Living Well – June 2023

Focusing on RelationshipsNot Sales

Network marketing is built on relationships and referrals, not hard sales pitches. The most successful network marketers are those who approach their business by making friends first and connecting people with opportunities second. After almost 20 years in this industry, here are the key takeaways I’ve learned in building a loyal base of consumers, potential business partners and finding influential people who have the potential to explode your business.

Make People Feel Special

The moment you meet someone, make them feel valued and important. Smile, make eye contact and engage them in a genuine conversation about their life, interests and goals. People will always remember how you made them feel in that first interaction. This foundation of genuine caring and connection sets the stage for future partnerships.

Listen

Let people talk while you listen openly and eagerly. Don’t judge them for their opinions or choices. Look for ways to understand their perspective and find common ground and relate where possible. Showing interest in learning more about them will make them

By Nicolas van Rensburg, Future Development Consultant for The AIM Companies™

want to reciprocate when you share the AIM opportunity. Active listening is the best way to form trust.

Share Your Story

Talk about why you are involved with AIM and how much joy and purpose it has brought to your life. Let people get to know the real you behind the products and business, and they will connect with you on a deeper level. People buy from people they know, like and trust. Your story is a cornerstone that will inspire others to join you.

Build Value

Provide useful information, tips, resources and solutions to improve the lives of the people you meet. Build your reputation as someone who helps others in a genuine, giving spirit. When people experience the value you bring,

they will recommend and open you up to their network, even if they don’t join themselves.

Stay In Touch

Follow up regularly with the people in your network through calls, texts, emails, social-media messages or in-person meetups. Turn casual acquaintances into friendships built on trust and longevity. Strong relationships will open more doors to new opportunities over time.

Be Patient

Developing trust and strong connections takes time. Avoid rushing into sales conversations or pressuring people to become customers or teammates too soon. Let relationships unfold naturally at their own pace.

Be Creative

Use your creativity to find unique ways to connect with people and build relationships. Host events or create engaging social-media content that shares your story and offers value. The more creative you are, the more memorable you'll be, and the stronger your relationships will become.

The best networkers make friends first and don’t pressure people to join. This approach is refreshing and different from what many amateurs do in the industry. By leaving every interaction as friends, you will develop strong relationships and your connections will be proud and happy to expose you to their circle of influence. The people in your network have the power to introduce you to influential individuals, making it essential to value your relationships and take advantage of networking opportunities to grow your network and business. By using the techniques outlined in this article, you can build relationships, grow your business and find those influential people who will help you make an impact. Remember to approach your business with a long-term mindset and focus on building genuine connections, and your AIM business will thrive.

Men’s Health

June is Men’s Health Month although it’s common-sense awareness for fellows any time of the year. Taking care of yourself through healthy lifestyle choices is fitting for guys at any age.

Right from the start, The AIM Companies can contribute to men’s well-being with supplemental nutrition that boosts wholesome dietary intake and bolsters physical activity, combining three lifestyle choices that can help keep guys in good health.

Comparing a man’s health to the manly roar of a waterfall, the clarity of this potentially powerful flow is best maintained by food in its most natural state. The purity of AIM’s whole-food powders such as BarleyLife, CoCoa LeafGreens and Just Carrots enhance the high intake of nutrients and phytonutrients a guy gets from primarily whole, plant-based foods. The opposing dietary downfall would be a steady diet of ultra-processed foods that, in effect, pollutes the flow and ultimately shortens the roaring waterfall’s lifespan.

Regular physical activity supports the shape and strength of a man’s body, which is born to move not vegetate. An exercise habit is a healthy move at any age.

A guy like AIM Athlete Lew Hollander an inspiring example in his nineties. His Ironman moves are enhanced by AIM products that include Peak Endurance and RediBeets

AIM Director Kees Vandermey cycles more than 2,000 km during rideable Canadian months and works out in a home gym in the winter. AIM products such as the to fuel his moves. Of course, the majority of men are likely to have a more dialed down exercise routine.

Exercise doesn’t have to be intense to be beneficial. Even walking on a regular basis has been shown to promote incredible health benefits.1 Besides, it’s one of the most natural movements of mankind in general. Drinking beverages made from RediBeets or Peak Endurance can further enhance walking and help guys pick up the pace for optimal benefits from this most basic of exercises.

Targeted nutrition aimed at specific health benefits for men comes in a variety of AIM products, including CalciAIM, Frame Essentials

CalciAIM targets the strength and structure of bones and teeth for men. Its delivery of three types of calcium in a powder that makes tasty, citrusy beverages is made all the more effective with the addition of ingredients that enhance the absorption and utilization of calcium in a guy’s body.

Frame Essentials targets the care and strengthening of joints with two types of glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane and boswellia extract so that guys may be able to avoid joint pain that can inhibit their physical movement.

ReAssure SP targets the prostate, a guy-specific gland that commonly enlarges the more mature a man gets. This dietary supplement contains four natural ingredients known to support prostate health: saw palmetto berry oil extract, pumpkin seed oil, zinc and tomato extract (lycopene).

Combining AIM products with good eating habits and regular exercise fosters other factors that lead to men’s health: an overall positive attitude toward life, manageable stress and better sleep. Men who are dads can easily identify with the sleep factor.

The fact of the matter is nutrition that works is a healthy lifestyle choice for men at any stage in their lives, making the use of AIM products a suitable, guy thing.

1 bit.ly/WalkingReallyWorks

A New Lease on Life Through Nutrition

Shared by Giles Richardson, AIM Group Builder in Roodepoort, South Africa

For the greater part of the past 40 years, I have lived with stiffness and severe pain in my body. Getting up from a chair or into a car has been a major challenge. I was also plagued with stabbing nerve pain running up my leg and burning pain in my foot. Not anymore!

I turned 76 on January 21, 2023, and friends and family have commented on how well I look for my age. They are impressed that I am able to go to the gym five days a week for workout classes and do a parkrun as often as possible. I believe that following a healthy diet and supplementing with AIM products has a lot to do with my well-being.

I took my first AIM steps after attending a presentation by our sponsor in July 2018. Due to years of gut issues, I started using BarleyLife and later added Herbal Fiberblend for nutritional support as well as Renewed Balance body cream.

Over time, I was able to address other health problems, including constipation, food intolerances, low energy, poor sleep and a weight issue, by using a variety of other AIM products such as FloraFood and AIMega and omitting gluten, dairy and eggs from my diet.

With this big lifestyle change and the introduction of other AIM products, I am now able to enjoy life fully. My health improvements impressed my friends and family, and so I can help them with their health issues.

Getting involved with AIM and assisting people with the use of the AIM products has also opened opportunities for us as pensioners to assist in covering our monthly AIM products. I am thankful for this new lease on life and can look forward to the rest of my retirement.

My motto is:

“Start each day with a glass of BarleyLife mixed in water and have a positive outlook on life, and you will be able to tackle any problem that comes your way.”

BarleyLife 5809E, $51.00 M, $54.50 C CAN 5815E, $52.75 M, $55.50 C

AIMing for Nutrient-Dense Not Calorie-Dense

AIM Members and Customers who regularly read Living Well magazine and AIM news have likely seen the words “plant-based diet” possibly to the point of becoming meaningless. So, to provide some meaning, here are some nutritional differences between two cruciferous vegetables and two meaty options, showing nutrient-dense foods versus calorie-dense.

Of course, these two comparison tables do not show the entire nutritional picture, but foods that are not plant-based significantly increase calorie and fat intake. Plant-based diets deliver a profusion of essential nutrients and phytonutrients without being high in calories, fat or sugar. Consuming nutrient-dense, plant nutrition supports healthy body weight and well-being.

In regard to less amounts of protein in the vegetable examples above, eating a variety of fruits

vegetables can provide a sufficient amount of this essential nutrient.2 And supplementing protein intake is easy with the vegan source in ProPeas, which like all plant-based AIM products, is nutrient-dense not calorie-dense. And that’s worth AIMing for!

Peak Endurance: Your Alternate Energy Provider

With summer weather ahead, there’s a lot more physical activity to be enjoyed outdoors. It’s important to stay energized and hydrated in the heat so that you don’t lose steam. Of all of the names that AIM could come up with for an energy-drink powder to literally peak your endurance, well, Peak Endurance is precisely named.

AIM chose PEAK ATP® as its primary ingredient unlike energy drinks containing added sugar and stimulants such as caffeine. PEAK ATP® delivers adenosine triphosphate—the exact ATP molecule required for the human body to create energy.

Peak Endurance’s oral source of ATP has been shown to increase the capability to synthesize ATP in red blood cell pools and prevent a decline in ATP levels during physical activity, thereby delivering added energy and delaying tiredness to provide peak endurance.¹ Again, aptly named.

Measured results in an original research article published in the December 2021 issue of Frontiers in Sports and Active Living revealed increased performance during resistance

exercise was achieved by taking 400 mg of PEAK ATP® ¹, which is what you get in the recommended daily serving of Peak Endurance.

Of course, AIM could have made a single-ingredient formula, but there’s even more to peak your endurance:

Six Electrolytes—essential minerals that help hydrate your body before, during and after exercise as well as support optimal muscle function and energy metabolism

Six B Vitamins—nutrients that are essential to metabolism and staying energized

Vitamin C—an essential nutrient that reduces oxidative stress and muscle inflammation while aiding in muscle recovery

Make Peak Endurance your alternate energy provider this summer. References

Peak Endurance 6366E, $40.00 M, $42.50 C CAN 6372E, $44.75 M, $47.50 C

BarleyLife Xtra Pineapple Summer Drinks

For those who have to endure long, cold winters, it’s always a relief when the first buds of spring push through the earth like a sign of heat-filled hope, indicating finer weather to come. The arrival of summer this month officially welcomes in the warmth of sunshine that springs open the door to outside dining and balmy evenings, a time when cool drinks go down so well.

With BarleyLife Xtra Pineapple, AIM delivers summer-specific drinks that serve a delicious hint of the tropics wherever you may be. There’s something simply summery about pineapples, conjuring up comfort food, warmth and sunshine. Adding ice to BarleyLife Xtra Pineapple beverages turns them into perfectly cool healthy summer drinks that are refreshing right down to the last drop of cool greens.

Along with being thirst-quenching, beverages made with the 18 nutritious fruit and vegetable powders in BarleyLife Xtra Pineapple can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Naturally sweet, these healthy drinks include barley leaf juice powder as the dominant ingredient in the mix.

Fans of BarleyLife Xtra apple-cherry powder will likely know that pineapple has always been one of the fruit powders in these nutrient-dense greens but not the dominant flavor until AIM introduced a pineapple-flavored version in August 2022. One year later, this tropical taste of BarleyLife Xtra is still available, so order your summer supply soon.

Customers receive free shipping on BarleyLife

Xtra Pineapple when it is part of an order that totals at least $50. Members can add this unique edition in the BarleyLife family to their automatic monthly reorders (AMRs) for added savings on this tropical delight.

BarleyLife Xtra Apple-Cherry 6165E, $55.00 M, $58.50 C CAN 6170E, $56.75 M, $60.50 C

BarleyLife Xtra Pineapple 6700E, $40.00 M, $43.00 C CAN 6704E, $41.50 M, $44.75 C

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NON GMO VEGAN

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CoCoa LeafGreens

6381E, $41.00 M, $43.50 C CAN 6570E, $42.75 M, $45.50 C

All of the phytonutrients provided by ingredients in CoCoa LeafGreens could fill the page given the hundreds of compounds in cocoa alone and the vast amount from leafy greens.

Unique Cocoa and Leafy Green Powder Blend

Kale: Nutrients such as vitamins A, C and K and minerals that include calcium, copper and manganese. Delivers the eye-protective antioxidants, lutein and zeaxanthin.

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Barley: Many nutrients including vitamins A and K and minerals such as calcium, chromium and potassium. Potent antioxidant activity from superoxide dismutase, lutonarin and saponarin.

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Spinach: Nutrients include vitamins A, B9, C and K as well as the minerals, manganese, magnesium and potassium. Antioxidant protection from carotenoids such as vitamin A and zeaxanthin.

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Kale Leaf

Swiss Chard Leaf

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Spinach Leaf

Broccoli Sprout

Swiss Chard: Nutrientrich in vitamins A and K as well as the minerals magnesium and manganese. Delivers protective antioxidants including alpha- and beta-carotene.

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Arugula Leaf

Broccoli Sprouts: Loaded with vitamin C and one of the richest plant sources of sulforaphane, a phytonutrient with antioxidant properties.

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Cocoa: Nutrients include B vitamins and minerals such as iron, magnesium and selenium. Primary antioxidant activity from cocoa flavonoids that provide a greater source of phenolic antioxidants than most foods.

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Arugula: Healthy source of calcium and vitamins A, B9, C and K. Antioxidant activity from glucosinolates that protect DNA from damage.

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Hard to Digest

A survey released in September 2022 by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) revealed that digestive troubles disrupt 40 percent of Americans’ daily lives. For a national picture showing the extent of uncomfortable bowel symptoms around the country, this AGA Trust Your Gut survey gathered the responses of 1,010 adults 18 years of age and older. Interestingly, only 1 in 3 people would discuss the health problem with their physicians unless specifically asked about it.1

Those in the AIM Family know that talking about the colon, bowel movements, detoxification, etc. is necessary for alleviating gut problems. The simple fact is that an optimally functioning digestive system is essential for a person’s health.

AIMing for Digestive Health

The introduction of Herbal Fiberblend 35 years ago provided a combination of psyllium fiber and cleansing herbs that help the body to regularly detoxify and thoroughly eliminate waste. It’s nutrition that works to this very day as one of the healthy choices among AIM’s selection of dietary supplements

that support digestive health: Fit ’n Fiber, FloraFood, Herbal Release, Para 90 and PrepZymes.

The combination of FloraFood and Fit ’n Fiber enhances gut and immune health by introducing three types of probiotics and the specific food that fuels the proliferation of good bacteria in the microbiota. These microbes can be considered as health care practitioners at the intestinal level.

Herbal Release helps maintain digestive, immune and lymphatic* health with cleansing and detoxifying herbs while Para 90 attacks parasites* that disrupt the digestive process (*U.S. products).

PrepZymes aids the digestive system with individual enzymes that target nutritional components of food, even the not so nutritional, processed foods that are hard to digest.

Keeping the digestive system functioning optimally is one of the many aims of nutrition that works to improve people’s health.

Reference: 1 bit.ly/AGA2022Survey

Living in Your Prime Every Day

Shared by Carol Campbell, AIM Director in Bobcaygeon, Ontario

For the last 30 years, I am grateful to have enjoyed vibrant health. I attribute this to a powerhouse of nutrition that kickstarts my day!

After a serious health diagnosis, I prayed for guidance and that was the beginning of my journey to regain my health. I am so thankful to have met AIM Chairman’s Club Director Edna Smith, who encouraged me not to fear but to put my faith in God and make good dietary changes so that my cells could become healthy.

Edna explained that barley grass juice is one of the most alkalizing foods you can put into your body. Generally speaking, most individuals are acidic due to poor diet and lifestyle choices. Extensive research shows that harmful pathogens thrive in an acidic environment and weaken our body systems.

Eating more fruits and vegetables and less meat became my daily habit as well as taking a lot of BarleyLife. I drank fresh carrot juice but to avoid the hassle of daily juicing, I started mixing Just Carrots and RediBeets together with BarleyLife that I was taking several times a day. I knew I was getting the Garden Trio’s concentrated, whole-food nutrition—the way Mother Nature designed.

For colon cleansing, I added Herbal Fiberblend to my supplemental regimen. It was good to know that the mixture of herbs and fiber scoured toxins and “old garbage” out of my body. I will never be without my Herbal Fiberblend or the Garden Trio.

I also added Proancynol 2000 that contains powerful antioxidants to help fight free radicals. With dietary changes and supplementation, my cells were gradually restored to health.

Although I will soon be 84 and just moved into a new community, I still enjoy sharing AIM nutrition because I care so much about people. And I am thankful for the wonderful friendships that have developed as a result. I am convinced that the AIM products are the best on the market as I am living proof of nutrition that works.

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve. Contributors who submit a published testimonial in Living Well magazine receive a nutritional gift valued at $9.25 US.

Garden Trio 5565E, $118.50 M, $127.00 C (CAN 5565E, $123.00 M, $131.25 C)

JUNE CROSSWORD

A fun puzzle for you to complete using the articles in this month's Living Well Magazine.

Crossword answers will be provided in the next issue of the Living Well magazine

7. W hich one of the leafy ingredients in CoCoa LeafGreens is missing from the list below? Kale, Barley, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Broccoli Sprouts and ______ .

8. Network marketing is built on ______ and referrals, not hard sales pitches.

9 Made with 18 nutritious fruit and ______ powders, BarleyLife Xtra Pineapple can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

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1. According to Giles Richardson's motto, “Start each day with a glass of ______ mixed in water and have a positive outlook on life, and you will be able to tackle any problem that comes your way.”

2. Targeted nutrition aimed at specific health benefits for men comes in a variety of AIM products, including ______ , Frame Essentials and ReAssure SP.

3. Supplementing protein intake is easy with the vegan source in ______ .

4. Peak Endurance contains six ______ that help hydrate your body before, during and after exercise as well as support optimal muscle function and energy metabolism.

5. T he AIM Companies can contribute to men’s well-being with supplemental ______ .

6. Keeping the ______ system functioning optimally is one of the many aims of nutrition that works to improve people’s health.

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AIM Member Notice

Starting in June 2023, Preferred Member and Group Builder titles will need 600 PV during their membership year to waive a $20 annual renewal fee (previously it was 200 PV). Wholesale Members will need 100 PV (previously it was 50 PV). If an AIM Member doesn’t renew by the end of their onemonth grace period, they will convert automatically to AIM Customer.

Remember to Place Your Commission Qualifying Orders

For June, the cutoff date for placing month-end commission qualifying orders received via phone, fax or mail is 4:00 p.m. MT (Mountain Time) on Friday, June 30.

Online orders count until 11:59 p.m. MT on Friday, June 30.

June 18, 2023

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