New Resource for Baby Boomers Wanting a Career Change
What’s Next features great resources for your career change, including:
- Inspiring stories from those over 50 who have managed satisfying career changes.
- Advice for those who want to change careers - ask your own question of advisors too
- A directory of financial advisers, career and life coaches
- Retirement planning
- Blogs by people currently in the middle of career transitions
The What’s Next directory gives advisors and coaches a chance to develop an in-depth profile of themselves and their practices. Users can search by name, location, certifications, areas of expertise and other criteria.
Here’s an example of some of the topics discussed relating to retirement and career change:
- Five things to remember if you lose your 401k match
- Will social security be there when I retire?
- I’m 60 years old - how do I find a job?
Tools include:
- Self assessment tests to help guide you to the right career
- Financial planning calculators
- Job listings for baby boomers
This baby boomer site also attemps to verify all professional credentials claimed by listers, providing a stamp of verification when possible. This stamp is visible on the listings so users have a level of confidence about the background and professionalism of anyone listed there.
WhatsNext.com hopes to become the destination site for people thinking about career change and better life balance. If you’re a baby boomer and thinking about a career change, check out the resources on What’s Next.
Money Making Ideas for a Bad Economy - Work at Home Business on the Rise
1. What are you interested in?
Do you like cooking and baking? Companies like Watkins offer quality cooking and baking products, as well as eco-friendly cleaning products. Avon offers quality skin care and make up, plus a wide array of other products. Are you interested in health? There are many great health and wellness products out there that truly help people live healthier, happier lives, and the sale of health products is on the rise, even in this bad economy.
2. Once you choose 4-5 companies you’d like to promote, check out the sign up fees involved.
If you’re building a new business, even if it’s working at home, you’ll have a few start up costs. However, don’t invest hundreds of dollars in any business until you find out if it’s for you and if you can be successful at it. Certainly don’t spend money on business building programs or advertising right away either. There are many ways to promote your business for free so try these before you spend any money.
Some work at home business opportunities are free to join, others have a fee (Avon, for instance, costs just $20 to join as a representative), whether it’s a one time cost or an annual fee to belong to the business. Decide what you can spend, if anything, and stick to that. You may want to invest in a few catalogs or perhaps a website (some businesses provide free websites), if you plan to sell on the Internet but again, many of these money making ideas can be done on a shoestring budget. For instance, you can create a blog to promote your business for free.
Using health as an example, you could create a health tips blog like mine chat with others who also love health or are looking for ideas for healthy weightloss for instance, or healthy recipes. Blogspot blogs are free to create and you can put ads on them with no problem.
Some business opportunities offer free websites, just for joining, and the moment you sign up, you have your own business website.
3. Check out the company’s reputation. How long has it been in business? Check with forums to see if there have been complaints about the company. I was recently researching Acai berry products and found several people talking about the downside of belonging to MonAvie - namely the products are expensive and the ingredients are undisclosed. Look for an honest and straightforward company to deal with.
4. How do you want to market your business? Do you like giving home parties or would you prefer to sell your products online? Watkins has an entire set up for home parties, called “Good Tastings” and even awards for representatives who have the most in a month or sell the most products. Mary Kaye and Tupperware also offer home party systems for selling.
You can also sign up for a company website and then link it to your blog. Be aware that these “replicator” sites do not do well in the search engines so you need a blog or website with original content to hook your business site to.
Most companies have policies about what you can say about them on your blogs or websites so read these thoroughly before deciding on either the company or an internet promotion as a way of doing business.
5. What is your personality? Do you like people and selling? If you’re passionate about your products and you like talking to people, you’re well on your way to a great money making idea. or you like the idea of running your own business and working for yourself, making your own hours? If you aren’t a self-starter, then working at home isn’t for you.
Despite the economy and perhaps because of fears about what is happening with health care reform, more and more people are interested in health products, especially alternative health. More people are also cooking at home so businesses like Watkins and Tupperware are doing well. Avon also does well as women seek to save money on skin care, make up and other products.
6. What sort of products to you use and enjoy? With the right money making idea for you, you can also get your own products at a discount. One reason I joined Avon as a rep is because I use and enjoy all their products.
7. Consider affiliate programs for products you use and would enjoy promoting. Are there products you like? The company probably has an affiliate program which will offer you links and banners to post on your website or blog. Companies like Linkshare and Commission Junction have hundreds of companies to choose from and your earnings go into one lump sum to be paid to you, rather than many small checks.
If you’re looking for money making ideas, (and who isn’t?), it’s even possible to create multiple streams on income from several different sources, like I have. Just remember, though, to be successful at working at home, you must be ready to commit time and energy to making it work. No money making idea works by itself but it is possible to earn several hundred dollars a month to supplement income with about 25 hours a week.
Boomer Blog - Get Healthy With Whole Food Nutrition
I’m a whole food nutritional supplement convert. I used to take a pile of vitamins every morning, mostly isolated vitamins, like B complex, Vitamin C and Vitamin E. These were isolated nutrients and possibly even artificially created. There is a new trend in nutrition and healthy living, however, that advocated whole food nutrition and whole food supplements to give you all the hundreds of micronutrients, phytonutrients, omega 3 fatty acids and probiotics, all as they occur naturally in whole foods.
Some whole food nutritional supplements even contain superfoods like acai berry, noni fruit and chia seeds.
Where can you buy powerful whole food nutritional products and still save money too?
I use Dr. Mercols’s Whole Food MultiVitamin Plus Minerals as my favorite whole food nutritional supplement. As a reader of my Tips for Boomer Years Blog, you’ll know I advocate adding superfoods to your diet like green veggies, broccoli, kale and spinach, nuts and berries like blueberries and probiotics. Dr. Mercola’s Whole Food Supplement contains 25 whole, live foods like fruits, herbs and veggies
Whole food nutritional supplements offer great health benefits such as:
- Helps slow the effects of aging
- Helps protect the body from illness and diseases
- Works at the cellular level to build optimum health
- Gives increased energy
- Helps build strong tissues, bones and muscles
- Keeps the brain healthy
- and More!
I trust Dr. Mercola’s products because they offer the best quality for the money. Whether it’s whole food nutritional supplements, digestive enzymes, safe cookware, natural health books or anything else related to health, Dr. Mercola backs up his products with research and information. Dr. Mercola also offers a terrific email newsletter with the latest in natural health information. Sign up for the newsletter is free.
Create the Life of Your Dreams - Free Ebook on the Law of Attraction
Nanette Geiger, best selling author on the Law of Attraction
When I first started reading about the Law of Attraction, it made sense to me. I’d always believed we could create our own lives with our thoughts and here were movies, books and websites, telling us all how to do just that!
Having read many resources on the Law of Attraction, I found Nanette Geiger’s ebook to be a thorough, concise review of the law of attraction and how you can make it work for you. Summary points every couple of pages recaps important information in a clear, easy to understand way.
Nanette talks about being honest with yourself so you can find your “emotional set point” and from there you help yourself feel better, one step at a time. Once you feel better, you increase your vibration so you can attract the things you most want in life.
If you’re interested in the Law of Attraction and creating the life you desire, no matter what your age or what your life is like currently, visit Nanette’s website and download her free ebook.
Nanette is a Law of Attraction based relationship and life coach. You can sign up for her ezine and find articles, interviews and a spot to download her free ebook, Create the Life of Your Dreams here -
Nanette Geiger - Life Mastry Coaching
Nanette Geiger is also the author of another book about relationships and the Law of Attraction which received many great reviews on Amazon.com.
Create the Love of Your Dreams: The Essential How-To Relationship Book using the Law of Attraction
Find out about more free law of attraction resources.
How to Succeed with Your MLM Company
Here’s a great little blurb from Jerry about his Mentoring business, Success in Any Business
One Of THE Biggest Reasons People Succeed In MLM…
Jerry Collins
They have a Mentor.
- What
- How
- Why
WHAT
Ever since we came out of the caves, people have followed successful people. First, for survival….Second, for survival….Third, for survival….It’s the same, today. Pioneers blaze the path, most people follow that established path to success. Success In Any Business is such a path! A group of mentors willing to give freely of their time and effort. It doesn’t matter what online or offline business you are in.
HOW
Down load the fr.e.e eBook, read it immediately, absorb it, and write down any questions. Success In Any Business
WHY
Your burning desire is all the why needed. Most people will do what’s necessary to succeed. But some don’t. They let their doubts and fears prevent their success. Just Do It!
Want to know more about me. Find it at my blog url below.
The be$t to your success.
Jerry L. Collins
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Jerry L. Collins
Know truth; Be Fr.e.e
P.S. George Carlin - “Weather forecast
for tonight: dark.” Find the light for your
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Need Budgeting Help? - Try These Budgeting Websites
If you’re looking for some free budgeting advice, here are some websites to help you get your finances in order.
Thrive.com
Thrive.com rates your overall financial picture, helps you get organized and then gives you a plan to help you reach your financial goals.
This budgeting website offers help for setting up a budget, setting a savings goal, planning for retirement and more. There’s even a section on learning to buy a house.
This free financial website offers a community to bounce ideas off of or learn budgeting and money tips from. Also budgeting tools to help you learn where your money is going and gives you tips to create a better financial life for yourself.
Quicken is best known for it’s bookkeeping software but they also have a free section with budgeting tips and financial help. You can customize your budget and Quicken sends you alerts if you’re going over your limit.
This free budgeting tips website offers advice on how to save money, pay off debts, college loans or buy a car. Free budgeting tools and help understanding your money.
Before you attempt to set up a personal budget, one good tip is to write down all your expenses - yes, every single one - for a month and see where you money is going. Maybe you hadn’t realized you were spending $25 a month on magazines at the checkout stand or $4 a week on dog treats (my own downfall- I discovered it’s much cheaper to take a trip to Costco and buy a big bag of quality treats than to impulse shop at the supermarket)
Once you know where your money is going, then you can see real ways to cut a few dollars here and there. Those dollars add up.
Budgeting isn’t easy but once you see the debts paid off and the savings adding up, handling money becomes more fun.
Two budgeting tools I use are visualization and gratitude. Each month, I am glad to pay my bills, glad I have the money to pay them and glad the amount owed is shrinking each month. I visualize more money in my bank account and being completely out of debt. Using this technique has changed my relationship with money to a more positive one.
Once you’ve visited the budgeting websites and read all the advice and tips, planning your financial future will be much simpler.
Review of Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life - The Movie
Louise Hay’s fantastic movie, You Can Heal Your Life, had a profound affect on me and my life. Having seen the move, The Secret, and having read many books on using your thoughts to create the life you want, I found Louise Hay’s movie to be a powerful addition to this information. You Can Heal Your Life actually tells you the HOW of creating the life you want. If you have a serious emotional or physical illness, using your thoughts to heal your life will change your entire life forever.
If you’ve seen The Secret but it left thinking the law of attraction was a great idea but but you have no idea how to implement it in your life, Louise Hay’s movie will explain how to use affirmations to create the change you want. Whereas many felt The Secret focused too much on aquiring wealth and “things”, You Can Heal Your Life focuses on creating physical and emotional changes in our live to fundamentally change us so that we are happier and healthier than before.
I hope when I reach the age of 80, I am as spry as Louise Hay. She is a person filled with vibrant energy and
she spreads that energy out to people in the form of lectures and appearances, and books published by her Hay House Publishing. Hay House also publishes other inspirational authors like my favorite author, Wayne Dyer.
Although I’ve read many on the law of attraction and creating the life you want with your thoughts,
I’d never read any by Louise Hay. After seeing this movie, I will be reading more of her books!
This movie contains interviews with Louise, Wayne Dyer, Ester Hicks and Abraham, Christiane Northrup,
Cheryl Richardson, Dorene Virtue and others, all talking about their own experiences and how to create
and change your life through the thoughts you think on a daily basis.
You Can Heal Your Life teaches how to create affirmations for your life, about anything you want to change or improve, be it health, happiness, improved relationships and more.
Once you’ve created the affirmation, you keep them in front of you all day every day, repeating them many times a day until they are part of you and your habitual thought patterns. This helps you change thought patterns set by a life time of self criticism, self doubt, even self loathing. Whatever sort of life you’ve currently created for yourself, even if it includes health issues, toxic relationships, being overweight or whatever, you’ve created this life by what you’ve been telling yourself with every thougtht you think.
But these thoughts can be changed for better ones and your life can also change for the better.
I got the extended version of the movie and I’m glad I did because it contained entire interview with each of the movie’s participants, like Wayne Dyer and Ester and Jerry Hicks and not just the edited version available in Louise Hay’s movie itself.
One of these interviews contained a real AAAHHHAAA moment for me.
I’ve read nearly every Abraham book by Ester and Jerry Hicks. Their formula for manifesting your life:
Ask, Receive, Allow, is very well known to me. The asking part is easy but it’s the allowing part that hangs most of us up, due mostly to our own mental conditioning and what we believe is true. Abraham says that whatever we ask for, we receive instantly - but then we must allow it into our lives.
Many people believe that by saying the affirmations we are in step one - the asking. That is the point where most of us begin - right? Actually, though, affirmations really belong to step 3- the allowing. Affirmations help us to believe that what we asked for truly belongs to us and is in our lives.
What we ask for is always and already been granted to us (maybe in a form we don’t yet see or appreciate it)
and by saying the affirmations, we allow it into our lives.
My biggest problem with the movie, The Secret, was that Ester Hicks and Abraham and Wayne Dyer were not in it. As authors and speakers, these inspirational people have been speading the word about about conscious creation for over 25 years and their absence in the Secret, to me, was glaring. The Secret may be a good place to start, but You Can Heal Your Life is a better place to finish.
If you’ve struggled with how to put the Law of Attraction into action in your life, see this movie! If you can’t afford the extended version, at least get the movie itself or read the book.
If you’re like me, you love to own these profound books so you can underline and make notes. Here is You Can Heal Your Life Paperback Book
