So you've joined the AIA Vitality program and you're currently a bronze member.
Now whether that's just because you're new to the program itself or you've been a member
for a while but you haven't had a chance to look at this, what I'm gonna share with you
today in this video is the four ways that you can become a silver member unlocking all
those additional benefits inside a week.
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In this video, I'm gonna share with you the exact four steps you need to follow to get
your Silver Status inside of a week.
I'm gonna give you every single tool that you'll need and a handy reference guide as
well.
If you stay tuned to the end, I'll give you a way that you can download that and make
sure that you can get the most out of this program as quickly as possible.
The first step that you need to do is activate your AIA Vitality Membership if you haven't
done so already.
So you would've received an email just like this one from AIA with the details of how
to activate your account and provide log in details and passwords and that sorta thing.
So I'll walk you through that now just so you can see how we do that.
So now that you're a member of the AIA Vitality program, you'll receive an activation email
just like this one.
So if you have previously joined and you can't find this, what you'll need to do is just
give AIA a call and their number is just listed here: 1800-848-254.
But if you've got this email for the first time, just follow the buttons that say "Activate
now" and you'll be taken across to the website where you'll be asked to put in your email
address and create a password which will get you logged into the AIA Vitality site for
the first time.
As you'll be coming back to this website quite regularly, to make it easier, I've included
in the notes below the link to the log in page which you can save as a bookmark on your
browser, that way you can get there really quickly and log in to the website for uploading
the documents and that sorta thing as I'll explain a little bit later.
Step number two is to complete the online assessments.
Now that we've got the account activated, what we need to do is log into our Vitality
account using the details that we've just set up with that newly created account.
Now that you've activated your account, what you'll do is go across to the AIA Vitality
website and use the log in button at the top here.
Click on that and then fill out your email and password that you've just created, and
that will take you through the home screen.
So if you go up to the "Know Your Health" section, and go down to Online Assessments,
here is where you'll find the ways that you can complete those assessments online to get
your first Vitality points.
So the first of those assessments to complete is the health review, then you've got your
skin self examination which is watching a video and then accepting the fact that you've
done that.
The online nutrition assessment, the mental well-being assessment, and the non-smokers
declaration if that one applies.Just click on those buttons, complete each of those exams,
and you'll be credited those points where applicable.
A bit of a bonus tip for you when it comes to the mental well-being survey and the nutrition
assessments, as these points are available every six months, jump in to your calendar
now and set a reminder for six months time to go back and actually complete these again,
that way you're not gonna miss out on the points for this one.
I find a lot of people do forget to do this, so that's just a quick tip to make sure you
get those additional points in six months time.
For step number three, you'll need to get in touch with your GP and book in for a health check-up.
In this health check -up, the required tests are four-fold.
Number one, they'll test for your BMI, number two, they'll take your blood pressure, number
three, they'll check your cholesterol, and number four, they'll do a random blood glucose
test to see how all those results fair.
For completing each of these tests themselves, you'll be credited with seven hundred and
fifty points, so that's three thousand points for just doing the exams themself.
For each of the test that come back within the healthy range, you'll be credited an additional
seven hundred and fifty points for each of those categories, so an additional three thousand
points are on offer here.
Now don't be too put off if you don't get a perfect score for each of these healthy
ranges, when I did this myself, I actually got three of the four that came back in the
healthy range with my BMI being outside of normal, so don't be too put off by this, that'll
still see you'll get a fair chunk of points for this and will look to see what that actually
looks like in a second.
Before heading to the doctor for your GP check-up, what you're gonna need is the advance screening
form.
You're gonna need to print this off and take it along with you to the appointment.
I've included a link to the document itself in the notes below.
Before you head to the doctor, make sure you have a copy of this and make sure you get
them to complete this with you while you're at the appointment.
From my experience, getting the doctor to complete this after the fact can lead to a
long delay in getting the report back and getting you the points, so make sure you take
that along to your visit when you booked in to the GP appointment.
This completed form can be submitted via the AIA website or the Vitality app itself.
All the details of how to upload the results of this test can be found on the form itself.
For some of you, congratulations, you'll have already achieved your Silver AIA Vitality
Status so well done.
You'll have unlocked a couple of extra vouchers and they'll be on your way.
But if you're anything like me, I came up a little bit short, as I mentioned from the
points and the results from the GP test, so what I'm gonna do, if you've come up anywhere
between that seven thousand, two hundred and fifty points, and ten thousand, two hundred
and fifty points at this stage, I wanna share with you a couple of extra steps to get you
the rest of the way.
Step number four, I'm gonna get you to go and get a dental check-up and go and have
your eyes tested.
Now with the dental check-up you can do this every year.
With the eye test, you can only do this once every three years.
For the dental check up, you're again gonna need this advance screening form which can
be found down below.
This can be submitted via the website, by the app, but all the details for how to submit
the form are included on the form itself.
For the eye test, you actually don't need a form at all; what you'll need to do is jump
on the AIA Vitality website and find the preventative exam tab, go down and enter in the date of
the consultation, the suburb, the state and submit that one online and you'll be credited
those thousand points for the eye test.
So we should be there for almost everyone by now so absolute worst case, you'll have
nine thousand, two hundred and fifty points and best can if you're healthy and everything's
perfect and you've done all these steps, you'll have twelve thousand, two hundred and fifty
points to your name.
My suggestion at this point is whether or not you're short or you've already exceeded
the silver status benefits, jump in to your health app on your apple phone.
At this stage you should look to download the AIA Vitality app which will give you access
to all of this information from your phone and once you've done that, go to the health
data of your phone and then it'll come up with all the available sources that you have
there.
If you click on the AIA Vitality app, and then enable each of the categories: Heart
Rate, Sleep, Steps and Workouts that you'd like to share with the vitality app, that
will then take the data from your phone and other fitness devices.
I've got my apple watch here, too, and record those details in your Vitality app and help
you earn points towards your membership levels.
You actually get discounts through the Vitality program for these ones as well, so jump on
again to the AIA website and have a look for the details that are here.
The discounts range from anywhere from 25% and up for some of those fitness devices.
The reason these ones actually help is they'll track your sleep and they'll also track your
heart rate, which is used for some of those activity points that you'll get in the program
as well.
If you have come up a little bit short now and you're at that nine thousand odd points,
to bridge the gap between there and ten thousands relatively easy, so you get a hundred points
for fitness per day, a hundred points for gym visits, ten points for tracking sleep.
So again, about a weeks time and you'll have the seven hundred odd points that you'll need
to bridge the gap between bronze and silver.
According to AIA, most members of the Vitality program stay at bronze, so don't be one of
those people.
From my experience, most people complete the online assessments and stop there.
I know it can be a bit of a pain sometimes to go ahead and do these doctors appointments,
dental check-ups and eye tests, but what this'll do, it'll make sure that you get the most
out of the program.
You'll be rewarded instantly for these, so you'll get a retail voucher to one of those
places of your choice.
The Rebels, JB Hifi, Myer, that sorta thing, and you'll also unlock the first additional
levels of Qantas flight discounts.
So you'll now be entitled to 30% off two Qantas flights each year.
So a pretty nice little sweetener for making you do a couple of things that might make
you feel a little bit uncomfortable.
As promised, as a thank you for watching the whole video, what I've done is I've included
for you a checklist including all the websites, the relative documents and that sorta thing
that you'll need to complete each of these steps in this video.
I've included the link to this document down in the notes below.
So grab a copy of that and make sure you go through these four steps and please let me
know when you have achieved that Silver Status.