BoomerZine

Boomer Starts New NEW Business

2011-09-28T14:02:00.000-05:00

Can't keep up? That's okay. I've now stopped that energy business to do still another business online. It's free. It's mentoring. It's helping others develop themselves to develop a team or family on line, a team that works together toward a common goal.

It's often said that in order to work with someone there must be the "know, like and trust" element. How do you achieve that online? How to you find people who think like you, have the same goals as you do? How to you get to know them? And then, of course, once you know them, you naturally like them! After a certain time of getting to know and like someone, you come to trust them. It takes "time on task" as we in education like to say. (I can't keep from an aside about that concept for it seems so simple, to simple even to mention: one must take the time to do something before it gets done). Although simple, almost too simple, it seems to be the one thing that we often miss.

Here's a great book called, The Slight Edge, that keynotes this concept. Here's the link to that book on Amazon.com: clxr.us/edge1 "Whoops! There goes another rubber tree plant!" is a wonderful song I sang as a child. It means that the ants can accomplish wonders, one bitty bit at a time.

Well, anyway, if you want to see what I'm working on now here's the link to the free mentoring program -- good for anyone even not interested in doing an on line (or offline) business. It's good for anyone who wants to break out of bad mental habits: clxr.us/mentoring

I was quite skeptical about this FREE mentoring program. I remember listening to one of the many archived recorded conversation where the moderator talked about someone needing a “mental cleanse,” and I thought “out loud,” “O'hah! THAT'S what they are “selling.” I asked my mentor (the one who told me about the program) what was a “mental cleanse. His reply, “Oh, that's where you turn off the TV and radio and stop all the external clutter and join an on line group who reads a book chapter by chapter and discusses the lessons learned each week.”

“Oh,” I said – another test this system passed for me. I am a bit amazed at how cynical I have become to even be unable to believe that something could be free, with good will intended without any returned expected or required. It's disarming! In fact, it works remarkably well. Once I stopped all the external chatter, I was able to focus on directing my life in a direction that I wanted it to go and not just let life happen haphazardly.

So, I'm again changing my focus from promoting deregulated energy to this mentoring program. I think of the former as only a step to get me to this better place.

The Boomer keeps movin' :-)

Boomer Starts New Business

2011-07-22T22:44:00.000-05:00

Hello. I'm writing to share with others what has motivated me to reinvent myself. I'm a laid-off teacher with a Masters Degree who found herself unemployed. I also live in a teensy East-Texas town where business is small if non-existent -- also where family and cousins seem to get first choice of all things good in town, most especially jobs.

So, a friend that I hadn't talked to in a while called me up out of the blue. Well, actually she first called up my ex-husband, who gave her my number. Anyway, this friend is quite the last person one would expect to be involved in network marketing, so I listened. I was at a hungry place in my life, a place where I was looking for a way to earn money and still live in rural East Texas, and it made sense. After giving it a week's careful due diligence and thought, I jumped in with both feet.

It's a business, an opportunity in the energy deregulation business. If you are interested in being in your own own business, the earning potential is excellent, and you help your customers save money on their utility bills. Consumers can also get travel rewards and other incentives to switch to Ambit Energy as their electric company. We are in a moment in our history where there are record numbers of unemployed and others hard hit, who worry about paying their bills. This business helps with both of those worries. It's a well-run company with ethical business practices, one that just decided to grow their business (their customer base) by using networking business model. Here is an excellent article that shows why networking works especially in today's economy. Here's an article explaining this point: http://www.wynman.com/kiyos.html

Work, works! It's a simple as that. The business is simple, one that a PhD or a GED can do with ease. I had the good fortune (as you would if you connected with me in this business :-) to connect with a top achiever who spends most of his time helping train and encourage others to duplicate exactly what he has done. He's a pro!

Here's the links of my new business if you would like to check it out:

http://go247.ambitenergy.biz

or switch your utility bill here:

http://go247.joinambit.com

Oh, I almost forgot: Value added is a customer signs up to save money on their utility bills.

www.ambittravel.com

It's a fun business. I have my little bluetooth, StraightTalk phone with unlimited minutes for $50/month, lots of leads, and friends and ways to share...and off I go. Here is the beginning...July 24, 2011. I'll make sure to log in with updates this time and not wait five years. Where have I been? Five years!

Bye for now,

Later, but sooner,

Deb

Here's my other blog: www.educatingarts.blogspot.com

Here's my personal web site: www.DebAdams.com

Boomers Reinventing Themselves

2011-07-22T22:27:00.000-05:00

Pushing the outer limits of physical exercise when a senior is having dramatic effects for our newly senior boomers. There's a excellent book on this subject that I recommend: Younger Next Year, by Crowley and Lodge. There's a version for men and another for women. For those of you who would rather get the quick synopsis, it says one hour of vigorous exercise, six days a week, makes every cell in the body say to every organ in the body, "Hey, I'm not dying, I'm living, growing." Sedentary life styles, you know the ones our children are living while playing video games inside after school rather than playing baseball and freeze tag outside, is making us age prematurely. Also, aging is really dying: just a nicer word. Another book that is a delightful read is what appears to be a children's good, but is NOT: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard. That on is so short, I'll let you read the whole thing. It's a delightful book with a profound lesson.

Note: When I went back to this blog, I realized i hadn't posted to it since 2005. Wow! Where have I been, and what have I been doing? Well, that's okay. I'm back now.

I'll post more often...please feel free to comment and give feedback.

Purpose for this Blog

2005-01-12T13:31:00.000-06:00

Frustrated Boomer-Writer needs outlet for written form of expression.

So much comes and goes by the wayside in life - so many thoughts and experiences that remain unshared and unappreciated by anyone except perhaps oneself.

That's okay. I’m actually starting to accept that that’s the way things are designed to be, but sometimes there still resides in me a "need" to share my thoughts and ideas.

Share? Share with whom one might ask? That can be a "deep" subject! Rather than "inflict" my thoughts and idea upon a hapless bypasser or some friend who might feel a duty to "listen," I thought a blog would be a better way. A blog offers a journal-like experience with the added possibility (however slight) that the words might be read by another. Of course, no one need read them, nor make comments if they do for that matter, because it's completely voluntary : - ) .

For a few years now I've wanted to create a newsletter; now that blogs have become so accessible it’s easier to write a newsy letter and “publish” it to the Internet. Making and receiving comments has become much easier as well. Just click comment from your own computer at any time. With just the click of a link a journal is transformed from a dry series of disjointed musings writing often for one’s own purposes of edification or venting to a more polished cohesive piece ready for possible consumption by “someone” else.

Of course that someone else may or may not read my bloggings, but yet the meer possibility that someone "could" changes what I write. That's strange, isn't it? but true. Publishing is a necessary part of writing, creating the need for editing more careful thought and preparation. That editing makes the writing better in most cases.

So, that's the purpose of this writer's blog...just to have an avenue to go "blaa...blaa...blaa," whenever I have the "bandwidth" to contribute to an ongoing dialog with "myself" and/or someone – anyone- else "out there" that might want to "listen." You there? “Hi.” : - )