In this year’s Amway Talent Contest, there are once again not 1 but 2 amazing Network TwentyOne Leaders who have made it to the top 10 semi-finalists… and it is now our job to vote them in to the top 3 finalists … Dinah Stokes from California and Aura Andrews from Florida.

Only Dinah Stokes could create a jingle on Time Defiance, Anti-Aging, Microdermabrasion … this song is now stuck in my mind.

And to say the Aura Andrews is gifted would be an understatement … amazing!

The top three finalists will perform at Achievers ’11! Amway’s talent judges have selected the Top 10 IBO Talent Show acts from the hundreds of outstanding submissions. Now’s the time to help Amway select the top three finalists (2 of them sure to be Aura and Dinah of course)!

Voting closes Friday, November 11, at midnight ET, so don’t delay –VOTE NOW for your favorite IBO Talent show finalist!

To cast your vote, simply click here and scroll to the bottom of the page … let’s go guys, make Network TwentyOne proud!

This book will be available exclusively through Network TwentyOne globally. Available in the USA in Washington, DC next month at the Network TwentyOne conference, be on the look out for John and Jim’s book coming soon to your market as translation has already begun in several languages.

Cool stuff and just another way those smart peeps at Network TwentyOne are dedicated to supporting affiliated IBOs/ABOs worldwide with the best in training, education and inspiration to aid them in building their independent Amway business.

About Geared for Growth – 10 Principles for Reaching Your Potential:

John Maxwell and Jim Dornan are legends.  In their respective fields, few have equaled much less exceeded their accomplishments as leaders.  But those who know them know they are thrilled to raise up leaders who both equal and exceed their accomplishments.  With that value in common, John and Jim realized years ago that their relationship was about more than just a rewarding friendship.  For them, being friends has also been a lifetime partnership to add value to others.  And that more than any other factor is the reason behind writing, Geared for Growth: 10 Principles To Help You Reach Your Potential.  

With this outstanding collaboration, John Maxwell and Jim Dornan have placed the perfect tool in the hands of people who aspires to an exceptional life.  Complimented by John’s world-class gift of teaching leadership and Jim’s experience as a world-wide business leader and mentor, Geared for Growth offers each reader the perfect balance between explanation and application.  John’s illustration of a truth will grab you…Jim’s story of how that truth was lived out will cause you to grab the truth and apply it in your life!  What a powerful combination!

But, Geared for Growth is not merely an explanation of how to succeed; its an invitation to join John and Jim on the journey to success.  They wrote this book because they believe in you and they believe that by applying these truths, you can succeed as they have.  To all who would aspire to go to the top, to thrive and not just live, to be significant and not merely successful…  John Maxwell and Jim Dornan offer you their hand and their confidence in Geared for Growth: 10 Principles To Help You Reach Your Potential.

“Think globally. Run ‘city-ly’. Health is not a mere word. Neither is it just a motto. It is a value promoted by a great many people. It was proved during a city marathon in St. Petersburg ‘Nightless nights’, a part of which was the Amway marathon ‘Nutrilite Miles’. The most united of all, ABOs team got a chance to register for this marathon right in the venue of the WES (how comfortable is that!). Not only did they write down their names in the list of runners. They bought team wear, e.g. t-shirts, baseball caps, etc. The money was given to charity. Where there is a sound body there must be a sound mind. There must be a desire to help those around you and a desire to win. Mission possible! The Nutrilite team won the first prize and proved itself to be the healthiest one!”

In the five years the tournament has run, several thousand children from throughout Eastern Europe have participated. In 2011 over 60 teams participated, 1200 young football players, from the ages of  9 to 14 year old.

This is the biggest Children football event in the Ukraine. It is at this event that new talents are being discovered, some of whom are further growing into future sport stars. As Igor says, “Investing in our youth is an honor. We have so much to be thankful for and simply want to share our blessings with the next generations, and what better way than to help them to engage in team sports to strengthen their bodies, confidence and souls.”

Just one more example of how great things happen anywhere in the world when you mix Amway Opportunity and Network TwentyOne Leadership.

Props to Amway Ukraine for stepping up and sponsoring the event and right on Igor and Valeriya for taking the initiative… keep up the great work!

Ok guys so check this out …Although this is primarily focused on North America, the points and messaging apply to Amway Independent Business Owners around the world.

Below is a portion of a pretty cool interview with New York Times best selling author and top pollster Dr. Frank Luntz (see his full biography below) had on the Michael Medved radio talk show on March 16, 2011. In this portion of the interview Frank touches on some of the many qualities that make both Amway as well as Amway’s Independent Business Owners so great and such an economic powerhouse in the US economy … actually bucking the trends and growing in a time of economic stagnation for most of America and the world.

In Frank Luntz’s latest New York Times Best Selling Book, Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Frank is very praising of both Amway and Amway Independent Business Owners and covers many of the attributes that make them both great. Below is just one of his many references to Amway from the book:

When someone affords us their undivided time and attention, we feel respected, appreciated, and significant. Most of the winners profiled in this book are more than just believers in the essential nature of respect— they’re practitioners. “You can’t ever gain respect until you show respect,” declares Richard DeVos, the visionary co-founder of Amway and one of the great entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. With his wife and partner of fifty years nodding in agreement, he emphasized,

“Your first act of communication is to show respect to whomever you’re talking to. What ever their philosophy, what ever their flavor, what ever their color, you’ve got to show that you respect them as a person. When people don’t respect you, they don’t let you in. They don’t tell you their secrets. And they don’t give you the information you need to give them what they want.”

Here is my latest N21Cast including Dr. Frank Luntz’s interview on the Michael Medved radio talk show.

n21guy with Dr. Frank Luntz on the Michael Medved Show

Cool huh? Tell me what you think!

About Frank Luntz

Dr. Luntz has written, supervised, and conducted more than 1,200 surveys, focus groups and dial sessions in more than two dozen countries and four continents over the past decade. Frank has become the go-to consultant when leading companies need communication and language guidance, from General Motors to FedEx, Disney to American Express, from AT&T to Pfizer, from Kroger supermarkets to McDonald’s to the entire soft drink and motion picture industries, as well as for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable.

The Instant Response focus group technique pioneered by Frank was profiled on “60 Minutes.” He has also been a guest on “Meet the Press,” “Nightline,” “The Today Show,” The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,”, “Good Morning America,” “Hannity and Colmes,” “Crossfire,” “Capital Gang,”“Montel Williams,” “Charlie Rose,” and “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” He also served as a consultant to the award-winning NBC hit show “The West Wing.

More media outlets have turned to Dr. Luntz to understand the hopes and fears of Americans than to any other political pollster. In the 2000 election cycle, Frank conducted almost two-dozen focus groups for MSNBC and CNBC, including live sessions following each night of both party conventions and presidential debates. His reoccurring segments on MSNBC/CNBC, “100 Days, 1000 Voices” won a coveted Emmy Award in 2001 He was a primary night and election night commentator for “The News with Brian Williams” on MSNBC in 2000 and for “Hardball” in 2004.

Frank has conducted focus group sessions for all three major television networks, two of the three cable news channels, PBS and the BBC. He has also conducted focus groups for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report.

Political clients have included New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1993 and 1997, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2001, and international political campaigns in almost a dozen countries, including Israel, Italy and Ukraine. He was the pollster of record for the 1994 Contract with America.

Frank graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an honors Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science, and was named a Thouron Fellow. He received his Doctorate in Politics at the age of 25 from Oxford University. In the spring of 1993, Frank was named a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, the second youngest individual ever to receive this honor.

Way to go Beverly … on behalf of Network TwentyOne we praise your efforts!!

Oh and sorry I “jacked” your video Amway … please change your JWPlayer settings on the Achieve website to allow embedding videos

http://www.achievemagazine.com/writing-the-story-for-a-better-life.html

Aura Andrews

In this year’s Amway Talent Contest, there are not 1 but 2 amazing Network TwentyOne Leaders who have made it to the top 10 semi-finalists… and it is now our job to vote them in to the top 3 finalists … Aura Andrews from Florida and Ron & Dinah Stokes from California.

The top three finalists will perform at Achievers ’10! Amway’s talent judges have selected the Top 10 IBO Talent Show acts from the hundreds of outstanding submissions. Now’s the time to help Amway select the top three finalists (2 of them being Aura and Ron & Dinah of course)!

Ron & Dinah Stokes

The 10 semifinalists’ videos are ready for you to view; watch all of them and then vote for your favorite performer! Your one vote (one vote per North American IBOship) will determine which 3 IBOs will perform on stage at Achievers 2010 in San Diego.

Voting closes Friday, November 12, at midnight ET, so don’t delay –VOTE NOW for your favorite IBO Talent show finalist!

You can watch the videos and vote by clicking here: Achievemagazine.com.

g to those less fortunate … first with the Budapest flood and now with heads up on the work that Network TwentyOne and it’s charitable subsidiary, Network Of Caring, were recently recognized for by Amway Corporation. You guys rock!!!

Recently in Amway’s Achieve magazine, Network TwentyOne was spotlighted for their work done to assist in aid relief to those who suffered from Haiti’s devastating earthquake earlier this year. Inspired by the leadership of Network TwentyOne’s founders Jim and Nancy Dornan… orchestrated by Network Of Caring’s Chief Significance Officer R.D. Saunders… and funded by many Network TwentyOne affiliated Amway business owners around the world, 550 wheelchairs were delivered and distributed to Haitians in need.

With over $30 million dollars in support raised including over 55,000 children sponsored around the world in the last 13 years, Network TwentyOne and it’s affiliated business owners have and will continue to do amazing things for people in need.

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