So why Wellness? Well, 78 million baby boomers, who have been dictating our economy for last 20 years, are now aged between 37 and 55 and have more money and more spending power than ever before. They have been responsible for booms such as housing, utility vehicles and personal computers and their ultimate desire, as they head into later years, is to slow down aging process, to stay healthy, full of vitality and to look and feel every bit as young as their minds tell them they are.

How do they go about achieving these goals? Through focussing on wellness, whether it be through services of practitioners such as naturopaths and homeopaths, exercise and fitness, use of vitamins and minerals to accommodate for lack of nutrition in our foods today or through other sources.

Baby boomers are not prepared to accept, as their parents have, that medication will be a necessary part of their future. Prevention of ailments and disease is a core focus for millions of people now, and into future, and it’s only through attention to health and wellbeing and welcoming of “Wellness” products and services into our lives that this can be achieved.

The opportunity to make a fortune from this industry is now available to each and every one of us. If you are seriously looking for an opportunity to take ride of your life to financial freedom and security and to take back control of your future then Wellness industry is vehicle to take you there.

Whether you choose to enter industry from a practitioner perspective, or through manufacturing of wellness products, through retailing or through distribution you can be assured that any one of these means could make you a millionaire, if you just have guts to go for it, to take a risk and to stick at it. Afterall, every person who has succeeded in business and in life has failed their way there. The difference between them and people that live a mediocre life is persistence. The ability to never EVER give up.

Don’t miss boat on this one. If you truly want life you have always dreamed of, time is SO RIGHT at this point in time that you would be doing yourself a disservice to ignore opportunity.

Jump in, take a risk, and get ready for ride of your life!

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Organizations most effectively utilize Six Sigma methodology in two situations. One, if a business works with a very high volume of transactions per year, then they can not tolerate low sigma levels. For example, a 99% effective rate for 1 billion transactions per year still yields 10 million defects. In any industry, that is not acceptable.

Another situation that calls for Six Sigma methodology is when an organization (i.e. manufacturing) has processes with multiple steps. Here total error rate is critical. For example, effective rate is 99% for each step; however, that does NOT give total error rate as 1%. You must take 99% for first step and multiply it by 99% for second step, third step, and so on. With a great number of steps, your total effective rate could significantly decrease. So, to avoid high volatility, this organization can not tolerate low sigma levels.

Organizations can also determine error rate by effectively reversing typical process of Six Sigma. You can calculate mean and variance in your process to define error rate. This tells you where you are currently on Six Sigma curve. For example, if your calculation tells you that you're on a 1 or 2 sigma level, then this is an area in need of improvement. This gives you an opportunity to look at data more carefully, take mean and variance of each step of process, and determine in which step process is having problems. Or it could tell if you there are many steps causing problems and, thus, cumulative increase in error rate.

Processes, Procedures and Control

Organizations use Six Sigma methodology, because you can't get any higher than 2 Sigma (“tribal” or basic knowledge) without putting strong processes and procedures in place. And without strong processes and procedures, you can not move toward higher quality and system optimization – toward perfection. Are you really satisfied with 67% of your product lost as waste? Are you satisfied with such high variability in your system?

Problems, Resources and Results

If needed, you can change your process to reduce or eliminate this variability or error. Six Sigma methodology tells you when to take action to solve a problem. It moves an organization to consistently meet requirements and minimize resources used in its management system. And it creates desired results for which system was designed.

Systems, Control and Perfection

Remember, though, you can only get to 3 or 4 sigma by developing a system of policies and procedures of measurement, analysis and documentation. And with this you will easily see that reducing your error rate and moving toward perfection with Six Sigma tools is well worth driving time – and, more, crucial to your system’s control.

Chris Anderson is the managing director of Bizmanualz, Inc. and co-author of policies and procedures manuals, producing the layout, process design and implementation to increase performance.