Provocative Discussion from Ted.com – Peter Diamandis describes why: Abundance is our future

Watch this video for yourself and draw you own conclusions. We’ll have the discussion after the video. It’s about 16 minutes long – if I remember correctly – and worth it. Enjoy… See you on the other side.

Part of the Healthy Wealthy Boomer philosophy is that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. That’s kind of the nature of the Infinite, yes?

What it is about thinking small that is so appealing to such a large group of people?

From our work as facilitators we see this frequently. It ties into the prospect of taking risk and failing. Often we have within us an inherent proclivity to compromise for mediocrity rather than take a big risk and fail miserably. We learn this behavior. Before we learn it, we don’t think of limitations and failure. This was not part of the original operating system that we were born with – we downloaded it from the environment we grew up in – parents, teachers, religion, neighbors, coaches, siblings, being poor, spouses, whatever.

How does this happen?

There is an event, a disappointment, a loss or a trauma – something – that acts like the tipping point. This “straw that broke the camel’s back” locks that dysfunctional way of thinking into our life energy and system of consciousness. From that point on it functions like a software bug until we clear out the bug.

It’s piece of bad code pure and simple. It’s not part of who we really are and never was.

In Diamandis’ talk, we see a very bright man looking at the way things are from the perspective of a highly developed intellect and clearly a great deal of thought and reason arriving at the conclusions within the framework of his arguments. He concludes that abundance is inevitable because of the nature of a kind of evolving collective consciousness and more simply, technology itself.

We arrive at the same conclusion based on a different premise and from a different perspective.

Our premise is that abundance is the natural default of the Universe. It always has been. The only thing in the Universe that deviates from that is the human mind – thought – and it is inevitable that we will eventually get our thinking straight.

Descartes almost had it right:

“I think, therefore I am.” He had the right words in the wrong order. I Am, therefore I think.”

Diamandis is brilliant like a Bucky Fuller or a Marshall Thurber.

Abundance is the Future.

I AM Michael Barrett.

Introduction to Michael Barrett and the Healthy Wealthy Boomer concept.

The actual development of the Healthy Wealthy Boomer philosophy evolved from 1971 to present. This philosophy is expanded in the book: Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd 50 Years Better than the 1st.

Richard Bach – the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull – said,
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”

Nothing Can Change Who You Really Are…

Ultimately, there is really nothing that we or anyone else can do – or say – that will change who you are because there is nothing you need to change. Underneath the confusion, emotional trauma, and the dings and glitches, you are perfect and whole and you were born that way.

How can any of us change perfection?

The basic premises of the Healthy Wealthy Boomer philosophy are:

1. Health means physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and financial, strength balance, and tone. 
2. The basis of real wealth is health.
3. The mind, emotion, energy and physical body are an integrated holistic system and each of the parts affect the others. Health is a well tuned system and most of it is not physical – yet the physical is very important.

Regarding baby boomer health much of today’s communication focus – on the internet and in the media –  is not about being healthy. Mainstream philosophy is based on preparing for the worst and the assumption that it is inevitable that every one is going to be sick. We will become feeble both physically and mentally as we age.

Certainly healthcare is not about being healthy or dis-ease prevention, it’s all about managing disease. We weren’t born to die, we were born to live. So get up and start living.

We Get Better With Age…

In contrast, we make the assumption that we’re going to be well. Healthy Wealthy Boomer thinking says that we get better with age, like a good cheese or wine. Rather than bracing for illness and learning how to manage dis-ease we accept the fact that not only does life begin at 40, we start to get a handle on what is going on around 50.

We’re not wearing out, we’re just breaking in. Not only that it is clear now that with some lifestyle and attitudinal changes we can begin to reverse the aging process and actually change our physiology.

Aging is a thing to celebrate, honor and respect as is the human body. Health is a choice and choosing to be healthy is a prerequisite to an exciting, bountiful and powerful second half of life.

About the Financial Component of Health…

Aside from feeling good physically and being able, mobile and active, what fun is being broke and dependent as we get older?

It isn’t and it is not a value that makes sense. The natural default of the universe is energetic strength and abundance. Many people start careers and become successful after age 60.

What’s holding us back other than our own perceptions of limitations?  Nothing…

Live Workshops, Training and Coaching

We offer live workshops teaching these principles and actually doing the work as a group so that participants can walk away with both a set of tools for daily living and a working knowledge of how to use them.

At Healthy Wealthy Boomer we have created a 90 day guide to take the first step:

Look Better and Feel Better in 90 Days. It is a companion workbook for the main book: Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Boomer Plan for Making the 2nd 50 Years Better than the 1st and to our workshops.

Stop Thinking Old and Snap Out of the “Getting Sick” Mindset.

Anyone can change – at any time. I am living proof of this and I have learned to walk my talk and I know people a lot older than me with tons of energy.

We look forward to your feedback and working with you personally.

We’d love your feedback on the posts and your comments, input and contributions about ideas, content and suggestions.

I AM Michael Barrett and I’m Awesome Just Like You.

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Healthy Wealthy Boomer Talks about Chick Corea and a YouTube Video

In the video Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White play 500 Miles High in 1982.

Right about 19, I became a Chick Corea fan. As a starving student, the only decent stereo sound I had was a Pioneer cassette player in my 61 Chevy pickup. When I got the Return to Forever cassette, I often sat in the parking area behind the apartment building and listened to the entire album once or twice per evening.

In about 8 months I wore out that original cassette.

Hearing these brilliant musicians on this YouTube video brings back some of my finest memories. I can feel what it felt like to be alive in 1982 again.

Wow…

Hearing this music again almost gives me goose bumps. At the time, very few of my friends appreciated Chick Corea as much as I did. That might still be true today. But I don’t hold that against anybody. After all just because someone doesn’t agree with me simply means that they don’t understand the truth yet (lol)

Chick Corea is an acquired taste like fine espresso. It takes a refined palate to appreciate it fully and in the manner where quality is appropriately served up and presented. In order for a gift to be given, it must be received fully. Some people just don’t like this flavor. I do.

Hope you enjoy this snippet of musical genius from the past.

I AM Michael Barrett.

Healthy Wealthy Boomer Talks about Common Sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: ”Common Sense Is Genius in Working Clothes.”

Reading the Emerson quote this morning reminded me of the many personal discussions over the years based on the premise that there is nothing common about common sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote...

The irony here is that Emerson – himself – was a master of common sense, in working clothes.

Through observation – over the course of his life – Emerson  chronicled his code of how things are – identifying the ground  rules of common sense, for any individual willing to sit quietly long enough, often enough  and pay attention.

About common sense, in a different context, Emerson also wrote this:

“Common sense is as rare as genius.”

Emerson was a scholar and a champion of individualism. Emerson grew into this perspective through life experience and close observation of both human spirit and human nature. Over time he became a spokesperson for both.

Emerson tells us how to acknowledge our own common sense by following our own inner voice and paying attention to Nature and the Universe around us. He is a guide. In many ways, Emerson directs us to how find our own way.

What other influential western thinkers  have to say about common sense:

Albert Einstein:  “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

George Bernard Shaw: “Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”

William James: “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

Leonardo da Vinci: “Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”

Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotations/common_sense/

There is a hint of Lao Tzu throughout and a connection here somehow between genius, common sense and individual freedom that threads itself learning to understand and recognize truth.

Emerson says that common sense is genius in working clothes. Shaw says a little bit of common sense is instinct and a lot is genius. Einstein implies that we have a handle on common sense when we are young before society teaches us the lack of it. James defines common sense as humor moving at a different speed.

Speaking of humor, WC Fields has this to say about that:

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting
on people. ”  ― W.C. Fields

So collectively we learn that common sense is:

• genius
• instinct
• rare
• humor at a different speed
• disguised in working clothes

In today’s world of politically correct speech, an agenda driven muzzle for  independent thought, it is incumbent upon us to say what we think and to be authentic in the expression of who we are.

Great minds show us that more common sense is a good thing and it is inherent in the natural way of things in Nature and the Universe. Less common sense leads to difficulty, complexity, the lack of authenticity and individualism. Common sense gets more done with less effort. It is mental and practical economy.

My mom always used to say to me: “Use you head”.

Yet today it seems we are encourage not to do so. And on that note, we end this discussion with a final quote:

“Common sense has become the greatest oxymoron of our time.”  - Michael Barrett

I AM Michael Barrett, Managing Editor of Healthy Wealthy Boomer.

Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock 1957 colour

Elvis is hard to beat – always been my favorite…

There is also a version done here by Tom Jones, the Blues Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and ZZ Top below. Musically the bank members in the Blues Brothers group was pretty awesome – drums, keyboards and sax… Vocals are weak but cool and Tom Jones vocal is pretty awesome. And Jerry Lew Lewis is pretty awesome.

Which one do you like?

This little dude seem to agree.  What do you think?

Classics withstand the test of time, yes? Doesn’t seem to matter what year or what age.

Blue Brother’s Version…

Tom Jones’s Version of Jail House Rock

Great band in this one and nice arrangement.

Jerry Lee Lewis – Jailhouse Rock live in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival (Toronto, 1969)

ZZ Top – Jail House Rock

Here’s ZZ Tops’s version…

In this short 2 min 31 sec video, Jim Carrey talks about “Awakening”.

He is much more than baby boomer born in 1962, a regular guy who thought about getting a job in the steel mill where he grew up. He is a man who has worked his way to the top, through all the struggle and mistakes, and persisted until he succeeded. Jim Carrey is a healthy wealthy boomer role model.

Here we get to know him in a new way and there is a good message.

Carrey’s presentation offers reverence, sincerity and a recognition of something magnificent. Simultaneously he seems almost shy talking about his experience. There is both a tone of authenticity and humility. Seeing him expose a new part of himself we get a sense of childlike awkwardness coupled with truth.

A  favorite character role that Carrey portrayed on screen was  in the “Mask”.  The persona he created in this movie, Stanley Ipkiss, typifies the contrast to achieving in the face of adversity versus our resistance to take the risk necessary to do so. Ironically, the word “persona“ derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask.

Eleanor Roosevelt said:

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”

And she also said:

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” Source: Eleanor Roosevelt

Read more: Jim Carrey Awakening…

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer.

Ever notice how some people never seem to be negative very often and how they can shift from negative to positive very quickly – in the midst of a difficult situation – and how others can’t?

We are always on the lookout for methods that work.

Learning to control – or shift – emotional responses is a success tool and a form of emotional health. To be a healthy wealthy boomer, we need to learn how to control and modify our emotions on command rather than allow them to run our lives. We can learn to control our emotions in a healthy and productive way rather than letting them control us or create predetermined behavior and responses to the world around us as it happens.

This is a segment of a post about how to practice the process of pivoting:

Negative emotions impact how we live our daily lives.  Most of us have a tendency to immerse ourselves in the negative when something triggers them – what someone else says or does, or a memory of something negative related to what is happening or being said.

What we see over and over again in our live workshops or private sessions with clients is that everybody experiences negative emotions yet few people arrive with effective methods for dealing with them. Part of our work includes systematically removing energy distortions that trigger negative conditioned responses. We get to the root cause and clear it out similar  to running a defrag program on a Windows lap top.

You can read the rest of the post: how to shift a negative emotion here.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer.

In this election year, we could all use a little humor in the face of Politics because if everybody took it seriously, it would make life miserable.

Here is a tongue in cheek look at how the “government can”. This is a piece from comedian Tim Hawkins.

What is a healthy wealthy boomer without a sense of humor? Laughter is important for health.  What is the alternative if you can’t laugh at the ridiculous?

This guy’s pretty funny…

I’m going to watch some other stuff he has done.

What do you think?

Here is a healthy wealthy boomer with a sense of humor.

Jim Carey on David Letterman speaking about his newly found wealth. This lasts about a minute.

Do you really tell people what you think? Or what they want to hear?

One of the things that makes Carey so fun is how he relates to the world the same way the people watching him do. Most of us can think of a situation where we would love to ham it up and embarrass the “jerk” at the party telling really bad jokes – only nobody says anything because he is the boss or the guy throwing the party.

The title of this book: “Millionaire Teacher” caught my attention in a review by John Chevreau on Wealthy Boomer.

Here’s a video of author Andrew Hallam to get a sense of who he is.

Andrew Hallam

Millionaire Teacher | Wealthy Boomer | Financial Post

opinion.financialpost.com12/21/11

While he is Canadian, Hallam teaches in Singapore, where he does NOT enjoy a DB pension. So his tale of amassing $1 million before age 40 is a little more interesting than the average Canadian teacher arriving at Freedom 55 millionaire status solely by a DB pension. …

Chevreau describes how Hallam wrote the book from a hospital bed during a bout with cancer in 2009. It’s an informative article about an interesting man who created a 9 step method for teachers (who teach over seas) to create a retirement portfolio that makes sense.

This subject of financial intelligence for teachers reminds me of Robert Kiyosaki’s motivation to provide financial education to the masses. That motivation was seeing his father (the well paid head of the educational system in Hawaii) struggle with money throughout his life and particularly as he got older.

Hallam expands the idea of teaching the principles of financial intelligence to the world of educators. And from my reading of Robert Kiyosaki’s work, I’m certain that Kiyosaki would validate Hallam’s warning about financial services sales people.

And we at Healthy Welahty Boomer would add one more recommendation to Hallam’s advice to teachers:

Buy the Cash Flow Board Game from Rich Dad Company and PLAY IT OFTEN.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Baby Boomer.