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Worry This is a guest post contributed by Betty Jameson Are you scared of old age when you think of entering this phase of life after sixty? Don’t be. While the fear of death is a natural one, there is nothing to fear from living life as an older person. Yet, many of us...
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This is a guest post contributed by Betty Jameson Life after sixty marks some turning points for most people … after all, by sixty many of life’s irreversible choices are already made! You’ve already either had children or not, you’ve either had the career you wanted or you haven’t, you’ve either paid into a...
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Some young people know what career they want to pursue long before they ever reach college age. If that is genuinely their choice and not something imposed by their parents, they are really lucky. They can begin the training of their choice as soon as they complete high school, and they probably will be successful in achieving their goals because their motivation comes from within.
However, it’s not as simple for many others who don’t have the right mindset for success! Even when they arrive at a decision about a career choice or a the kind of business they would like to develop, self-doubt and discouraging thoughts may cloud their thinking.
Is it possible that focusing too much on goals for the future is keeping us from taking care of ourselves today? While setting goals is important, we need to enjoy the steps we are taking right now and that includes enjoying simple pleasures like shopping for the ingredients to cook a good meal and tossing a ball around with some friends.
Good nutrition, physical fitness and caring human interaction contribute to good mental functioning and empowers us to do the work we need to do.
It’s important to remember that being successful includes enjoying our daily life and growing as a human being.
A concert-goer once said to a famous composer:’Maestro I would give my life to play like you do’ and his answer was ‘I did Madam,I did! In truth he had probably enjoyed living the life of his choice, playing the music he loved … and bringing pleasure to the world. How fulfilling is that!
It’s good to constantly remember the importance of being a well-rounded individual while we’re working toward our goals. The professional goals are one important part of our life not a destination we arrive at after a long journey. The journey is our life and we need to live it consciously, paying attention to the flowers along the path!
The first part of this article applies to young people starting out on their path to becoming productive member of society. But there is another movement going on … Seniors engaging in a new career and learning new skills!
How does it feel to start all over again? They’re getting acquainted with social media … they’re challenged by new-fangled systems … I know because I’m doing it myself!
I have written a few posts about working from home to supplement a retirement income and I plan to focus on home business information in the coming weeks.
Be looking for helpful downloads too!
Fran_C
Carl Hoffman continues to reminisce on his blog: The 60′s Official Site He features disk jockey Neal Stevens back in his “Hey Days” I was just listening to … ‘I don’t care what they say, I won’t stay in a world without love’ an expression of youthful angst maybe? I dunno, I’m a mother...
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Carl Hoffman, self-appointed historian with a solid knowledge of the 60s era says: “This month I am looking back at the month and year of May 1968. Do you recall what was going on in your life during that month and year? It is very difficult to pinpoint exactly unless there was an event...
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Saturday Sharing John Soares at Productive Writers published this insightful article: He says: “ Let’s assume the typical case of an adult who primarily watches TV in the evening after work. Instead of watching the tube, here’s what I do with most of my evenings” and goes on with his description of his pleasant...
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The news is full of stories about the thousands of boomers who will be retiring every day beginning this year and much of the political discourse seems to be centered on the viability of Social Security and Medicare entitlements, causing concern among many middle-aged citizens
Before Social Security was enacted in 1935, men and women who became physically handicapped or too old to work depended on relatives who often didn’t have much to share; children who lost their father were often treated as a burden to others or sent to an orphanage.
There are some big lifestyle differences between those first generations of Social Security beneficiaries and the present generation of retiring boomers.
Well into the third quarter of this past century, workers avoided accumulating debt and aspired to pay off their mortgage before they reached retirement age. It wasn’t until sometime in the 1970′s that the banks started
stepping up the promotion of credit cards and home mortgage refinancing.
Offsetting this dreary financial situation is this generation of baby boomers’ attitude… they generally believe in staying fit and keeping their mind and social life active. Many of them are thinking about producing an extra income to supplement their Social Security check.
In earlier days, producing some extra income wasn’t easy; it meant getting a part-time job in a company or the local hardware store, teaching a skill or providing a needed service, such as small house repairs, gardening or cleaning services. Starting a small business could be an option, but that required some capital and a big time commitment. Any of those endeavors required some commuting!
Today, the Internet is providing practically unlimited means of communications with no geographical limitations, making it fairly easy to start a successful home business. A boomer facing retirement could be looking for answers to the following questions:
* How does my view of retirement differ from my parents’?
* How could I get some kind of home business up and running?
* How does knowing that I’m probably going to live longer than previous generations change my outlook on life?
With plenty of time to do research answers to those questions and many more can be found on the Internet;there are many dependable websites and blogs offering free or low cost step-by-step instructions for planning a home business and making it work.
Here at Apprentice Marketer Gazette, I share information I’ve learned over the past four years and continue to get through daily contact with other bloggers and marketers.
What are your thoughts about extra income possibilities? Do you have some
suggestions other readers would like to read about? Please share!
Fran 
Photo: Ida Mae Fuller, the first SS recipient, photo information at Wikipedia
What’s that saying? Be careful what you wish for? Retirement, the beacon of hope that winked at you for the past four or five years? Well, it finally was more like blinking and getting dimmer amidst more pressing signals: emails, telephone calls, 401k after shocks, official forms to fill out, and then finally goodbyes,...
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Image via Wikipedia “Hippies, Honeys and Gas Money” John Nix of Spartansburg, South Carolina remembers: During the summer of 1969 I left the first real job I ever undertook and, after incurring my mothers wrath and a lecture on stability, began to look around for something to do that would be car related. Having...
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Daily Oldies Fix Do you need a fix? If so daily you can check in here beginning at 7:00 AM Eastern Time Zone for a new five song medley of oldies to start your day off and give you that needed fix for the day. I guarantee it will put a smile on your face and your feet...
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In her ‘Aging Parents‘ Blog, Carolyn Rosenblatt asks “what is old anyway” it’s a good question I think, especially because as she states “We have more negatives about aging in the media and in our lexicon than just about anything. Anti-aging, fight aging, turn back the clock, stop aging, reverse aging. No wonder our...
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Amazon.com Review “We all need models for how to live from retirement to past 80–with joy,” writes George Vaillant, M.D., director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This groundbreaking book pulls together data from three separate longevity studies that, beginning in their teens, followed 824 individuals for more than 50 years. The subjects...
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