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| Salvidor Dali at The Moma |
Good morning. Today begins the mid-year point of 2015. This
is a great time to review your 2015 goals list. It’s easy to get off track as
days, weeks, and months move quickly. If you are checking things off your list
that are done, great.
If you haven’t checked anything off its time to stop
right where you are today and re-do the list. Something is wrong, but it’s a
perfect time to fix things. December 2015 will be here before you know it and
if you are in the same position as you were December 2014 you are doing
something wrong, or you aren’t doing anything.
You also may need to evaluate if
you actually want the goals and objectives that you set. You must keep your
original “why,” in front of you. This is the reason you said you would become
financially and personally better. This is for you and your family’s future.
This is so that you don’t spend your golden years in poverty relying on your
friends, family and the federal government to get by. We recently visited with
our great aunt Kitty who turned 94 on May 28, 2015.
The joy and amazement that we
experienced was mind blowing. She has her own apartment in a senior citizens
building. She lives alone, happily and by choice, she made that clear. Her
daughter is still living and is an only child. Her place was immaculate. It was
large, bright and airy. She had white furniture with white wall to wall carpet.
One funny thing she told us was that she doesn’t take baths. She takes showers,
because she got in the tub a few years back and it took her hours to get out,
the water got cold and she had to use her feet to warm her water up. This was
too funny. Her building does have 24 hour front desk, but the alarms are by the
toilet and by her bed.
She still cooks and had an extra stand-alone freezer full of
food. She said, “I cook because I have to eat and I’m alive, so I cook every day.”
She has an active social life and is very involved in her community and her
church. We were very impressed to say the least. There was more, but we’ll save
that for our interview we plan to do.
The point is she created a plan. It’s
2015, she’s made it to her 94th birthday and she is thriving. Money
makes life easier. She takes care of herself with her own money. She has been
retired from a local Air force Base, as an RN since around 1972. That’s forty-three years that she has maintained and
plans to continue to live several more years. Her father lived to be 99.
This could be your story. This is not the typical story of
most seniors in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, or their 90’s. How different is the
story for the average American senior citizen? Very.
This is why you must
figure out your “why.” Then focus in on creating the wealth that is necessary for
you and your family to live a life that is fulfilling and joyous without always
having money as an issue, which stops most people from retiring at an age that
they can enjoy their fruits of their labor and when they finally do they are so
worn and have worried themselves into poor health and a small amount of money
to barely survive on for their golden years.
Next post we will be back on task with the next step in
marketing. What do you do?
Final thoughts on living your golden years financially free
- You must stay on task for your larger objectives to be completed, time is not on our side.
- You must become of more value to attract an abundant life to you and your family.
- You must know that you are valuable and what makes you so.
- You must not have fear of sharing your value with others in a meaningful way.
D.S. Woodard
Salvidor Dali at the Moma
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