Bill Bartmann is a good man…

If there were ever a “Healthy Wealthy Boomer” role model, this is the guy. As Baby Boomers, he’s the guy we should listen to and emulate.

I first heard him speak in Orlando at a 2006 Peak Potentials event called Guerilla Business School - where I was an attendee. Then a week later I met him in LA at GBS (where this picture was taken) - only this time I was on staff.

Face to face, I was impressed by his:

• genuine humility
• consideration for other people
• grace
• mental acuity and wit

A majority of the “big guns” in the seminar circuit have huge egos. Bill Bartmann doesn’t - at least that’s my impression on a personal level and I say this from experience - not just conjecture. From June 2005 through September 2006, I was on Core Team (staff) for Peak Potentials for 26 events across north America.

In that capacity, there were many occasions to interface with speakers; often to observe them behind the scenes; how they handle themselves; how they treat staff; how prepared they were and generally what kind of people they were ‘behind the cameras’.

Bartmann is a tuned-in guy; fully conscious and present - both through astute observation as well as an active interface. He lives life fully and pays attention.

I liked him the moment I heard him say (paraphrased):

The difference between highly successful people and those who are not boils down to two words: Self esteem. I don’t consider myself to be an expert about too many things - but on this topic, I consider myself an expert. And then he told us why…

Aside from the fact that he is a martial arts practitioner, rides Harleys, went from being a human teenage ‘gutter rat’ to becoming the 25th wealthiest man in America, he’s just the kind of guy you would want watching your back in a tough situation.

You get a sense when you meet him that you can trust his judgment and that he’s not ‘running a game’, he’s the real deal. He’s a man’s man with principles and integrity and plenty of battle scars from the street. You can tell he’s conquered his demons and come to peace with who he is. He’s not a tall man, but he is a very “large man” with an obvious command of his personal power who easily fills a large space when he enters a room.

I trusted him immediately.

When he talks about his family, he makes it clear that his family is the most important thing in his life. The rest - the money, the action, success - is all secondary to family.

He also seems to be the epitome of innovative thinking and curiosity.

Bill Bartmann is currently on a mission.

Go here to get more info why: Bartmann’s Billionaire U

He wants to turn ’small business statistics’ 180 degrees. That is to say he wants to turn the small business failure rate from 90% to 10% - and increase the success rate from 10% to 90%.

And if anybody is qualified to do this, it’s Bill Bartmann.

Historically he is a master at raising capital on Wall Street without a personal guarantee and a master entrepreneur. He has gone from a $1M in the red to becoming a billionaire by leveraging a $13K loan to buy bad paper and then revolutionizing the industry.

Bill Bartmann Tele-seminars Are Awesome…

This month I listened to a 1 hour tele-seminar with Bill - talking about the “BAIL OUT”. He made more sense on that call than all the combined drivel we have heard from politicians, talking heads and experts over the last two weeks. Here is a guy with the economic moxie, know how and experience to solve the financial problems that we face today. And he has a plan.

He talked about how to correctly approach a financial solution and discussed the parallels between our current economic situation and the savings and loan debacle 20 years ago. Hey Boomers, Bartmann told us to quit listening to the media on this subject and not to buy into the doom and gloom because savvy people can become very wealthy given our current scenario. It’s actually a time to celebrate opportunity.

It’s just a matter of knowing what to do and how to do it. And he’s going to show us.

Bill Bartmann’s mission is to create a lot of small business success stories. And I think his primary motivation is to give back - out of gratitude for his own personal success and because he loves this country and the people in it.

Putting his money where his mouth is, he has put together a 12 month training program that he calls the ‘Billionaire U” - including 24 members only tele-seminars. Even though Bill commands $13,000 for a two day live workshop and huge fees on a private coaching basis, he is offering this program for $100 a year.

Now you tell me, is that fair? Do you think he is genuinely trying to make it affordable for everybody?

I do.

Every once in a while great opportunities come along that empower us to grow and make quantum leaps in our understanding. I believe this is one of those opportunities. You will benefit so much from Bill’s training, you won’t believe the value you received twelve months from now.

I had a chance to work with Bill at the end of 2006 and based on what was happening in my life, it did not materialize. Subsequently, I have often thought that maybe this was one of the biggest mistakes in my life.

But I’m not passing up an opportunity to work with him again.

If you have not already done so - follow this link to the Bill Bartmann Billionaire Business Systems and sign up for the 12 month $100 training. Bill also has a live two day workshop coming up on Nov 22 and 23rd in Palm Springs.

Boomers, listen to this man. He knows what he is talking about.

Why Web 2.0 and Social Bookmarking Really Works…

One aspect of the internet that has always amazed me is how intimate digital communication can actually be.

Objectively you wouldn’t think so - letters typed on a screen. How can that be intimate? All I know is that I have been brought to tears on numerous occasions through a touching and thoughtful email or blog post.

Every so often I forget about my amazement until I am reminded by a passionate and emotionally open piece - created by a caring and tuned in person.

Maybe it’s the emotional honesty that is so striking ; maybe it’s authenticity. Maybe it’s intent. Maybe it’s intention.

Some of us learn early in life that it’s ok to express emotion and it’s safe to be who we really are.

Others have a tougher challenge to overcome as adults because we learn early in our experience that it isn’t safe and that individual expression equates to punishment, demeaned self esteem and retribution.

For the former, the realm of emotion and self esteem is a playground, a joyful experiment and an exciting and interesting game. Mistakes are not only allowed and tolerated, they are encouraged. Life is fun.

For the latter - as a child - survival depends on being transparent, invisible, unheard and unspoken, because being seen and heard equates to pain - emotional or otherwise. Mistakes must be avoided because they are flags that draw attention.

Life is scary.

For the person with low self esteem, it’s a really big deal and it takes courage to express oneself openly in relationships, socially or on the Net, in contrast to who those already understand that it’s ok to be who they are in public.

The Impact on Baby Boomers…

These issues are particularly true for Baby Boomers because we are the generation once removed from the Great Depression and the direct social descendants of the WW2 generation.

Men were silent about their pain and fears. It was the way they survived the horrors so many of them saw in the war and their memories of hunger and scarcity in the Great Depression as kids.

As such, Boomers were trained to emulate this same emotional behavior en masse - just by observing the way many of our fathers maintained a distance and a consistent lack of emotional expression, masking all that pain.

We directly reflect these attitudes and social mores as a group and this self esteem polarity seems to be more pronounced in us as a result.

How One Person Really Makes A Difference

What was it, for example, about seeing Paul Potts - a frumpy, self conscious and humble cell phone salesman singing his heart out on Britain’s Got Talent, that so dramatically impacted observers emotionally?

And it did…

There was not a dry eye in the house when he finished his performance.

Was it the amazing power of his voice?

Yes, partially.

Was it the fact that he allowed his personal power and magnificence to shine through for the first time in his life - and expose his true spirit - in spite of his absolute internal discomfort and fear of failure?

Most definitely.

Was it because instinctively we all sensed that the magnitude of the risk he was taking was so large that most of us would never have taken that risk?

Yes, that too.

Was it because we knew he was taking the biggest chance of his life and that the risk didn’t just benefit Paul Potts, it benefited humanity?

There was a sort hush from the sense of awe that the audience experienced observing greatness unepxectedly. Somehow we all grew from his courage and simultaneously we all experienced emotional cleansing through a widespread “release”.

And a new understanding.

The collective human consciousness expanded a step further towards goodness and truth and the Creator within each of us just by his willingness to face his greatest fear and follow his true path for the first time in his life.

On some level we were all elevated. We rose up. We expanded. And we also learned - clearly - that if he could do it, we can too.

And this happens each and every time someone speaks his (her) truth authentically…

This amazing vehicle we call the “Net” is fast becoming a collective consciousness development program - that expands as rapidly as our ability to understand and utilize it - almost along the lines of the “holographic universe”. So through it all, truth (or the lack of it) permeates all communication. On some level, we can not hide who we truly are when we are active participants because somehow the collective consciousness can sense the authenticity and passion.

Many times in the past I have taken exception to the zealous attitude that blogging purists have taken regarding their antipathy towards internet marketers - somehow equating making money and self promotion with a lowering of standards and an intrusion into “their world”.

But the cool part is that in the bigger picture, we can’t fool anyone when we are not being authentic.

So as the Net consciousness continues to expand collectively, those who are not acting in truth and for the overall betterment and growth of all involved will begin to stand out more obviously through contrast - digitally and instantaneously.

Social bookmarking and web 2.0 are therefore part of the natural progression of free expression and the natural evolution of the Internet.

And those who do not adapt will become extinct Internet dinosaurs.

The days of the used car salesman types online are coming to an end naturally as the Net becomes a greater and more accurate expression of human consciousness.

Authenticity and integrity will overcome self serving behavior and manipulation as the default of expansion and growth. It is inevitable because it will cost too much money to sustain the facade as more and more people get the message and click away to something more in alignment with what they are looking for.

So Web 2.0 and social bookmarking really work because, on an individual level, it is a safe environment for self expression. There is safety of sorts simply through anonymity in and of itself.

But Web 2.0 has also inadvertently emerged as a development tool for self esteem because authenticity is encouraged, congratulated and supported time and again through comments, posts on other blogs, back links and active readership.

It is becoming a platform for high self esteem where we can grow self esteem through the process of helping others and by receiving complements and recognition for good work on a consistent basis.

It’s amazing how the universe works even through an electronic communication medium.

Too much sitting is not really great for today’s Healthy Wealthy Boomer.

I don’t know about you but I spend a lot of time working online, reading, and traveling-ugh, sitting.

Sometimes I get up from my seat and my backside is absolutely numb from sitting for hours and I don’t even know where I am for a moment. It’s like I’ve been traveling the world at the speed of thought and I have to re-ground and figure out which airport I’m in. Can anyone relate???

Believe it or not I really do have a remedy for that and it makes me feel sooooo good.

Walking.

I’m going to share a few of my not so secret, secrets with you. Those of you who frequent the Healthy Wealthy Boomers On FaceBook! group know I am a “walking and water” advocate and very verbal about it. From the research I have done and my own experiences, it seems that walking and water solve a lot of potential and real health problems. Not overnight of course, but pretty darn near it!

Far too many of my internet friends are spending more and more time online creating their dreams while ignoring their bodies needs for fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. You can get all those needs met with a two mile or more round trip walk. Yes, getting your daily dose of vitamin D means wearing fewer, lighter clothes and exposing your skin-60%- to the sunlight for forty five minutes to an hour every day. Naturally you may need to wear a cap ( like my green eyed husband who tends to burn the dome….;-)

Also, you’ll want the oxygenation for your blood and brain that comes from walking briskly and breathing deeply, and you will want the toning and overall good feelings that come from getting outside away from the desk while clearing your mind and using your eyes to scan the horizon for the longer views on life. Oh yes, there are so many benefits and I won’t detail them all here.

HOWEVER….;-)

There is one more specific benefit that I have incorporated thanks to a teacher I had long ago-21 years ago to be precise.

When I walk I do “I AM” affirmations.

I AM affirmations are short powerful statements you make claiming all words that describe you as the whole and complete person you are and desire to be just as you would with a vision board or Mind Movie. The thing is you state it and feel the joy and satisfaction of it and you keep a stream going so you have no time to judge or think. You are walking, staying present and connected to your surroundings but making every I AM statement that feels good and right to you and that you aspire to see complete in your life. You put no time, no questions, no how, no details- just the statement of I AM. Smile too!

Examples:

• I AM woman (wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, cousin, aunt, grandmother, step- mother) (acknowledge yourself!)
• I AM successful (creative, talented, open minded, inspired, inspiring, authentic)
• I AM coach ( teacher, trainer, transformational,speaker,author)
• I AM wealthy (rich, prosperity, prosperous,prospering)
• I AM compassionate (caring,loving, generous, sharing, encouraging, connected)
• I AM truth (integrity, honor, loyal, trusted, trusting, reliable)

• I AM ALL THAT IS
• I AM THAT I AM
• I AM Reverent (grateful, appreciative, respectful)

Also, I say “Thank You Divine that I AM……..” you fill it in. My friend Angela Bear at Angelabear.com taught me that one.

There are infinite words to choose from that will fit you and your personal law of attraction choices. You may be surprised at how easily they flow. Once you understand how the law of attraction works, it’s an easy thing to be aware of what you attract and purposefully direct and control your thoughts.

When I finish doing my affirmations I am usually ” walking on air” and even though I may have walked 5, 6, 8 miles or more, I usually feel incredible.

There is one more thing I have added that I do and that is Ho’oponopono. (If you have read Joe Vitale’s Zero Limits, you are familiar with this process and if not you can find it on YouTube.) I focus on loving my perceived weaknesses and any judgments I find, saying:

• I love you
• I’m sorry
• Please forgive me
• Thank you

I do that for about the last five minutes. Sometimes I do it first. I change the order around and you will too. This prevents stagnation.

A few things I learned not to do:

• I don’t think. I flow.
• I don’t walk with a full stomach. I digest.
• I don’t walk when I am over tired. I sleep.
• I don’t walk if I have a pressing commitment that is conflicting with my routine. I schedule around my walk when possible or I walk later so I can relax and enjoy.

Remember to bring water for the walk back.

This will help prevent running out of energy at the end of your walk. I have had to stop and find water many a time because I get really dehydrated at about the four mile point. Hydration is crucial. Sometimes you then have no controll over what kind of water you are drinking. You just need water now!

Also, I bring a fresh plum, peach, apple or banana for my longer walks. Carry a small backpack with the water so you can keep your hands free. On long walks it feels really unbalanced to have to carry something in one hand or the other. I am not a proponent of carrying weights while walking.

Not to be forgotten; stretch before, midpoint, and especially afterward to reduce sore muscles.

The very best thing for any tightness the next day is to stretch and walk again. You may increase or decrease distance but stick with your two mile round trip goal at the very minimum.

Not only will you get very healthy, experience accelerated feelings of fitness, and a new energy level after the first week; you will also be happier and well on your way to using the law of attraction to bring you everything you affirm everyday as it becomes part of your muscle memory and ongoing state of mind. Does that motivate you? It does me!!

At this point after months of walking and saying affirmations I often hear them in my head when not walking. Two more of my favorites recommended by one author I favor are these:

• I make good decisions.
• My subconscious is my partner in success.

According to John Kehoe, the author of Mind Power into the 21st Century, these two statements consciously aligned with have enormous power to change your life.

I personally believe that Baby Boomers are much more aware of and dedicated to health on every level including body, mind, and spirit. Walking affirmations targets all of those levels accomplishing a vast array of uplifting and empowering thoughts and benefits.

My walk is purely “ME” time and I dismiss any stressful thoughts that arise during that time by immediately putting my focus on identifying objects in nature along the way to stay present and peaceful.

Try affirmations while you walk.

Every once in while something really cool comes along.

This is one of those somethings.

A few weeks ago, we came across a cool program to create a ‘video vision board’ or what Ryan Higgins (the originator of the program) calls, “Mind Movies”.

Here’s a video (below) of Alexandra Barrett talking about Mind Movies…

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Other breaking news on the web today…

What does Frank Kern - Internet Marketer turned California surfer - think about Mind Movies and the Law of Attraction?

Follow the link here:

Frank Kern and the Law of Attraction

and hear the story in his own words as he interviews Ryan Higgins, Mind Movies creator.

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Check of the first Mind Movie we created

Believe me, we’re not video production aces. It’s a lot of fun, you’ll like it.

Watch…

You become your own movie producer, director, editor and star. Then watch your new life unfold before your eyes over and over until it becomes a reality. Now you’re a master manifestor.

This is the first online interview with Michael Barrett - author of:

Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st.

The interview was done by Erik Olson a business coach and serial entrepreneur whom Michael Interviewed on June 9th, 2008.

This is a well done interview you should find interesting. The content gives the listener an idea of Michael’s philosophy, sense of passion, background and training in the whole arena of Natural Health, Qigong and Business - beginning in 1973.

The interview also gives a clear picture of the message Michael is communicating in his book and his sincere drive to help Boomers achieve the kind of abundant lifestyle and state of health they deserve.

Have a listen, and please leave a comment.

We’d love to hear from you.

Have a Healthy Wealthy Boomer Day.

Most the time people in America describe a billion as a thousand million.

But for this example, I would like to describe a billion as:

• one million thousand or
• ten million hundred

So that means you can visualize a stack of a billion dollars on your dining room table in the following different configurations:

Thinking in terms of $100 bills:

• Count out 50,000 stacks of 200 (two hundred) each, $100 bills
• Count out 20,000 stacks of 500 (five hundred) each, $100 bills
• Count out 10,000 stacks of 1000 (one thousand) each, $100 bills

$10K Bundles of $100 Bills

You could count out stacks of 100 each, $100 bills (like this picture of bundled hundreds).

Each bundle is $10,000 each.

You would need to count out 100,000 of these $10,000 stacks to create $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars).

You’d better have a very large dining room table.

Stacks of $100 Bills

Now it gets even more interesting when we start looking at stacks of $100 bills another way.

Suppose you wanted to make a single $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollar) stack of $100 bills.

It would have to be 10,000,000 bills high.

That is a stack of 10,000,000 - $100 bills…

According to the department of treasury a bill is .0043 inches thick. That means that 10,000,000 thick stack would be 43,000 inches tall or 3,573 feet tall - a little over 2/3 mile high.

Stacks of $1000 Bills

When we think of a $1Billion in terms of stacks of $1000 bills, a single stack would be 1,000,000 bills thick and would reach a height of 4,300 inches tall or 358.88 feet - 1.19 times the length of a football field - high

Remember a Million Thousand Earlier?

Now those stacks of $1000 bills on your dining room table would be could be configured this way:

• Count out 1000 stacks, 1000 high each of $1000 bills
• Count out 500 stacks, 2000 high each of $1000 bills
• Count out 10,000 stacks of 100 each of $1000 bills

That’s 10,000 stacks of $100,000 bundles of $1000 bills. Whoa, that’s a lot of thousands - a million thousand.

Another Way of Looking at $1 Billion (1,000,000,0000) Dollars

• $1 Billion of $100 bills end to end is approximately 55,000,000 inches long.
• $1 Billion of $1 bills end to end is about 86,805.56 miles long, approximately 3.49 times the circumference of the earth

A Billion Is A Huge Number - How About One-Part-Per-Billion…

1. One 4-inch hamburger in a chain of hamburgers circling the earth at the equator 2.5 times.
2. One silver dollar in a roll of silver dollars stretching from Detroit to Salt Lake City.
3. One kernel of corn in a 45-foot high, 16-foot diameter silo.
4. One sheet in a roll of toilet paper stretching from New York to London.
5. One second of time in 31.71 years.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but an advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases. I added a few of my own here too…

1. A billion seconds ago it was 1976.
2. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
3. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age
4. A billion hours is about 114,155.25 years
5. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet
6. A billion inches is 15,783 miles, more than halfway around the earth
7. A billion dollars of the US debt - paying it off by one dollar a second - takes 31 years, 259 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds
8. A billion dollars ago was only 3 hours, at the rate our government is spending it (based on figures from usgovernmentspending.com ) and we’re talking 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - 365 days a year - Congress will spend a little over 8 times that amount every 24 hours every single day in 2008

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money - to the tune of ~$2,931,200,000,000 (that’s 2931.2 Billion to be spent by Congress in 2008 )

Give or take a billion…

Washington, D. C < HELLO! > Are all your calculators broken ??

How do we know who to listen to when it comes to Web 2.0?

There is a new internet craze going on now from my perspective. Lately everybody has become an overnight expert about making money online by Wordpress blogging and social bookmarking.

That’s funny to me because I remember hearing an interview with Ed Dale on a tele-seminar (around January 2008) speaking to a group of the interviewer’s “inner circle” students. The guy interviewing Ed Dale was an “expert at internet marketing” and had no idea about Facebook as a marketing vehicle.

Until very recently, few gurus promoted Web 2.0 and social bookmarking as a viable marketing online mechanism - in fact many of them referred to social media sites like Facebook as a playground for adults like MySpace is for teenagers. Something not to be taken seriously.

Suddenly they are all experts with megaphones touting Web 2.0 as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Now Will the Real Web 2.0 Please Stand Up?

There are exceptions: the two most notable are Jack Humphrey and Ed Dale in my experience.

Long before it was fashionable to be a Web 2.0 expert, most SEO-Internet Marketing guys looked at Jack Humphrey like he was one of those bus stop evangelists holding a sign that said, “The End Is Near,” preaching doom to everyone. Only Jack was really holding a sign that said, “Social bookmarking is cool. Web 2.0 really works and it’s the wave of the future.”

And the naysayers, would wink at each other implying that Jack should be locked up - wondering when the guys in the white suits were coming to take him where he “really belonged”.

I actually hired one of Jack’s partners (Peter Lenkefi) to build three adsense sites for me before I had a clue what adsense was all about. After that he contacted me again and said that he and his partner were starting a new program that would revolutionize internet marketing. Fall 2006 the subject came up again in my discussions with Peter about joining the new system and to get involved in an intensive and specialized training program - kind of a insider’s club of the new wave - the future of internet marketing. There was a last minute a glitch and I was unable to participate in the training.

Well that was the precursor the current version of Authority Site Center, Jack’s baby.

The idea is that if you create an extensive network of social media sites - a “web” - correctly linked and constructed, you will end up with an Authority Site that ranks well, has tons of inbound links and is both “Google-slap” proof as well as recession proof.

One of the BEST FREE Web 2.0 Resources on the Net Jack Humphrey wrote the book on Web 2.0 and Social Bookmarking. Literally…. It’s been downloaded over 40,000 times. If you want a blog that gets read, follow the instructions in this book. Get the Authority Black Book free.

Jack gets about 5000-10,000 unique visitors a day to his site. And he does not spend a dime on Google adsense.

How many SEO guys can say that?

A few months back, Jack offered a free 8 week webinar class to 500 people on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The classes were held online at 1:00 p.m. and then the session repeated again at 10:00 p.m. There were participants from all over the world. The moderator did an online presentation and the students could text questions and comments.

What a great course and what excellent teaching. Jack sat in on a few sessions, but the vast majority of the course was taught by Sam Clarke. What a fantastic guy and a what a great class. The camaraderie and the depth of the learning and the bonding was exceptional. It was like Sam created a family.

We liked it so much and liked Sam so much, we’ve decided that we are going to have a reunion on a cruise ship next year - so all the “text-forum” friends from around the world can meet face to face.

These guys give it their all and they do not hold back.

The emphasis of the training was on extensive and professional market research, prior to ever publishing a blog or a website. The course was based on years of Jack’s personal experience - as well as their experience as internet marketers, bloggers, dealing with students and clients for several years.

The best part about this course was that it was laid out in a step-by-step format sequentially in 16 Steps. Accordingly, the name was 16 Steps to Success. What to do and how to execute each step.

My iron clad conclusion was that Jack, Sam and Authority Site Center are the real McCoy.

I was so convinced I joined the membership site for more extensive training.

Ed Dale and The Thirty Day Challenge

Ed has an annual program that he started several years ago called the Thirty Day Challenge. This is the fourth year, I believe. Prior to last year, I don’t know the history, but I do know that there are people who came out of the 30 Day Challenge and have gone on to be millionaires. My wife and I took the 30 Day Challenge last year and it was a great experience. We both agree that it is one of the most valuable courses we have taken.

Another Absolutely Amazing Free Web 2.0 Resource Sign up for the Thirty Day Challenge.

The Thirty Day Challenge is chocked full of cutting edge techniques because that’s the way Ed Dale does stuff. He is a massively successful internet marketer. I believe he started this tradition because he wants to give back.

Take this class.

And it’s free. It doesn’t cost anything to take the course.

Here is the concept: In 30 days, even if you have no internet experience, you will learn how to make money online from scratch using Web 2.0 and social bookmarking.

You learn how to make $10 (ten dollars) from a website you build during the 30 day class.

$10 bucks - big deal, right?

The idea is that once you know how to make $10, you know how to make $1,000 or more. Just do more of the same thing that worked.

The 30 Day Challenge is a blast. This year is supposed to be the best one yet because the technology has come so far since last year. And last year was awesome. We’re taking it again.

See you there.

Both Jack Humphrey and Ed Dale Share Something in Common.

They care about people. They put people first and making a buck second.

They also encourage you to learn what you can with free tools first, before you spend money on mentoring, software, design and business development.

They teach focus.

And they teach to research your topic completely - identify your niche (or niches) and thoroughly do your market research before you invest in your topic. Make certain there is demand, traffic and a way to monetize the site before you build it.

That’s damn good advice guys.

Two excellent marketers, Web 2.0 experts and Teachers

Other related links… Jack Humphrey in Vegas…again - Hey all. Just dropping by to report my where abouts so no one freaks out and I don’t go too long without posting. It is also required by my probation officer, and the CIA likes to keep track of me as well. Wish I had some pictures. …

How many of you Baby Boomer Life blog readers participated in the incredible amazing Thirty Day Challenge??? With Ed Dale and Dan Raine?… That’s it. Time to wake up and touch the internet and I don’t mean check your email either!

Officially, the 2007 Thirty Day Challenge… is over. But, for me it will never end, as I will continue to challenge myself every day to do and learn more. What they have taught me will stay with me forever. …

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Thirty Day Challenge - It’s called 30DC (Thirty Day Challenge). It starts August 1st. This is a wonderful thing to join because it teaches you allot of wonderful, helpful & and free ways to find your “Niche” or find what kind of online business you would like …

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Web 2.0 a social networking explosion…Web 2.0 - What the hell is this all about then? Most of the folks that I’m trying to get this across to around their early 40’s. Having just mastered the www and now know what a web site is, how email work and how to download all the free music you need for life. …

A couple of weeks back we bumped into a guy named Erik Olson (and his lovely wife, Heather) on Facebook.

Through a series of exchanges and communications, we quickly learned that we share a lot in common and that we could easily talk for hours at a time.

You can Meet Healthy Wealthy Boomer Erik Olson by listening to an 6/9/08 interview I did with Erik.. He’s a character, you’ll love this guy.

Erik is a classic example of a small business serial entrepreneurial.

However, Erik is a member of a fairly elite group because he has learned how to effectively put his entrepreneurial talent to work and rise above the ’serial stigma’ that plagues most small business owners. That stigma includes perpetually spewing forth new ideas and driving everyone around them nuts - business associates, friends, family and particularly spouses.

Through our interaction with the Olson’s on Facebook, on the phone and via email, it became obvious quickly how uncanny the similarities are between us.

I downloaded a copy of

Nine Simple Rules, by Erik Olson

and was astounded how much our philosophies correlate as well as our hands on experience in small business. As I read further it was kind of spooky how close his story felt like my own - even his statement that basically says we will never truly succeed as an entrepreneur until we create a business that is built around our life, instead of a life built around our business.

Quoting from Erik’s Nine Simple Rules, “When you design a business for the express purpose of giving you more life, several things change. The first thing that changes is your choice of business. You can no longer be held hostage to your own labor. By this I mean that the business must be able to produce revenue for you without your constant involvement. If you are a plumber with no employees, you only produce income when you hold a wrench in your hand. This makes you a slave to your business. On the other hand, if you invent a plumbing gadget, and license the rights to another manufacturer, you get paid every time any plumber around the world buys one. The first business sucks the life from you, but the second has at least the chance of giving you more life…”

And further…

“So why not take what’s behind door number two and create lots of value while generating lots of reward for yourself at the same time? You deserve to have a wonderful life… if you can stand it.”

This felt like a commonly shared thought and had a strong ring of familiarity to it but I didn’t realize how much so until I was doing some editing on my eBook last night and read the following:

The title of a sub-chapter in Chapter 11 of Healthy Wealthy Boomer is: “The 9 Golden Rules for Online Business Start Up” And rule # 9 is: Plan your business so you laugh, play and relax more than you work. But, it’s essential to plan from the beginning to create a business that will not require your presence to operate, once you get things fully operational and stabilized. Begin with this objective in mind. When you begin to plan how you want to create your business, factor in:

• Lots of vacation time
• Intimate dinners and nights out
• Rewarding your spouse with surprises that are generated from the business so that the subject of having a home based business is positive – create positive reinforcement for yourself as well
• Pay yourself first
• And don’t forget First Fruits…Be grateful – remember the attitude of gratitude that Zig Ziglar talks about.

Spend time enjoying your life and build your business around your life, instead of building your life around your business.

Erik’s book has value as a small business owner because it will give you a sense that you belong.

And that somebody really does understand you.

But The Value of Erik Olson’s Advice Goes Beyond That…

He explains the cyclic nature of the mind of a serial entrepreneurial in such a way as to explain:

• why we really do the things we do and
• what we need to do to compensate for our true nature
• a simple method for becoming effective business owners

Most small business entrepreneurs frustrate the heck out of consultants because they sit and listen to what the consultant has to say, they nod in agreement and then do exactly what they wanted in the first place - often ignoring the consultant.

Erik describes a method of management - kind of an Erik Olson-entrepreneur-version of Peter Drucker’s Management By Objectives. But Erik is smart because he knows if it gets complex, entrepreneurs will not follow instructions - not unlike trying to herd cats.

Instead Erik’s presentation - like placing the aromatic ‘fish’ strategically to attract the cats, rather than trying to herd them - is a appealing to the mind of the entrepreneur in a similar manner.

Erik Talks a Lot About “The Business Wheel” - A Cool Business Tool for Entrepreneurs

Throughout the book, Erik talks about ‘The Business Wheel’ - a kind of gadget that appeals to the mind of the entrepreneur like a lure for bass or something.

Erik Olson’s Business Advice Made So Much Sense, We Joined His Mentoring Program

Erik’s insight in the book about a practical and intelligent approach to converting useless, relentless hours of serial working behavior into effective, manageable results made a lot of sense to us.

So much so in fact that we joined his mentoring program. We highly recommend Erik’s professional expertise and if it sounds interesting to you, you can check it out at Erik Olson Profit Center

Healthy Wealthy Boomer is a concept based on the thought that man’s greatest achievement in life stems from the pursuit of excellence.

As Boomer adults we have accumulated the practical experience we need to make good decisions. And one of those decisions is a choice to be healthy. We are now at a place in our lives where we can let go of the past mistakes and focus on creating the lifestyle we choose to live and and creating the life we deserve.

And the place to start is physical health.

True wealth is rooted in robust health. What is more costly than the loss of good health permanently? And conversely, what is a more valuable treasure than longevity coupled with vitality?

A great deal of the disease and illness in modern society is a function of toxins accumulated in the body. There has never been a greater biochemical assault on the human body - heavy metals, pcb’s, chemicals, pesticides, microwave technology and all types of other pollution are pushing the human body’s filtering mechanisms to the absolute limit.

In addition, the levels of stress in modern society are reaching unprecedented levels.As such, coupled with the toxins, our livers are maxed out for the most part and our adrenal systems are on tilt.

Recently, I read an article by Dr Mercola that said 80% of the immune system is located in the digestive tract.

Whoa…

Cleansing the Body Of Toxins Is Really Important

So cleansing the body now becomes a social imperative. We need to cleanse the colon and the liver regularly. Purge the toxins first and get the plumbing cleaned up so we can get the body back into a state where our great grandparents were before all the toxin in the environment. This must be done regularly like changing oil in your car.

This will enable to the immune system to get back on track and get strong again. And what is more fundamental to fighting disease than a strong immune system?

The cool part is that the body is amazingly resilient. It will bounce back quickly and start improving itself as soon as we provide the cleansing and the nutritional building blocks it needs to do the job.

Unexpressed Emotions Accumulate

There is a growing body of information that basically says unexpressed emotions accumulate in the body too and with time they can become toxic as well.

I firmly believe that my dad died of colon cancer primarily from unexpressed emotions that he had “stuffed” for the majority of his life - that combined with a mass of collected fecal material in his digestive tract that accumulated for many years. He was taught not to express his emotions from a very young age. But in terms of health, I am certain that if he had started receiving colonics and good nutrition a couple of years before his surgery, he would still be here today.

So Cleansing Takes on A Whole New Meaning

Once we get the physical body cleansed completely, many of the physical problems will go away naturally. We also require good nutrition for optimum performance.

After the system is running smoothly again, we can focus on purging old emotions and then learn new skills at expressing emotions in a healthy way - so that they do not accumulate again.

Next we start taking control of our thinking - first by becoming aware of what we think about all the time (which is a big step) and then choosing what we think about more carefully.

So cleansing becomes:

• cleansing the colon, the liver and the cells
• cleansing and purging old emotions
• cleansing our minds of the “stinkin thinkin”

So in order to be a healthy wealthy boomer, this is our recommended order of sequence:

Physical Health - feel great first…

Emotional Health - purge old emotions, create great relationships and learn how to express your emotion

Mental Health - learn to take control of the “voice in your head”

Spiritual Health

Financial Health

We have created a book that lays out the plan, it’s called “Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan To Make the Second 50 Years Better Than the First”. It will be released soon. In the meantime, why not join our Healthy Wealthy Boomers on Facebook Group

Have Healthy Wealthy day…

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Hoping you are enjoying the beginning of summer and that you are all achieving the success you desire and the lifestyle you have been dreaming of.

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