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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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 ??