Are You a Healthy Boomer?

If you are – good for you. If you’re not yet, you can be. 2010 is the year for great possibilities.

New Years resolutions tend to be an annual ritual for many of us as we reflect upon the year that we are leaving behind and look forward to potential in the new year. Why do health club memberships skyrocket every year about this time and then peter out around March?

Basically new years resolutions never work and there is a good reason for that which I will address later in this post.

What gives ME the right to “preach”?

Because I AM a Healthy Boomer.

It is not an accident that guys half my age call me Mr. Energy. I have been focused on a healthy and natural lifestyle since 1971 – with some glitches and bumps along the way – but overall, throughout most of that time, I have chosen a path of “excellent health and vitality” as my standard. My lifelong motto has been this: I DON’T DO SICK. I have chosen a life of health as a conscious decision.

At age 18, I decided to take responsibility for my health. I made a choice to follow a path that would lead to longevity – and a vibrant, healthy life – not just a long one. I started looking at people around me and noticed how some older people had beautiful skin and bright shiny eyes and others seemed withered, with dry skin and dull eyes. Some had a bounce in their step with lots of energy, while for others, walking was difficult and labored.

I made a life choice – there and then – that I would be a member of the former group, and not the latter.

As a result of that life choice, my health journey began with the following questions emerging within my consciousness and becoming a dominant force in my life:

• How do I do that?
• How do I live a long and vibrantly healthy life?
• What constitutes this kind of lifestyle?
• How do I define this for myself?
• What rules do I need to live by?

That may not seem like a big deal to you – now – as you read this.

Consider this: On a personal level, what were you thinking about – around health - at age a 18?

In retrospect, for an invincible, highly energetic, 18 year old ‘hot shot’ – with a metabolism that required 6 full meals a day – that was a pretty profound choice and decision.

One of the things that had led up to that decision was the loss of my dearest and closest friend about a year earlier. He and his brother were both killed in a head-on by a drunk driver. His death forced me to consider mortality for the second time in my life.

Only this experience was different, it went to my core.

I went deep and sought resolution within myself. As I pondered life and death coherently and cogently, I chose to redirect my life towards another path. I withdrew from the circle of friends I had known and associated with – completely – and embarked upon my own path, alone. On some level I understood that if I did not, I would end up like my dear friend had.

Health became a driving force as a martial arts enthusiast and an “A” student in my first year of college, as a full time accounting major.

The regimen of rigorous training – 6 times a week at the dojo – and 3 to 4 hours of study daily quickly formed a solid pattern of self discipline – a skill that has been a real benefit since.

Self Discipline Is a Key Ingredient to Health…

Where it is most important – in my experience – is upholding our choices and being disciplined in our own willingness to follow through on those choices over the long haul. Consistency is what creates self discipline. And consistency in our attitude creates good health over time.

Over many years I have observed human behavior in a class and training environments – originally in martial arts and for the last 22 years, in qigong and the self development world. What I know is that people have to start where they are, with the existing skills they have – and build success upon those.

This is my mission with Baby Boomers to promote and in-power Baby Boomer health.

Why Don’t New Years Resolutions Work?

Here’s why.

Changing your mind does not change your energy body – your blueprint – until your mind and your energy body are in alignment. When you change in your root – in your energy – the change is permanent.

How do we do that?

I have looked for a method that works for everybody my whole life and in 2009 I found it. It’s called Core Health, a system of comprehensive kinesiology that both encompasses and expands upon:

• behavioral kinesiology and
• energy psychology

I liked it so much I moved from Montana to Florida and have just completed my certification as a Core Health Facilitator.

This is the most comprehensive and effective system I have ever studied and I want to teach anyone  – who is sincerely ready for a change in their life – how to change their lives with new energy decisions that are permanent.

Find out more about Core Health Workshops and Heart Forgiveness and Funny with Money for 2010 and make this the year you become a Healthy Boomer. Workshops forming right now in the Sarasota, Nokomis, St Petersburg and Tampa areas.

We travel to your city for group trainings. We also do corporate training to achieve enhanced workplace productivity through more conscious employees, better working relationships, less absenteeism, and increased energy levels.

Get in touch on the contact page and let’s talk.

We do win-win in a big way and we love our work.

I AM Michael Barrett. I AM a Core Health and Heart Forgiveness Facilitator and I AM Healthy Wealthy Boomer.

Work At Home Boomers – Is This You?

There are a growing number of work opportunities for Baby Boomers as Corporate America is waking up to the fact that a significant percentage of the work force is getting ready to retire.  And there is a lot of talent in that retiring group.

Even so from a variety of estimates it’s clear, most Boomers are not saving enough.

Did you know? It’s estimated that:

• 4 out of 10 people over 60 will fall below the poverty line in their later years.
• And Merrill Lynch says that many people are only saving about 1/3 of what they will need after retirement.
• Only about 50% of us are saving enough to maintain a pre-retirement lifestyle when we retire.

It’s actually worse for Gen X, but they’re further down the road.

Since Boomers aren’t saving before they retire, how is working deep into retirement age going to solve the problem unless you have a lot of money stashed before you retire? These issues are compounded by the fact that we are living longer so the savings have to go a further distance. 

And we all know that no matter how much we hope it, the social security debackle is getting worse – not better.

If you want to be a wealthy boomer, the answer is making more money.

Find out why starting an online business makes more sense  ==> work at home boomers

Free Blog and Social Bookmarking Resources

It’s not too late for Boomers – who are technophobes or tech challenged – to get started creating something of value online.

And blogging is a really good place to begin because it has a low entry level threshold and you can start with little or no money.

My fiancee is an excellent example of what I am talking about. Prior to last August, the closest she ever got to internet marketing – personally – was spam from her old AOL account. But she took a free online course from Ed Dale and Dan Raine called the Thirty Day Challenge to learn the fundamentals of Web 2.0 and blogging and how to get listed fast in the search engines. Today when I searched on her primary keyword term for her blog, Baby Boomer Life , I found her at #3 in Google.

Pretty cool…

Blogging takes work -  mostly learning how – and consistency. But It’s fun…

She’s worked diligently on creating good content. It helps that she is a talented writer with a great deal of life experience and ability. She really writes interesting stuff because she is an interesting person. But just the same, she created the whole thing herself and has done an excellent job teaching herself about social bookmarking and creating online relationships with other bloggers. Can you tell I’m proud of her?

More about how different ways boomers can start a blog…

Cyberworld is all a flutter with Web 2.0 this week…

StomperNet’s new Web 2.0 coaching program will probably be the greatest thing since sliced internet bread. If you’ll remember, Stomper’s launch in 2006 set the internet marketing world on its ear with an amazing $18.3 Million in online sales in 24 hours…

The SMARTS (Social MARketing Traffic Strategies) preview video with Don Crowther was absolutely excellent. These guys are an amazing brain trust in the internet world and inevitably their new coaching program will have a big impact. Just a minute ago an email came from Andy Jenkins at Stomper saying that the new  program actually sold 121 orders in 4 minutes at launch yesterday – so inevitbaly the numbers will go off the charts again.

Cool, guys – nice job…

Jack Humphrey, whose blog gets 5000 unique visitors a day, has been betting on Web 2.0 for quite a while. He put out one of the finest instructional manuals for Web 2.0 about a year ago. Considering how much traffic he gets that 64 page book should be a mandatory read for anybody interested in creating a successful blog. Get a copy of the authority black book here for nothing.  Good stuff, read it.     (more)

Will combining the topics of fitness and finances succeed as a book title in the publishing world? His publisher said combining these two concepts has never been done before. John Rowley thinks it will work.

And so do I.     (more)

The new blog is on the way !

Happy 2008.