Archive for April, 2007

It’s All About Belief

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

When I was introduced to Isagenix, the reason I didn’t want anything to do with the business, is because I didn’t believe that I could ever be successful at a business like that.

Nor did I ever believe that I could ever lose 100 lbs, because I had tried so many times before, I thought that maybe I could lose 20-30 lbs, because I had done that 100 times before, but there was no way that I ever though I could ever lose 100 lbs.

After I had lost 50 lbs in 3 months, I was real excited about that, but I thought that it was a fluke thing, I didn’t believe I could ever do it again, but I continued following the program, & I continued to see results, then my belief level began to increase, then I thought that maybe I can do it this time.

I compare my business journey so much like my weight loss journey, in the beginning I didn’t believe that I could ever lose 100 lbs, & with the business, I didn’t think I could ever be successful with a business like that, plus I can’t talk to people ( I am a little on the shy & quite side) . But I had the desire to help others, to teach them about Isagenix, not only because what it had done for me, but what it had done for others as well.

I was also really struggling with my job, working retail is crazy, I never saw my family except in passing, I had to work a lot of weekends, and here it was Christmas eve & I had to be the closing manager again for the 3rd year in a row. Someone else was controlling me & my time with my family. I was also hoping to make enough income to be able to be home with my family.

My first year, I worked on my Isagenix business very, very part time, (I was working two jobs & taking care of my family). I had built my business up to were I was making only $50-$100 per week, when I thought to myself, Ok if I am making this much money & I am putting forth very little effort, I wonder what would happen if I put forth more effort.

So I decided to put in my 2 weeks notice on my full time job, & I went home & started to cry like a baby, thinking what in the world have I done, I could lose my home, we really needed my income to provide for my family. In fact I think I was very close to a nervous break down.

So I went back to work the next day, & told my boss, “I was a little bit premature in my resignation, I need to keep my job”, & she told me, “SORRY Kim, I have already opened up your position, I don’t know if I can give you your job back. Well I went home very stressed & cried some more, for about 3 days. Then I thought well I have 2 choices, I either need to get to work on my Isagenix business or I need to find another job, well I decided to get to work on my Isagenix business, and it took me 3 months to replace my income, 3 months after that I doubled my income, and now it is 10 times my income.

I remember not to far into building my business setting down with my mentor, & business partner, Don Nooner, who is the 2nd millionaire in the Isagenix company, & I told him I was just hoping to be able to replace my income from my job, so I could be home with my family. There was no way did I ever believe I could ever make a 6 figure income, and I no that there is no way I could ever make a million.

And he said to me “Kim, why not, if you can make $400-$500 a month, why can’t you make a 6 figure income, & if you can make a 6 figure income, why can’t you make a million dollars?”

Well I would like to tell you, I now know “I will be one of Isagenix’ Millionaires.”

There are two things in my life I have struggled with, & that has been my weight & my finances. Isagenix has changed both of those for me.

Again it is about belief

Two years ago at an Isagenix convention, a lady shared her story, & she said she started out in a size 14, & her dream was to get into a single digit size. I was a size 10 at the time, and I thought “I want to do that!”.

I want to be in a single digit size. So the last two years I have been kind of going back & forth with the 9-day program, (which is the program I had followed to lose 152 lbs.) and the maintenance program, not really getting much results, just maintaining & thinking I don’t think that I can lose any more weight, I am just stuck here, but I am really ok with were I was at.

Then at the first of this year, I thought ‘Kim, why can’t you lose one more size?’, If I can lose 152 lbs I can surely lose one more size. So I set my goal to get to a size 8 or smaller. I have bought myself a pair of size 8 pants, & I can now fit in them. The thing that changed for me was the belief, before I was unsure that I could do it, to were I know I can do it, and thats what has made the difference for me.

“Its all about belief ” Believing is knowing and acting as if something is that is not but will be.

Isagenix is all about changing lives, and it really has changed mine in every way.

My Isagenix journey

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

When I started my Isagenix journey, and began to lose the weight I felt like throughout that first year I went through what I call an identity crisis.

I was working at the time at a womens plus size clothing store, & there were a lot of mirrors. I would look in the mirror, & not recognize the person looking back, I found myself looking in the mirror a lot. I was a manager there, so I would be in the store by myself in the mornings, & I would go to the back of the store to the 3-way mirrors & just check myself out. It was strange & exciting at the same time. I went through a lot of sizes quick, I invested in safety pins to hold my pants up. I didn’t have the time to take them in, & I didn’t have the money to keep buying new cloths for every size I went through.

I started out barely fitting into the largest size, (size 28) and people use to ask me how much weight I wanted to lose, & I would respond I don’t know, I will know when I get there. Because it had been so long since I had been small.

The Smallest size in the store I worked at was a 14. Ladies would come in that wore a 14 & I would think ‘Oh they are so tiny’, & wish I could be that size. Then as I continued to see results I set my goal to get to the smallest size in the store. Well I am happy to now say I reached that goal, in fact I am to small to shop there anymore.

When I was introduced to Isagenix, I didn’t want anything to do with the business, I was working full time at the Mall, & also part time doing hair. After my first year a lot of things changed for me, I would have a lot of women come into the store and say “why do you work here? ” You are to small to shop here”, and I would think “Honey if you only new”.

Then I would have ladies come into the store wanting to buy an outfit, and they would start to cry, because they can’t even fit into the largest size in a plus size store, I would cry with them, because I could relate, before I started Isagenix there were some pants I couldn’t even fit in. So at that point I began to feel like I have been so blessed, I have been given this amazing gift, that I needed to share with people about Isagenix, not only what it had done for me, but what it is doing for so many others.

Proverb: When someone shares something with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

This is one of the many reason why I have chosen to recommend Isagenix to everyone I meet.