Eric Glenn – Synergy Worldwide

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Dr. Oz and Dr. Mercola talk about a few things and finally finish up on L-Arginine. Neat experiment to give an example of hardening of the arteries.

Recently we had an amazing man join our team, Tim Batton. He is living proof that if you want something bad enough you can accomplish it. He lost half himself…literally. Listen to his testimonial of Synergy and his journey. Thanks Timothy!

This is a MUST attend event. GET your tickets today before they sell out! There are only 250 spots and 60 are already gone!

Lake Como Heart Institute Symposium

Dr. J Joseph Prendergast, MD – Synergy Medical Advisory Board Member
Dr. Siva Arunasalam, MD - Founder & Director, High Desert Heart Institute
Dan Austin, RN - Director of CHF Unit, High Desert Heart Institute
Dr. Rainer Boger – University of Hamburg in Germany

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After January 15, 2011: $250

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(Thank you Dr. Nick for your inspiring article)

May this new year bring prosperity your way so that you may explore every joy of life and may your resolutions for the days ahead stay firm, turning all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.

Happy New Year to everyone!
 
As we begin this new year I would like to express my many thanks to everyone for their efforts in sharing the message of Synergy. I have looked back and reflected on 2010 trying to seek out the strengths that the year brought, as well as the tribulations that needed to be faced. Recently I have been researching a term that we have used many times in the past few weeks, “prosperity”…”have a happy and prosperous new year”…what does that word mean? To most people the first thing that comes to mind is wealth, but is having wealth being prosperous? Granted money is essential to being prosperous, but ask any wealthy and unhealthy individual if they would trade their wealth for health and you will see what I mean. I have realized that there are five key aspects to prosperity:
 
     1. Wealth – money is necessary for the basic needs of survival. If you wish someone prosperity on this belief alone, I would take it as “I hope you survive the next years basic needs”
     2. Health – physical health is essential for prosperity in life. Please ask any individual who is missing this aspect and they will all reply “without your health you have nothing”. A great friend (thank you Arnold) has taught me “who wants to be the wealthiest man in the graveyard?”.
     3. Mind – this aspect is too often overlooked. We all know of many wealthy individuals who are extremely stressed about their “holdings” or “portfolio” that it is affecting their lives in very negative ways. Now, not necessarily does this have to be about money or stress, it can also be fear, worrying, self doubt etc. about work, family, upcoming events etc…the list is endless about how and what affects our minds. Your mind is your bodies control center…here is a good example I use with clients in my clinic. “Spraining your ankle doesn’t affect your whole body directly, much like Saskatchewan having an blizzard doesn’t affect the whole country directly…but if there is a problem in Ottawa, and changes to federal policy are made (or what have you…taxes), it affects the whole country regardless of where you may live. This is the mind having issues, your control center, it affects the whole body directly and destroys people. 
     4. Soul purpose – I know…this is a big one. The easiest way to address this is to ask yourself “am I using my strengths and talents to the best of my ability…have I even challenged myself to find them all?” and “do I recognize my mistakes, faults and weaknesses…what have/can I learn from them…and how can I improve them (this may require coming out of your “comfort zone” to achieve)?”. A team concept is great here…not everyone can throw a football…and not everyone can catch one…but there are many positions and roles to play on the team…find your strengths and use the strengths of others, especially if they fill your weaknesses!
    5. Social – humans are social creatures. Really the key to being prosperous is having a healthy social aspect in your life, whether it is family and friends or social groups (teams/clubs/religion/etc) and networks (business/education/etc) with like minded individuals, interaction in these aspects are critical to development.
 
Over the holiday season I have personally reflected on this, and have come to the conclusion that you cannot remove one of those aspects and be prosperous. I personally know that there are things I need to address:
                    Wealth – This is something that I could use more of…yes…it is kind of like oxygen, it comes in and goes out and is a basic need for survival in todays world.
                    Health – I do know that I need to start physically exercising more, and to change a few lifestyle and nutritional choices.
                    Mind – Well most people think that if I was any more laid back, or relaxed, I would always be sleeping. My big demons here are clutter, organization and I tend to easily find a distraction. To remedy this, I have implemented an individual on a few days a week to help me with this in the clinic. This took me a long time to recognize (thank you Stewart)…or more like admit!
                    Soul Purpose – I do feel I am using my strengths…and admitting my faults (see above). I must really ask myself the questions of “am I using them to the best of my ability” … “What can I do to improve” … “What are new strengths I have yet to discover”
                    Social – My family has been the strength which wakes me up every morning…albeit it at 10 am…but seriously, the experiences I have had over the past years with Synergy have changed every aspect of the above. Often I think of the adventures of meeting new people, working and spending time side by side with key influential individuals, travelling the world…and the many things I have learned (thank you Eric) along the way. These are experiences I wish to keep being blessed with.
 
With looking at the term prosperity, can you see how Synergy (thank you Dan) can address the above…wealth, health, mind, soul purpose and social aspects? I have seen clearer than ever before what we are truly sitting on and how it can impact peoples lives in becoming prosperous. It is a great thing to recognize, but an even greater thing to share. I have been guilty of focusing on one aspect in sharing the Synergy message…”health”…and very reluctant on sharing the other four aspects of prosperity…I am not afraid to say I was apprehensive, maybe a bit embarrassed of being labelled a network marketer…the stigma that comes with it from the public or friends. Now looking back, at my mistakes, I see the misinformation and lack of knowledge that I had on networking and prosperity and how it reflected in my organization. Why is it that we tend to fear what we don’t understand, yet we are reluctant to understand it? By being reluctant can we ever grow, or really can we ever become prosperous? In order for myself to have a prosperous year (which I hope you wish upon me), I need each and every member of my organization to have a prosperous year (which I wish upon you). We need to be thankful that we understand what prosperity truly means, but more thankful that we have a means of helping ourselves and others achieve it. I am proud to say that I am affiliated with a network marketing company, as it has shown me how to not only wish someone, to “have a prosperous new year”, but share with them “how to have a prosperous new year”!
 
Who after reading this does not wish to be prosperous? Who needs to take a look at those aspects and adjust a few things? I would like everyone to be prosperous…step up to the plate…make this “the year”, and I challenge you to complete the following…send this back to me with your personal reflections, on the five aspects of prosperity, just like I have briefly listed mine…what are your goals with Synergy this year…who is joining me in Las Vegas for “Summit 2011″…maybe I have a strength or two that I may help you with…maybe you have a strength or two that could help me…we are all in this life together…we all need a helping hand sometime…we all want to be prosperous! 
 
Lastly, I would like to leave you with something that I have worked on over the last few weeks tweaking and tweaking…tell me what you think, as I believe it sums up this whole message:
“The trajectory of time, from birth to death, is the one thing all living things have in common. As human beings we have come to understand that life is short and time is precious. We have had our triumphs and our mistakes…if we could go back in time to change those mistakes, would we really ever learn anything? Would you be who you are today, where you are today and with whom you are with today? We have no choice but to move forward, to take the knowledge we have learned from the past and implement changes that will positively impact our future.”

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By Nick Martinuik
A Proud Member of Synergy Worldwide

(Dr. Nick is also a Homeopath in Canora, Canada, author of numerous articles and Team Manager in Synergy Worldwide.)

The United States is more corrupt than Japan, Britain, Australia, Germany and the Scandinavian countries, so says Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. The U.S. ranks 22 out of the 181 nations included in the survey.

You might take consolation in the fact that America is not endemically corrupt, not a broken society and not an undrainable swamp as are many nations in the world. But what happens if you add globalization to the mix? What happens when you sprinkle graft, bribery and unholy alliances into the new supranational context?

We have known corruption in the past, but what we haven’t known are its consequences in a more precarious global age.

There are at least three factors that should concern us. The first is that leaders lead in a very different world. Second, fewer leaders are prepared for this world, and third, the new world enables the effects of ethical misconduct to scale to unprecedented orders of magnitude.

In my coaching work with CEOs, it’s abundantly clear that the globalizing environment is acting as a crucible that either melts or refines the leader. Leaders are subjected to more speed, greater complexity and limited resources — all with the same high expectations.

Turbulence is the new normal and there’s no prospect of a spontaneous return to order. Just look around; the familiar bastion of the conventional business cycle is gone. If there’s no status quo ante, what’s the result? It’s really quite simple: More pressure to perform and more temptation to engage in ethical misconduct.

The litmus test is the collision of stewardship and self-interest. Name a spectacular fall from grace that was about skills, knowledge or experience? When leaders go down, they go down from the inside out. It’s a collapse of character.

Consider one of the most recent floats in the scandal parade — Mark Hurd, the recently ousted CEO of HP. He is a smart and talented person, but we need to be careful not to cling to a belief that leadership is mostly about IQ points and the charismatic arts, as if they will save us. They never will — especially not in an ethically and morally interdependent global age.

The risks of ethical misconduct have become unknown and unknowable. With the connectivity of global supply chains, we are vulnerable to the effects of ethical misdeeds performed almost anywhere on earth. Pet food, peanuts, toothpaste, tires, Bernie Madoff and the sub-prime mortgage crisis prove that we have entered an era in which a few bad actors can create a geo-ethical shock that incurs loss for millions of people.

If risk equates to probability multiplied by magnitude, we need to be more willing to take our leaders to task for their personal failings. Personal failings have not only personal consequences, but also unintended and far-reaching public consequences.

Dishonorable acts are now globally scalable in their effects. Leadership is alluring. It tempts one to use position for personal gain. Its culminating test is to resist that temptation, but as we all observe, many succumb.

It frequently begins as a flirtation of ego that ends in a vortex of corruption. The ambition to govern one’s fellow beings tends to view leadership as the pathway to a glittering world of personal reward. And so, under pretense of leading, those of unbridled ambition seek it out and then let us down. Hence, we observe a teeming gallery of venal characters auctioned to the highest bidder.

It continues to puzzle me that our public discourse on ethics tends to focus on the back end of achieving compliance and little on the front end of developing moral values. Nor do we talk enough about putting those who want to be our leaders under tougher scrutiny. And yet we live in a society in which many who have not demonstrated the ability to lead themselves lead us.

So it’s more than antiquarian charm to say that leaders should be honest and morally excellent. Civil society ultimately depends on it as a functional necessity and the last line of defense. As a practical matter, we need to vet candidates for leadership in every arena on character requirements more rigorously then we do. We need to test their moral bearing capacity so that when stewardship and self-interest collide — and they certainly will — there’s a good chance the leader won’t buckle.

Let’s not forget that leadership begins in the inner world. It’s about the empire of the heart. To be fit to lead has nothing whatever to do with being rich and well-born or even charismatic — dogmas from which we are still recovering. We need men and women of unflinching character to step out of the crisis, steeled for the leadership journey of the 21st century.

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Timothy R. Clark, Ph.D., is an author, international management consultant, former two-time CEO, Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University and Academic all-American football player at BYU. His latest two books are “The Leadership Test” and “Epic Change.”