Issue Eight
Nov 2015
All set for the holidays?
If you like beautiful scenery,
keeping fit, having fun and a
family day out? Then book your
place now for:
Saturday 19th March 2016
We have set up a special code for Partners
Life clients to get 50% discount on the
normal registration fees. Simply enter
online at thedual.co.nz, alongside the
event option you choose, enter the
pincode ‘DUAL16PL50’. Then under ‘How
did you hear about the event’ select
‘Partners life Client’ and add your policy
number under ‘Other’.
We can’t wait to see you there! Come and
see us at our tent for some juicy, delicious
watermelon. If you need more information
on this great event please go to
www.thedual.co.nz
Do you want to go from
the couch to 10km in 16
weeks, making a change
for life?
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”.
Barack Obama
The end of each year often brings us a moment for reflection
Good or bad, change is inevitable, meaning our ability to cope
on the year just passing – what went well, what caught us by
with change, i.e. our resilience, contributes to how successfully
surprise and what we want to change for the coming year.
we continue to move forward in our lives.
What we are very likely to see when we do look back is
Along these lines, Partners Life has built in a degree of
a number of changes that have occurred to our personal
‘resilience’ across our entire product range, meaning when your
circumstances. Maybe you have experienced some spectacular
life changes you could have some guaranteed options to change
changes like becoming a family, buying a new home, or
your Partners Life coverage to match, even if your health has
embarking on a new career.
changed as well.
Some of us would have had to cope with difficult, unexpected
This edition of Partners Papers provides you with information
challenges like a bereavement or the ill health in the family.
about these options, which we hope you will at least find
For others the changes might have been less extreme –
interesting to read about, but may ultimately become
maybe a pay rise, a new relationship or upgrading your home.
useful to you.
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Christmas
Hampers!
Details inside
Last year the DUAL Scholarship Pilot
Programme was launched. With the
help of coach, Claire Smith, 14 lucky
people were chosen to fill the fully
funded places and went on a 4 month
journey of health transformation,
culminating in them completing their
first 10km event at the Partners Life
DUAL 2015.
“...confidence in my own ability definitely
improved. Some other things that can’t
be measured - insight into my own
health and wellbeing, awareness of
my own needs. It inspired my husband
to try running, my dog is fitter, I now
see opportunities for exercise and seize
them eg. taking the stairs, walking to
meetings, more mindful about my food
intake and careful reflection on both my
eating habits and that of my family...”
For more information on how to
apply for one of 20 places now
available on the 2016 Partners Life Dual
Scholarship Programme - go to www.
partnerslife.co.nz/sponsorship
partnerslife.co.nz