• Synergy Holiday Event, Thursday, December 17, from 12-2 p.m. (MST)
• Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24
• Christmas Day, Friday, December 25
• New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1 

James Booth, an Irish champion boxer of 17 years and a 20-year martial artist, has been invested in nutrition for decades. He discovered Synergy in 2010 and quickly found that the company’s commitment to quality nutrition paralleled his lifelong beliefs.  In November 2015, his Synergy business M.N.B. Group, achieved Synergy’s Team Director pin level.

It’s clear that no matter what James commits to, whether it’s a business venture or a sport, he knows how to execute. When he began martial arts training, he decided he wanted to be a black belt. When he enrolled as a Synergy distributor, he decided to become an executive leader. As a current Team Director, he is well on his way to this goal.

“If an old guy like me can hit this level, young people should be able to fly by me,” James said. “It doesn’t matter how much education you have, where you live or what ethnicity you are. If you have the desire and the commitment, you can make a success of this business.”

Many of the lessons James learned as a boxer have stuck with him ever since, and they’ve shaped who he is. He said that as a boxer he learned the importance of building a foundation. Athletes who are new to boxing don’t jump in the ring during their first week of training, expecting to win. Rather, this would put them in a degree of danger. This concept also applies to running a Synergy business. It may take a little while to build a foundation for the business, but once it’s established, the possibilities of success are endless.

Though James doesn’t get in the ring anymore, his focus on nutrition hasn’t changed. He believes society is governed by age, when, in reality, age means nothing. Those who tell themselves they are old will act old,  feel old, and eventually stop progressing in life, but James, on the other hand, plans to live until he’s at least 100. He remembers his father telling him that once a person stops dreaming, they’re dead.

Recently, James traveled to Synergy Headquarters with his business partner Dr. Anthony Oketah to tour the new Hughes Center for Research and Innovation, which he said “knocked them dead.” Both he and Dr. Oketah believe that Synergy is the future of health, and their visit to the Hughes Center confirmed it.

“My life has changed completely in the five years I’ve been with Synergy,” James said. “I get paid for the effort I put into my work. Network marketing is a lot like mining. Initially, you put a lot of work into digging every day to find what you’re looking for, but eventually, if you stick with it, you will strike gold.”

An elite group of  Synergy Team Members went beyond the call of duty in November by not only becoming Elite Honors Qualified, but training those they sponsor to become Elite Honors Qualified. By fulfilling the Elite Honors requirements and sponsoring requirements, these Team Members earned Go Elite bonuses based on the number of Elite Honors Qualifiers they sponsored. Click here to learn more about the Go Elite Promotion.

Synergy WorldWide paid out £16,779 in Go Elite bonuses in November. Amazing! We hope that this payout will continue to increase until the Go Elite promotion ends on February 29, 2015.

Challenge yourself to Go Elite this month!

There isn’t a better time than the festive season to meet with family, friends and acquaintances, and ask them what their 2015 brought them, what it didn't, and what their hopes and dreams are for 2016 and beyond! With this focus, December can be “the most wonderful time of the year” for your business as well. Over the past 12 years, I have worked with many distributors who have had huge success growing their businesses in December because they took the opportunity to listen to people.

Unfortunately, as leadership skills go, listening isn’t seen as one of the really dynamic ones. Listening is often viewed as a seemingly passive thing that could almost be misconstrued as being a weakness. Great leaders like Winston Churchill are usually notable because of the things they said and taught, not for their listening skills.

However, Churchill was renowned for his ability to sit down and listen to anyone and everyone, and his view on the importance of listening is evidenced by one quote from him: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

If you scramble the letters in “listen” you can also make the words “silent” and “enlist”. So I encourage all of you to “enlist” the art of remaining “silent” in order to “listen”. Really listen to what people are looking for in life. I promise you that such an approach has the power to dramatically improve your business. Keep these points in mind as you commit to listen and finish the year strong:

It’s a business, so don’t be tempted to take a month off

Keep your business “merry and bright,” by continuing to build through December. One of the keys to success is consistency, so though it may be tempting to take extra time off for cooking, baking, shopping, and entertainment, make sure you schedule plenty of time to keep building your business. Never put your business on hold; dinner parties, nights out, school plays and Nativities are all great places to grow your contact list. Your contact list is the lifeblood of your Synergy business and you need to add name to that list every day!

Give a life-changing gift this Christmas

As receipts for gifts, food, decorations, and travel pile up, many people feel the financial pressure and stress. There couldn’t be a better time to share Synergy’s powerful financial opportunity with families who are feeling the pinch. Many people every year are putting their Christmas gifts on credit cards. You have the ability to enable them next year to be paying for things with cash! At this time of giving, what better gift can you give than helping someone find financial freedom?

Thank you for all your hard work in building your business in 2015. It truly is my privilege to be working side by side with such dedicated Team Members throughout the UK and Ireland.

I wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and hope that 2016 brings you even closer to your hopes and dreams!

Rob Lord
General Manager, Western Europe

Two more Team Members will receive a €1200 bonus with their monthly commissions! Bostjan and Irena Pilej (Team EBALI), Team Directors from Slovenia, and Reidun Lydersen Dalheim, a Pearl Executive from Norway,  are the first in their regions to achieve this tremendous goal.

To qualify for Go Elite 10, you must sponsor 10 Elite Honors qualifiers. Reidun surpassed this goal by sponsoring 11! Team EBALI and Reidun proved their teams’ strength through this achievement. Not only are they bringing in new customer and distributor volume, they are supporting their team to do the same. This duplication is the ticket to success with Synergy WorldWide, and through Elite Honors, the pathway to success is clear. Congratulations Team EBALI and Reidun on your great success!

Team EBALI

Bostjan and Irena prepared their teams for Elite Honors before the program launched at Summit 2015 by explaining the new earnings model and stressing the importance of building a customer program.  With an educated team  and everything in place, Bostjan and Irena went into November shooting for Go Elite 10. November began with a strategic meeting where Bostjan and Irena mapped out how to achieve their goal and made sure their team was on the same page. They have been the drivers behind Slovenia’s Elite Honors growth from 15 qualifiers in September to 28 qualifiers in November.

“We are constantly telling our Team Members about Elite Honors and that’s the right way to build a stable business,” Irena said. “The Go Elite promotion is just the cherry on the cake. You have to make the monthly Elite Honors requirements habits. The habitual behaviors will lead you to success.”

Earning a Go Elite promotion requires offering daily support, which is why Bostjan and Irena spent many days traveling to a number of Slovenian cities. To Bostjan, support means reminding a Team Member of their dreams, helping them create impactful Synergy presentations, and scheduling individualized trainings with those who need a little extra help. Ultimately, Team EBALI’s great leadership and support made their Go Elite 10 achievement possible.

Reidun Lydersen Dalheim

When Reidun verbally committed to be the first Team Member in Norway to sponsor 10 Elite Honors qualifiers, there was no turning back.

Reidun has been a competitor her entire life. She loves sports—everything from skiing to car racing—and though she doesn’t brave the slopes or streets anymore, she still finds a way to let her competitive side shine. Synergy drives her to be competitive with herself, to push her limits. Luckily, roadtrips are one of Reidun’s favorite things, making it no problem for her to drive all over northern Norway to support distributors and share Synergy’s opportunities.

“I asked all the people I sponsor if they could do a job for me,” Reidun said. “I wrote up a plan for those who committed and then tracked their progress every day. You have to talk to a lot of people often to make your goals happen.”

In order to achieve Go Elite 10, Reidun said you must work with your heart and make others’ successes more important than your own. Reidun loves Synergy WorldWide and plans to work for the rest of her life. The €1200 she earned through Go Elite will be put toward her Christmas vacation to Thailand to see her son.

The Elite Honors program is streamlining the way organizations do business with Synergy WordWide while maximizing each Team Member’s earning potential. Team Members following the program are seeing the extra rewards that are made possible through the Go Elite promotion as they continue doing what they’ve been doing all along—building their Synergy businesses.

Listed below are the names of everyone in Europe who rank advanced in November! Congratulations to our hardworking Team Members who continue to dedicate tremendous time and effort to their Synergy business.