Healthy Wealthy Boomer

What defines a Wealthy Boomer?

Have we forgotten compassion? Have we forgotten simple kindness? Every Baby Boomer wants to live a life without lack, one of abundance and comfort – enjoying the love of family and friends. How much do we care and what are we doing about it?

Change For A Dollar tells the story of “the forgotten man”.

It reminds me of another video about the forgotten man that we watch on a regular basis. It’s a movie with William Powell made in 1937 during the tail end of the Great Depression called “My Man Godfrey“. While classified as a comedy, it really is a story of compassion and helping people stand on their own two feet.

Sometimes it seems that we Baby Boomers have lost touch with who we really are. We have forgotten – amid the busy-ness of life – to remember gratitude, and loving kindness to the others around us as we scurry around in our lives. This week I watched a video clip at Awesomenessfest.com where the speaker said:

“I have learned that we are loveable because we are human beings not human doings.”

We have learned – too often – to take things for granted, or the value of family, or gratitude for what we do have.

Seeing a video like this reminds me how important it is to be grateful and compassionate about how many people face difficulties today that did not exist 20 years ago. And yet it is virtually the same struggle that has been going on for centuries. Change for a Dollar is about a helping hand, a smile, and “hand-up” when we need it – and mostly seeing people, really seeing them. It is about the loneliness of being invisible.

Being the catalyst that triggers expansion is the type of change we need, not just change for the sake of it. Effective change requires purpose and compassion and gratitude and vision. We can lose the material stuff, we can lose our direction –  fall off our path and make bad decisions along the way – without losing our integrity.

Do we throw in the towel or ask our self what can I do about this?

It touches my heart to watch this video and reminds how many times I forget to remember who I AM and what I am grateful for.

Little things do make a difference.

Without compassion, without gratitude and without kindness, what does abundance mean? This is the character part of the wealthy boomer – and what is wealth without character?  It’s like living in an empty shell –  living an empty life.

This video reminds me what it is about helping people that truly brings me joy and that this is the work I love. It shines the light of hope on humanity.

Ask yourself, “What type of change can I make for a dollar?” If you like this video – you can donate a dollar at the end. I did.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Certified Core Health Facilitator.

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