The Engage Today:Virtual Experience officially launches on Thursday 28th January 2010 with a live conference call hosted by Alex Mandossian and Gregg Habstritt. Videos have already started being released since 18th January 2010 of Tony Hsieh (Zappos.com), Sean Stephenson and bill harris.

More videos include ‘behind the scenes’, highlights and interviews, Barbara De Angelis and Eben Pagan

Vishen Lakhiani

Engage Today 2009 – SimpleWealth Video Contest

Les Brown at Engage Today

The Engaging Carol Cone

Engaging Quotes and Quick Clips

Greg Habstritt introduces The Dalai Lama

Some Reflections on Engage Today Event 2009

F.W. deKlerk On Releasing Nelson Mandela From Prison

Janet Bray Attwood "The Best Conference"

Wyland at Engage Today 2009!

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Or at least this is what Sean Stephenson claims and there may be something to his bold statement when you look at the man.

He’s all of 36 inches high and is wheelchair bound! And known as the ‘Three Foot Giant’

His story started when he wasn’t expected to survive at birth due to a rare condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta that leaves the bones very weak and easily broken.

Nevertheless his biography shows that he was a true fighter from the start and has gone on to become a well sought after motivational speaker, bursting with contagious enthusiasm and passion.

He was one of the key speakers at the 2009 Engage Today Conference in Canada and has been invited to speak at many other spotlight venues, including tv appearances

His message to the people is:

"Dreams are impossible to achieve on your ‘but’!"

Stephenson is a self help guru who doesn’t let his physical condition hold him back, despite all of the challenges it brings.

In fact he needs help with even the simplest of daily tasks. He gets through with the support of his loving friends and family. His optimistic outlook is truly contagious both in his published books and on stage.

He is also a fully trained therapist, using cutting edge ‘Full Immersion Therapy’ which is a process that can take up to 12 hours at a time. He also worked at the Whitehouse for a time and received a wonderful endorsement form President Clinton himself who was very impressed with the man.

If anyone can inspire you to go for your dreams, Sean Stephenson can – and you can get access to his training for free via the Free Trainings link here

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Les Brown is an engaging motivational speaker who has a passionate desire to nurture and fire up other people’s passions. He wants to set them on the road to achieving more than they have ever dared.

He challenges us to step out of living a life of mediocrity and resignation into a life brimming with personal success and confidence about the value of the unique contribution to the world that each of us has.

It is not an empty rhetoric. He is talking from experience, having already been through his own set of misfortunes and missed opportunities, to come out triumphantly and all the wiser in the end.

He started out in life as the child of a shamed mother who gave birth to him and his twin brother in an abandoned building, the result of an attempt to hide the evidence of an illicit affair. She arranged to have them adopted in their first month to a woman who herself was an unmarried domestic worker but who nevertheless inspired him by the strength of her character and her strong belief in his ability to greatness.

Brown was an unruly and mischievous student and his inability to concentrate led to him being labelled as retarded for a while. And by the law of self fulfilling prophecy, Les Brown lived the label for a while until he found some inspiration in a teacher who thought otherwise, LeRoy Washington.

LeRoy is quoted as saying,

"Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality!"

This somehow provided a release from the mental shackles that had been holding him back as he realised that empowerment comes from within. Les Brown then worked his way from being a city sanitation worker into a dream job for him at the time, a disc jockey and on to having his own top-rated radio program and managing
broadcasts.

From there he started to become more of an activist, having been inspired by the activism and communication skills of his director Mike Williams who inspired his audiences. However his activism led to is eventually being fired

Not to be deterred, Brown ran for and won a seat for the Ohio State legislature and actively passed more legislature than any other newly appointed representative in Ohio legislative history right in his very first year. He later left to spend time caring for his ailing mother but continued to be active at community meetings and setting up projects

However it was his chance meeting with the great motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar that finally sparked his desire to follow in his footsteps and speak to bigger audiences. He was fired up by the power of motivation

As he wrote in his book "Live Your Dreams", Les Brown was convinced that:

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated".

It is at that point when you set goals and let nothing get in your way. He proved that by the many nights he spent sleeping on his office floor because he couldn’t afford to rent a place to live. Any spare time he had was spent learning about and modeling the habits of well known motivational speakers and speaking, first with smaller groups then larger until he started to become known as "The Motivator". His  message was about encouraging others to go after their goals with passion and tenacity.

This was the message he came to convey at the recent Engage Today Event 2009, where he put in an appearance as a top motivational speaker.

His reach started to extend to much wider audiences on tv and in large companies, eventually even his own talk show, but he also continued give talks to prison inmates
and high school students in line with his commitment to always ‘give something back’.

He has faced life’s obstacles and overcame them through the power of his dreams and he wants to share with everyone that it is also possible for us to do exactly the same despite the obstacles we face.

He wrote a best selling book called:

"It’s Not Over Until You win! How to Become The Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What The Obstacle"

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It’s not often that you get to align with a program involving people like Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama and Dr. Stephen R. Covey, among the more than 20 other world leaders and experts that were part of Engage Today

Here is your opportunity to do just that by accessing, at no charge, some amazingly powerful training videos of some of the world’s top thought leaders, including social relationship expert, Mari Smith.

These videos will appeal to those who are looking for specific insight and tools that will allow them to increase their energy, wealth and prosperity, and in a way that keeps community in mind!

 Exciting High Quality Videos
From The Most Popular Presentations
At The Event  … FREE!

Mari Smith, one of the an expert contributors at Engage Today has a lot to say about the world of social networking and the part you can play in it. Mari specializes in social marketing and her name is almost synonymous with Facebook and Twitter.

She is an internationally recognized speaker, author and social media marketing supercoach. Not surprising, then, given her background training and expertise in relationship issues and internet technology that she has been passionately involved in the world of social media for the last few years. She already has a massive following on Twitter and Facebook and regularly connects through her popular blogs.

Reviewing her achievements in 2009 (at her blog), Mari says:

"2009 far exceeded my business and finance goals with an abundance of national and international speaking engagements, lucrative joint ventures, celebrity clients, meeting Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama, the successful launch of my first social media certification course, Mentor With Mari, the co-creation of the International Social Media Association. All topped off with an invitation to attend the 52nd Grammy Awards and walk the red carpet!"

Over 200 million users and growing

Recognizing the power of social networking, with over 200 million users on Facebook currently and thousands joining Twitter every day, Mari decided to share her knowledge of how these powerful marketing mediums can grow a marketer’s business exponentially to almost epic proportions in a relatively short time.

As a relationship marketing specialist, she has developed powerful training programs and techniques that have led her students to gain ever increasing traffic, more subscribers, clients, strategic alliances and friends. Mari supports internet marketers and business professionals, through her unique social marketing strategy to expand their business and consequently their profitability too.

International Key-note Speaker

Mari Smith is also an in-demand speaker, invited to speak at events around the world including at the Engage Today "Event of the Decade" where the focus on developing powerful and mutually beneficient relationships between business and the community is of particular importance

The following titles are indicative of some of her workshops on offer today:

• How to Use the World’s Most Popular Social Networking Website to Break Through the Clutter and Become a Household Name

• How to Use the World’s #1 Online Social Networking Site to Create a Massive Following

Which include such topics as:

• How to establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry

• What strategies you can use to strategies to powerfully leverage your visibility and brand

• How to to identify and attract top paying clients

• How to get huge results from an investment of only 5 minutes a day

• How to grow a targeted, responsive Twitter following

More info on Mari here :

5 Creative Ways To Use Your Twitter Favorites 

Fast Company calls Mari Smith “the Pied Piper of the Online World.” She’s a relationship marketing s fef pecialist and social media speaker, trainer and consultant with particular focus.

Mari Smith’s status on Friday, 25-Dec-09 

marismith. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new … 

Free Social Media Webinar with Mari Smith

After meeting us at last month’s GKIC Info-Summit, Mari Smith has offered to host a FREE Webinar with Nigel, where she’ll be giving away some super-valuable strategies 

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If you are looking for advice on relationships or looking for direction along your own unique path of personal growth, you wouldn’t go far wrong seeking it from Barbara De Angelis, one of the poular speakers and contributors at the recent Engage Today Event. This Life changing event which took place at Calgary, Alberta has as its motto:

"Engaging Community, Changing The World" 

Barbara De Angelis – A willing partner in joining the momentum of this change and a charismatic and charming woman is one of the most well known ‘love and relationships’ experts on the planet.

Over the years she has worked hard with commitment and great passion to develop a highly successful career in television, authorship and motivational speaking.

She has reached millions of people worldwide with her inspired message of hope, of love, happiness and living a life that is both meaningful and fulfilled.

Barbara is very passionate about personal transformation and healthy relating and her many books bear witness to it.

Barbara De Angelis Books

Titles include:

• ‘Confidence’
• ‘Chicken Soup For The Romantic Soul’
• ‘Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know’ and her latest
• ‘How Did I Get Here? Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns’.

In the Media Barbara quickly became known as a number One ‘Relationship Expert’ with people seeking advice from all over the world and she has appeared as a frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Los Angeles Personal Growth Centre and Shakti Communications

Founder of the Los Angeles Personal Growth Centre, her dedication to personal transformation led her to partner with Shakti Communications as an avenue of transformational education dissemination and her speaking engagements as a truly inspired and authentic motivational speaker have grown alongside of this passionate drive and commitment. Barbara connects well with her audience with both humor and enthusiasm and is a true leading light and spokesperson for the Engage Today movement

Connecting with Engage Today

Engage Today is the starting point of a movement aimed at those who are passionate about wanting to bring their goals, desires and passions in alignmenet with a genuine heartfelt contribtion towards the world, adding value to other people’s lives.

Like Barbara De Angelis, it is about bringing together people who want to make a significant difference to the world to help effect that change in very real terms

More on De Angelis here…

Quotation from Barbara De Angelis

Barbara De Angelis – quotation – part of a larger collection of Wisdom Quotes to challenge and inspire. Quote begins: Love and kindness are never wasted.

Barbara De Angelis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. 

Sacred Ruminations: What’s on my mind this morning

Barbara De Angelis. "Whatever can come to a woman can come to me. Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me." Muriel Rukeyser "I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

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Expert nutritionist and world renowned author and speaker, David Wolfe has made a name for himself as an expert on the subject of Superfoods, superherbs and superfood nutrition.

He is widely recognized as one of the world’s top authorities on natural health, beauty nutrition, herbs, raw chocolate or cacao, and organic superfoods.

And David was one of the top contributors coming together to speak at the recent very popular Engage today event at Calgary, where momentum is gathering for a growth in world consciousness towards environmentally friendly living at all levels, inner and outer, personal and societal, individual and commercial

What are superfoods?

Superfoods are highly nutritious foods, mainly raw, that have a tremendous healing potential. Many people turn to this raw foods guru for health advice and he’s an absolute whizz at concocting some exotic and tasty mixes and blends of such ingredients as goji berries, hempseed, cacao beans, spirulina, avocado and many more.

These recipes and ingredients are designed to combat the effects of the high amounts of stress so many of us seem to experience today on an almost daily basis and which takes a toll on our health, our looks and even our life expectancy.

He is passionate about making a difference to the world, inspiring others to bring themselves back to vibrant health and well being and to foster and live in an eco friendly world at both the individual and big  business levels, by raising awareness of the importance of green living. He is the author of several best selling books and programs including, Eating For Beauty, Naked Chocolate and LongevityNow

Here’s an extract of an interview with David Wolfe on the subject of Calcium, Osteoporosis, Vitamin C and MSM

Kevin: Let’s take another turn here and let’s talk a little bit about some of the common things that people are experiencing nowadays and maybe if you can just give some suggestions on what they can do to help them out. I know that, to start, we’ll start with osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis Calcium, Magnesium and Silicon

A lot of women are concerned about osteoporosis and they’re concerned about calcium and taking these calcium pills. You know, what are some of the pros and cons of that?

David: Okay, well the nations that consume the most calcium, the United States, Canada and the Scandinavian countries, have the worse osteoporosis and that’s because our theory of mineralization or our theory of nutrition is incorrect.

The general theory is that a hundred years ago they started looking at people’s bones. They found out that, oh my god; these bones are made out of calcium. When people don’t have enough bone density the thought is, oh they just have to eat more calcium because that’s what builds bones. Calcium does not build bones and that is one of the biggest misconceptions ever and it actually goes to the real core of our problems with science. And that is the human body is a complex biological machine of an unbelievable of mystery.

And there is strong evidence that indicates that if you eat some of the calcium, let’s say it’s calcium from coral calcium, for example, oyster shell calcium. That it is almost impossible to get that stuff into your bones to increase bone density. The amount of increasing bone density, at best, is 1 or 2%. It is not good enough.

What increases bone density? Well, it turns out it’s two other minerals and that is silicon and magnesium. Now, the best natural source of magnesium is cacao and cacao is known to be good for your teeth. In fact, there are chemicals in cacao that kill the organism Streptococci mutans that cause cavities. And, in fact, those extracts of the chocolate are now going to be showing up in toothpaste all over the world.

Kevin: No kidding?

David: That’s amazing. That to me is just such a dramatic irony.

Kevin: Wow.

David: All along chocolate has been good for your teeth.

It’s the sugar that’s been bad but even then, even then, studies have been done on people who eat chocolate even with the sugar and it’s been found with a study done in Scandinavia on this. It’s been found that even then that people who eat chocolate have better teeth health than people who don’t.

Skin of cucumbers and skin of tomatoes help with osteoporosis!

To me that’s amazing. But let’s get on to silicon because this is the mineral that is difficult to get in today’s diet. What is silicon? It’s a mineral. You get it in the skin of cucumbers. It’s in the skin of bell peppers. It’s the skin of tomatoes. It’s in certain special herbs, which I’m going to name and you can drink this as a tea or take it in supplemental form and you will notice that it helps with your bone density.

Herbal recommendations

And here are the herbs. One of them is called horse tail, horse tail and it’s not a horse’s tail. It’s actually an herb. Another one is nettle. Stinging nettles have been eaten by the druids in the U.K. for thousands of years and it’s one of the most important foods to eat if you know how to do it or if you juice it or you can just dry it and make a tea out of it, which is what I’m recommending; horse tail, nettle, oat straw. The oat seed of the oat grass has a little straw around it. It has a little coating. It’s the seed capsule. That oat straw is one of the richest sources of silicon. You can buy it in health food stores. You can get in as extracts in health food stores.

You can get it raw and make your own tea out of it. You combine those three together and you want you can add alfalfa, which is also a great source of silicon. You can either make a tea out of that or you can just eat those any way you can find them. And you will find if you do three strong teas of that per day you will start increasing your bone density but how? It’s the silicon. Now, how does silicon increase calcium?

Silicon is transmuted into calcium

I mean that doesn’t make sense. It’s because our theory of minerals is incorrect. Our atomic theory is incorrect. And that is if you eat silicon rich food your body, through the power of enzymes transmutates it into calcium, turns the silicon into calcium. That was discovered by a great French researcher by the name of Louis Curvan, a Nobel prize nominee, who wrote five books and 5,000 pages of research on just this particular subject; how silicon and calcium are related to each other.

It was very well honored in France and he is very intimately entwined in the science of what’s going on in France; but because of the language barrier his research really never made it to the English-speaking nations.

Kevin: Interesting when we’re still taking calcium pills from, you know, sea shells and everything.

David: I recommend to god, you know, this is so engrained in our minds about calcium that if you are confused about this, get on the Internet and research exactly whose getting the results of remineralizing their bones and you’ll find it’s people who are not taking these forms of calcium that are toxic, which is the oyster shell calcium and to some degree even coral calcium.

The sugar effect

Kevin: Now, bones are alkaline and doesn’t the acidity of meats and sugars – does that eat away at the bone? I mean has that been proven or is that just a theory that I think I have, you know?

David: Well, that’s a great question and that’s the other side of the equation about osteoporosis. One is we’ve got to make sure we get the right nutrition to build strong bones.

The other side of the equation is we’ve got to make sure we are doing things that aren’t hurting our bones. Eating lots of sugar is one of the worse things we can do to our overall health of our teeth, which are living bones and to the density of our bones because when we take in lots of sugar our body has to use calcium, it has to pull calcium out of the bones to buffer or neutralize the intense acidity of the sugar.

Calcium is highly alkaline, as you stated. Our bones are alkaline and, therefore, alkaline minerals are used whenever we’re exposed to real strong acids. Sugar is a very strong acid. I mean, you know, we used to dissolve the corrosion on our battery terminals of our bus by dumping soda pop onto it because that sugar just dissolves and the phosphoric acid just dissolves all the corrosion right on the battery terminal. I mean you don’t’ want to be putting that in your body. That’s dangerous.

Recommended supplements

Kevin: Let’s get into supplements a little bit. And you walk into a health food store and there are literally thousands of them. How do you get through them to find the ones that help with weight loss, and longevity, is really what I think the fountain of youth is all about? Which ones of those are the best? I mean rhodiola, turmeric, cinnamon. I mean which ones are the ones that people should be focusing on, not necessarily take but should be focusing on?

David: That’s such an excellent question. My job is to basically guide people into health food stores and create order out of chaos. There are so many things. Okay, well the most important thing, in my opinion, that you can buy in a health food store in that department is going to be vitamin C.

Kevin: Okay. In what form?

Synthetic versus natural Vitamin C

David: Well, there’s different forms. Now, I recommend that you start experimenting, moving away from synthetic forms of vitamin C or ascorbic acid, which is still beneficial, still good for you, and moving towards powdered, really high vitamin C plants. For example, you can get acerola cherry. It’s a tropical berry that is really high in vitamin C. It’s like 1 or 2% vitamin C and basically what they do is they grow these berries. They dry them and they powder them down and the encapsulate them or put them in a glass jar and sell them in health food stores as vitamin C.

Now, that’s a real great way to get lots of vitamin C natural with all the cofactors. Vitamin C needs cofactors like rutin and bioflavonoids that are all naturally present in those powders, like acerola cherry. You can either take it supplementally as capsules or you add it onto your smoothies. You can literally put it in your water that you drink in your morning and it kind of sweetens the water. It sweetens the water but doesn’t sugarize the water.

Kevin: Gotcha.

David: Vitamin C is sweet but not sugary. So it makes your morning water easier to drink. So that’s one thing, vitamin C.

Methylsulfonylmethane ( MSM)

The next thing is, what I believe to be, the greatest discovery in the last — probably in the last hundred years in the field of nutrition other than vitamin C and enzymes and that is sulfur, MSM, Methylsulfonylmethane.

MSM is a biologically available form of sulfur that’s naturally found in wild food, untended food. We don’t really have access to that hardly at all any more. I mean, almost all our food is grown on farms for us. It’s not being watered naturally by the rain. I’m talking about the natural sulfur that’s produced in the oceans that helps create clouds, then drops them on the land that we need nutritionally in order to produce flexible collagen.

It stops wrinkles

Now what in the world does that mean? It means that sulfur produces flexible skin and flexible muscle tissue. It stops, in essence, wrinkling and increases the juiciness of the collagen and the discs, the joints that basically separate our bones from each other. On top of all that, it increases the growth of our hair, our nails, so that we have thicker, richer growth of our hair and nails. This can all be easily experienced within two weeks of taking MSM.

Kevin: It’s going to grow like weeds.

David: It’s really incredible and people who want thick quick growth of their hair and nails are almost always completely shocked by how powerful MSM can be. You can get it in capsule form. You can get it in a powder form. It’s available in every single health food store now.

Once you start looking into it, and especially when you take it, here’s what you’re going to find out. You’re going to find it’s one of the most important things you’ve ever taken. I have randomly polled hundreds of people about MSM. I almost always to a Testimonial here from people who have taken it before. Oh, MSM changed my life. I’ve heard that dozens of times, that exact quote. Oh, MSM changed my life.

Here are some more interesting sources of information about David Wolfe and his advice and tips on good nutrition

David Wolfe Educates About Arthritis, Calcium, Osteoporosis

Superfoodhealthyliving.com As much as ninety % or more of us are deficient in magnesium. Among girls the deficiency of Estrogen ( a bunch of hormones ) post menopause has been associated to a fast decrease in BMD.

David Wolfe: Living High with Chocolate For Breakfast 

I’ll admit that I much preferred my time with David Wolfe when I was make-up free, hair un-straightened and we were both kicking it bare-foot in the woods. It is possible I wanted to see David speak again, if only to find out 

Eating For Beauty by David Wolfe

If we want to be beautiful, we need to eat beautiful, and in Eating For Beauty, David  shows us how to use raw organic foods to transform ourselves from the inside out. "Food is not just a factor that affects us, it is the primary factor"

David Wolfe: Sleep Deeper with Better Nutrition

Wolfe is the author of five bestselling books including Eating For Beauty, Superfoods, The Sunfood Diet Success System, Naked Chocolate, and Amazing Grace as well as numerous bestselling audio and DVD 

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Carol Cone, founder and Chairman of Cone communications, Inc, and one of the contributing speakers at the Engage Today event at Calgary,  is a cause marketing specialist with a keen passion for social justice and very much interested in and committed to making a difference to the community and cause branding.

She is keen to help companies and non-profit organisations build a bridge between social issues and organisational identity and has been involved in various corporate social responsibility campaigns such as the American Heart Association’s ‘Start!’ program.

Ms Cone is dedicated to supporting the building of sustainable partnerships between businesses and social issues. Carol Cone supports the fostering of new alliances between public and private partnerships to improve the community and empower both in a win-win outcome, as more and more Americans are demanding that companies play an active role in supporting social causes.

Examples of outcomes include the Avon Breast cancer Crusade, Reebok’s Human Rights awards and Polaroid’s Project KidCare. Cone implements the use of social media to help foster a stronger connection with social media users – talking to consumers rather than talking at them. Cone was involved in the Starbucks Global Responsibility initiative and worked with the PR Lions, who favor the creative use of repution management through trust building and the fostering of mutual understanding between people and business.

Carol Cone is also the originator of the new media Clickstart program which is designed to help businesses engage effectively with consumers online via social media channels. At the time of writing, Cone’s cause programs have raised more than $500 million for a variety social causes. Presently, Cone, Inc. is acknowledged as the nation’s top Cause Branding consultancy which is based on the fact that consumers like companies with a cause.  Carol Cone is a well sought after expert speaker on this topic. She is a founding member of Business for Social Responsibility and serves on the Board of trustees for the organisation, Save The Children.

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One of the richest men in the world

The originator of the world famous brand ‘Virgin’ Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a shining personality of multiple deeds. A self styled entrepreneur who went on to become one of the richest men in the world.

Born in England on July 18, 1950, Branson started his first business venture at the tender age of 20 when he opened a shop in Oxford Street in London. Here he began by selling records and went on to form a recording company.

In no time at all, he tasted success and from then, there was no looking back. His love for people and understanding of popular desire brought him success after success. Whatever he laid his hands on turned into gold.

The Adventurer

By1993 his business turnover surpassed a billion dollars. Branson’s obsession for adventure is another facet of his personality. Sailing by boat, swimming, parachute jumping, hot air ballooning even volunteering to fly a try-cycle with wings are some of his craziest and diverse ventures that he has attempted. He also wished to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon. But this feat at the time of writing, remains unfulfilled.

His weird activities have also resulted in some tragic occurrences at times.

Environmentalist

He also exhibited a great sense of responsibility for the earth and its environment. His concern for environmental degradation and its effect upon the inhabitants of the worst hit areas impelled him to team up with Arctic explorer Will Steger to explore the Baffin Island in North Canada. Expeditions by these popular figures created important worldwide awareness about climate change and the impending catastrophe.

Clean up prize

In February 2007 he, along with the former U.S. Vice President Al Gore pledged a $25 million prize for cleansing the debris of the post-industrialized globe. His work for the cause of the environment and his excellence in business fetched him several honors from the world over.

The confident and flamboyant Richard Branson today has his diverse business activities spread all over the globe catering to innumerable people through his services as a client as well as a customer.

He has been a major participant in the Engage Today Conference of 2009 and continues to be a major supporter as Engage today continues into 2010 and beyond

Richard gets a knighthood

The uniqueness of the Branson style is perhaps his flair to do things differently and with elegance to bring people out of the stale condition thay often find themselves in. His exceptional enterprising abilities earned him a Knighthood in 1999. While his music store has still remained and flourished, his most popular business now is the operation of Virgin Atlantic an international airline. This apart he is into tourism, credit card, book publishing, fitness clubs and the like. Married with two children Branson still remains a dreamer and is contemplating another adventure into the field of space tourism next.

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Rich Branson Hires Spandau Ballet

Richard Branson is fascinatingly awesome. If there weren’t actual proof that he is a flesh and blood human being, it would be easy to mistaken him as a fictional mogul dreamed up by a Hollywood scribe.

Richard Branson Challenges Tony Fernandes To Wear A Skirt 

At the Virgin Racing launch in London on Tuesday, ESPNF1 asked Sir Richard Branson to comment on the statement made by Lotus boss Tony Fernandes that he would “retire and kill himself” if his squad were beaten by Virgin in 2010.

Sir Richard Branson Discusses Global Warming, Copenhagen

Branson Discusses Global Warming, Copenhagen And Airline Emissions Standards At COP15.

Richard Branson Taking Kids, Parents Into Space 

Eve and Ted Branson, ages 85 and 91 respectively, are in for the ride of their lives.

Richard B Helps Americans Escape Domestic Violence Abroad?

R Branson has a dream of commercial space tourism by making it financially viable and affordable to all people. 

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That when each one of us is in  alignment with and is living in honor of the gifts that we have been given, sharing those gifts with all, then our world will be a much more peaceful and happy world 

For Janet Attwood of the Passion Test, living successfully means knowing what you love and doing what you love. The good news is that such a life is attainable and requires little effort -only a dedication to see things through.

"The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny", challenges readers to define and describe, in all honesty, their life’s passions. Attwood’s methods include seeing where you are in fulfilling your dreams, designing your roadmap, and knowing what the destination looks like.

Her ideas and knowledge are both practical for everyday living and spiritual to help sustain you throughout your life.

Through the book and the many seminars on this topic, Janet Attwood of the Passion Test has encouraged many ordinary people to take the first steps towards an exhilarating and extraordinary life.

Janet Attwood of the Passion Test continues her mission to support and help others through "Health Wealthy nWise", one of the world’s most popular self-improvement magazines online. The magazine contains additional insight and inspiration beyond those initially explained in The Passion Test resources.

Attwood currently reaches out to homeless women and detained youth across the United States, sharing with them words of encouragement and challenging them to move bravely against the odds. Her CD series "The Empowered Women," are distributed in various homeless shelters across the U.S. Her outreach for these members of society have earned for her the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

Beyond the standing ovations in her global speaking engagements, Janet Attwood happily lives out her own passion: helping others achieve a higher quality of living.

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He is sharing his principles of how to quickly and easily create the right mindset to overcome obstacles and take control of the life you want

When everyone else was listening to Guns N’ Roses, wearing tight jeans with baseball boots and perming their overgrown hair, a man called Bill Harris was busy creating a truly unique personal development product – Holosync.

Harris’s Holosync product centred on the idea that you could listen to a CD and enter a state of meditation akin to that of a Zen Buddhist Monk.

Before we take a look at the technology behind Holosync, the benefits of using it and potential pitfalls it may have, it is best to have a clear understanding of the benefits of meditation.

You can then determine if you will gain benefit from using Holosync and if you can see the potential rewards it can offer to your life.

Here are a few of the many proven benefits of meditation (and Holosync):

• Leads to a deeper level of relaxation.

• Reduces anxiety attacks.

• Lowers blood pressure.

• Decreases pain due to muscle tension such as headaches.

• Helps with diseases such as arthritis and reduces allergy symptoms.

• Speeds recovery time after operations.

• Enhances the immune system.

• Reduces and removes emotional distress.

• Slows down and reduces the activity of viruses in the body.

• Reinforces natural defences within the body to successfully fight bacteria, viruses and cancerous cells.

• It helps resolve phobias.

• Increases serotonin which influences moods and behaviour.

• Helps eliminate negative emotional stresses and remove intense negative emotions from memories.

• Reduces anger.

• Eliminates unwanted habits & behaviours.

• Enlightenment and the sense of Oneness associated with it.

> You can access Bill Harris’s Holsync products here

Eliminating stress from mind and body is one of the greatest benefits of meditation. When meditation is performed regularly it has been shown to completely and positively change a person’s reactions to stressful and irritating situations. As you progress in your meditative practices you find that less and less things irritate you.

I hope you agree that the benefits to mind and body of meditating regularly are enormous. However, in order to successfully reach the point that you can meditate away your emotional connection to past memories, reduce your blood pressure and resolve phobias takes many, many years – in some cases a lifetime!

Enter Centerpointe and Holosync!

Holosync is a 21st Century tool for effortless meditation.

Holosync uses brain entrainment through the use of binaural beats.

Binaural beats are separate individual tones, which resonate at slightly different frequencies, presented to the left and right ear.

Holosync lets you hear these beats in a way that creates altered states of consciousness by changing the brainwave patterns of the listener.

Without wanting to get too technical about the Holosync program I will say that these binaural beats are capable of producing the alpha, theta, delta and normal everyday beta states. Centerpointe have created Holosync so that it creates extremely deep meditative states within minutes.

If you feel you could benefit from meditation and believe that the results it produces would be advantageous to you but you do not have the time or discipline to learn and practise conventional meditative techniques then you would clearly benefit from using a technology such as Holosync.

The negative side of practising meditation and also using Holosync is negligible. It is necessary to put aside at least 40 minutes every day to meditate or listen to Holosync. Also, you will probably experience some emotional discomfort during your Holosync sessions as old memories, and the feelings associated with them, are stirred-up in your consciousness. This is a necessary evil as your brain is actually eliminating the negative emotions from the memory so that you are left with the memory but with no negative emotional connection to it.

The Centerpointe program, Holosync, is designed to be completed in stages. Each stage removes unwanted emotional baggage from your consciousness and leaves you with a permanent state of increased peace, health and inner harmony. You do not have to finish the entire Holosync program to gain and keep the benefits offered by each individual level. After each Holosync stage is complete the benefits you have received are permanent.

However, to gain the maximum benefit from Holosync it is advisable to complete all the stages as you will be transformed, for the better, in ways that you can now only imagine or not even imagine. Your entire life will benefit from using Holosync.

Holosync tested and reviewed. Pros and cons of using the Centerpointe Holosync meditation technology. Binaural Beats explained and binaural beats products reviewed.

by Michael McGrath
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Bill Harris, owner of  CenterPoint Research, is one of the contributors at the Engage today 2009 Summit at Calgary

He is sharing his principles of how to quickly and easily create the right mindset to overcome obstacles and take control of the life you want

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When everyone else was listening to Guns N’ Roses, wearing tight jeans with baseball boots and perming their overgrown hair, a man called Bill Harris was busy creating a truly unique personal development product – Holosync.

Harris’s Holosync product centred on the idea that you could listen to a CD and enter a state of meditation akin to that of a Zen Buddhist Monk.

Before we take a look at the technology behind Holosync, the benefits of using it and potential pitfalls it may have, it is best to have a clear understanding of the benefits of meditation.

You can then determine if you will gain benefit from using Holosync and if you can see the potential rewards it can offer to your life.

Here are a few of the many proven benefits of meditation (and Holosync):

• Leads to a deeper level of relaxation.

• Reduces anxiety attacks.

• Lowers blood pressure.

• Decreases pain due to muscle tension such as headaches.

• Helps with diseases such as arthritis and reduces allergy symptoms.

• Speeds recovery time after operations.

• Enhances the immune system.

• Reduces and removes emotional distress.

• Slows down and reduces the activity of viruses in the body.

• Reinforces natural defences within the body to successfully fight bacteria, viruses and cancerous cells.

• It helps resolve phobias.

• Increases serotonin which influences moods and behaviour.

• Helps eliminate negative emotional stresses and remove intense negative emotions from memories.

• Reduces anger.

• Eliminates unwanted habits & behaviours.

• Enlightenment and the sense of Oneness associated with it.

> You can access Bill Harris’s Holsync products here

Eliminating stress from mind and body is one of the greatest benefits of meditation. When meditation is performed regularly it has been shown to completely and positively change a person’s reactions to stressful and irritating situations. As you progress in your meditative practices you find that less and less things irritate you.

I hope you agree that the benefits to mind and body of meditating regularly are enormous. However, in order to successfully reach the point that you can meditate away your emotional connection to past memories, reduce your blood pressure and resolve phobias takes many, many years – in some cases a lifetime!

Enter Centerpointe and Holosync!

Holosync is a 21st Century tool for effortless meditation.

Holosync uses brain entrainment through the use of binaural beats.

Binaural beats are separate individual tones, which resonate at slightly different frequencies, presented to the left and right ear.

Holosync lets you hear these beats in a way that creates altered states of consciousness by changing the brainwave patterns of the listener.

Without wanting to get too technical about the Holosync program I will say that these binaural beats are capable of producing the alpha, theta, delta and normal everyday beta states. Centerpointe have created Holosync so that it creates extremely deep meditative states within minutes.

If you feel you could benefit from meditation and believe that the results it produces would be advantageous to you but you do not have the time or discipline to learn and practise conventional meditative techniques then you would clearly benefit from using a technology such as Holosync.

The negative side of practising meditation and also using Holosync is negligible. It is necessary to put aside at least 40 minutes every day to meditate or listen to Holosync. Also, you will probably experience some emotional discomfort during your Holosync sessions as old memories, and the feelings associated with them, are stirred-up in your consciousness. This is a necessary evil as your brain is actually eliminating the negative emotions from the memory so that you are left with the memory but with no negative emotional connection to it.

The Centerpointe program, Holosync, is designed to be completed in stages. Each stage removes unwanted emotional baggage from your consciousness and leaves you with a permanent state of increased peace, health and inner harmony. You do not have to finish the entire Holosync program to gain and keep the benefits offered by each individual level. After each Holosync stage is complete the benefits you have received are permanent.

However, to gain the maximum benefit from Holosync it is advisable to complete all the stages as you will be transformed, for the better, in ways that you can now only imagine or not even imagine. Your entire life will benefit from using Holosync.

Holosync tested and reviewed. Pros and cons of using the Centerpointe Holosync meditation technology. Binaural Beats explained and binaural beats products reviewed.

by Michael McGrath
Article Source: ArticleSnatch Free Article Directory

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