When You Retire , Do You WANT To Be Just A Retiree?

Retirement no longer means to leave the working world and chute into inactivity.It's only a matter of time before boredom starts strangling you.And what about income? And fun and the life you cherished?
Thanks to the Internet, new doors are available.Open them with relish and retire "to" something better .
Start the first day of the rest of your life.

How to Get Free Traffic for Your Business – with Google Maps!

This Free Coaching Session will Teach Local Business Owners How to Get Free Traffic for Your Business – with Google Maps!

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Is Your Marketing System Working ?

Nobody said that selling is a fair game. It’s always unfair: It either tilts unfairly in your favor… or someone else’s.The environment you sell in every day is changing fast. It is ruthless, sometimes even cutthroat. Some people reading this will be out of business by this time next year.Others will have made major advances in playing the game, securing their position and leaving competitors further and further behind.
How does a company go from $1 million in sales to $20 million in 18 months? How do you operate in an industry that’s so cut-throat competitive?Here's how you can separate yourself from the pack and sell at much higher margins ...

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Give Your Site A Traffic Ride

If you are a website owner and have neglected or simply overlooked FREE search engine marketing then your website is probably headed for irrelevancy.There's a simple test you can do..That simple test – well, log  into your website stats and see how many visitors you have had on the site in the past month… and more importantly check out the unique visitors.If you have very few  visitors, or worse yet, none at all, then your web site... your product… well, they just don’t matter.You see, without traffic all  else is irrelevant.If you are too busy then you could outsource that effort.Here's what you ought to do.

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There's A Business For Everyone

Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.
Sergio Bambaren 

There comes a time in almost every life when one is forced to choose between whether to keep on plugging into someone else's sockets ( as an employee ) or go do something with the rest of the days of  your life ( as an entrepreneur ).Whether it's offering personal services, starting a retail business or even business services...it's better to just go and launch it when the bulb is still shining! For the cost of a lunch you can  take that little step out of the rat race - online.  
As the Net matures, more and more people are going online in search of the perfect online business opportunity.Or if you're starting from scratch , sell what people online want... information. Yes, you can do it. This is the way to start a profitable online business... regardless of your Web skills.

Alternative Lifestyle?

Out of high school,we feel awe struck by what we're gonna do when we get a job.Boy,am I going to ... .But there's another side to it.It comes up years later.Did you take the right wagon out? Here's one man's story.

Brian was the manager for a machinery manufacturer.As he went to work one morning ,as has been custom all these years,he increasingly began to resent what he saw as the clouding of personal honesty demanded by competitive business.Even worse he hardly knows his wife nor the children as he gets 'locked away 'from them for up to 5 days on business trips oftentimes.He began to see that the nearer he got to the board of director's job,the less he liked the sort of lives those above him in the Firm were living.He began to lose the confidence that he can play it differently when he got into the board." I don't want to change my personality.I have this conviction that it was unnecessary to behave badly or stay put in a compulsory charade of hypocrisy in order to be successful.I prefer family life to business entertainment,"  he thought hard to himself.
That evening , when he got home , he told his wife ," I don't think I can stand this until I retire." But the more they thought of it the more an abyss of fear opened up- how can you cut moorings without even knowing which point of the financial compass you are heading for ? The job had afforded the lifestyle they have now.Everyone has come to cling to it's safety.
"There's an old proverb," he told her, " that every cock is proud on it's own dunghill.I have been so obsessed crowing that I forgot the hypocrisy that our lives have come to become." Letting go of the job they were clinging to,they felt a curtain has lifted on something already there: a new phase of life.It would be better to do it now when they still have their wits and age than later they thought.

Together they found a small bed & breakfast business close to a beach.Since then what has increased over time is Brian's ability to make do on a shrinking income . But it opened new doors.They make their own bread and beer.They rebuilt the extended family ties.Though the kids have less pocket money than the neighbours ,yet there isn't any resentment from them.Bonding together again after all these years has churned a kind of hardy happiness that has rubbed off on them."What we have swopped is not money but a way of life, togetherness.It is absolutely essential that I should do what I am doing."

Where you are now are you being true to yourself.Do you get to use your talents and enthusiasms or has your boss plugged you into a round hole ? It's NEVER too late to ask the question nor jump off the mellee of the rat race. Remember the words of H.G.Wells : "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

A Bicycle Ride

Financial Fears

A growing concern among families on the Indian subcontinent is that they will OUTLIVE their retirement savings and only 2 out of 10 have retirement plans at all.Surveys by life insurance companies show that up to 77% believe they won't have enough to live on.It wasn't that they were caught unawares.There has been a tremendous change in tradition whereby a family would take care of it's older members.A greater mobility among young members of families had taken them away from family bases and the family safety net had gone into fragmentation.

Across over in Taiwan in a survey of 4500 students between 14-22 , an alarming majority of these leaders of tomorrow have considered suicide with about 23% still considering it on a recurring basis.These young people feel that they are good for only tests-university entrance exams and others.They decry a lack of homegrown heroes or role models they can look up to or imitate.Most of them don't know what to do after leaving university.Family ties have crumbled with both parents having had to work while children were sheltered to a point they can handle no setbacks even the death of a pet.

The biggest challenges ahead lie in what we are going to do or have made ourselves capable of doing , if things and support systems that comfort us are taken away or crash.The risks and accompanying fears in the marketplace will confront us as global economics evolve .Nothing is sacrosanct and could be ours forever [ especially our job/s] .What we need to do is to get out of being boxed in.Take a safe risk now - risk everything - your job,your good time parties,even your own tower of systems.Radically transform your income generation because it costs you nothing to get started while you still have a job.

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Cally Rao