The Importance of Events

by Reid Nelson

Events are one of the most important building blocks of your future business in Nikken. Those of you that were in Orlando, at the World Convention know just how important an event can be for Vision, and Belief in building the  confidence it takes to build your business.

There are 2 events coming your way in the next few months, that can continue your momentum for the future.

1) HBM, in Salt Lake City Utah, May 15-16. An absolutely critical part of the 5 Pillars of Health while you build your business. This program will help you build the confidence and understanding of yourself that it will take to build a big business in Nikken. I personally have been to 25 HBM's as a participant, and countless more as as assistant to the facilitator . Take as many of your consultants, and your new people with you as possible. It is a critical element of the Nikken philosophy.This program changed our lives forever!

Next, 2) The next big Nikken Independent Field Event in Salt Lake City Utah on July 10-11th.

These are awesome events put on by Independent Consultants, and supported fully by the Nikken Executive Team. This is where you will learn from the Best of the Best, Both field leaders, and Corporate leaders as well. You will be trained and inspired. Your Vision will grow. Your Confidence will be unstoppable. Do whatever it takes to attend these events. Then after this event, 90 days later is the next Big event in San Antonio Texas. You Build from event, to event, to event. As you do this, your group will grow, and you will grow, as a person, and a Nikken Consultant. 

Be Committed to your dream. Do whatever it takes. You can do it. We believe in you. If we can do it, You can do it. See you all very soon, in Salt lake City. Yvonne and I are All In! Are you?

Visit the Events page to learn about upcoming events and register.

You 2.0 + Nikken 2.0 = Good to Great!

Royal Diamonds William Todd and Michael DiMuccio discuss their overwhelming excitement and personal renewed sense of purpose along with their commitment to help put Nikken 2.0 on the map.

Leadership

By Mike Hyatt

The most difficult person you will ever lead is yourself. If you get yourself to do what you preach everyone else to do - then suddenly you develop the most compelling reason for anybody to follow you. People are desperate for heroes, for models. You have to realize that people, whether you like it or not are going to emulate you!  They are going to follow you, in your faults and in your strengths.

And so I'm constantly working on the prototype of my own life, knowing that people are going to emulate me and mimic me.  The good news is that it makes all of this inside your control, because you are the one person you can change - you may not be able to change that person downline from you, but you can change your own behavior, and have an enormous impact on that same person downline from you.

Working on yourself, leading yourself, is job number one for every leader!

Parenting and leadership are very parallel. My kids didn't pay very much attention to what I told them. Now I could just beat myself up, or I could make their lives miserable by being sort of a jail warden, by just "telling them" and catching them doing wrong things. Or I could just start doing the right things, trusting that they're going to emulate that eventually.

Gandhi said:  "Be the change you want to see in the world."  And the same is true in creating the culture in a organization.

Culture is defined by the behavior of its leaders.

If you want to change the culture of the corporation, be what it is you want people to become. If you want them to be out working the business, networking and meeting new people, YOU gotta to get out there and work the business!
 

Advice from our CEO

Last November, Forbes.com published an article entitled “Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Mentor”. The author asserts that many of the most successful people in history maintained a valued mentorship, either receiving guidance from a trusted mentor or sharing their own wisdom with a promising student. Alexander the Great was mentored by Aristotle. Walter Cronkite was mentored by Fred Birney, his high school journalism teacher. Even Luke Skywalker was mentored by Obi-Wan Kenobi. 

A 2012 survey cited in the article showed that entrepreneurs who received mentoring increased their revenue by an average of 106 percent, versus an average increase of only 14 percent among those who didn’t receive mentoring. A difference of 92 percent!

There’s a reason why Entrepreneur.com calls mentors “a young entrepreneur’s secret weapon.” An effective mentor will provide counsel and training in the skills that an entrepreneur will need, and leads by example. An effective mentor believes in his students and wants them to succeed. An effective mentor has an enviable track record of success as an entrepreneur. And let’s not forget —mentors know that helping their mentees to succeed pays incredible dividends in their own continued growth and success.

For all of these reasons and more, there is no better environment for developing a mentorship than right here with Nikken’s Diamonds and Royal Diamonds.

That’s why for me it’s so reassuring to look out and see a host of familiar faces – the faces of Leaders who have earned the title of mentor – intermingled with many eager new faces beaming with anticipation. Each of you is a testament to the unique story and longevity of Nikken. In a few days, you will carry this legacy back home with you, adding to and enhancing our story with every new product introduction, and every relationship, whether as mentor or mentee.

In January of this year, we launched Nikken 2.0.  My executive team is fully committed and capable to lead you into a new era of prosperity and to the next level of Humans Being More. In the tradition of that first year, 1975, we believe, 2015 will usher in a sense of renewed energy, excitement and purpose to carry on our mission of introducing people around the world to a way of living measured by 5 Pillars of Health. If you agree, then together, we will make Nikken’s next billion dollars in global retail sales a reality.

Kurt Fulle

"Embrace Who You Are" with Kim Woodward

Check out this inspirational Women Empower Webinar featuring Kim Woodward! 

Measure of All Things

by William Todd

Go Pro: Texting for Success

"The Other Me" by Robert Loken

I sat beside myself today

and listened to what I had to say

I was searching for that other me

The one I really want to be

The words I heard were oh so true

If only I could follow through

The words were spoke by the other me

The one I really want to be

I find procrastination is a friend of mine

It seems he’s with me all the time

Procrastination has no place with the other me

The one I really want to be

I must leave procrastination far behind

To do this I must change my mind

By changing what’s inside of me

I can truly be the other me

I have found a place with friends who care

There wisdom and knowledge they freely share

NIKKEN is the place you see

That will guide me to the other me

Written by; Robert (Bob from Mn) Loken

A man who truly believes in NIKKEN

How will your movie end?

If you were going to a movie about your life, how would you want it to end? How would you want the viewers to feel about you when it’s over?

I was thinking about this after I read something really insightful by Earl Nightingale:

“Those people who achieve are they who have given themselves a good mental picture to work towards.

Imagine that you are seated in a movie theater waiting for the show to begin. What will this movie do for you?  How will it affect you?  Will you feel moved, perhaps even to tears?  Will you laugh at a comedy, or feel terrified at the crises faced by the hero or heroine?  Will you feel wonderful waves of love and compassion - or surges of resentment?  All these feelings will pulse through you, and more.  What impact will all this have on your life?

And now imagine that the movie you are going to see is about the most fascinating person in the world...YOURSELF!

In this special theater - which is in the mind and heart of each of us, you are the producer, director, writer, actor or actress. You will be the hero or the villain. You are also among the audience that reacts to this thrilling drama.

The exciting story unfolding upon your ‘inner screen’ is one which is invented every second of your life.  Yesterday, tomorrow, and most importantly, right now.

You watch the image upon that screen and you invent the image upon that screen - right now. Will the story have a happy ending?  Is it full of happiness and success or sorrow and failure?  At this moment the story line is unfolding, and the discerning eye can tell the direction in which the story will go.

Since you are the dramatist, the director and the actor, you can change the stories development. Now. This instant. And for your whole lifetime.

You can make this a success story. You can be the hero and conquer the villain. You can make this a heartwarming story, which will enrich the lives of all who know you. You can either direct and produce a wonderful magnificent life or a drab mechanical tale, a chronicle of boredom. How we live our lives is a result of the story we believe about ourselves.

Our thoughts, habits, even our abilities must be those of the person we believe ourselves to be.  It all depends on what you do with the images you carry inside you...you can change it for the better and start getting the kind of results such a change will bring about!”

 From The Essence of Success, by Earl Nightingale -pg. 97

-Dave

"Responsibility" by Bob Proctor

Responsibility is a choice. I often refer to it as being the key to freedom. Your future can be everything you have ever dreamed about and then some. You have the talent and tools to experience one beautiful day after another. That is, in fact, what I believe the architect of the universe had in mind for you when you were created. If that was not so, you would have never been endowed with such awesome powers.

My good friend and mentor, Val Van De Wall wrote, “When a person takes responsibility for their life and the results they are obtaining, they will cease to blame others as the cause of their results. Since you cannot change other people, blame is inappropriate. Blaming others causes a person to remain bound in a prison of their own making. When you take responsibility, blame is eliminated and you are free to grow.”

Those who haven’t taken responsibility for their results and their life often find themselves in a mental prison, and in many ways, a mental prison is a much worse place to live than a federal prison or penitentiary. Mental torment can destroy just about everything that is necessary for a meaningful life: self image, self respect, relationships and a host of other attributes. It will even cause a person’s physical health to deteriorate.

Responsibility opens the door and permits you to walk into freedom. If you find yourself confined to such a mental state, understand there is a way out. Escape is encouraged and possible.

The master key that fits the lock is clearly marked and is within everyone’s reach. It is responsibility.

I think it would be a fair comment to say that the people we have the greatest respect for are those who have accepted responsibility for every aspect of their lives. These individuals rarely duck responsibility by blaming someone else. When faced with an unfavorable situation, they are usually aware they have attracted the negative circumstance and know everything happens for a reason. When this happens, they merely learn their lesson and keep reaching out, above and beyond to the new frontier, taking responsibility for whatever happens, every step of the way.

When a person refuses to accept responsibility for their life, they reject their uniqueness and they turn all of their special powers over to other people, situations or circumstances. They are then no longer in control of their future. They will be hoping something good will happen, but because of past experiences they will very likely be expecting something they do not want to happen. When you accept responsibility for your life and for the results which you alone determine, you will develop confidence that your dreams can be realized, that your plans can be carried out. Awareness of this magnificent truth is one of the greatest, if not THE greatest thing that can happen in your life. Its Aladdin’s lamp, a magic wand, the tooth fairy all wrapped up in one.

Dr. Rollo May, a distinguished psychiatrist, once wrote, “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” It requires great courage to take responsibility for your life. It’s so much easier to blame someone else or something outside of you. George Bernard Shaw said, “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, they make them.” I believe Shaw was right. In my opinion, those who win big in life take responsibility and create their own destiny.

Earlier on it was suggested that responsibility brings with it a certain amount of freedom. For some, these last few paragraphs may be life-altering. And, with the proper understanding, I guarantee it has the power to free you of unnecessary mental weight that you may have been carrying around with you all of your life. The concept to which I’m referring has been misunderstood by so many and has probably single- handedly ruined more lives than one can possibly imagine. Ignorance of this principle will most certainly cause a person to experience the destructive emotions of anger, guilt and resentment.

Here it is: there is a vast difference between being responsible “for” and being responsible “to.” It seems so simple, but I don’t want you to let its apparent simplicity fool you. I’m going to repeat it again. There is a big difference between being responsible “for” and being responsible “to.”

It’s not uncommon to hear parents blame themselves and assume responsibility for something that has happened to their child, and that child might be 40 years old!

“If only we …” Or, “I should have …” Far too often we inappropriately assume responsibility for something, when in fact our real duty to the person may have ended 20 years ago. Unfortunately for most, they carry that baggage around with them for life, never realizing they have a choice.

The correct interpretation of this is: you are responsible FOR your feelings and your results – not another person’s. You may be responsible TO another person for one thing or another, but not FOR another person. The exception, of course, is when you choose to take on the responsibility of raising children until they reach the age of maturity. In that case, you are both responsible TO and FOR them, until such time as they become responsible for themselves.

At times, it might even be appealing to contemplate having another person take on our responsibilities for us. We could even trick ourselves into believing that by doing this, we would be freer to play, have fun and do the things we wanted. Without serious thought, it might never enter our mind that exactly the opposite would happen. When you permit others to take on your responsibilities, you become dependent on them. They become the giver and you become the receiver. Your well-being is dependent upon their generosity. Hopefully, at some point, it will become very clear that this kind of behavior only leads to a life of lack, limitation, resentment and confusion on the parts of both the giver and the receiver.

I’ve never witnessed anything positive that has come from the misuse of responsibility. When you take on the responsibility for another person’s feelings, results, or actions, you destroy their self-reliance and self-respect.

You are responsible for all of the results in your life. You are responsible for your happiness. You are responsible for your health. You are responsible for your wealth. You are responsible for your emotional state. Regardless of what has happened in the past, the future lies ahead with an open slate, waiting for you to take control and create a wonderful life for yourself.

Winston Churchill, who certainly knew something about responsibility, said, “Responsibility is the price of greatness.”

Here’s a marvelous affirmation that you can verbalize every night before you go to sleep and every morning as you step out of bed.

I am responsible for my life …
for my feelings …
for my personal growth …
and for every result I get