"Choosing A Happier Life"
Not Even 'Hot Off The Press'! Soon To Be Released Book"Choosing A Happier Life"by Jim Donovan is being released as each chapter is completed for Baby Boomer United only!!The First ChapterCHOOSE TO SEE THE LIFE YOU WANT
A recent article in a business magazine asked the question "If the economy is doing so well, why does everyone feel so bad?"
There are a lot of very sophisticated answers to this question like "jobs are moving out of the county, there is a war in Iraq, the cost of living is rising, etc, etc." I feel that there is one simple reason that is more responsible for people's bad feelings than everything else. There is one simple reason why people are feeling down even though the economy is booming. There is one simple reason why, despite all the positive economic indicators, many people are still living in fear and are experiencing depression in record numbers.
You've probably guessed it by now. It's our attitude which is controlled largely by what we focus upon and what we tell ourselves. We think a thought, which produces a feeling, which leads to an action, which produces a result. It all starts with the thought we choose to think.
Read more here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/BabyBoomers-happier-life.htmMany thanks to Jim Donovan
Jim Donovan is a motivational speaker and the author of Handbook to a Happier Life (New World Library).
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Woodstock 1969
WHO REMEMBERS WOODSTOCK AND ACTUALLY MIGHT’VE BEEN THERE!!
We, the Baby-Boomers who have shaped our country and our future. We the Baby-Boomers who took to the streets to protest everything from civil rights to animal rights to foreign wars. We promoted free love, burned bras and tried to legalize… legalize (pause; remembers) oh, yeah— pot. Our history lives in our music, books, movies, television shows, and clothing.
We found love and peace at/from Woodstock EVEN IF we didn't make it. I will never forget the chant "No Rain...No Rain...No Rain" and I will never forget Arlo, Country Joe, Janis, and so many more...
Many stories to tell of that time. The most important was the creation of my son, who at the time was Woodstock was just cells changing. Now he says he could have been at Woodstock LOL
Read more here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/where-are-they-now.htm
Our Path - Destiny
I believe that we draw to us what we desire, what we want, what we wish. Sometimes negative things happen and I don't believe that it is what we are thinking as much as the 'wrong turn'. Maybe it just means that we need to look at what direction we are going to take before we actually make it, but I know, at least in my life, that I have taken a direction that I knew was right but some other "force" came in and changed that direction. In fact that other "force" in many ways has changed my life totally. But yes I do believe what we think is what we draw to us.
I do believe, as well, that what we are suppose to do and experience in life we will. I believe that we are born with a 'path' and even though we may go off our path every now and then that we always come back to what it is we are suppose to do. My 'visual' is - If you think of a tree trunk and all the branches, our path in life is the tree trunk but we have all these 'branches'. So we can go one way or the other to experience different things BUT we always come back to the 'tree trunk' which is our path in life.
Thoughts?
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http://www.babyboomersunited.com/invision/
Pssst! Here’s The Secret To Why We Laugh!
I think we can all agree that humor is subjective. (And if you don’t agree your
decision is still subjective, correct?)
What is funny to one person might be boring and insulting to the next. It all has
to do with our background and experience.
What a twenty-two year old male college student might find amusing will undoubtedly be
different than what a retired seventy five year old gynecologist from Dearborn, Michigan
who lives in Florida will laugh at.
Read more here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/BabyBoomerHumourArticles.htm
Waiter! There's an angel in my latte!
“You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.”
So states the Rev Rick Warren, author of a recent religio-pop bestseller,
The Purpose-Driven Life , in this latest quote intended to go on Starbucks paper coffee cups as part of the chain's “The Way I See It” campaign. (1) What is illuminating about the quote is not so much its content but that Warren has been chosen by Starbucks as a notable American whose opinion will speak to and inspire “traditional coffee-house” discussion amongst its predominantly baby-boomer clientele. The selection of the quote, and the success of Warren 's book, highlights the relevance of spirituality to the baby-boomer generation.
The importance accorded to spirituality in their lives was noted by social commentators around the time the “leading-edge” of the baby-boomer generation began to approach 50 (mid 1990s). It was given its fullest examination in the book
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion by Wade Clark Roof (1999). That anyone should ask themselves “What's it all about?” as they reach mid-life is not surprising. This is a time when key aspects of life can undergo profound challenges – the leaving home of children, the aging, illness or death of one's parents, the reconsideration of what one has achieved thus far, the looming prospect of one's own retirement and eventual mortality, etc. What is surprising perhaps is the extent to which the boomers in Roof's study had turned to matters spiritual, including organised religion, to find the answers.
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http://www.babyboomersunited.com/Spiritual-Articles.htm
How Humor Can Heal You Through the Tough Times
It was 1990 and I was back in NYC from LA dealing with my terminally ill mother in Cedar Sinai Hospital. Three years earlier she was diagnosed with colon cancer. As you might have experienced yourself, back in those days the dreaded chemo was really the only treatment available. She put up the good fight, but by this juncture it had spread to the liver and lymph nodes. Mom was losing the battle and she was in and out of a coma. Ever so often she would moan, “Enough!”
I had dealt with the inevitable and knew her time would come soon and that Mom would finally have her peace. It’s always difficult to deal with the impending death of a parent (or any loved one) especially when you’ve only had them for thirty-two years.
Take Two Aspirin & Laugggggggggh! I would spend eight hour days at the hospital by my mom’s bedside and at night I’d go to a comedy club down the block and do a spot. How you’re probably asking could I do that? How could I just go and make people laugh like that?
Read more of Peter Fogel's article here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/BabyBoomerHumour.htm ALSO come and talk to Peter personally on the forum here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/invision/Best of all, visit Peter's site Reinvent Yourself Now
http://www.reinventyourselfnow.com/BabyBooU
Calling Tommy Chong
Since I had no responses to this topic, which I really thought I would get a good number of posts, one way or the other, maybe I should ask the question:
Does anyone care anymore?Not care about anything in general, but care about the whole issue of pot, the whole issue of the medical benefits it has, and the issue of Marc Emery and his persecution.
I know...a fav of Vancouver, Tommy Chong, is one that has been very outspoken about this whole issue (and for good reason), perhaps I can persuade him to post on the forum (come visit us here:
http://babyboomersunited.com/invision/ )
Wish me luck!
BabyBooU
Marc Emery
Should Pot Be Legal?
Good question! I am one of those that understand the medical benefits of pot. Now, can I go to my corner drug store and buy some to help with my problem - you bet not! I also doubt, though I admit I have not tried yet, that I could get it legally through the medical system as, I understand, you have to be near death to be able to get it. But that is not the point I want to make here.
I live in Vancouver, Canada. I admit this is a beautiful place to live, not only the scenery but the openness of people. I also live in a community that is very opened minded in many ways. In this area there was a store run by Marc Emery. He sold seeds and was a very open smoker and promoter/advocate of pot. He is well liked by his community and the city as a whole, but it seems he has crossed the line (well not yet and hopefully never - read on to find out what I mean if you don't know).
Marc, after years of selling his seeds online, being a very open advocate/smoker of pot and a leader in the promotion of legalizing pot, Marc was busted. Why? Got me! But it was not Canada that busted him...it was the USA. Marc's site has been shut down. It is now directed to
http://www.cannabisculture.com/ in an attempt to prevent Marc from being sent to the US to be tried on trafficking charges. Do I think he should be, NO!
As a Baby Boomer, way back then it was not legal to smoke, but it was done and, where I grew up, way more openingly that it is now. But, and this is a big BUT, I also knew people who were thrown into prison for having seeds in their own home. Was that right? NO!
Come on, have we not come to the realization that marijuana helps all sorts of medical conditions, especially the biggies (cancer and AIDS). Have we not come to the realization that cigarettes do more damage than pot? You bet! Have we not come to the realization that alcohol does more damage than pot? Of Course! Have we not come to the realization that pot does not lead to harder drugs? Yes! Bottom line on that one is if you are going to do hard drugs you don't need pot to get there. Isn't it about time that as Baby Boomers, and the loudest voice out there, that we take a stand and #1 help Marc Emery, 'cause if he goes down we might as well right off any help any of us will ever get and #2 support the use of pot. Man, if the government legalized it they would make way more money than they do on liquor taxes. Just think of how we could help the 'downtown eastside's' of all cities with that kind of money.
But for me personally, not only could it help my medical condition but it could have helped my mother so many years ago while she was dying of breast cancer. She didn't have the option then, neither do I now.BabyBooU Have more to say on this subject?
Come voice it at Baby Boomers United Forum here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/invision/****Donate To Helping Marc Emery Here****
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4481.html
Doobie :)
Remember: The Doobie Brothers?
The founding members were lead vocalist Tom Johnston and drummer John Hartman, both former members of a group called Pud. In 1970, after leaving that band, they joined up with bass player Dave Shogren and guitarist Patrick Simmons, and thus The Doobie Brothers was formed. The band's name was taken from a slang term for the marijuana joint (ummm do ya think LOL).
My main memory was when McDonald was in the band. I remember living on a farm (yup a hippie) and we had a stereo but no speakers. My "main man" went out and bought head phones and the first song I heard was "Listen To The Music". Wow, I will never forget that feeling!!
Read more here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/where-are-they-now.htm
Up In Smoke!
Tonight when I was switching channels, before coming back to work, I came across a movie I have not seen in eons. Yep, Cheech and Chong "Up In Smoke". Now it didn't catch me right off tha bat, though of course I recognized both of them, but it didn't take long.
One of the best points (and you have to remember I was not watching the movie, this was 'watching on the move') was Cheech saying something about 'speed' and Chong saying (not totally accuarate) "you have speed Man" and Cheech saying, "no Man but I have smoke" (or something like that. Anyways Cheech, after a bit of time, leans over to hand Chong this joint. Chong takes and look at this and says "this is a toothbick!". A few frames later he hands Cheech what he calls a "smoke" that is a good phalic symbol, and just a hoot when you watch Cheech attempting to smoke the thing.
Ahhhh...memories. It was like yesterday.
Want to go back? Visit:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/BabyBoomerNostalgia.htmMore to come!
Peace :)
Thoughts are Things
You've probably heard this idea at one time or another. You've probably nodded your head in agreement understanding that thoughts are in fact, things. You probably believe this and accept that your thoughts, being things, do in fact have power.
Have you really thought about this? Do you apply this to your day-to-day life? Hopefully you do, because you're every thought and word is contributing to your life experience.
For openers, your thoughts produce your emotions which, in turn, result in how you feel about a particular event occurring in your life. It has always amazed me how people can walk around feeling a particular way and not understand that it is their own thoughts, or more accurately what they are telling themselves that is producing the feeling in the first place. This is why two people can look at the exact same event and have opposite feelings about it.
You are creating your own reality, moment by moment, with the thoughts you choose to think and what you say, both to yourself and others.
Let's explore this a little further. Most people will agree, and science can demonstrate, that everything in our world is a field of energy and therefore has a particular frequency. The chair you're sitting on, your car, your cat, dog, you and everything else including thoughts, have a field of energy or vibration. Recent scientific work has identified particular ranges of frequencies and scientists are able to measure them. Interestingly enough, negative energies, like anger and rage, measure very low on the scale, while positive energies like those given off by prayer and meditation reach the highest measurements.
Read more of this great article here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/Spiritual-Articles.htm
Boomers Still Jamming?
Tonight there is a major 'jam session' going on in the back alley behind our house. Guitars, drum and a very bad singer. My first reaction was to go over and get them to stop...my second reaction was "am I that old?!!".
So are Baby Boomers past the stage of a good party? Past the stage of running over when they hear a good band and know there are good times to be had? Are we becoming our parents who would yell at this?? (ohhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooo).
As I sit here typing this blog the music from the back alley behind my house sounds like Santana (great guitar playing), incredible drum player, and a very stoned sounding Jim Morrison type singing (who couldn't hit a note on key if he tried) and I think, am I really past all of that? Am I really that old that loud music is now just something that irates me rather than makes me want to go out for a good time? Am I on the down-swing?
I wonder why we hit a point that we are no longer the 'fun loving' people we were not that long ago (or it sure doesn't seem that long ago) that we would seek out this kind of music/fun times and dance/sing/clap and just love the 'groove' of the experience instead of thinking how it is going to keep us (me) awake tonight.
So here I am, a Baby Boomer, apparently over the hill, I guess, who considers sleep more important than wandering over to the music and having some fun
Tell me what you think at our forum http://www.babyboomersunited.com/invision/
BabyBooU (who probably will not be getting much sleep tonight)
Are You The Person You Want To Be?
COME JOIN ME IN THE REINVENTION FORUM!
“where you can FINALLY be the person you’ve always wanted to be…”
SMACK! Ouch! Did that hurt or what? I’m talking about what happened in the year 2000. The stock market threw cold water on baby boomers across the globe squashing their dreams of a pain free – easy- as-it-goes retirement.
And here’s a sobering….
FACT! According to an Associated Press article, Merrill Lynch took a poll of 3,400 baby boomers and guess what? Nearly 77 percent of them said that despite retirement looming (and soaring home prices) they will work in some capacity in a second career and that includes 13 percent who stated they intended to start their own business.
Yep! This “ain’t your dad’s give-me-that-gold watch retirement,” that’s for sure.
So now you’re wondering, what are these boomers doing with themselves? Answer: A LOT! They’re “reinventing” their careers and lives and exploring avenues they never thought existed.
I know… I’m one of them.
Read more here - and come and join in at the forum!
http://babyboomersunited.com/invision/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=11
Are Your Goals Exciting?
With another year about to end, now is the perfect time to think about your future and begin to design the kind of life you'd like to be living. Unfortunately, too many people leave their lives to chance and happenstance, not taking the time to write down their goals and create plans to achieve them. This can be a huge mistake. Not having written goals would be like going on vacation without a destination, something most people would never consider doing. Yet, those same people will leave their futures in the hands of circumstance.
Having written goals will change your life. Spend some time thinking about what you'd like your life to be like. For the sake of this exercise, let's set goals you'd like to have accomplished one year from now. Of course, you can set shorter and longer goals as well.
What would you like for your relationships? How about your health, career, and finances? How about your mind and emotions? What would you like to experience? What would you like to do, be, or have? Invest some time now to identify these things and write them down. This will greatly increase the likelihood of your accomplishing them. If you want to know more about this, there are lots of books, including mine, to help you. That's not really the topic of this story, however, I'm asking you now to revisit your goals, particularly your short-term ones.
Do they make you want to jump out of bed each day eager to get going? Recently, I was feeling "less than great." I was even bordering on becoming depressed, something I rarely experience. I felt unmotivated, and wound up being pretty sick for several weeks. Upon closer examination, and because I agree with Socrates that, "An unexamined life is not worth living," I realized one of the things that I had done was to reset some of my short-term goals to be "more realistic."
Read more of the article by Jim Donovan here: http://www.babyboomersunited.com/BBoomers-Articles.htm
Subliminal Messages
Do you remember hearing about the famous soft-drink company which used subliminal messages in their television ads to get us to buy more soft drinks. Or what about the story of the movie theater which used subliminal messages flashing on the screen (without us even knowing about it) to get us to buy more popcorn and snacks during the movies.
Well this science is illegal now because certain government agencies learned that by using subliminal messages, that advertisers could literally motivate you to do, or buy products...
...But now it's possible to use this same advanced technology to make positive shifts in your own life!
Now you can actually program yourself to love eating healthy foods - to really enjoy exercise - and to develop amazing will-power.
From now on, every minute spent at your computer, will be time spent on your personal development and your physical well-being.
Get more info now at:
http://www.SubliminalBodySculpting.comYou'll be glad you did!PS: I implore you to take just 28 seconds right now to look at this amazing new software that's gauranteed to help you reach your goal faster than you ever thought possible.
Just 28 seconds...
http://www.SubliminalBodySculpting.comPPS: Just beyond the surface of your waking thoughts,a powerful collection of subconscious mindsets are controlling everything you say, think, feel, and do.
These mindsets are responsible for every outcome you experience - good and bad.
NOW, find out how to re-program these mindsets and create the body of your dreams ... using an amazing process that's Effortless, Automatic, and Permanent!
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What are you waiting for?
Do it now! Whatever it is you have been putting off, do it. This is your life, it is not a dress rehearsal. What is it you have always wanted to do but, for some unknown reason, never quite get to? I am referring to those usually minor desires, not major goals like "get married" or "start a business."
For me it has been things like, swim with dolphins and ride in a glider plane. These were not major accomplishments but still, for some reason, I had been putting them off for years. Why? Why is it we have a tendency to treat our lives as though we will live forever?
In truth, our time here on this earth is but a brief moment in time. If you compare our, perhaps, 100 years here to the age of this planet we call home, you will see we are only here for a blink in time.
What are you putting off? What are some of the things you have always wanted to experience but are postponing because you think you have all the time in the world?
Read the obituaries in today's newspaper and realize that everyone whose name is in there thought they had another day. It is not my intent to offend you but I do want to shock you into the realization that, this is it! This is your life.
Read more of the article here: http://www.babyboomersunited.com/Spiritual-Articles.htm
Baby Boomer Forum - Come On In!!
Baby Boomers United is your one stop interactive resource center for all needs. Whether its up to the minute information on products, services, or exchanging of ideas with other Boomers.
I am also happy to invite you to our forum. On the forum you get to exchange ideas and information that can give you a better quality of life. We have specialized moderators to help you in different areas. So come on in! You can join as a member or simply as a guest...we don't care...we are just happy to have you there and learn/share with all out great people.
Our Boomer moderators are:
Jim Donovan, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, Coach
http://www.jimdonovan.com Peter Fogel, Reienvention Expert, Author, Speaker, Comedian
http://www.reinventyourselfnow.comAntoine Albert, M.D., The Doctors Life Coach
http://www.lecoach4u.comDee Berman, Attorney, Coach for Personal Growth & Life Change
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How to Dress 10 Pounds Thinner
I can help you look leaner, sleeker, and trimmer by incorporating some fixes in your wardrobe to create an illusion while you are dieting off the extra pounds from too many Cosmopolitans and Crème Brulès.
The Rule of OneThe most important tool you can use is one color dressing. Wear one color, preferably something dark like navy, black or charcoal from head to toe for a longer, thinner look. Wearing one color creates an unbroken line and viola, a thinner, sleeker you. Two colors, by the way, will cut you in half and give you a much wider profile. When I said wear one color I meant just that. If you’re wearing a black blazer and black pants, wear a black blouse, shoes and belt. For some punch you could add a colorful scarf or a fabulous pin.
The late Carrie Donovan (no relation), who was the voice of fashion for the NY Times, always wore black. It was her signature.
Read more of the article here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/BBoomers-Articles-Body.htm
Boomers In Transition
Many Boomers are finding themselves in a time of transition. Millions are becoming empty nesters while others are coping with divorce and being single again, still raising children AND caring for their aging parents (the sandwich generation as well).
In 2006 the first born of the Baby Boomers will start turning 60. Born between 1946 and 1964, the Boomer generation is the largest and strongest generation. They were raised on television, rock ‘n’ roll, drugs and free love. They took to the streets to protest against the war, burn their bras. Boomers are still the generation unwilling to accept the status quo. They are determined to find new and better ways to do everything, whether it be a new job, remarriage, retirement, this group will do things that have not been done before, especially as they face 50-60 candles on the cake.
Boomers have always had a huge impact on society and they are not about to stop now. You will not see Boomers go 'silently into the night'. They will go kick and screaming into later life. Boomers have, and will continue to re-inventing the concept of aging.
The Baby Boomers are vital, vibrant, young at heart (and powerful) and have no intention of sitting in the rocking chair until its time to turn lifes lights out.
Read more about the new age of the Boomers here:
http://www.babyboomersunited.com/
