Changing their future after seeing the Plan
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Dane and Nina Pontiff are IBOs from Louisiana. Despite their reluctance, they saw the Quixtar IBO Compensation Plan, and the rest, as they say, is history. My goodbye to semi-professional golf and professional golf instruction was a temporary sacrifice to acknowledge my position as the financial leader of the household. I could not begin to rationalize 10 years as a golf pro, how someone can accept the long hours the job offers with no time to share with his friends and family. Not to mention that in my job, when everyone is off, that's when we really go to work! And with a wife who means more to me than anything in the world, an opportunity could not have been given to us at a more perfect time.
As the phone rang not once, not twice, but nine times, Nina and I continued to ignore the calls offering the opportunity of a lifetime. We finally asked Steven (our current sponsor) if we went to see what he was offering us, would he stop calling our house? Stephen laughed and said, "No," and that's when we realized that this was something big.
In August 2003, we saw the Quixtar opportunity. When Marty (who shared the Quixtar IBO Compensation Plan), asked me where we saw ourselves in the next five years, it scared me to not be able come up with an answer. But it wasn't as scary as watching my wife staring at me with her worried eyes, waiting for a response from a man who swore in matrimony that he would supply a sound financial future. From that moment on, the rest was history.
Since September 2003, we've been building a team, breaking pins left and right as we go along. In 16 months, we reached Silver Producer and replaced Nina's income at the young age of 25. The next three months we accomplished Gold Producer and at 22 months, we achieved Platinum.
Nina acknowledges that it's a little strange to tell people that you've retired full-time at 25 years old. But then again it's even stranger to think that you're going to wait till your 67 years old to hopefully retire without having to work a part-time job to make ends meet. She understands, through the experience, that retirement is not about age but about money. And because we've accomplished both Founders Platinum and Q-12, we received three bonus checks in one month that replaced her income in a whole year as a full-time bank teller.
Ruby is our immediate goal that will double both of our income streams and bring us home together, which is on track. We want children, but we want to spend every single second with them - not pawn them off to the cheapest-bidding babysitter because of a job.
We now live in Houma, Louisiana, where we grow and mentor businesses along the entire Gulf Coast and in California. We've been able to put a comfortable down payment on a new home. Because of the mentorship and education through the BWW system, we know the difference between being rich and being wealthy. Individuals are not broke because the lack of finances, it's the lack of financial education; it's how they think!
Some people don't understand that their pot of gold in life is in places where they don't want to go and don't want to grow. It's their fears, it's their struggles, and it's the refusal to change. Some are worse off this year financially than last year because they refuse to change, so my word of advice is just CHANGE!