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Today, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics named XANGO a “Champion” of the organization’s cause in its newly released report, “Market Shift: The story of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and the growth in demand for safe cosmetics.

”Companies receiving Champion status fulfilled all the goals of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, a voluntary pledge to avoid chemicals banned by health agencies outside the U.S. and to fully disclose product ingredients. XANGO is proud of this recognition for our Glimpse® and Juni by XANGO® branded product lines.

As a company committed to responsible product formulation, manufacturing and disposal, we’ve made a decision to honor consumers and the planet by leading the personal care industry toward better processes. Our Senior Vice President, Beverly Hollister, has championed this cause at XANGO. While many mainline companies have resisted the move to green chemistry, the decision to avoid chemicals and toxins known to be harmful to our customers and the environment is the right choice. And, it’s what consumers increasingly demand. As the Campaign’s report points out, natural personal care is the fastest-growing segment of the $50 billion beauty industry.

As a XANGO family, we appreciate the recognition paid to our leadership by leading environmental and health groups. Yet, we take greater joy in knowing that we are making a difference in the world. Thank you for being our partners in changing lives. This is yet another aspect of our social purpose as a XANGO Nation. Together, driven by a common cause to improve the world around us, we succeed. Click here for a copy of the report and here for the news release we distributed today. We invite you to read the report and share this news with your family, friends and people you love.

One of the key concepts to creating wealth is to understand that money is not the goal. That’s right, I said, money is not the goal.

Frequently people will tell me that they want to make money. However, I know it is not money they are really after. It is the things that money can buy and the freedom of time to do what they really want. While you may think this is an insignificant difference, it is actually the reason so many people never become wealthy.

Most of us were taught throughout our childhood that the whole point of making money is to sock it away and build our own ‘nest egg’. We think of this as a type of insurance against bad fortune, accidents or old age when we can no longer work. The wealthy know that money only works when it is in motion – not when it’s sitting in a bank account. You must understand that wealth is an ongoing journey of growth and circulation and if that circulation is stopped, then the flow of money will cease.

While it may seem that there are many roadblocks on your journey to wealth, the only real obstacle is what you believe, think, and feel about money. Most of us were raised with the cliché “Seeing is Believing” which is a skeptical and negative view of life. Still, we hear it our whole lives until it becomes a part of our thought process without our even realizing it. Wealthy people understand that this cliché is exactly backward – you must believe in what you can achieve before you will see it happen in your life. They know that “Believing is Seeing.” The only thing that separates a millionaire from you right now is a wealthy mindset and the foundation of that mindset is belief.

Does this mean that the wealthy have some special skill or knowledge? No – but they do possess some key characteristics that help them become wealthy.

The first of these characteristics is a willingness to listen to their own heart. If you could become wealthy by listening to the masses, then the masses would be wealthy and they are not. It is a natural tendency to ask the opinions of those we love or respect. Unfortunately, we listen to their comments and biases not taking into account the results in their own lives. We make a decision to listen based on our emotional attachment rather than by looking at what they have achieved. How can anyone who has not accumulated wealth advise you on how to do it? They can’t.

A second characteristic of the wealthy is the ability to act when opportunities present themselves. Opportunity is often imagined to be something that you can’t miss or pass up. However, I know from personal experience that opportunity is often only a whisper that comes during some of the most trying times of life. If you read the life stories of very wealthy and successful people, you will frequently find they were fired from jobs, kicked out of school or dealt with significant personal tragedies that other people would view as devastating. Instead, they viewed the challenges as opportunities and prospered.

The wealthy also understand that wealth is an ongoing process. It is not a destination you arrive at one day and then stop. It is also rarely accomplished overnight – although it can occur in a short period of time. However, if you gain wealth before you have gained a wealthy mindset then you are in danger of losing that wealth forever. We have all heard of those that win the lottery only to be near penniless a few years later. Since they were  never taught to think wealthy, they have very little chance of achieving wealth that lasts and ultimately they lose what money they have.

Those with a wealthy mindset do what they love – and make money at it. Often I see individuals who are seeking wealth like it’s something outside that they have to search for. In reality, wealth exists within you. You have activities and hobbies that you love and you can make these into your business if you choose to. Those who are successful and create a great deal of wealth do so because they are doing something they love. The money follows and is just a logical result of them realizing their dream. Money is not the dream.

Whether you grow up in the worst circumstance or have every advantage, you have the exact same potential inside of you to create the life you want. No matter how many times you read or hear someone talk about how to become wealthy, your life will never change until you believe that it can – Believing is Seeing.

To your success

 Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

James Arthur Baldwin

My dictionary tells me that to risk is “to expose oneself to the chance of loss.” I suppose that is true. Another piece of literature I was once given (author unknown) suggests that:

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

You may avoid suffering and sorrow if you don’t risk, but you simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing and has nothing. Only a person who risks is free.

What causes individuals to shy away from taking a risk, even if it is a low risk and will give them something they really want? Well, certainly high on most people’s list would be fear of loss, failure and perceived humiliation if the loss were to occur. Why would we automatically think that we would fail at something? Why wouldn’t we first try and see, and then if we did fail, learn from that experience and move on? What causes us to have these thoughts of inferiority?

Well, I believe it dates back to our little life. And, since risk-taking, to my knowledge, is not a subject that is taught in school, it would lead me to believe that a person’s fear of taking risks might stem back from before they can even remember. When you were a child taking your very first steps, it wasn’t uncommon to hear one of your parents or guardians say, “Be careful, you might fall.” Or, “Don’t do that, you’ll ….” Though some of this is rhetoric and you don’t really pay much attention to it, for some, it begins the pattern of playing it safe.

Think of how much better equipped we would be to face life’s challenges and succeed, if we had repetitively heard, “Take a chance and don’t worry about falling, because you’re going to fall…probably quite often. Falling is an important part of learning.” Many of the greatest lessons you’ll receive in life are going to come from falling … from your failures.

Failing will never make you a failure unless you quit. Unfortunately, very few people heard that when they were small. The vast majority of our population have been mentally programmed to play it safe.

In my seminars I have often said that a little baby is a natural born risk taker. The baby never considers the consequences of falling when it is learning to walk. Falling is acknowledged as a natural consequence to learning to walk. I guess you could call it a calculated gamble; it’s a prerequisite to mastering a myriad of motor skills required to get you on your feet and moving. It’s a natural progression in movement. Why then, wouldn’t we stop to consider that any movement into unchartered territory should be viewed with the same consideration? What happens to us?

Why is it that we do not see the process of reaching our goals as having steps similar to the ones the baby must take in order to learn to walk? There will be some stumbling and falling in the learning process, but success can only be reached when we are prepared to take those steps, all of them, even the ones where we may fall down. The real win is the confidence and experience we acquire which translates into new opportunities for growth, enjoyment and expansion in all areas of our life.

When I was a youngster in school, I participated in track and field. Pole-vaulting was my specialty; it was the one event I seemed to excel at. I clearly remember knocking that bar flying more often than I cleared it. I also remember I was not very enthusiastic when that happened. Knocking the bar off left me with a feeling that because I had failed, I was a failure. I had failed and as I remember, no one advised me of anything different. In retrospect, it would have been an excellent opportunity for one of my teachers to help me understand one of life’s greatest lessons. But, it never happened and it would be many years before I learned the truth, the hard way.

While we’re still on the topic of children, I’ll throw up another caution flag. There’s a four letter word that most parents use around their children so frequently, that the children pick it up and before too long it is buried in the treasury of their subconscious mind. That four letter word is CAN’T. This word has done more damage than a lot of other frowned-upon four letter words put together. I know of some forward-thinking parents who have literally banned that word from their children’s vocabulary!

Can’t is a word that paralyzes any constructive progress. It switches your mind into a negative frequency. It is a four letter word that will open your mind to a never ending flow of logical, practical reasons which will enable you to justify why you are not able to do something you sincerely want to accomplish.

The only alternative to that four-letter word is its polar opposite – I CAN. I can is far more important than IQ. You don’t necessarily have to be very smart to win … but you must be willing. Reaching the goal is not success; success is moving toward the goal. When I was knocking down the cross bar, I was attempting to reach the goal. I was stretching, giving it everything I had. That could hardly be considered failing. Every time I tried to clear the bar, I was risking being ridiculed by the other kids. I risked having them laugh at me when I missed … and they did laugh.

However, every time I ran down the field and lowered the pole into the box, attempting to vault myself over the bar, I was challenging myself. Taking risks is essential when you want to reach a goal and the purpose of goals is growth. When you challenge yourself, you bring more of yourself to the surface. If you knock the bar flying today, at least you will know you are challenging yourself; you’re a success!

If you dream of living your life in a really big way, you must accept risk-taking as a very real part of the apprenticeship you must serve. Make a decision right now to change. Decide this very moment there will be no more playing it safe … no more “saving it for a rainy day” type thinking in your life. When people get caught up in the habit of saving for a rainy day, that is generally what they get … a rainy day.

I clearly remember the first time I heard Earl Nightingale. Earl was telling a story about a farmer who was out walking in a field. He looked down and saw a tiny pumpkin growing on a vine. Nearby, he spotted a small glass jar. The farmer reached down and placed the tiny pumpkin inside the small jar. The pumpkin continued to grow until it filled the inside of the jar. Beyond which it could not grow.

There are a number of people like that tiny pumpkin. They limit themselves and refuse to take a risk. They never truly test the strength of their abilities. You will never get to second base if you keep one foot on first. Too many people go through their entire lives playing their cards close to their chest. They never step out and bet on the surest thing in the world … themselves. If you hope to accumulate great wealth or achieve high goals, history records that the first few steps have a high degree of risk. You must turn your back on safety and security. To make it big, you must take big risks. You will very likely have to put yourself in a highly vulnerable position. It is also worth remembering you cannot almost take a risk.

Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” Follow her advice and liberate yourself from the crippling emotional state of fear and enter into a world of freedom.

To your success,

The pre-opening of XANGO in South Africa will be October 27th -29th, 2011 in Cape Town and Johannesburg. XANGO Founder Joe Morton and President CIS/Europe and South Africa Daniel Laroque will be present for the pre-opening.

Below you will find important information regarding the events which will be held during the South Africa pre-opening:

Cape Town
October, 27th: Leadership Breakfast with Joe Morton and Daniel Laroque.
For 5K & above in title, active in September

October, 27th: Special Training Session from 6:00 to 7:00pm with Joe Morton and Daniel Laroque.
For 1K & above in title, active in September, followed by a meeting open to all at 7.00pm

October, 27th: Photo Session with Joe Morton and Daniel Laroque.
For 1K & above in title, active in September

Johannesburg
October, 28th: Leadership Dinner with Joe Morton and Daniel Laroque.
For 5K & above in title, active in September

October, 29th: Special Training Session from 1:00 to 2:00pm with Joe Morton and Daniel Laroque.
For 1K & above in title, active in September, followed by a meeting open to all at 2.00pm

October, 29th: Photo Session with Joe Morton and Daniel Laroque.
For 1K & above in title, active in September

More details about the agenda will be posted soon on the XANGO website.

South Africa Opening Ticket
Tickets are one sale through the website and will be required to attend the event.  Ticket can be purchased until the pre-opening event at the following prices.  .

Single Ticket
$30 (218 ZAR- South African Rand)
Onsite:  $40 (290 ZAR- South African Rand)
Item Number 111354

Buy 5 get 2 free
Purchase 5 tickets at one time and receive 2 tickets for free. That’s 7 tickets for the price of 5.
Item Number 111362

Buy 10 get 5 free
Purchase 10 tickets at one time and receive 5 tickets for free. That’s 15 tickets for the price 10.
Item Number 111363

Each guest will receive a free ticket to the event and only 1 ticket will be needed for each distributorship/couple.

A large study at the National Health Research Institutes in Zhunan, Taiwan published in The Lancet found that as little as 15 minutes of physical activity a day can reduce the risk of dying by 14% and increase lifespan by three years.

More exercise led to greater life gains. Every additional 15 minutes of daily exercise further reduced all-cause death rates by 4%. This trend continued until a person was exercising for 100 minutes a day.

High intensity exercise though, is the gold standard for fitness… and longevity. It was recently endorsed by the European Society of Cardiology. A study conducted among cyclists in Copenhagen, Denmark showed it’s the relative intensity, and not the duration of cycling, which is most important in relation to all-cause mortality. It’s even more pronounced for coronary heart disease mortality. The study concluded that men with fast intensity cycling survived 5.3 years longer, and men with average intensity 2.9 years longer than men with slow cycling intensity. For women, the figures were 3.9 and 2.2 years longer, respectively.

Exercise reduces disease and death dramatically for all major progressive diseases. According to a study involving over 13,000 participants cited by Ray Kurzweil in The Future of Aging, the overall death rate for moderate exercisers was 60% less than the sedentary group–and the high fitness group scored much better. Yet some 70% of Americans do not participate in any type of physical activity.

As Dona Folk, my close friend and breast cancer survivor will tell you, exercise can also treat serious diseases such as cancer. A new report issued by Macmillan Cancer Support argues that exercise should be part of standard cancer care. It recommends all patients getting cancer treatment should engage in moderate-intensity exercise for two and a half hours every week.

A previous Harvard Medical School study found that breast cancer patients who exercise moderately for three to five hours a week cut their odds of dying from cancer by about half. In fact, any amount of weekly exercise increased a patient’s odds of surviving breast cancer. This benefit also remained constant regardless of whether women were diagnosed early on or after their cancer had spread. Finally, research has found that exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer recurrence by about 40 percent.

Research has also shown that exercise can reduce your risk of dying from prostate cancer by up to 30 percent.

If you have cancer or any other chronic disease, tailor your exercise routine to your individual scenario, taking into account your stamina and current health. Always listen to your body, and if you feel you need a break, take time to rest. But even exercising for just a few minutes a day is better than not exercising at all.

Exercise is critical to help dodge or reduce diabetes as well as most other diseases. According to the American Diabetes Association, exercising moderately for only thirty minutes a day coupled with a 5-10% reduction in body weight resulted in an astonishing 58% reduction in diabetes. They also report that 90% of all people with diabetes are overweight.

Any exercise that gets the heart pumping may even reduce the risk of dementia and slow the condition’s progression once it starts, reported a Mayo Clinic study published in the September 2011 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Long Life,
David Kekich

Those of you have been with EVG since December of 2010, (when gold was around $1,200 and silver was around $17), already know what I’m about to say…

So why are metals dropping?

Well he dominant trend in the market right now is deflation. Credit markets are locking up once again, things are slowing down, and when that happens, everything gets sold as institutions move into cash or bonds.

This is exactly what happened in 2008.

As the selling kicks in, large sell-stops are triggered which initiates even more selling, triggering more sell-stops, and the whole thing just falls like dominos until the price gets so low that buy orders are triggered and the selling slows.

Welcome to the world of algorithmic trading. It’s always a wild ride…

In addition, the Dollar is the prettiest horse in the glue factory at the moment.

The Swiss screwed the Franc, and the Euro is falling apart, so the only real currency option left is the Dollar.

Even though it too is doomed, it will be the last fiat currency standing. Once it starts to falter, gold and silver go parabolic and the greatest wealth transfer in history will take place.

As I’ve been saying since Day 1, deflation is what should/needs to happen, but the banks are going to do everything they can to try and prevent it.

Their primary solution has always been to simply print more money, which is what the Fed has been doing since 2008 with QE1, QE2, and now “Operation Twist” this week.

The worse things get, the more they will print. They don’t have a choice. And this will eventually lead to a hyperinflationary depression at some point over the next 2-5 years.

The destruction of an Empire’s financial system (which is what we’re watching), isn’t going to be a smooth ride. We’re going to see fluctuations like this one often, but the overall, long-term trend for precious metals is up, and down for the Dollar…

None-the-less, when I started investing in the metals market almost four years ago, I was always emotionally involved in the price on a daily basis.

But after going through so many ups-and-downs, I finally realized that the short term is irrelevant. All I care about is the long-term trend, which is infinitely higher for precious metals.

Back when I was buying in 2008, I saw the price of silver drop by 60%. If that happened today, we’d see prices drop from the $49 high, down to $19.60.

Will that happen? I doubt it, but damn I hope so… Nothing would make me more excited than the opportunity to buy silver for less that $25/ounce again!!!

So if you’re panicking and wondering if you should sell when big price drops take place, it means two things…

1: You don’t understand the fundamental reasons you made the investment to begin with.

2: You’re making investment decisions based on emotion, which is the single best way to end up broke.

When I see declines like this one, I get EXCITED because they give me an opportunity to buy more of my favorite investment at a discount…

And that’s exactly what I did about 10 minutes ago, making significant purchases of both gold and silver.

Ask yourself…

Have any of the fundamental reasons a person would buy gold and silver changed recently?

Is the US debt level is mathematically impossible to pay off? YES.

The US has chosen to print more and more currency out of thin air in order to pay its current debts? YES.

Has very single fiat currency in history like the US Dollar has been destroyed? YES.

Has every fiat currency had an average lifespan of 30-40 years? YES.

Has the US has created more fake currency out of thin air in the past 36 months, than it has in the last 85 years? YES.

Have nations like China and Russia have started moving away from the Dollar in trade, which signals the end of its role as the global reserve currency? YES.

Has silver has been manipulated by the Fed and its partner banks such as JP Morgan for decades? YES.

Is the EURO about to implode? YES.

Have the major US and EURO banks just been downgraded by the rating agencies this month? YES.

The bottom line is that things are not getting better, they are getting MUCH WORSE, just as we’ve always said they would.

All of the reasons to buy gold and silver are stronger today than they’ve ever been, and RIGHT NOW the market’s giving me a chance to buy more, for less money.

So a big “thank you” to all of the sellers this week… I’ll gladly take those shiny coins off your hands

The bottom line is that you need to know why you’re in precious metals, and if you’re in them, then stay in them for the long, profitable run ahead of us and forget about the day-to-day moves.

Gold has declined less than 15% from its top at $1900.30, which means it is long overdue for a correction, however I know that most recent buyers of gold –and by “recent” I mean since 2008– most of these might panic and sell. This is always to be expected in a bull market and is completely normal.

Don’t make that mistake.

New buyers probably don’t even realize that silver is STILL up around 60% since the beginning for 2011, and around this time last year, it was only $17 an ounce!

So if you’re like me, you’ll start to get excited when the price drops, and use those moments as opportunities to pick up your investments at a discount…

I’ve just placed an order for both metals this morning, and I’m holding 50% of my available funds until next week incase they drop even more…

Then, I’m just going to sit tight and be right as I have been since 2008.

Gold And Silver Price Drop=I’m Buying!!! So should YOU

written by Mike Dillard

Caring for the planet is also important to XANGO. Through XANGO Green, the company works to improve sustainability in the day-to-day business, manufacturing process, distribution systems and even individual employee/distributor carbon footprint.

As part of the XANGO Green launch at Convention, XANGO announced new 100-percent recyclable eco-friendly packaging for its flagship product, XANGO® Juice. This builds on XANGO’s current commitment to eliminate waste by using 100 percent of the mangosteen, even the rind, as well as using Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper in print materials. The manufacture of eco-friendly packaging offers significant benefits, including:

85 percent less material (than previous bottle)

34 percent less energy used

64 percent less greenhouse gas emissions

408 homes could be powered for a year with the amount of energy saved

2,039 metric tons of annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduced, equivalent to removing 390 cars from the road for one year

New bottle – same good quality of juice

Order Xango juice here

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