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.

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.

Have you been to a Millionaire Mind Intensive yet? Every Healthy Wealthy Boomer should…

T. Harv Eker is still at it, producing one the greatest shows on earth. Since 2005, I’ve personally been in the room for the 3 day intensive MMI’s 11 times in Seattle, LA, Dallas, Atlanta, Vancouver – BC, Secaucus NJ, Pasadena CA, Calgary Alberta, and recently in Tampa, Florida.

Sign up for free for a Millionaire Mind Intensive near you.

The first time in May 2005, I was absolutely blown away. So much so, that I went to work for the company the following week – one of the most interesting and challenging job experiences in my entire life. The experience changed my life and headed me in a totally new direction – for the better.

A couple of months ago, I went again – a bit older, more street wise and as a much more complete person than the first time I went. And it was still a really enjoyable, energizing and powerful experience – even though I knew exactly what to expect.

There is magic in the MMI. It charges you with energy and makes you walk away feeling like anything is possible. It brings out the best in people and helps people expand in a healthy, wealthy way.

In light of the tough economic cycle that we have been experiencing over the last few years, it is really refreshing to be in a room full of hundreds of people who are celebrating life with a can-do attitude. It is such a contrast from the daily downer coming out of Washington – or the media. You should go just to feel good, if nothing else.

It is high energy and life changing.

Many of us have been through some heavy stuff since 2007-8. Yet life goes on and things always get better when WE CHANGE INSIDE. Being involved with the company that puts on the MMI is exactly what prompted me to get more involved in self-development work and get my facilitator certification in Core Health and Heart Forgiveness.

Now I get to help people change their lives for a living – not the same high energy pace of the MMI, but life changing, just the same, on a deep inner and energetic level.

There is still time to catch an MMI before the year is over – and believe it or not, it’s free.

Here’s the schedule for the remainder of the year:

Sign Up for a 2011 Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar while you can.

20/20 Hindsight Sucks…

AVAILABLE DATES AND LOCATIONS

October 14 – 16 – Calgary, AB
October 28 – 30 – Los Angeles, CA
November 4 – 6 – Dallas, TX
November 11-13 – Chicago, IL
November 11-13 – Vancouver, BC
November 18-20 – San Diego, CA
November 18-20 – Denver, CO
November 18-20 – New Jersey
November 25-27 – Toronto, ON
December 9 – 11 – Phoenix, AZ

If you want they also have VIP packages available that are cheap and it means you get to sit in the front – middle so you can see and hear better. Either way, it’s a great bargain and you won’t believe how awesome the 3 day experience is for free until you try it. It just may be the impetus to put you on the road to financial intelligence in a new way.

You can sign up for the Millionaire Mind Intensive near you…

Maybe I’ll see you there, you never know.

I AM Michael Barrett, Healthy Boomer, Creator of Healthy Wealthy Boomer and a Certified Core Health Facilitator. We change lives for a living.

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Imagine a News Headline in 1785 That Read Like That…

How would the people of America respond back in 1785? Would they sit with it and wonder when the members of Congress are going to begin toeing the line? Would they tolerate the type of behavior we – as a nation – tolerate today?

They would not yet why do we?

America Is Not A Nation of Village Idiots

(Flash back to the Woody Allen movie, Love and Death.)

You’d never know it wasn’t true if you ASSUME that the media and the Beltway pundits actually tell the truth.

The way Congress treats the American people – the people who pay their salaries – is that we’re ignorant. And year after year, election after election, we let them get away with it.  They have forgotten they are OUR employees, we are not their minions.  We are allowing these people to label us and treat us – the citizens of the greatest country in the world – as pushovers, mamby pamby, overweight, middle of the road, spoiled, selfish, naughty children that are lazy and don’t have the initiative or brains to make our own decisions.

There is nothing further from the truth.

And the MEDIA and PUNDITS are just as bad or worse. They should be calling Congress on the carpet – not the people in this country. But they are not going to because they’re sleeping in the same bed.

In general, politics is never the topic on this Healthy Wealthy Boomer blog.

However, there comes a time. This is not a partisan – democratic, republican or independent – issue.  It is an issue of personal responsibility. This is fundamental to our rights.

A word that came to mind is: PLACABLE.

As it  bubbled up, I thought: “Is that actually a word?” Yes it is.

Here is the definition:

plac·a·ble – adjective

capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/placable

Are YOU placable?

I’m not – although I have been in the past – and I’m done with being fed pablum and having someone tell me to shut up and take it like all good citizens should.

What comes to mind is George Orwell’s “1984″ and Aldous Huxley’s, “Brave New World”. At the time I read them in the late 60′s, it was absolute science fiction to me. Weird and interesting yet fundamentally implausible.

With each passing year it becomes more and more plausible.

The people in America (and actually world wide) have to wake up and start being responsible. It is each of our responsibility for what happens in our lives.  We are responsible what what we choose, the mistakes we make and for what we accomplish.

This is a good thing not a bad one. This is rooted in FREE WILL which is actually the only REAL lowest common denominator in existence, not ignorance as politicians and the Media would have us believe.

Let us assume our responsibility and start holding our government to a higher standard than we have been. It is truly time to wake up and be conscious as a citizen of the United States and as a citizen of the world.

This is a matter of finding your voice and speaking your truth. Ultimately, it means stepping into your power. You are powerful.

Watch out for your money because Congress will not. And on top of that Congress has the unmitigated gall to ask for more money after they have literally pissed away trillions. Who’s kidding who?

And if we don’t let them have more they are going to have a tantrum and punish us?

GIVE ME A BREAK…

Speak your mind. Take a stand. Be a wealthy boomer. Get informed OR BE QUIET.

What’s the Difference between a Broke Boomer and a Wealthy Boomer?

A millionaire mind.

Six years ago – what seems like a lifetime in so many ways – the chain of events in my life led me to a seminar event in Seattle called the Millionaire Mind Intensive. The energizing, expanding power of that event had a huge impact on my life and, in retrospect, became the turning point for me. Imagine – 2000+ strangers converged and participated full on for 72 hours, creating an unspoken bond unlike any other group experience I had experienced before.

It was such a hugely positive magnetic attractor field created by that initial 3 day experience, that it took six years before it was fully clear to me what had actually happened.  The energy of the whole experience captured me like high water during a Montana spring run off and swept me into a new life.  A week after attending that event as a participant, I was in Vancouver BC, on my first of three working interviews to be a member of Core Team working for Peak Potentials.

For the next 18 months, the energy continued to expand through 28 events in 28 cities. Looking back, there was such a magnitude of change that it took a number of years for me to expand enough to energetically match what had happened to me.

Since that time, my primary focus has been to look deep within, to clear out the junk, the emotional trauma and the defective thinking and behavioral patterns that had unconsciously become my own internal defaults through life experience.

It’s funny how we think we know what we know until we understand something fully and realize we didn’t. Understanding comes from the heart, not the mind.

In many ways being part of Core Team is such an accelerated learning experience spiritually, emotionally and mentally, that it truly tested my mettle.

met·tleNoun: A person’s ability to cope well with difficulties or to face a demanding situation in a spirited and resilient way: “the team showed their true mettle“. Wikipedia dictionary

It made me stretch in spite of my flaws and shortcomings to meet my self imposed challenge head-on.

In June 2011, it has been a full four years since I was in the room for a Peak Potentials event. During that four years I have not been idle, in fact, I have continuously focused on shrinking the gap between what Peak Potentials training demanded of me in 2005-2006 and what I have been able to become as a result of that full fledged launch into change and self growth.

The Tampa MMI last weekend confirmed that my work has not been in vain. The period of time between 2006 and 2011 has been tumultuous, exciting and even devastating at times.

Over the last two years, my intensive work in Core Health:

• as a participant first, and
• as a certified facilitator second

has given me the key to my own internal freedom and expansion. Practicing, mastering and teaching Core Health has created a net result where the following is true:

• My Mind is My Friend
• I Know Who I AM
• I AM Participating 100% in My Heart and Energy
• I AM 100% Free of Anger
• I Live the Truth that Everything Truly Is Energy

Attending the MMI in Tampa, masterfully led by Doug Nelson with passion, grace and full power,  verified for me that the difference between a Broke Boomer and a Wealthy Boomer is a Millionaire Mind.

Doug Nelson is Peak Potential’s lead trainer. He has written a book entitled: Catch Fire – How to Ignite Your Personal Economy. It will be released soon. Go buy one. This guy’s awesome.

We are all energy beacons, emitting the vibrational truth about who we really are to all around us at all times.

Bleep, Bleep, Bleep. We are constantly sending out a wave signature that defines exactly who we are at any given moment. And the energy never lies, it is merely an objective transmission of our energy blueprint.

What Doug Nelson confirmed for me, is that I have a millionaire mind and the MMI provided for me the next course adjustment in my educational and professional life. The expansion continues.

Being in the energy of the MMI is such a dramatic contrast to the incessant whining and complaining in the media and wherever people get together and talk about the economy lately. It reminded me why the Law of Attraction actually works and what the difference is between normal thinking and the millionaire mindset.

• The normal mind says:  This can’t be done, it will  never work. Did you hear the door close?
• The millionaire mind says: What do I need to do or learn to figure out how to do this and who knows how to do what I don’t understand yet? Is that filled with possibilities? Yes, it is.

Obviously the old methods and the old paradigm are no longer working. Learn what you need to let go of and DO SO. The old way is not working.

In every major economic crisis in history, those who are open, who are seeking, seek and find the right knowledge and a plan to  prosper immensely. The fact is that there is always opportunity and abundance is the natural state of the universe. The only place where this is not true is in the mind of man.

Change your mind. Choose something else. Find out what you need to do to cultivate your own Millionaire Mind. Financial intelligence is the answer.

If you think investing in more 401k’s and accumulating social security will provide you a decent lifestyle in retirement, wake up. They won’t. Pull your head out of the sand and get moving. If you honestly believe that if we wait long enough the debt crisis will go away by itself, you are delusional.

What can you do about it?  Change yourself. Change your mind. Get back to your pure core – where you have a Millionaire Mind.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Certified Core Health Facilitator and I Have a Millionaire Mind.

Robert Kiyosaki is a real live wealthy boomer.

Somewhere around 2004-5, the wizards of Wall St and all the television pundits made every effort to discredit Kiyosaki when he predicted severe issues on the financial horizon. They painted a picture of Kiyosaki being a crackpot particularly when he stated categorically that:

“Your house is not an asset, it is a liability AND the stock market is headed for some real serious problems.”

Perhaps what happened in the residential real estate market from late 2007 to 2011 and the financial crisis – beginning in late 2008 – validates those statements for you. It certainly does for me.

Six or seven years later, the television and media pundits and financial experts don’t like to admit that Kiyosaki was not only NOT a crackpot, he was right.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

My first exposure to wealthy boomer Robert Kiyosaki was his book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” (which has sold over 26 million copies) about 12 years ago, maybe longer. Subsequent to that we have played many games of Cash Flow, heard Robert speak live and read more of his books including:

• Retire Rich, Retire Y0ung
• Increasing Your Financial IQ
• currently reading: Conspiracy of the Rich – The 8 new rules of money

Kiyosaki’s mission is expanding widespread financial intelligence through education, changing our financial future by playing the money game with the 8 new rules of money.

Most of us are still trying to make money within the confines of a dying paradigm. That is the paradigm of big banks, the Federal Reserve “Bank” and the whole concept of working for a living, investing in a 401K for your “future” and paying  the highest tax rates.

Kiyosaki reminds us that The Fed:

• Is not federal
• Has no Reserves and
• IS NOT a bank

He points out that the rules changed when Nixon took us off the gold standard. That combined with the Fed’s Power to print money converted our money system from a commodity backed currency to a system of IOU’s and BELIEF that the government would make good on the debt.

Once this happened all bets were off and it required us to learn the new rules to do well in the new economy. Kiyosaki points out very convincingly that the idea of continuing to listen to the Army of Financial planners – who are working for the entities benefiting by those investments is ludicrous.

Do Your Homework

Learn the new rules of money and quit buying into the media hype and the “EXPERTS” who have been wrong way more than they have been right over the last ten years.

And this advice comes from a man who is a self-made multi-millionaire, an expert in real estate investing and rental income property management, successful best selling book sales and marketing in a HUGE way, market trading and entrepreneurship in multiple markets – over and over again for a number of years.

He shows us that the old paradigm is not working anymore, it is dysfunctional. From a practical standpoint, we all need to find out what is working and what will be working 2 years, 5 years and 15 years from now.

Financial Literacy

Financial literacy is an essential ingredient to long term economic stability.  It is the key to expanding wealth across the boards - not just within an elite group. Robert Kiyosaki is making an effort to redefine what being a wealthy boomer is all about.

He is saying wealth is a good thing and that anyone can achieve it. Wealth is a function of being well informed and making intelligent decisions with that information. Wealth is both a responsibility and an opportunity.

Solutions to many of our problems lie in eliminating financial illiteracy and raising our collective financial IQ. This idea corresponds to the principles of the Healthy Wealthy Boomer philosophy which says:

To be healthy, create physical, emotional, mental, Spiritual and financial balance and harmony.  Abundance is a natural default of the universe, it is our right to be wealthy.

Robert Kiyosaki is a wealthy boomer and he genuinely wants to share his knowledge and expertise with anyone who is willing to learn and create their own wealth.

Get the Cash Flow Board Game and play it, it’s a blast. Read his books and subscribe to his newsletter. It is interesting and informative.

I AM Michael Barrett.

Hey Healthy Boomer: Join the Qigong Sarasota Group…

Siesta Key Florida

As a Boomer in the Sarasota, Florida area, you owe it to yourself to re-activate your vitality, initiate an anti-aging campaign and find some peace of mind.  In my experience, there is no single exercise set as beneficial to the human body as a combination of Qigong and martial arts training.

This is for a multitude of reasons including:

• Qigong renews the body on so many levels – improved circulation, increases in Qi circulation, natural strength and diminished levels of stress
• The type of strength that is developed over time is what I call a comprehensive strength – using the whole body in unison, not muscle mass without integration
• All aspects of the body are activated, rejuvenated and coordinated into maximum performance without requiring maximum output

You can do this by joining our group. It’ll take some time and practice, but it works every time for everybody who is diligent and receives competent instruction.

Mr. T.C Lee  of Honolulu was my Wu Style TaiChi teacher in 1973/74. He used to tell me:

“Doing TaiChi everyday is like putting pennies in a piggy bank.  It doesn’t seem like much, but in 40 or 50 years, you have a lot of money.”

Being  a Healthy Boomer requires a long range attitude and long range execution. A little bit every day makes for amazing health, stability and balance.

I speak from experience.

If you’re in the area, stop by check out the Qigong Sarasota group on Siesta and start packing away your pennies for 20-30 years from now. If you’re in a different area, find a Qigong group and try it out. You can learn Qigong at any age. Once you learn this stuff, it’s yours. You own it for the rest of your life. The beauty is that you can practice wherever you are:

• in  a hotel room while you are traveling
• in a park
• on the beach
• in your own backyard or living room
• at your mother in law’s house
• anywhere…

Being a wealthy boomer makes no sense at all without optimum health to go with it. How can you enjoy life from a wheelchair, an assisted living facility or a hospital bed?

I can’t. Not my thing and never will be.

What are you waiting for?

Check it out and see for yourself.

Qigong Sarasota

Sarasota is a little piece of paradise.

If you are not local,  stop by and say hello when you come here next time for vacation. Get tuned up and while you’re here plan to attend a Heart Forgiveness Workshop and get the inner self tuned up too…

I AM Michael Barrett, I  AM a Healthy Boomer, a Heart Forgiveness and Core Health Facilitator and I love Qigong.

Are You READY for Amazing Health?

Have you been thinking about lifestyle changes that will get you physically healthy again? Are you one of the 1 percenters ready to shift?

Lots of Baby Boomers are thinking about it. If you’re really ready, quit thinking and start doing.

We are looking for the 1% of all Baby Boomers on the tipping point – ready to tip over into a new, robust healthy lifestyle. Ready to let go of belief systems that don’t work any more and do not serve us mentally, emotionally or physically – and probably never have.

Why are we looking for you? Because if you’re ready, we know you’ll get involved and we know that we can help make a difference.

This is not a network marketing plan either. This is the primary Healthy Wealthy Boomer theme: How to make the 2nd 50 years Better than the 1st.

Getting in shape and FEELING GREAT does not have to be a trauma event. It should be fun – like baking cookies with our grand children. It doesn’t require making a huge change in your life to get started. Making incremental changes is easy as it should be. When things are both complex and not fun, human nature is such that we won’t do them – or at least we won’t stick with the program long enough to make a difference.

Who am I to buck human nature?

Where the 1 Percenters Can Start…

Start with simple things you can do right away that don’t require effort and do not cost money.

For example, if your morning ritual is meeting your friend for coffee at your favorite espresso shop,  maybe you can start by walking to meet your friend for coffee every morning. Maybe you can cut your latte down from a grande to a tall. Start eating carrot and celery sticks 3 times a week (as a snack in the afternoon) and cut back the number of times you eat fried food.

Start cooking at home more and learn how to make delicious, simple and healthy meals. If you don’t cook, take a cooking class or get together with friends and start cooking healthy recipes together.

Buy a blender and start making awesome healthy ice blended drinks or fruit smoothies. It’s a great time for smoothies since it’s summer time.

This is not about Jenny Craig or The  Biggest Loser. It’s about making a choice to enjoy your life better, to be happier and to LIVE LONGER.

Jamie Oliver has started something awesome that he calls the Food Revolution. He’s traveling around the US trying to get people focused on children’s  nutrition in schools and bring enough attention to it to get something done about the horrendous nutrition quality in school food programs for kids. It all starts at home and even if your kids are grown, you can get involved with your grandchildren’s food.

Awareness is a good place to start.

Here is a video of Jamie Oliver talking about how much sugar there is in commercial fruit juices.

A recipe for smoothies as an alternative follows. Here is a smoothie recipe from Jamie Oliver: Frozen Fruit Smoothies.

Many Baby Boomers realize that it’s time to do something different. The online estimates are huge – somewhere in the nature of ~23 million Baby Boomers are obese depending on the stats you read.

Obesity defined: Source: answers.com/topic/obesity

Obesity traditionally has been defined as a weight at least 20% above the weight corresponding to the lowest death rate for individuals of a specific height, gender, and age (ideal weight).

More recent guidelines for obesity use a measurment called BMI (body mass index) which is the individual’s weight multiplied by 703 and then divided by twice the height in inches. BMI of 25.9–29 is considered overweight; BMI over 30 is considered obese.

Harv Eker, founder of Peak Potentials – says,

“Clarity is Power.”

And I agree with him. Clarity can be power. Part of achieving clarity is knowing what it is you are going to do and why you are going to do it.

To some degree, clarity comes from the commitment to follow through on what you are talking about doing. To restate that what I am saying is:

Action is required for clarity to be power.

Otherwise it is just talk.

It’s funny, really, how we do things over and over that don’t work. We choose physical patterns that are are rooted in dysfunctional emotional stuff without being aware that we do it. It has become – for whatever reason – the default. When something becomes a default in human consciousness, it is no longer a conscious choice.

It is an unconscious choice.

At some point, we accept that default and get used to living with it. Sometimes clarity comes through waking up or snapping out of it – out of a walking dream state of semi-conscious behavior – a type of comatose that we have grown to accept as normal. To my way of thinking, anything but vibrant health is not a natural default, although it may be normal.

The greatest obstacles to overcome regarding health are belief systems.

What makes me an authority on this? This is an aspect of what we teach in Core Health workshops. Over and over again we see that this is true. We show people a way out of the rut and how to make new energy choices and it works.

The media and mainstream medical systems love to reinforce our dependency on the need to confer with them about everything related to our health.

Why?

Being healthy’s up to each of us. It’s part of our autonomy – part of our authenticity. We don’t need anybody’s permission to be healthy. Create your own clarity and clarify your power. It is such a great sense of release and a sense of in-powerment to take control of your health.

Choose your own perspective on health – choose a new version that suits you better and start challenging what the powers that be say to you over and over again.

Choose CHRONIC WELLNESS instead. Be a 1 percenter and jump in, if you’re ready for health.

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

Day Three of the Healthy Boomer 6 Pack Challenge – what an amazing day at Siesta Key beach.

It’s interesting what happens when we challenge each other in a healthy way – striving for excellence on a collective level. It’s a really positive thing to do on many levels. First and foremost, there is so much negative in the press, over the airwaves and in most conversation that counter balancing that negative with uplifting language, visuals and thoughts is so refreshing and empowering – in-powering actually. That is creating power from the inside out versus getting our power from a source outside ourselves.

By always speaking in language that enhances, we make a healthy contribution to the people and events around us. It costs nothing and it is contagious.

People like to feel good and it stands out clearly against so much negative.

Being a healthy boomer starts with thinking and speaking positively. All that is required is a choice. Making a habit out of it is what takes diligence. This is the fundamental precept in my challenge. Become a healthy baby boomer.

Start Thinking Healthy.

Start Speaking Healthy.

Start Acting Healthy.

Start Being Healthy.

This does not require a PhD in Physical Therapy or that you are working out like a professional athlete. You can start right this minute. Get up and stretch, take a walk, have a glass of water, smile about something, quiet yourself and enjoy the sunrise or go out and look at the moon for a while.

We can do many things to improve our health easily. Diminishing and virtually eliminating stress is a really good place to start. Make a choice to remove anger from your life. Smile and laugh more.

Watch a funny movie and laugh hard – often.

Quit sweating the small stuff.

If nothing else, take up the challenge strictly from the standpoint of making the determination within yourself that in 90 days you will be laughing more. That’s a huge step in the direction of health.

Whatever reason works for you – use it.

Maybe you have high blood pressure and you’re under a lot of stress and you have kids. Think about them being without a dad or a mom five or ten years down the road if you do nothing about your current situation. That’s a good motivator for many.

Think of it this way…

Life can be a lot more fun than it has been. Where do I start having fun?

Ask yourself:

Isn’t life more fun when I feel better physically?

Remember the tireless energy as a kid?

What happened to that?

Focus your attention on that to start with. Simply go into a place when you were small (in your mind and heart) and remember what that feels like. Think about what it used to feel like when you would sleep at night as a child.

How comfortable and safe you felt.

That memory and that knowledge is still locked deep within you – so you already know how to do what I am talking about.

Summon it forth.

Choose to start having fun and get a  new start enjoying your health.

Change what you think about health and take up the Healthy Wealthy Boomer: Healthy Boomer Six Pack Challenge whether you want six pack abs or not.

Choose to be a Healthy Wealthy Boomer and Make the Second Fifty Years Better Than the 1st. There is no asset of greater value than excellent health –  so starting developing that asset again and be a wealthy boomer too.

I AM Michael Barrett, I AM a Healthy Boomer and I AM a Core Health Facilitator