Baby Boomer Life

Baby Boomer Life is a blog for Boomers by a Boomer who is passionate about really living full out every day to the best of my ability. I and my husband make every day as full of fun, creativity, and physical activity as we can and we challenge ourselves each day. We are part of a growing number of Boomers who are working online instead of going to the office or job.

We have written together for a few years now and learned most of what we know about the internet and marketing online together. The result of our efforts to date is our blogs, our books, our audio/video programs, and all the work that goes into learning as much as we can as fast as we can in an online world that never stops changing-not for a moment.

Man! Up to now, it has been challenging and will continue to be so every moment of every day-I’m sure of it! Often we appear to be lost online for hours! And I am still behind on the Thirty Day Challenge! (This is how I also got to know lots of internet marketers of all ages.)

One thing we have found that is never changing in the Boomer world is the need for physical activity, good-preferably organic, fresh, whole food, and of course pure, clean, H2o. Michael and I are so fussy about our water that we literally carry our own with us, and are adamant about not drinking chlorinated, fluoridated water. We walk, we hike, we take it seriously and do it together. We recommend that you do too.

Here’s a little video from me on Youtube.

Please take note Boomers of the two W’s. WALKING and WATER

Especially if you sit a lot and work online; you need to get out and get physical as much as possible in the fresh air and sunshine for at least an hour a day. The internet will never change that and in fact, it has made for a lot of nerdy out of shape GenX’ers who never were very active to begin with. They’ve been online for most of their adult lives now. I say that with love because those GenX’ers have changed the face of the internet and taught us so much. I am so full of gratitude with regard to all they have done AND I am feeling like I should be out rousing them to get up and go hiking, bike riding, rafting, and walking. They live online and need to get much more food and fitness conscious. So here’s the bottom line.

We all need to take proactive responsibility for our health. As Michael and I always tell all our contacts of all ages-the first element of wealth is HEALTH! What good is a gigantic pile of money if you aren’t healthy enough to enjoy spending it??

So I am on a mission. A mission to get Boomers and Internet Marketers up and out and doing something physical that makes them feel great. There is a lot more about all of this on our joint site at Healthy Wealthy Boomer.com and also other video tips on Youtube. I intend to keep them coming Boomers because I want all my friends around to enjoy this life with me through the many years ahead. I consider it my sworn duty to bring this message home!

How many HoneyBoomers like to travel? I do! I do!

And what the heck is a “HoneyBoomer?” You know. It’s an endlessly honeymooning Boomer couple that loves to travel and has the cash, time, and freedom to do so. I love it!

Over on my Boomer Travel Deals and Dream Destinations site, I have got a growing number of great places to travel for both pure pleasure and for honeymoons and even for great exotic weddings or vow renewals.

Boomers love to travel and we want fitness, great-maybe even organic- food, massages, yoga, dancing, languages, luxury weight loss resorts aka SPAS. We are really into relaxation and spoiling ourselves but not until we have hiked, aerobicized, danced, swam, rafted, biked, sailed, golfed, fenced,and (whew!) and yoga’d ourselves into exhaustion! Isn’t that great?

I am so proud to be a Boomer!

Michael and I have been on a real extra strategic Healthy Wealthy Boomer regimen for the last month as we have been trying out Michael’s “Thirty Days To Change Your Life-Quick Start Manual” to see how it feels to be the Healthy Wealthy Boomer protege’s. We are having fun with this and you will too! And you will get healthier, stronger, more energetic; and even better-clean from the inside out! Plus you will get some home based business tips and a mental and emotional intelligence performance review with lots of help on how to make it all better starting today. It’s the plan for making the second fifty years better than the first.

You’ll see. It’s a good thing to do for about a month before you take that fabulous HoneyBoomer vacation to exotic locations around the world. Got your passport?

Go Baby! Go Daddy! It’s your Baby Boomer Life!

Hey Baby Boomers! Am I happy?? You bet I am!

In recent months I wasn’t too active on my blogs due to a concentration of energy on my new home based business which is bringing me a great deal of money and satisfaction and personal growth.

Now it’s not like I wasn’t in to personal growth for years and years already. Those of you who have read my blogs for the last year, know that I am a seminar junkie and a personal growth advocate of the highest order. My favorite word is what??? GRATITUDE.

Yep, GRATITUDE. And what has that brought me? Well I tell you, it has brought me proof that what you think about does indeed magnify and come flying right to you if you are consistent in your mental thoughts and emotions and you are following the BE-DO-HAVE model of living. I’m a money magnet!

Don’t laugh. That has actually worked really well for me! And in addition, a desire to serve, help change lives, and be a leader in the personal development field has brought me all that in a great package that is my dream home business come true. If I sound happy, in fact vibrant, it’s because I am!

Here is the link to one of my sites with my friends in The Amazing Business

This link is going to change someone’s life today. Maybe yours? I would love to pour you a cup of the joy I am feeling since I started this business. I feel like I found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and an entire field of four leaf clovers. Yippeeee! After years in all kind of sales, sales management, mortgages, real estate, hospitality, magazine publishing, and even MLM’s, blah, blah, blah! I got it! I am having the time of my life! I get to work from home and make money-I mean lots of money! I get to work from where ever I am and travel with my laptop and cell phone. NO Worries! Just in time to start the second fifty years of my healthy wealthy boomer life! Don’t be shy now. Take a look at what I am doing because you can do this too.

Remember when The Secret first came out back in 2006? That is when I began to look in earnest for a home based business that met all my criteria. I have been through a lot since then. WE have been through a lot since then! I will save my story for another time and place but Michael and I have been the most aggressive of entrepreneurs in our search for our dream life. We just aren’t passive people. We have been downsized, disappointed, burned, cheated-you name it. But we remained amazingly optimistic and determined. Even though people said “what you seek does not exist-get a job”, we never gave up (for more than an hour or two) and now we can look back and laugh. God Bless America and every other country where freedom and opportunity rings.

I hope this helps even one of you to manifest your dream life.
To your health and wealth and peace of mind from BABY BOOMER LIFE. Have a blessed day.

Alexandra

Hello friends and readers of Baby Boomer Life. Thank you for coming to my site.
Baby Boomer Life has moved to a new location and many of my articles are being moved there as well. You will find most of my articles on audio for your listening pleasure (and videos to come). While you are here there is almost a years worth of work right here in the archives. Please continue to enjoy, comment, and tell it like it is from your perspective. I love free speech!

My new home is http://www.baby-boomer-life.com/wordpress/.

Baby-Boomer-Life is a more comprehensive site but very focussed on healthy boomer’s lifestyles. This will encompass healthy body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
You can also find me at http://www.healthywealthyboomer.com with my husband and boomer partner, Michael Barrett.

As our understanding of internet marketing grows and our ability to use this form of communication develops with the help of our internet gurus, we are better able to serve you on the world wide web.

Thanks to Ed Dale and Dan Raine, my very first internet marketing teachers, and the guys at Stompernet-Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins; also, the wonderful Dr. Andy Williams, and my gal pal, Mari Smith on Facebook Strategic Marketing, and last but most definitely not least- Jack Humphrey and now Sam Clark; I am learning wondrous things for a Boomer Gal! LOL

These are some of the teachers who taught me the most and without whom I would still be checking my email on AOL and calling myself a techie! How hysterical is that?? ROTFLMAO :-))

Our 16 session class with Sam Clark and Jack Humphrey has been kicking butt and then again,the Thirty Day Challenge Part 4Ever is still challenging me to grow new dendrites everyday! More brain food please!

I look forward to seeing you at my new location and I Thank You so very much for your continued support as I strive to share all my experiences on the topics mentioned with each of you.

As Michael and I prepare to release our ebook-Healthy$$Wealthy$$Boomer,
I will be very focussed on that and therefore will mostly be posting on the new location. Of course, we fit this in with our family life and a road warrior work and lifestyle, so don’t think I am slacking off now! By the way, we are also very grateful to Michael Greene for all his 20/20 Challenge inspiration too, or we might not even have an ebook! I will keep you posted on that.

Please come to see me, sit a spell and listen to a few of my audios-or even just one.
I look forward to seeing you and I love the company.
Water, Tea, or Coffee anyone?

Alexandra Barrett
P.S. Send me some flowers or Starbucks on Facebook and let me know you were here!

Quote:
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” - William James

You can listen to the mp3 version of this post here:

Attitudes of Gratitude - mp3

That folks, is where attitudes of gratitude comes into play for all of us boomer’s. Well for everyone really and of course, but I think boomer’s may be especially vulnerable because it is a telling time of life. It is a time of transition and planning for the second half of life. (Yes, I am planning on another fifty years! Aren’t you?)

Have we met our goals? Are our dreams being manifested? Have our children taken the paths we hoped they would? Are we feeling well and energetic? Are we financially free?

Ouch! What, you might ask, do any of those questions have to do with attitudes of gratitude?
Well, in my opinion, the answer is everything. Everything, everything, everything.

This is a time when you must really take the old check up from the neck up. It is so easy to get down on yourself, on life, on the family, your job, your dreams, and your finances. Will that get you where you want to go?

Not if attention animates, not if thoughts are things and you create what you think about whether you like it or not, and not if my state of mind produces a vibration which in turn becomes an energy field which then attracts matching energy fields like a magnet! Do you see where I am going with this?

Right here and right now you need to stop and get yourself together and take control of your thoughts, your feelings, your expectations, and all your auto responses to life. What are you creating? Is gratitude, a smile and a laugh at the jokes life plays at our expense your natural reaction? Or, is it possible that you have slipped into victimizing thoughts, responses , and reactions?

Believe me, I know how easy that is to do. When life trips you up and nothing goes as you planned, and all your hard work seems to have come to naught-take heart! The only one who can turn it around is you, and each of us. We are not beaten unless we say we are.

Recently, I came to the renewed awareness that no matter what I am doing, the Source for all that I receive in this world is the One Source of All That Is. Call it what you may: The GREAT I AM, GOD, ALL THAT IS. What I am saying here is this; if you work really hard on something or with someone and it doesn’t pan out, for heaven’s sake, don’t give up! You may not see the fruits of your labor from that particular thing and you may get disappointed but pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and get right back in the game! You may alter your direction, implement some fine tuning, but keep putting the energy out there as long as you are passionate about it and feeling good about where you are headed. The rewards will come. They may come from somewhere you never expected but they will come. It has to happen. You can’t fail if you don’t quit. An adjustment may be called for but don’t give up.

Think of it like this; you are headed to Montana from Phoenix. The place you want to end up is definitely Montana. If you stop midway or even worse-an hour from the border, and turn around and head east, are you ever going to get to Montana? And why not?
Don’t we do that in life all the time?
Isn’t it time we got it right?

Wake up each day and start yourself off right with an “attitude of gratitude”.

My boomer friends, use your words and the power of putting yourself in alignment with the highest power of the universe to create your new day each and every day. Begin recreating a history today of the kind of thoughts, plans, and beliefs that can only lead to a sense of renewal and joy. Just start!

In a week the old history will feel like just that- “history”. A new pattern will have begun and a new energy will surround you. In a month your life will reveal a pattern of change as you build momentum, energy, and joy that grows in power with each passing day.

Today really is the first day of the rest of your Baby Boomer Life and don’t you forget that. It really is important and we really do become what we think about. That is a law of the universe that is undeniably true. If you have any doubt about the power and truth of these words and thoughts, I invite you to test it. Document it in your own life.

Now this is a Boomer Tip and you may want to share it with someone else in your life whether they are a boomer or not.

Keep an Attitude Journal for a month and write in it every day.
Alter the way you react to the small stuff and the big stuff. Remember not to sweat it! You are in control of your thoughts and reactions, even if you have gotten into some bad habits. Today is the day to take back your power. Everyday is the day to take back your power. It all starts in your mind and in your thoughts.

All of us; writers, doctors,teachers, lawyers, internet marketers, retailers, car salespeople, restaurant managers, entrepreneurs, parents and grandparents, and everyone of us whoever we may be and whatever we may do- we are all vulnerable to the disease of destructive thinking. It is the worst disease there could ever be or has ever been.

Let’s get that negative thinking bull by the horns and throw him down and hog tie him and never let him get control of our lives again.

Boomer Mind Power! We’ve got it!

Where did Fred Thompson’s voters go and yes, I am, I am mad as hell!

I Am Mad As Hell And I Am Not Going To Take This Anymore! Where did all the wondrous possibilities for Republican presidential candidates drop off to? What is going on with my party?

I feel seriously cheated and angry and disappointed-where is Mike Huckabee, where is Rudy Guiliani, where is Fred Thompson? This happened all too quickly and quietly for my taste.

I am mad. I am really mad. I am an angry Republican who feels like we just got “screwed”-pardon my English!

Here is how I feel right now; there is no difference that I can see between the Democrats and the Republicans if McCain is our best representation of the Republican party for president. There is nothing wrong with McCain, he is a good man no doubt since I don’t know him personally, BUT his ACTIONS show me that he isn’t a REPUBLICAN except in party registration and backing.

I am talking values and party line. Where do he and Obama differ-REALLY? They are both Liberals.

I think differences are good. I think political parties should represent different viewpoints and perspectives NOT just a different set of pockets!

President Reagan became my model.
Honestly, I am no political pundit but I am a voter and have never missed an election since 1968. It has taken a lifetime for me to develop a valid, educated opinion about my party and what it stands for in the American way of life. When I was a young adult, experientially still a child, I voted like a child. Now I am an adult who takes my voter rights and responsibilities seriously. I learned from President Reagan what a really good president is.

I don’t vote for candidates by their label; I vote for what they stand for and what I was taught that the Republican Party stands for. Even Mike Huckabee and Rudy Guiliani are a bit less conservative than I prefer but their values are values that I believe in. I think their softness on Republican ideals cost them the nomination and we have been spoon-fed McCain because the opposing party and media intends that a lot of conservative Republicans will simply get ticked off and not vote for anyone rather than someone they don’t really support. Opps-the Democrats then win by default and it looks like a landslide.
COME ON PEOPLE!

Get Serious Now
So to Republican Boomer’s I say this. It is time to gather strength and get solidly behind Mitt Romney because I see a serious case of divide and conquer going on here and we (Republicans) have every reason to be on high alert.

If your brain isn’t saying “warning, warning, warning!” you better reduce your medication and WAKE UP or this is going to be over before you know it. The McCain-Feingold Bill is just the beginning of the story of disaster for Conservative Republicans and life as we know it.

Looking back I would say that there has been a concerted effort to keep Republicans so focussed on the Obama-Hilary race that there has been nothing but confusion in the Republican Party. Are you with me??

Thoughts and focus create events and results. Energy goes where attention flows. Can you see it? Are you getting this?

It is time for all Republicans who are serious voters and not just opinion mongers to gather together and get united behind one candidate.

For my vote that candidate is now Mitt Romney for President. Sorry Mr. Huckabee. Better luck next time.

The party and values of President Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, is good enough for me.
Thanks from Baby Boomer Life.

Please note; I don’t normally write about my personal political opinions so please humor me if you will boomer’s. If you are so inclined, please comment and I will either print the comment or not depending on how you say what you say.

Should Baby Boomer Life get serious about health? Is anyone paying attention boomer’s? I hope so. I really do because you are not going to believe what I just found out. I am not even going to attempt to describe it to you so meet Dr. Suzanne.

Recently, I met Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst online and this lady doc is serious- dead serious- about saving lives and giving people back their health. LOOK RIGHT NOW>>>>>>>>>>

After listening to Dr. Suzanne I got to thinking about some of my earlier posts in the Fall of 2007 and how passionate I was about getting people motivated to take a lot better care of themselves for their own sake and the sake of those that love them. Check out my health posts in the October 2007 archives, but first…………

There is a link to the right of the screen where you can meet Dr. Suzanne and see some things you really need to know about and the sooner the better.

You can be absolutely sure that I am urging you to educate yourself AND AT THE SAME TIME
finally get the chance to drop the weight and awful low energy, bloated, dragged out feelings of exhaustion and illness that you have been suffering from. Wake up Boomer’s-this is for real!

End the diet wheel now and get the truth-the awful truth. Then take action first for yourself and then for those you love. You have to be the truth in action and show everyone you care about what can be done and then, no matter how resistant they were, they will listen and follow your lead. Be the one who gets this done.

Also, be sure to take before and after pictures and document the effects in your life and health and then write to us and share your stories. This is very important boomer’s and I really want to see how you do with it so don’t forget about me when you start getting results. We want to hear.

Do it right now-please-go and meet Dr. Suzanne and listen to what she has to show you. It isn’t pretty but you really need to know this. I have spoken about the necessity of internal cleansing but this is beyond anything I have ever seen.

The truth is that with Dr. Suzanne’s help you can be feeling like a new person and better than you have in the last twenty years and you can accomplish it in only weeks or a couple of months and you can be the amazing truth that will shock your friends and family.

You don’t have to trust me, find out for yourself when you listen to what she has to say.

My dear boomer friends, Baby Boomer Life is taking this health crisis very seriously and we are already on the case ourselves to see what the results will be and we will let you know as soon as possible.

Boomer’s and Bikers and hell on wheels Harley’s?
Maybe not anymore…..Boomer Biker Christians on Harley’s…yeah…that’s it.

The irony of Boomer’s and Biker’s and Christians is what I was really thinking about.
Recently while spending time with two of my favorite friends, Frank and Linda, who just happen to be bikers-his and hers Harley’s to die for!-we got to talking about their biker friends and his prison ministry and how most bikers today are proactive Christians who are more inclined to do rides for the Make a Wish Foundation or to raise money for the families of inmates or to buy bibles for people doing time and their families.

Right now their mission is that they are trying to find ways to get TBN-Trinity Broadcasting Network- into the prisons as an alternate cable station instead of the one cable station permitted now which tends to be a music station that is rap and videos. Apparently they are only permitted one cable station and the inmates vote and choose. Naturally they choose music if they only get one. However, if there were two and the other was TBN they would watch it a great deal of the time because most of the inmates are starving for spiritual life and desperately want to learn the teachings of the Bible. They want to be saved. They want to know Christ as their Lord and Savior.

In some cases they know what they want and need and in some cases they don’t yet know what it is, they just know that it is something and that the hole inside is very large and very empty. They need a reason to care about right and wrong and to think they matter. It is that simple. It is also fixable. Kind of scary though in a country where it is politically incorrect to mix government and God anymore. The need here is too great to ignore and from what my biker friends tell me, they are the ones reaching out to find ways to fill the need. Hallelujah for them. I mean that too. Hallelujah!!

While writing this post I came across a link at TBN Second Chance that made me realize just how important an issue this has become and that of course being the serious ministry that it is TBN has already put a huge effort into the Second Chance programming and what that might mean to the future of the people in the prison system. Faith based programming would reach literally thousands of inmates living in what amounts to the pits of despair and defeat with what seems like a totally hopeless and endless road ahead.

How can this be anything but the most important of important issues when so many lives are affected? Think about the hundreds of thousands of inmates, spouses, children, other family members, corrections officers (and their families too), wardens and other staff that are affected by the plight of the correctional institutions as they currently exist. The repercussions of not having a Second Chance are as dire as can be for a huge number of people and family’s. Only those whose family members are affected everyday can possibly understand that this is a monumentally crucial need.

My biker friends are looking for help and support. Their biker friends are doing all they can to support them in their work. I believe you can make a difference. You may be the one to come up with an idea that finally breaks through on how to effect serious change in the system. It all starts with supporting the TBN effort.

Baby Boomer Life would also like to help by spreading the word and raising consciousness on this subject. What else can we do? Let us know with a comment or two and tell us what you are doing. It matters.

Thank you and good luck. This project is in the hands of the Lord already but many hands make light work so lets join together and heal this problem. Can I get an AMEN?

Hello Baby Boomer Life readers and welcome to 2008! According to my pastor it is going to be a grrrrreat year and I tell you, Tony the Tiger could not have said it with more emphasis. I sure hope he is right. Don’t you?

Something I read somewhere about odd years being less successful than even years, or was it that 2007 is a “nine” year (2+7=9) and nines are endings and completions so 2008 is supposed to be a “one” year and that is new beginnings and the excitement of starting fresh in a bigger and better way than on just any old new year. All of this is called numerology and the science of numbers and their values as indicators of a given years’ possible outcomes is pretty fascinating to say the least-at least to me. And there many other things I saw and read throughout 2007 that I won’t go into but what matters most is that it is indeed 2008. We are launched. On that note…..

I saw a new blog today entitled Healthy Wealthy Boomer and I really thought it looked interesting because it linked me to… (full story Great in 2008)

First and foremost Baby Boomer Life Friends, I thought you’d like an historic and traditional version of Auld Lang Syne, a Scottish original song traditionally sang in most every English speaking country in the world at midnight on New Years Eve. It doesn’t hurt to review the lyrics every once in a while just in case you’ve already had too much bubbly before midnight and can’t remember them.

Here is yet another version for those of you who would like some of the genuine Scottish lyrics. In Scotland they celebrate from December 29th through January 1st and the four day festival is called Hogmanay. This site will give you some history and even a list of events and places in Scotland to go and celebrate. I bet you can still get a flight.

So are you ready for a brand new year and the beginning of a fresh new nine year cycle? I know I am. Many of my family,friends, and acquaintances will be singing Auld Lang Syne with gusto this year as we release 2007 and embrace 2008.

One thing I really appreciate about 2007 is that it was the year I learned the meaning of the word GRATITUDE and feeling of GRATITUDE way down deep in my bones. Another area of intense concentration for me in 2007 has been really getting the meaning of the Law of Attraction and the power of my thoughts both conscious and unconscious. Becoming vigilant and aware of my thoughts and understanding the meaning of being “Blessed” has been an ongoing theme this past year.

I didn’t coast in 2007. No, I worked hard and it didn’t always pay off but I’d really like to think that it is all waiting in my escrow alignment for me to claim it in 2008. I see it kind of like an unburied treasure I didn’t quite receive yet just waiting down the road a bit for me. Those of you who read my posts earlier this year may remember me talking about Esther and Jerry Hicks teachings at the “I Can Do It” Conference in Tampa, FL. They teach about the escrow alignment. It is all your abundance- ready and waiting to be received whenever you are ready to allow yourself to receive it. Yes, one of the more interesting trains of thought I pondered this year.

I am looking forward to the energy of 2008 and I hope it brings all of us-myself and all of you-many great new and exciting opportunities. Most especially I would hope that all the loose ends from 2007 will be tied up and completed to your satisfaction and mine, and that we will all look back with a better understanding of it all next year this time. (Right Michael?)

You gotta love hindsight.

Take these last few days to review 2007 and look ahead to the coming year as you give thanks for all that you have and all that you are in the co-creation of this blessing called your life. Ask and give thanks for forgiveness, healing, love, and abundance in all things and let yourself be receptive to fulfillment. Ask and it is given. I will be working on that myself.

Bless you and yours in what remains of the winter holidays as you travel the roads and gather with family and friends.

Get ready for the New Year-here it comes!
Happy New Year from Baby Boomer Life!