Monthly Archives: November 2007

'An amazingly exciting journey'

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AIM Star Sapphire Director June Poswiata describes the last 15 years as “an amazingly exciting journey. Years ago when I chose the single life, my goal was to work hard and become successful. There were many valleys on my journey, but just as many mountaintops.”

The 15 years referred to by June began in l992. “I was tired of working long hours for several weight loss organizations. The training I acquired over the years enabled me to create my own weight loss program. It was an enormous calling for me to reach out to so many overweight and obese people right here in my own community of Bracebridge (in Canada). I ran a small ad in the local newspaper and my weight loss business quickly became a booming success, but I knew I needed something more to enhance it.”

It was about that time that June attended a health fair in Barrie, Ontario, where she was introduced to the AIM products. “I wasn’t at all interested in the green juice samples but the AIM Herbal Fiberblend® most certainly intrigued me. I purchased some, used some, bagged some for people to try, and business was mooooving. AIM Herbal Fiberblend® was shaking Bracebridge; everyone who entered my clinic went home with it. The weight loss results were incredible. People could not believe the garbage that came out of their bodies thanks to something so simple.”

It did not take June long to recognize that the AIM products were the missing link to enhance her business. “I became an AIM Member so that I could purchase the products wholesale, and I became a Director in a couple of months.” Still, she was not inclined to try AIM’s green barley powder.

Then AIM Chairman’s Club Director Edna Smith attempted one more time to talk to her about the green powder. “I said if she wanted to bring it to me I would talk to a few people at a meeting about it. The meeting was well attended and AIM BarleyLife® soon became a household word. The ‘Dynamic Duo’ – AIM Herbal Fiberblend® and AIM BarleyLife® – was launched, and it forms the nutritional foundational support in my clinic. Success begins with cleaning house. Life or death begins in the colon. Build up the immune system and keep the gut clean. I believe this to be the first step to wellness.”
June’s Weigh-To-Wellness business is located in her home office. “With my knowledge of the other AIM products I am able to help more people get well and stay well. It is so rewarding when I get phone calls daily from people telling me how good they feel.”

The keys to June’s AIM business are not complicated but they do require action on her part. “Persistency pays off. Follow-up is important. It is not about selling, it is about service, and the more service you provide the more business will come your way. Be positive and passionate about what you do.”

June, who has three grown daughters and five grandchildren, reflects back to 1992 and her goal to become successful. She is pretty happy with what she sees. “AIM has provided me with a lifestyle I never dreamed possible. It has given me the freedom to be who I am wherever I am, and to travel to places that used to be only a dream. AIM has given me the opportunity to reach out to people, those who are sick and needy, to help them improve their quality of life. My AIM business is my lifestyle; I live it every day. I am healthy and happy, and I take my AIM products faithfully, every day.”  

You look healthy

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Three words dear to her heart -

‘You look healthy’

Goldie Garner
Some words, some terms sound good even if you do not know for sure what they mean. Others just sound bad. You know it as soon as you see or hear the word or term Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Now there is a word that sounds good. It is a nonsense word but you have to smile just thinking about it.Stage IIIc, papillary, serous and clear cell, poorly differentiated ovarian carcinoma. You just know this is not a good term, even if you do not know what it means. It has a bad sound, it is in fact bad. On a scale of 1-10, it is a 10. It is a very aggressive and fast-growing cancer. Two months prior to learning she had the disease, Goldie Garner was given a clean bill of health. Then to learn she had a cancer that needed immediate attention was almost too much. That she went from a clean bill of health to having a tumor the size of a grapefruit in her lower left side was pretty awful. But the news got worse. 

Goldie, an AIM Director from Centreville, Maryland, headed straight for the hospital. She had a complete hysterectomy, had 18 inches of her colon removed, and was told she needed six treatments of chemotherapy that would take five hours for each treatment. Then came more bad news. “My doctor informed me that this type of cancer is a recurring type and also told me that I would get it back. This news was devastating to me. I thought it was over with the surgery and the chemo treatments.”
Her life, she says, became one of desperation. “I prayed to the Lord to help me fight this situation and give me the strength to get through it,” Goldie recalls. What resulted was a change in diet and she began using AIM products. “Today, I am healthy and have been cancer free for eight years,” exclaims Goldie.
 

Following the chemotherapy, “I started having bladder infections,” says Goldie. “The infection cleared up after taking AIM CranVerry® and AIM FloraFood®. Then the cancer fatigue started and I increased my AIM BarleyLife® and that went away. Since I had stopped all medications, and after the chemotherapy treatments, the resulting health problems were cleared up only by the use of AIM products and a natural diet.”
 

For Goldie to be incapacitated by an illness was something new in her active life. Growing up she played softball, field hockey, basketball, volleyball, and swam. She was captain in all her sports. All that exercise was gone with the cancer. Now that is behind her and she is back … taking care of the family five-acre lawn, gardening, swimming 50 laps per day, bowling, bike riding, and playing ball with the grandchildren.
 

Goldie and husband Ron, who is a builder, have three children and 11 grandchildren. Goldie grew up on a 500-acre farm in Maryland. There were 100 cows to milk with fields planted with corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay. “There was always something to do on the farm,” she says.

Maybe it was the mental toughness of being an athlete, possibly life on the farm helped, and do not forget the power of prayer. As Ron says, “Goldie demonstrated the right mental attitude toward her life-threatening ordeal. Through it all Goldie radiated a positive atmosphere, displayed determination, and the discipline to stay on track to a healthy recovery. The outcome of her dedication produced the greatest compliment a doctor could say: ‘You look healthy.’”
 

Ovarian cancer is deadly, the fifth leading cause of cancer death in women. Women in the United States have a 1.4 to 2.5 percent chance of developing some type of ovarian cancer. In 2007, there were 22,430 new cases diagnosed. There were 15,280 deaths. More than one-half of the deaths are in women ages 55-74.
 

Goldie knows she escaped a death sentence. “I choose not to dwell on it. I don’t like to worry about anything. I like to start each day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Make the best of each and every day. Don’t whine or whimper over things you don’t have any control over. I look at what happened to me as a bump on the road and an inconvenience that I had to get over.”
AIM BarleyLife® is the core of Goldie’s AIM regimen. In all, she takes 12 AIM products but, she says, “I would not have a day without AIM BarleyLife®.” 

While recovering from her cancer, her doctor focused on a particular blood test with the hope of having a reading below 35. At one point Goldie’s reached down to 3.5, the lowest possible and best reading. You can’t go any lower, said the doctor. But the next time her reading was below 2.0, off the chart. Her doctor could not explain such a great result. But Goldie can. “It’s nutrition and AIM BarleyLife®. I was taking six tablespoons of it per day” and she believes it created an alkaline presence in her body instead of an acid profile. “It was that day that I realized AIM BarleyLife® is a powerful punch for my health. I would not have a day without my AIM BarleyLife®.”
 

At one point, Goldie and Ron traveled to Idaho where they met Chairman’s Club Directors Jim and Carolyn Kling. They encouraged them to attend the Texas BarleyLife Convention. “This is where we first heard Dr. Mary Ruth Swope and Janet Pauly (both AIM Chairman’s Club Directors) and many testimonies on how people were healed from so many different illnesses by changing their lifestyle and diet. I feel AIM goes to the very limit to improve and test its products. I feel the products are of the highest quality in the market today,” says Goldie. 

Janet Pauly holds a special place in Goldie’s heart. “Without a doubt Janet Pauly’s testimony (about her beating cancer nearly 20 years ago) and Janet talking with me really gave me a lot of encouragement that I was on the right track” in using AIM products.
 

“It is not what you have in life but who you have in life,” advises Goldie “I am so thankful to have such a wonderful husband, a loving family, and so many wonderful friends. Life is about relationships. Live a day at a time and always have a good attitude. My Dad told me to remember that there is always someone worse off than you and I never forgot that.” 

“Cherish your health,” adds Goldie. “If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. Keep learning.”
 

Back to those words that have meaning even though you are not exactly sure what they mean. Forget that bad term that Goldie heard from her gynecologist some nine years ago. Focus instead on supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Even though it is found in most dictionaries, it is still generally considered a made-up word. It is meant to express approval or gratitude. It might not be a word Goldie Garner uses but it is a pretty good word to describe who she is today and how she got here.
 

Thank you AIM, she says. Thank you family. Thank you friends.
Thank you God

Discover the benefits of being an AIM mentor

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The object of mentoring is to encourage the total growth of a less experienced AIM Member. What you do and how you do it will depend on the person you are mentoring as well as discussing the time you are both able to commit and what you will contribute. An AIM mentor is a role model, teacher, companion, support and resource for the person you are mentoring. A mentoring relationship can last as long as both parties feel there is a benefit. Sometimes it is just one or two meetings. You continue the relationship only if it continues to serve you both well.

So what does it take to be an AIM business or product mentor? It takes the same level of interest, commitment, and confidence in your own abilities that it takes to mentor a student. It also requires that you be sincerely interested in someone else’s growth. Mentoring a downline has its obvious benefits including the satisfaction of helping a fellow AIM Member with product information or building a business. Often those being mentored just need a bump in the right direction to realize AIM’s product health benefits and additional income from an AIM business.

Who becomes an AIM mentor? Why do they do it? Some were fortunate enough to have had a mentor and want to repay that. Others just want to help out, be a positive influence, or give something to a fellow AIM Member. Whatever your reason for being a mentor, you will find it a special experience. Nothing can quite match the self-satisfaction you get from sharing yourself and helping others.

A mentor should assume nothing. That is, your goal is to help someone become a more productive AIM Member. It is not unlike a mentor assisting a student. Find out what is needed and go about supplying it through your real-life experiences as an AIM Member. Consider the following when working with someone:

Set expectations of performance, offer challenging ideas, help build self-confidence, encourage professional behavior, offer friendship, confront negative behaviors and attitudes, teach by example, provide growth experiences, offer quotable quotes, explain how the AIM compensation plan works, coach the person being mentored, offer informed advice, encourage winning behavior, trigger self-awareness, be an inspiration, share critical knowledge, offer encouragement, and assist with goal setting and career success.

Want to know what catapulted Jim and Carolyn Kling, Janet Pauly, and Dr. Mary Ruth Swope to the very top of the AIM compensation plan? They mentored and continue to mentor new and long-time AIM Members in product knowledge and how AIM’s compensation plan can assist with income needs. They are teachers of the AIM story. It is work and there are setbacks. But, oh, the rewards! Financially, they all have done very well with their AIM businesses. They can calculate that. But there is no calculating how many people they have helped to improved health and wealth. How good they must feel to know that they were there with the right message at the right time for an AIM Member who needed some direction and encouragement.

Offer yourself to an AIM Member who needs a little help. There is one right there in your downline just hoping for the assistance. The Member may not have the courage to ask, you need to exercise some leadership and offer it.