We’ve been dancing around this issue for years, not wanting to believe it will happen, hoping it was just all a conspiracy theory but in this recent report, Simon Black gives the grim news.
Black writes:
Social Security’s various trust funds currently hold about $2.7 trillion in total assets; yet the government itself estimates the program’s liabilities to exceed $40 trillion.
In the 2015 report of the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees they state very plainly:
“Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected long-run program costs…”, and that the government should be “giving the public adequate time to prepare.”
Time to prepare? What does that mean for you and your family?
Pretty much, it’s time to take control of your future.
It doesn’t matter if you are twenty, thirty or sixty … Social Security should not be your plan for financial support when you retire.
The average monthly benefit for someone who starts taking Social Security at age 62 in 2014 is roughly $1,992 — not even enough to keep them above the federal poverty line. [full article here]
It was never designed to be a main income source, but according to the U.S. Social Security Administration, nearly one in five married retirees and one in two unmarried retirees say they rely on Social Security for the bulk of their income.
It is definitely time to do something to protect your future.
But what?
Create your own streams of income that are not dependent on the government or job security or 401ks or pensions.
I have always had a desire to begin yoga, knowing that it would be a great way to increase strength and flexibility as aged.
But, we have a different lifestyle. We live fulltime on the road, traveling, working, and living in our pickup camper. So, signing up for a yoga class wasn’t something we could do – we travel continuously.
So, when Bruce found the T5T yoga program, we found the perfect solution.
T5T stands for the 5 Tibetan Rites. Here’s the best explanation from the t5t site.
According to the Tibetan lamas, the only difference between youth and old age is the spin rate of the chakras (the body’s seven major energy centres).
…”The body has seven centres, which, in English, could be called Vortexes. These are kind of magnetic centres. They revolve at great speed in the healthy body, but when slowed down – well that is just another name for old age, ill-health, and senility.The quickest way to regain youth, health, and vitality is to start these energy centres spinning normally again. There are five simple exercises that will accomplish this. Any one of them alone is helpful, but all five are required to get the best results. These five exercises are not really exercises at all. The Lamas call them rites, and so that is how I shall refer to them, too”… Colonel Bradford – “Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth”
What benefits can you expect from doing the 5 Tibetan Rites?
A significant increase in energy – more the endurance type of energy as opposed to the revved up caffeine type of energy. You feel like you can keep going and going.
Feel calmer and less stressed – your buttons simply don’t get pushed as easily anymore.
Develop significant mental clarity with a razor sharp focus.
Feel stronger, more flexible and less stiff
Enjoy seeing muscles appear on your arms, stomachs, hips, legs and backs. Good for toning flabby arms and tightening the abdomen
Sleep better. Some people have more vivid dreams
Overall improvement in your health, don’t seem to catch colds etc as often
Helps with depression and anxiety – lifts mood and improves well-being
More centered and at peace
Improved self discipline and sense of purpose
Feel younger and more powerful
Improved breathing – deeper, slower & more conscious
Increased levels of Qi (chi, ki, prana, life-energy)
Better posture
Develops good core strength, which provides a strong foundation for any other form of exercise or modern living
Some people lose weight, most find it easier to control weight and desire healthier foods
Improved digestion and elimination
Helps with the transition and symptoms of menopause
Helps with the symptoms of menstruation
Improved libido
Obviously, the T5T yoga will benefit anyone at ANY age.
You can receive more information and order the program here.
I feel like we have found the fountain of youth with T5T yoga.
It’s simple to do and the instructions are so easy to follow … step by step.
That’s how we choose to do everything in life … keep it simple.
We simplified life by downsizing from a house and garage full of stuff.
We simplified our physical fitness pursuit by beginning T5T yoga.
We simplified our online business by eliminating programs and systems (and gurus) that took us on a path of confusion, overwhelm and no return on our investment of time and money.
We’ve learned that if causes stress, if it’s complex and complicated, we turn the other way and go back to simple.
Life is meant to be fun, fulfilling and fabulous.
Find your way to simple!
What does keeping it simple mean to you?
Trisha Sixty feeling thirty!
P.S. When you find something as fantastic as T5T you can’t help but share it with others. It’s the same with Simple Freedom – the system we use to fund our free lifestyle.
Our vision has always been simple and pure:
To give people everywhere a real shot at success in their own personal online business. To give them the best customer support ever. To treat them special in every way and to massively over deliver value. And to give them, finally, a simple, fun way to create cash flow online.
That’s the Simple Freedom Way and that’s what we focus on every day.
If you have any questions at all about us, our products, our training and our affiliate compensation program, I’m here for you. Just let me know. Find me on my Facebook here and simply post your question on my wall or send me a message or email.
My contact information is everywhere and I’d love to hear from you!
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? ― Mary Oliver
If you asked me that at age 8, my answer was, “to be Miss America!”
What about you? What did you used to imagine and dream of being?
Do you remember how it was when you were eight years old and you had the belief that you could be, do and have anything you wanted?
What happened … to our imagination, to our invincible, daring beliefs?
You got suckered in, that’s what happened.
Suckered in by other peoples’ beliefs, indoctrinations, manipulations, ideas and control.
Once you entered school you were bombarded with the message to go to college because that was the only way you would ever get a decent job.
And then reality hit. It’s hitting even harder now to the younger generation.
The reality that a piece of paper that cost you thousands of dollars (which you will pay for the rest of your life) is not a guarantee that you will be paid what you are worth.
In fact, you may be a college graduate working at McDonalds because that’s the only job you can get right now.
If you are of my generation, the Baby Boomers, you may have secured that fantastic job and worked your way up for two or three decades when reality hit. When you got the pink slip because the company was downsizing.
Sometimes, we think about what we would have done differently – if we knew then what we know now.
I’m pretty sure there are many who would have skipped the college loans.
It’s a HUGE elephant in the room!
So now what? The elephant in the room is HUGE. Call it the matrix, call it corporate, call it the way of the sheeple … whatever you call it, it’s enormous.
It’s so gigantic that there’s hardly any room to move. You have to watch your back all the time because one move and you could be squashed. To survive being in this room with the monster elephant, you have to learn to move with the crowd, follow the pattern, stay in line.
There will be times you feel like you can’t breathe. Some days, others will push you out of the way so they can get to a better spot in the room.
You’ve got two choices now.
1. You can stay in the room with the elephant and learn to cope with the cramped and stifling space you are in, OR
2. You can find a way out.
There is a better way to live your one wild and precious life.
It’s to live it on your own terms, by your own design, where everything that you do adds increase. Increase into your own life and also into the lives of others.
It’s becoming a network marketer, being your own boss, working online to create your freedom.
In this video, Eric Worre gives compelling reasons why Network Marketing is the better way:
I got away from the elephant two years ago. It wasn’t because the job was an awful job or that my boss was horrendous. It was because the call to be and do and have more was never silent.
I had a choice … survive or THRIVE.
Has it been easy? Not at all. There have been times I hit a wall and felt like nothing was going to work.
There have been times of extreme success and also times of falling back down. Times of drought and times of bounty.
There have been leaders who misguided and companies who closed their doors.
Has it been worth it?
Oh, hell yes! Every single bit of it.
All the experiences were stepping stones to more. More growth, more confidence, more lessons.
That little eight year old who wanted to be Miss America is now more alive and more fulfilled than ever before.
If there is a spark of desire in your heart to break free from that dang ol’ elephant … just do it.
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
I’ll keep asking you that question … until you find your answer.
With all the opportunities available, you will find one that resonates with you. You’ll find someone to work with who shares your vision, who believes in you, who walks beside you on this powerful journey.
Maybe that will be me. Maybe not. Doesn’t matter who it is who helps you. All that matters is that you get started now.
Freedom feels like riding a wave, dancing in clouds. It feels like floating on air and walking on water.
Get out of that room. Breathe in the fresh air of freedom. Take control of your life.
I believe in you. Others do, too.
what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
P.S. Can’t leave without offering you the opportunity to work directly with the Naked Hippies. That is, IF you are feeling the tug to break away and start something.
You’re never too old or too young to step into your greatest self and live your dream.
I found this amazing list of accomplishments by people of all ages when I was searching for quotes about the limits we place on life.
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and 49 years old when he wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote “The Cat in the Hat”
40) Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
47) At the age of 89, Doris Haddock began walking the 3,200 miles between Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to raise awareness for the issue of campaign finance reform. She did it in 14 months, walking ten miles a day.
48) Trisha Barnes was 58 when she and her husband took off in their pickup camper to live, work and travel the country on the never-ending Naked Hippies Roadtrip.
It’s no longer an excuse … old or young, you can do anything you set your heart and mind to accomplish.
The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
~ Unknown
One of the greatest joys I have is working directly with people of all ages. The young ones give me hope that there are great changes coming from their generation. The older ones inspire me to fill my days doing what I love with energy and vigor.
You’re never too old or too young to live your dream.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.
― Jordan Belfort
What about you? What is it that is calling you to step into more life, more YOU?
P.S. We live the Freedom Lifestyle. We can work from anywhere we choose to be. We can be across the country visiting friends and family, walking on the beach, climbing the red rocks in Sedona, or parked in a campground. And we can still work ON our business. This business does not require me to punch a clock, sit in commuter traffic wasting hours we could be spending together, waking up at some crazy hour just to make it to work. We get to work with people we choose to work with, whose company we enjoy. We are the CEOs of us – the Naked Hippies!
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