Creating Abundant Lifestyles

Too many Baby Boomers are worried these days. They are losing their 401k’s, being laid off from long time career positions, being down-sized and being replaced by younger (cheaper) employees.

We have worked our entire lives to be able to live a robust and fun retired life and hopefully retire early. Our kids are either in college or just finishing college and we are looking forward to them starting their own lives so we can start ours!

As a Baby Boomer, I have a passion for assisting those who are in my age group to live the life they desire. But that life should not involve living on a pittence of a retirement income or working for $10.00 per hour greeting consumers at a super store.

Baby Boomers deserve to be free, to live a robust life to live life large instead of small, to travel and have fun anytime and anywhere they choose.

Regardless of your age, this New Economy is probably affecting you. But for Baby Boomers, upcoming retirees, it can be especially taunting and frightening.

When my husband and I decided in 2004 to leave our jobs, our retirement incomes and to start our own home based business, it was very scary. But we were driven by the “Outcome” of our lives we envisioned. We were not ready to live our retirement years shackled to our jobs. We decided to take control of our situation and take the chance that we could create an income that would support our dreams.

The challenge for most of the people in our age group is clear. To continue working day after day, not knowing what the future will hold, or to step out on their own, not knowing what the future will hold. One choice, you have no control over, the 2nd choice, you have total control.

Here is the clear difference though. YOU can have Anything you want. It is never too late to choose to have your dreams. Take time today to decide what it is you truly want. Think big and create a clear vision of the life you will have when you have your dreams come true.

Once you decide what the outcome of your life will be, open your mind for the path to clear. The only figuring out necessary is “figuring out” what you want. Allow opportunities and ideas to come to you. Stay focused on your goals and allow circumstances to fall into place that support your dreams. Stop worrying and stop trying to fix things. Take a “never give up” attitude and you will not have to give up.

Once you open your mind and your heart, everything will fall into place. However, here is the “but”, you must allow yourself to take action when the opportunity or the idea comes to you. Creating your future to meet your own specifications will take determination and probably taking a risk.

Here is the question you should ask yourself;

” Which would be the greatest pain, The Pain of Risk or the Pain of Regret?” Don’t let yourself regret your choices. Living a full and fun life will take some actions you have never had to take before.

I talk to Baby Boomers every day who are living the life of their dreams. They have taken chances that paid off big time and I am not talking about investments in stocks or anything that you have no control over. I am talking about taking a chance on a home business. There are many people our age who make more money from home than they ever made working for someone else or from their retirement. It is possible to live a life of freedom, taking your business wherever you choose to be and having an income greater than you ever imagined.

Make an investment in yourself and decide today to live your dreams. There are many businesses from home that are legitimate, strong and freeing. Decide today to create your own outcome.

I offer a strong business model that is perfect for Baby Boomers like me. I would love to talk with you and show you how to live life on your terms.

To your success

Yes, I am a baby boomer and very proud of it! I am living a lifestyle that most people dream and hope of living when they retire, but I am living it now and have been living it for several years now.

In 2004, our 401k was a pittance, there were no retirement programs from our jobs of many years, the amount of social security we would earn was a joke and few of our investments were aggressively working for us.

The truth is, we were living from paycheck to paycheck and knew that would not change as long as we stayed on the same path.  We were very uncomfortable with changing our path, but our deep desire for freedom, outweighed the “good advise” everyone so freely offered.

 Since the age of 14, I had never been unemployed. I worked hard for 28 years at an airline, only to be terminated after 9/11 with nothing to show for it.  I immediately went to another company as a Manager where I worked 60-70 hours per week for 3 years.

My husband worked for 35 years in the transportation industry and made less in 2004 than he made in 1980.  We were tired and realized we wanted and deserved to live a life of luxury and freedom, NOW!

2) Focus – Accomplishing major change in your life requires focus. Laser beam focus on the goal is the driving force to keep you going in the right direction.

3) Belief – Or some may prefer (as I do) to call it faith. Regardless, in order to have anything, you must have absolute and total belief. The level of belief that removes failure as an option. This is a level of belief “knowing”  your goal is at hand.  A belief that KNOWS  whatever you desire and are focused on is happening for you. It is a deep seated, inner belief that is not understood by anyone who does not have your level of commitment to the goal.

The real reason people are stuck is FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real). Fear of the unknown keeps more people from stepping out and claiming their success than any other reason. There are a million ways to make a million dollars and far easier than saving for your entire life while someone else pays you what they think you are worth.

I implore you to take a long hard look at where you will be just 5 years from now on your current path. The best way to have financial independence is to create it for yourself with a solid business model. I now make more in a month than I used to make in a year as a Call Center Manager and more in a year than I would have ever been able to save in a lifetime. Plus, I work only 15 - 20 hours per week instead of the 60 I worked before.

You can too, it is so easy. But, the hardest part is making the decision. So, Baby Boomers take heed and people of all ages know this; the road to retirement is a smooth one but the retirement itself may not be.

Step out of the box and grab the golden ring. I did and what a difference that made in my life.

Make it a great day and Take Action!

To Your Success…

When you are on a path to accomplish great things, wealth, fitness, spiritual growth or even relationships, awareness is always necessary and is the guide to that greatness. 

 

In order to design a plan of action, you must first be aware of where you are going, what the “money” or the object of your plan will bring you, how it will affect others and how you will implement the plan.

On the same hand, in order to accomplish something great, you must be aware of what you are looking to accomplish.

Anything is possible through this awarness.  Once you are perfectly clear about what the object of your desire is, the plan is easy and the implementation of the plan is driven by the clarity.

To your success…

I admit it, I really do wake up each and every day and do what “I Want To
Do”. Some may think this is a selfish approach to life and others may think it
is a fairy tale, but it is my life. But how is it that I can do this?

The answer is very simple, ” I just decided to”. Okay, so I hear the
eyes rolling and the laughs and the moaning “yeah right”. But it is very true.
Did I realize it at the time I made the decision that 4 years later, I would be
starting each and every day on my own terms and living my life only as I choose?
No, but in hindsight, I now know the power of the decision to take control of my
life.

Let’s go back a few years so you can see the transition a bit. I
worked for an airline for 28 years and suddenly lost that job. At the time I was
devastated, so close to retirement and being let go with nothing to show for the
28 years. I went right to work for another company, a Pharmaceutical company,
building and running their customer service call center. At the time, I felt so
lucky to have a job that paid even more than I made with the airline (which I
thought was excellent pay), and they let me have autonomy, which simply meant I
worked 80 hours a week, because I did everything that needed to be done to get
my assignment completed.

Then one day, my husband and I realized that we
hated our lives. In our 50’s and although we lived very comfortably, we had no
“life”. We never saw each other, we lived paycheck to paycheck, we were tired
all of the time and life in general became a real drudgery. We were just
surviving at life.

So I started exploring options and very quickly got
started in a home business that I knew I would love. Now here is the amazing
part, within 3 months, my husband and I had both quit our jobs. Sounds great,
huh? Well it was, but we learned very quickly that we were not emotionally
prepared for having complete control of our lives.

We worried about our
business, we worried about what others thought of us, we worried about our
family obligations and on and on and on. Within a few months, we put ourselves
right back into a very stressful situation, even though we no longer worked for
someone else.

It was a situation that we created. There was almost a
need to be stressed since we had lived in stress for so many years. It directly
affected our income, simply because we were limiting the amount of our income
based on our limited thinking. We had gone back into the SURVIVAL mode without
realizing it.

We needed an Epiphany, we needed an awakening. One day, an
associate in our company wrote an email to me and said “Wanda, when did you
mentally go back to your days of working for someone else and give control of
your life back to others? What made you stop thinking big and go back to
thinking so small?”

That was all it took for me to realize that after
all those years of being under the control of others, I was not allowing myself
to be in control of me! I stopped thinking big and started thinking survival. My
husband and I were both totally wrapped up in survival and forgot that the
reason we chose to be self employed and quit our jobs, was to LIVE! We had
denied ourselves of our deepest desires, simply because we gave up the control.

Today, I pinch myself every day. I wake up when I want (and yes, I still
get up early by choice), I walk on the beach every morning, sometimes for miles.
I read, write, sleep and whatever I feel is best for me at the time. Then I work
my business for a couple of hours and Jerry and I spend the rest of the day
together. Sometimes doing our volunteer and community work and sometimes just
fishing or boating. But the point is, we are living.

So what took me/us
from surviving to thriving? Again, it was a clear decision. Surviving is not a
good thing. It is what you do in the work world. You survive in the masses which
sometimes leads you to surviving in your own life.

But thriving is rich!
It is being in total control. It is thinking big, it is rejoicing and being
absolutely grateful, it is juicy, it is delicious. It is just very special.
Thriving is living your life on your own terms, touching other people’s lives
everyday and living life to the fullest. When you thrive, everything else just
works out, even the money. The mindset of thriving takes you to unbelievable
levels of success.

Getting to this point sometimes takes a slap in the
face. Sometimes people get a slap and do not realize it. They miss the
opportunity to wake up. These little slaps, or bumps in the road will then set
you back in your growth, instead of moving you forward to unimaginable levels of
growth. We were very fortunate that it moved us forward. We clearly received the
message of thriving versus surviving.

My message to you today is to go
forward in your life and thrive. Life is an amazing experience and it is meant
to be exciting, delicious, juicy and fun. It is meant to give you great peace
and great joy as well as providing these same things to others. Thriving gives
you the life you desire, but you must make the clear and conscious choice to
thrive, to live your life by your own terms, the way it was meant to be.

The difference in surviving and thriving are as simple as a decision.
Make the decision today to THRIVE!

To your success…

Although I am not an advocate of TV, the Media and any other venue for
telling me how to think and feel, there is something very powerful going on in
the Media today.

“They” are telling us the economy is bad, times are
tough, people are suffering and etc, etc, etc. And, although this may be the
truth for some in our country, it does not have to be the truth for us.

When we hear these things, although I firmly believe we are better off
not listening to it, it is entirely up to us to determine if these points of
view will affect our results and therefore our lives.

Do not allow
others, regardless of who they are and what they say they know, determine your
future and your results. You are only becoming a slave to thier beliefs, albeit
false, if you allow this to happen.

Let’s look at this quote from U.S.
Andersen. I hope you will agree with me this is a powerful awareness and
something that is life changing.

“It is an established fact that a half
dozen people can stand on a street corner and each see things that are
imperceptible to the others because of the different qualities of their
consciousness. One person might be a realtor and be primarily concerned with the
value of a vacant lot. Another might be a doctor and be preoccupied with the
erratic gate of a pedestrian. Another might be an advertising person with their
attention focused on a vacant billboard atop the drugstore. Still another might
be an old lady concerned with the speed of the traffic. There might be an
automobile salesman whose attention is riveted upon the new model of a
competitor. There might be a contractor who observes that the drugstore needs
painting.

Such a list is endless. Because of the infinite variety of the
human species, it would surely be impossible for any two people out of any
number of combinations to see exactly the same things on the same street corner.
What we see is the result of our consciousness. We see only that which we are.

There is no liberation from this fact. It is the basic law of existence.
It can be used to restrict consciousness or it can be used to expand
consciousness, but work it must, and always. By using it, and we cannot help
using it, we either shrivel our souls or expand them, there is no in-between. We
are cursed or blessed from within, and upon the judgment seat sits our ego, a
false judge to be sure, an illusion to begin with.

When we subordinate
ego to spirit, then we are able to expand consciousness and increase awareness,
to fully use the law of growth and power. But as long as the ego remains king,
that long will we be slaves to a tyrant which imprisons our consciousness within
narrow boundaries.”

You determine your life and your destiny, no one
else. Your truth is the truth that you see. Others can not tell you how things
are, they can only give you their perspective, which is the truth for them. Your
truth is up to you to decide.

So decide today what your economy is, what
your results are and what your future will be. Never let others, who have
limited thinking, control your thoughts.

To Your Success…