him recently.
Q.
What is your Nikken story?
I along with a couple of friends had decided to go to a local sports bar one Sunday to take in a game and enjoy a beer. We were having a great time, when something happened in the game that made my friend slap my shoulder. Normally that would not be a big deal but I had been having trouble with that shoulder for some time. I had been told by an Orthopedist that “I would never be without pain if I didn’t have an operation.” A Nikken distributor was in the bar and overheard my loud, unhappy outburst. She approached me and a conversation ensued. She asked for my card and we met for lunch the following week. She showed me a product explaining all the unique technologies. I laughed and told her I was very skeptical of her claims. She offered to lend me the product and would meet me a week later to retrieve it. If she hadn’t been so attractive, I do not believe I would have taken it home. I borrowed the product and took it home and had a tremendous product experience.
Q.
What is your favorite client story?
I did a presentation at a Gold’s gym. I did strength demonstrations with the Nikken PiMag water and our magnetic insoles during my presentation. I referenced a video by Curtis Bennett illustrating an increase in internal temperature of the feet using the insoles. A young man maybe 18 years old purchased a pair of insoles. About a year later I was in Walmart in the same town. I had noticed a group of people looking at me and I wondered why I was drawing their attention. When we passed in the aisle the elderly lady in the group grabbed, hugged, and was thanking me as she was crying. It turns out her husband, the grandfather of this young man was scheduled to have his foot amputated. They had used the insoles and credited them and me for avoiding the surgery and saving his foot.
Q.
What do you enjoy most about your Nikken business?
I love the freedom it provides me. Time is the most precious commodity we have. I can spend time as I see fit and not be a slave to an alarm clock or a regular job.
Q.
Why is the Nikken Wellness Home important?
The Wellness Home and all the other ideas and concepts it brings up will profoundly change the way you view taking care of yourself. The idea of reaching for a bottle of pills has become foreign to me. I believe the Wellness Home to be the very best strategy to live the concept of “Do no harm.”
Q.
What do you see in the future for your Nikken business via digital marketing?
I believe online marketing changes rapidly. What I did 10 years ago may not be as effective today. I am focusing on niche marketing web sites of one product, or a small group of products that target a well-defined audience. There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of these niches we can market to.
Q.
What advice would you give to a new person just starting their Nikken business?
Do presentations to your warm market like your family and friends so you can learn. You will hear your sponsor when you do ABC’s and soon you will be repeating what you’ve heard. It’s important to do this prior to going online. There is this learning curve everyone goes through. Without going through this process you will not understand how powerful our product line is. Make a list! I think there are newer online ways to build your list that were not available when I started with Nikken. Whether you build a list offline or online, the advice is the same. Build a list and work the list.
Heather and I want to thank Gary Bolton for sharing his story, wisdom and guidance. Following his and other leaders’ advice is an important tool we can all use to help everyone be Healthy by Choice.
The ABC's of Self Care Q
Although health is one of the important aspects of overall quality of life, there are other domains…
“Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”
The ABC’s of Self Care Q
For the letter Q let’s talk about Quality of life.
I think it’s safe to say that quality of life is important to everyone. Although the term “quality of life” has meaning for nearly everyone and every academic discipline, individuals and groups can define it differently. What makes it challenging to measure or quantify, is that quality of life is a multidimensional concept that usually includes physical, mental, and social domains. These are usually qualitative or subjective evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of life. Although health is one of the important aspects of overall quality of life, there are other domains such as jobs, housing, schools, the neighborhood and finances. Aspects of culture, values, and spirituality are also key components of overall quality of life that add to the complexity of its measurement and assessment. In the context of self care we all can and should be the guardians of our own quality of life and what that means to us.
The pressures of daily living, busy schedules, demands of work, inadequate family or personal time, not enough rest, health and financial challenges can lead to a life thrown out of balance and can disturb our quality of life.
Balance is the key. Just as our bodies strive for physiological homeostasis, we must balance all the areas of our lives. Over 43 years ago, Nikken’s founder, Isamu Masuda, recognized this imbalance. He felt that total happiness and wellness depended on living a life in balance in five key areas, what he named the 5 Pillars of Health® — Healthy Body, Mind, Family, Society and Finances. Leading a balanced life strengthens each of these pillars, and results in a more satisfying, healthy and rewarding lifestyle.
Nikken offers the means to attain this balance, through the Nikken Wellness Home and the Nikken business opportunity. We believe the way to fulfill our mission of a life in balance is through duplication of Wellness Homes. The awesome thing about a Wellness Home is that any home can be a Wellness Home, by utilizing Nikken products and technologies to make your home the healthiest environment possible for you and your family. Our motto is “Every home a Wellness Home”.
Healthy Body
We often say in the Self Care Awakening, we cannot put a price on our health. It is our most precious asset. The concept behind the Nikken Wellness Home is to provide our bodies with the tools it needs to be healthy while making healthy choices easy. Clean air; pure energized alkaline water; organic whole food nutrition; deep, regenerative sleep, and organic personal use and skin care products are all part of the Nikken Wellness Home. Nikken’s leading-edge products and technologies have been the cornerstone for providing thousands of people with great physical health. Think of a seedling being grown in a green house where just the right amount of sunlight, moisture, nutrients and protection from the elements allows it to flourish into a lush, green plant. Creating a Wellness Home provides us with an optimal environment that nourishes, protects and energizes us in much the same way. With any category of Nikken products, you begin the process of assisting people with building their Wellness Homes. The Wellness Home concept is universal: everyone needs to sleep well, drink beneficial water and consume healthy nutrition to live a Life in Balance.
Healthy Mind
Our minds are remarkable! What we think determines our success. Many people suffer ‘lack’ versus ‘prosperity’ due to their thinking. When we are in balance, our mind is open to enjoy all the blessings of abundance. Freedom from health and financial stress is a goal that we all can achieve for a greater quality of life.
Healthy Family
In addition to the benefits that a Wellness Home can have for the physical health of a family and its members is the time freedom that a Nikken business allows for a healthy family. One of the crucial components to the success of a healthy family is creating work/life balance. In today’s fast paced environment, it very difficult to maintain the work/life balance that we all desire. Too often people work well past their office hours or skip lunch in order to meet tight deadlines. People are becoming over stressed, over worked, and over tired, which can lead not only to health problems, but also directly affect your home life.
This was always a challenge for me in my previous career and unfortunately work was usually the priority. My profession involved a tremendous amount of travel. I had developed a thriving business that I loved, but it took an awakening for me to see how it was affecting me and my family. I came to an epiphany one day while on a telephone call my wife was giving me the play by play of my son’s little league game over the phone. I didn’t want to miss ball games, by gosh I wanted to be the coach. Although I loved my business it appeared that it did not love me back. Not until I fully understood the 5 Pillars of Health and the importance of maintaining a balance in all five areas did I put a plan into action that utilized the Nikken business opportunity to create more time freedom for my family. Oh, and by the way, I coached baseball for the next 10 years. You can’t put a price on that.
Healthy Society
Have you ever done something for someone, great or small, and felt even better than the person on the receiving end? Giving back to society is vital for living a meaningful and fulfilling life. When we see ourselves as “more”, we can be “more” to others in society. Nikken’s Humans Being More workshops offer fabulous opportunities to improve yourself, thereby allowing you to give more of yourself to others in need.
Healthy Finances
Finances are a major vital component of the Wellness Home. When the finances are affected, then everything is affected. Many people work around the clock often at the expense their family time and their health. They spend most of their lives working, usually too hard and for too many hours, just to make more money. In today’s world, it is very rare to achieve financial security by working for someone else.
Compare that to Nikken, where you have complete flexibility and unlimited opportunity. Earn extra money part-time or develop a new career or an encore career. Build your business and create a steady source of income. We provide the tools, support, the leadership from experienced professionals.
When you create a Wellness Home and teach others to do the same, you generate a healthy lifestyle that provides you with a source of revenue. Spread the word. Educate your Consultants on how to grow their Nikken businesses by building their Wellness Homes as well as by creating repetitive orders for clients who are similarly learning to build their own Wellness Homes. It’s a continual cycle of health and prosperity. As an Independent Nikken Consultant, you can have the freedom to live as you wish. To earn as much as you deserve and to make a difference in the world, helping others.
Humans Being More
The Nikken mission is both simple and inspirational—to help people discover an Active Wellness Lifestyle. We provide the means with The 5 Pillars of Health®. Since 1975, Nikken has provided the innovative products and income opportunity to live a life in balance and to share the message of every home a Wellness Home. Our action plan and easy-to-understand compensation plan create infinite possibilities of building a better future for everyone. It all begins with you and your commitment to the 5 Pillars of Health®.
Have a very happy and healthy 4th of July. We will see you all the following week for our next installment for the ABC’s of Self Care.