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1 year ago today I watched my mom take her last breath after spending the last 15 hours of her life with her at her hospital bedside over night.

Today, the first anniversary of her ascendance into heaven, we are finally having her celebration of life memorial day.

She passed from covid-19 like over 630,000 in the US alone, so far.

1 year ago today my mom reunited with my dad. She stopped suffering in the many ways she had been both physically and emotionally.

We could not get together until now because of covid transmission reality. It’s strange to not have a service shortly after the passing of a loved one. The closure is needed. Somehow I did find closure in keeping myself very busy throughout the year. You can see all the content I’ve shared on my website with my music creations, videos, writings, lots of overall creativity and massive amounts of content that will be available forever on my website and youtube channel. You can find those links in my bio area.

To go from watching my mom take her last breath to returning right back to life as if nothing happened is the most disorienting thing I’ve ever experienced. No funeral, no services of any kind, no get togethers with family etc.. This is the first I’ve seen any family, other than my brother who lives here in town, since before the pandemic.

Yesterday my family came into town from long distances. We all got together for dinner. Seeing any family at all for the first time since my mothers passing, since before the pandemic, was much needed. It’s hard to believe in the wake of losing someone close to me to death I had zero family experiences for a full year. It’s difficult to imagine that. But, I lived it.

Later today is my moms memorial celebration of life. It starts at the cemetery then on to the funeral home. The focus is celebration, visiting, supporting, being there for each other after long isolation, sharing stories, and honoring my moms life. There will be very little formalities. My mom would want everyone to be happy and to be here for each other; the living.

I miss you mom. I pause and cry from time to time. I miss you and dad more than anything I could ever possibly miss in this world. It hurts but I know I will see you again. I’m tearing up as I type this, but this is wonderful therapy for me because it’s for me and anyone else who reads this.

Tom

Bad things are GOOD.

It gives you something to respond to so you can propel forward.

If you’re poor, change your response to a system that has robbed you and you can become wealthy.

When I was poor I blamed my boss for off shoring my job to India. My boss was responsible for offshoring my job to India but by boss was not responsible for the fact I suddenly had no livelihood.

Up to that point I had done nothing to start building my own residual income. That was on me, not my bovine former boss.

Some of you won’t change the language you tell yourself til after you’re successful, then you’ll change.

That’s like a farmer saying, “I’ll sew seed after I have a harvest”.

How dumb is that?

Change the language in your head first then you can be successful.

The farmer has to sew seed first before a harvest is possible.

You’re not poor because you’ve been robbed by a society that’s made it perfectly legal to perpetually steal from you. You’re poor because your response to legalized theft has kept you poor.

It begins with changing the language you tell yourself.

When I stopped blaming my sudden loss of income I became powerful over my own destiny in that instant because it opened my mind to a rich and creative mind on the hunt for solutions to my problems.

You might be a busy hard working ethical individual but you’ve been lazy in re-programming your mind from an excuse making one into a rich and creative mind on the hunt for solutions.

In a strange twist of irony the hardest working people are often the laziest people with one excuse after another; preventing them from solving problems; keeping themselves poor.

It’s nothing to demonize, but, if this realization gives someone a swift kick in the mental be-hind to shift into a rich and creative solution oriented mind then that’s pretty awesome.

If you’re takeaway from this is to be offended then you’re proving my point with laziness no matter how hard working you are.

Draw a line in the sand and jump over with both feet.

Recognize your power is a sleeping giant waiting to be awakened.

That sleeping giant you can wake up simply by changing the language you tell yourself.

It’s not about what’s happened to you.

It’s about how you respond to what happens to you that determines if you’re just another turd in the herd of obedient workers perpetually being stolen from or if you’re going to finally propel forward.

You can do it <3

I created Change Makers for solution oriented people who want to live a healthy chemical free life and make better money.

Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Hard workers are producing more than ever in our history while becoming poorer than ever in our history.

The harder Americans work the poorer they become.

Poverty is a habit.

Inheriting a fortune is not a habit.

Building wealth is a habit.

A small segment of heirs to a fortune are robbing poor people blind.

They inherit a fortune they did not create to take a small percentage of to legally bribe our elected politicians to rob the poor and the middle through our public treasury.

If you’re waiting for those external forces to do the right thing so that you can be better off then you are screwing yourself over with their help.

You have no power over them and the circumstances they’ve created for you.

When you place your energy where your power is, that is, how you respond to everything, you begin to take control of your destiny.

Be curious and eager to get out of your own head and learn something new outside of what you already know.

Be consistent about what you learn.

Now your potential has shifted from limited to unlimited.

Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Are you better or worse off from the pandemic?

Have you taken advantage of opportunities a pandemic offers NOT at the expense of others or have you been taken advantage of?

Have you done anything to build residual income to protect you and your family or have you been pushed around by unfair circumstances?

Are you more healthy and financially free or are you less healthy and less financially free?

Are you taking action towards your dreams or are you procrastinating closer toward poverty?

Find out how most people responded to the pandemic, do the exact opposite, and you’ll be unusually successful.

Instead of changing your circumstances learn how to respond to your circumstances so you can arrive at a destination of your choosing.

Instead of taking offense over this post become inspired by this post to draw a line in the sand to jump over with BOTH feet.

Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Are you prepared to grow?

As you GROW to create your wonderful life be prepared..

There will be people who feel your growth makes them look small.

Secretly there will be some people wishing you to fail so they feel comfortable playing small with their own lives.

They will smile in your face pretending to love you.

They will come around when their down and vanish when they’re back up again.

Some will hate how others love you and be disgusted at how some are influenced by you.

Some will be more honest and tell you to your face you are toxic positivity.

Some will support you, pretend support you, bash you to your face, bash you behind your back while loving you to your face; it will never end. Some will even try to get others to turn on you and some of them will be successful at getting others to hate you, too.

Are you ready for this or will it break you and cause you to shrink back into playing small so they are comfortable with you again?

You’re going to be stretched on both ends and it’s gonna be necessary to give you the emotional maturity and humility you will need to sustainably grow into who you desire to become.

Few will grow while most will only sit back on the sidelines to witness growth in the few.

Most will take their dreams to their grave while few will give their dreams life.

Embrace losing some people in your life for the net gain of growth in yourself and the new people you will connect with.

The question you have to ask yourself is this…

Are your dreams big enough to grow you or small enough to shrink you?

You’ll always be pulled by your dreams or pushed around like a rag doll flailing in the wind by your circumstances.

Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Sometimes it’s better to release whatever it is we think we know and instead look at results or lack of results.

This philosophical refinement can change the course of the rest of your life as it did for me.

This video I’m going to use the example of money because money is easily measured because all of us know how to count money.

Poor people are not lazy, they have just messed up with money and we’ve all got multiple somethings we’ve messed up.

Rich people are not automatically hard workers they are divided up between hard workers and extremely lazy.

The segment of the rich who are lazy are lazy because they’ve inherited their Fortune then used a small percentage of it to legally bribe our politicians to Rob poor people of their money through the public treasury while they sit on their lazy butts. So let’s just recognize that sad, unfair, and morally bankrupt reality right off the bat.

This country desperately needs a public policy that does not allow companies to render their workers too poor to live.

We have no control over that set of circumstances so instead let us focus our energy where our power actually is, that is, how we respond to our countries morally bankrupt unfair public policy.

Earlier I said poor people are not lazy they just messed up with money. It’s either a budgeting problem, an earnings problem, or a combination of both budgeting and earnings.

It’s not judging or demonizing to point out and recognize mistakes. We all make mistakes it’s part of Being Human. Unfortunately many of us don’t recognize our mistakes therefore we trap ourselves and that is an inside job.

The solution is also an inside job.

If you’re broke struggling to make ends meet you have to recognize you’ve messed up with money and love yourself unconditionally because this is about finding Solutions not self-loathing or demonizing.

Do you make plenty of money, a little money, no money, but you have a spending problem? If so, is it worthwhile for you to figure out how to earn more money so you can fund how the lifestyle you love?

In my opinion it’s better to grow your bank account to fund your dreams rather than shrink your dreams to to match your income.

Mainstream advice will tell you to shrink your dreams and live below your means.

There are two problems with this. One, it will kill your human spirit and two, that shuts off your brain from a rich and creative process to solve problems; making it easier to become mentally lazy and find excuses.

If you commit yourself to Growing your income you begin to unleash the power of your human brain to search and find solutions to earning more money to fund your dreams.

Typically if you listen to what most people are telling you and run the opposite direction you will be unusually successful, remember that.

The next time someone tells you to shrink your dreams and live below your means, be polite but use that as fuel to motivate the living daylights out of yourself to prove them wrong.

Don’t live below your means, expand your means and live the best one and only life you’re ever going to get. Unleash the power of your mind to a rich and creative problem solving one and you can grow your means to fund your dreams.

Doesn’t that sound like more fun than shrinking your dreams to match your stagnate income?

I thought so.

You’re probably not going to be able to change circumstances you cannot control so place your energy where your power is, that is, refining your personal philosophy to how you respond to your circumstances as stepping stones forward.

For me that meant getting into a side health and fitness gig that pays me residual money which made my job optional. Residual money made my job optional.

Residual money.

Learn residual money.

Make your job optional and open up your own options in life.

Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Good things come to those who do not wait.

Waiting around is how you get left behind.

Poor people are not lazy and rich people are not automatically hard workers.

Procrastination is the cornerstone of all poverties not just financial poverty.

Hard workers without personal philosophy refinement can work multiple jobs and still struggle to make ends meet.

Work hard refining your personal philosophies and you can multiply your income while working less not more; giving you more options in life.

A fragment at the top is robbing busy workers blind.

Busy workers are surrounded by people telling them there is nothing they can do because of circumstances they cannot control.

That advice is death, reject it one billion percent.

Your power is not on what you cannot control.

Your power is on how you respond to what you cannot control.

Follow through with correction and re-correction in perpetuity; there will be no stopping you.

Now you’re at the very beginning of unleashing the power of your mind to a rich and creative one from a poor and lazy one.

You’ve been working hard at your job but you’ve been lazy on refining your personal philosophies.

Bring your hard work ethic into a better personal philosophy and there will be no set of uncontrollable circumstances you cannot get ahead of.

When I was income-less, jobless, and out of unemployment benefits I was presented a residual income opportunity in a health and fitness.

The old me would have said, “I’m income-less, jobless, and I ran out of unemployment. I can’t afford this start up cost so I’m not going to do it”.

The new me said, “I’m income-less, jobless, and I ran out of unemployment. I can’t afford NOT to get started”.

This paradigm shift from an inferior personal philosophy to a better personal philosophy was the key to the very beginnings of unleashing my own power. It forced me to get creative so I could sign up and get started.

From that experience I came up with 31 ways to raise money without having any.

Since then I’ve published that on my website for anyone else to use.

If I stayed with the same mentally lazy philosophy that kept me back I would not have been creative enough to come up with so many ways of raising the money I needed to get started.

My job being off-shored was no fault of my own but it did not have to define my financial life anymore.

If you are co-dependent on your job to take care of you financially it’s because of your personal philosophy.

If you wish to, you can upgrade your philosophy and go on a beautiful transition to making your job optional, thereby drastically improving your options in life.

If something happens to your job at no fault of your own and you have no residual money to cover your living expenses it’s because you’ve failed to upgrade your personal philosophy to a better one.

Your job disappearing is no fault of your own but your decision not to do anything about it is an inside job. The solution is also an inside job. That’s where your power is, if you’ll unleash your power.

The same logic applies to your health, relationships, life, etc. Personal philosophy is not just for how you secure your livelihood.

When it comes to poverty there should be a two prong approach in my opinion. 1.) New public policy that does not allow companies to render their workers to poor to live and 2.) personal responsibility for you to work hard on refining your personal philosophy.

Public policy you have no control over. Personal responsibility on refining your personal philosophy you have 100% control over. Put your energy where your power is if you want better options in life.

The next time someone tells you there is nothing you can do because of circumstances, use that as fuel for your own motivation, and go out there to prove them wrong.

Live a healthy chemical free life, make your job optional, support and love each other, and LIVE free.

Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Real Passive Income Opportunities with little or no money

Real passive income opportunities. They are out there! I’ve taken advantage of some of them and I’m going to share with you some of them that I have and have not experienced myself. Passive income is money that pays you regardless of how you spend your time, essentially decoupling your income away from your time so you can spend your time doing what you want and be covered financially. My end goal with this video is for you to walk away after watching this video to its completion with some new ideas on how you can see yourself creating your first stream of passive income, or if you’ve already got some passive income, then my goal is for you to gain some new ideas on how you can create more passive income. So let’s get started!

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A real passive income opportunity requires some up front work before it can even have the potential to pay you for the rest of your life. This is where most people will lose interest because let’s face it, we are culturally conditioned to automatically get paid based on the time we’ve put into our work. Show up get paid. Show up get paid. Show up get paid. The proverbial hamster you’ll never get ahead. You’ll never have freedom of your time this way. It takes time to undo a life time of bad conditioning. But if you’re willing to undo that bad conditioning in your mind you can re train your brain to show up and don’t get paid. Show up and still don’t get paid. Show up get paid. Don’t show up, still get paid. Wow what happened? Passive money is starting to kick in. It’s slow at first but keep showing up! Commit to that up front investment of your time to keep building up your passive income to the point of it covering ALL of your expenses both necessity and luxury. Maybe at that point you can pull back half throttle. Maybe take a couple weeks off to travel and vacation and watch how you’re still getting paid even while vacationing and rejuvenating.

Now that you are prepped and well aware that this takes consistent action over a period of time upfront before you’re likely to see a dime of passive income, you are ready to get started on your journey of attaining time freedom that only passive income can give you.

You could buy a traditional business like a microsoft or an amazon that’s already set up, has established business, and is for sale provided you have millions or billions of dollars to make the purchase. Obviously this is something only available to a very small percentile of the population so this is not going to work as a starting place for almost all of us so I won’t spend any more time on that in this video, except to say there is no reason you can’t start where you’re at no matter what and build from there to the point of having the option of purchasing a business that already has the positive passive cash-flow built in for you. When you do build and build and you get to that point where you can buy an established profitable business, if you want to keep the income passive, hire managers to run the business for you. You can have the vision for what you want to business to be and hire managers to carry out and execute that vision for you.

So moving right along..

Royalty checks! That’s passive income. For this you’d have to be super famous like michael jordan, madonna, an ex president, everybody knows your name and already spends money on through other merchandise and things like that. You could write a book and give distribution rights to various entities who would agree to give you a certain cut per each book that is sold. Effectively others would be selling your book for you and just sending you royalty checks making this a passive form of income. Since this is not available for the overwhelming majority of the population let’s move on, but still, let this idea of royalties soak into your brain because as you build your passive income up from zero to however big you’d like, you will gain new options that may not be available yet to you right now.

Real estate! specifically investor and owner of rental properties. Now this is one that I personally got into! I was spring boarded into being able to do real estate from another passive income opportunity that I will get into next. Real estate is available to far more people that royalties or big business purchase, but still not available for a large plurality of the country who lives paycheck to paycheck as it is. Depending on that area of the country you live in a down payment just to get your foot in the door on your first property could range anywhere from twenty thousand dollars to a million dollars. Let’s pick a realistic average just for this example, say fifty thousand dollar down payment on a property. The minimum down payment on a non owner occupied property is twenty five percent, with seventy five percent being financed. A two hundred thousand dollar purchase price would require a fifty thousand dollar down payment. The property is going to come with operational costs as well as mortgage principal and interest. You also have property taxes, insurance, maintenance, cleaning, repairs, it’s a huge expense to own a rental property. Your net profit or loss after property income minus expenses is going to roughly one hundred fifty to two hundred dollars per month of income on a fifty thousand dollar down payment. Just to get your foot in the door with a fifty thousand dollar down payment is going to give you a return of one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars per month! You need to keep buying rental properties to keep increasing your passive income . For most people this would take so many years to do that it wouldn’t be worth it because you’d probably have passed on from old age before you became financially free with your new found time freedom anyway. All you have to do to make rental property income passive is hire a great property manager. I hired a management company. They are AWESOME! I’ve never met any of my tenants, my management company literally does everything for me so I have all my time to myself to do other things.

Youtube creator! This is certainly available to everyone because it does not cost any money. But, where it’s free financially, it’s most likely going to have to be made up for by taking you more time to do with more consistency. But it’s worth it! This is another passive income stream I am enjoying and is a recent development for me. I just love getting passive money from something that I really love doing. For a while I did not even know youtube was paying me because I was creating all these videos out of an innate joy I have for creating them. To make passive money with youtube first you have to create a google adsense account, reach a thousand subscribers, and have a minimum total of four thousand view time hours across your whole channel. Once you’ve met this criteria, you are eligible to start monetizing your videos.

Network Marketing! This is another passive income opportunity I have experience in and this is actually my first passive income opportunity. Staying true to form of passive income a network marketing business takes an upfront investment of time, and unlike being a youtube creator this does take a very tiny upfront financial investment. The cost is so minimal most if not all people can do this one. First you’d want to find a good product and a good company that you can get behind and support. From there it’s just a matter of a small financial investment and a true love for learning something new. Unlike traditional business, network marketing is far less of a financial investment with an enormous upside potential. Best risk to reward ratio is a hallmark of a good network marketing opportunity. Because network marketing offers both passive and residual money simultaneously, you have the potential of explosive growth here. Once you’ve embraced learning and doing something new on a daily bases to build your network marketing business you will emerge at some future point with passive and residual money from your new network marketing business.

Once I get my network marketing business going and I started making really nice money I saved every penny of it that I could and eventually used that first passive income stream to buy another passive income stream, that is, my first rental property! And my second one.. And third.. And so on! The network marketing gig was the key ingredient to making it all work. For me here is how this all relates to each other. It’s important you begin to visualize how this could positively affect you. First I got the network marketing business going because I couldn’t afford anything else at the time so I got started where I was at with my life and decided early on that I would keep building and growing as a person to be able to do all this stuff. Once I began doing well financially in the first business I decided I would put as much of that network marketing income toward my new rental property business. Now I have two passive income streams, one feeding the other, and eventually a third I will talk about now. My youtube videos don’t cost any money unless you don’t already have a good camera and a tripod then you’d need to invest in a good camera and tripod. It does take a lot of time to get it going. If you don’t have freedom of time it’s going to make it take so much longer! My first two passive income streams give me freedom of time. The network marketing business by itself gave me freedom of time so I just use as much of that money as I can, after affording all my living and luxury expenses, to effectively buy more passive income with my rental property business. So after I earned my freedom of time I started taking youtube very seriously and dedicating my free time toward that. Through lots of embracing the new learning of how to be a great youtube creator I create youtube videos that hopefully people will want to watch. When I put a new youtube video on my channel, and if it does well, that one video will continue to pay me passive money for a long time into the future. Each youtube video that I put onto my channel has the POSSIBILITY of doing well and continuously paying me long after I created that particular video only once. The more successful youtube videos I put onto my channel the more I add to my passive income from youtube. It might take me a lot of videos til I create that once and a while video that does exceptionally well, but each time I create a new video that does exceptionally well it’s just one effort that pays me potentially for the rest of my life even if I never make another youtube video again. I will keep making more youtube videos about matters I love talking about anyway, and once and a while I will have a great performing video that adds to my passive income.

So from my example I hope you can see how everything relates to everything. I hope you made the note about how I got started with little money in the first passive income stream and built my way up step by step from there. Truth be told I actually started with ZERO money. I put that initial investment on my credit card then got myself to work immediately so I’d be able to pay off that small credit card charge next month. I never missed a credit card payment! I hope more than anything you’ve got some ideas on how you can get started from where ever your starting point is. Getting started so you can have that initial experience is going to be so valuable for you in terms of the feedback that only experience can provide for you. Visualize how after you get your first passive income stream going, how you can use that to spring board you into another passive income opportunity spring boarded by the first one, and keep building step by step from their.

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Take care, I will be creating my next video very, very soon for you.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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If You’re Doing Cardio, Are You Burning Calories From Fat?

It depends!

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AS I was saying, does cardio burn calories from fat? Depending on the type of cardio you’re doing it does or it doesn’t. Are you doing aerobic or anaerobic cardio exercise? Aerobic cardio burns calories from blood sugar. Anaerobic cardio exercise burns calories from both blood sugar and from fat. In fact, anaerobic exercise has a post caloric burn affect that lasts residually for up to about 48 hours after your anaerobic workout has ended. Residual is awesome whether you’re talking about money or your health.

Aerobic vs. anaerobic in it’s simplest form is with oxygen verses without oxygen. If something is aerobic it is with oxygen. If something is anaerobic it is without oxygen. This doesn’t mean if you want to burn calories from fat you stop breathing during your workout! No! Don’t do that! Always breath especially when you’re working and and even more so when you’re anaerobically working out! If you hold your breath you will turn blue in the face until you pass out. In the context of exercise, aerobic, with oxygen, means you’re bodies system of delivering oxygen is capable of keeping up with the demand your working cells are creating for that oxygen. Anaerobic exercise means your working cells are working so hard that the body can no longer keep up with it’s delivery of oxygen to sustain that level of intensity which means you will reach momentary muscular failure typically anywhere within 30 seconds to 3 minutes maximum. And that is a great simple way to determine if you are working out aerobically or anaerobically. That is, is the exercise at the intensity you’re doing right now something you can psychically do for more or less than three minutes before you physically cannot continue without lessening the intensity or taking a break? If you physically cannot continue after say 30 seconds, a minute, a minute and a half, a couple minutes, you’re most likely working anaerobically and burning calories from both blood sugar and fat. If you can physically continue after 3 minutes you are definitely working aerobically, burning calories from blood sugar.

Some examples of aerobic exercises are slower paced ones like jogging, endurance cycling, cross country skiing, dance etc. Some examples of anaerobic exercises are fast paced, maybe more explosive in nature, like sprinting, power cycling, high intensity interval training, lifting heavy weights, jump training, stuff like that.

Some of the health benefits to anaerobically working out include not only weight loss but weight management because of the muscle toning involved in addition to the caloric burn from both blood sugar and fat, lowers blood pressure, reduces daily fatigue, activates and strengthens immune system, reduces risk of heart attack or stroke, strengthens your heart muscle, strengthens your lungs, strengthens all of your bodies delivery systems of nutrients including all your metabolic processes, strengthens the functionality of your pancreas which controls your blood sugar which in turn staves off diabetes and possible amputations, strengthens a healthy endocrine system which regulates the bodies ability to secrete healthy hormone levels, keeps you feeling young, enhances mobility, staves of Alzheimer and dementia, and on and on.

I should also mention anaerobic exercise also has the potential of putting Viagra out of business!

You can YouTube and google research the intensive health benefits all day long from anaerobic exercise it really is amazing if we just learn it and do it.

Speaking of doing it… Here is my note of caution. Two notes really. My first note is to remind you I’m not a doctor, I’m a lay person online giving you general information not specific to anybody. Do your own due diligence, research, take responsibility for your own safety.

My second note of caution is this.. If you’re not already in shape and well conditioned, anaerobic exercise could harm you. It could possibly even kill you with a sudden heart attack or stroke if you’re doing too much too soon. Risk stratification is important and should be done with a health care professional especially if you are older and or have any underlying health conditions.

That doesn’t mean you don’t get started. Only a true quitter will watch this video and conclude that quitting is the way to go. LOSER! Don’t be a loser errr I mean a quitter… Start safely from where you are and grow from there. You can build up to anaerobic condition just simply by doing a little bit each day. The mighty oak tree started as just a wimpy little seedling. Let nature teach you. You can also learn a lot just from paying attention to and really listening to your own body. That requires ego to be checked at the door at all times when you enter your workout headspace. Challenge yourself. That doesn’t mean you take it easy. You challenge yourself from what is appropriate and safe, and as you show up each and every day with that mindset, you will get better and feel stronger over time and that will motivate you to keep going and upping the ante.

On that positive note of encouragement and valuable information please don’t neglect that like button and subscribing to my channel. That really helps me out a lot with the algorithms so my content is shown to more people. If there is something you’d like to see me talk about more feel free to drop your comments. I read all of them.

-Tom

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Cheese-less Mac and Cheese Easy To Make and Healthy



Cheese-less cheese sauce Ingredients:

– 1 cup raw cashews soaked in 1 cup of water
– 1 – 3 cloves of raw garlic
– 1/2 tbs black pepper (in the video I said I’m using 1/2 tsp. I’m using 1/2 tbs.)
– 1/2 tsp turmeric
– 1/2 tbs cayenne pepper optional (in the video I said I’m using 1/2 tsp. I’m using 1/2 tbs.)
– 1 or 2 squirts of organic mustard (maybe 1/2 tbs)
– 1/2 tsp ginger
– Nutritional yeast; a few dashes or so
– 1/2 tbs smoked paprika


Directions:

Start your noodles of choice boiling in a pan. While your noodles are going, add all ingredients to your blender container for blending. All of the herbs and spices you can add to taste. Blend to a creamy melted cheese like consistency. Add small amounts of water as needed to get the desired texture and thickness of the sauce. Pour over steamy hot noodles and enjoy <3

-Tom

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Kenosha Riots

As someone who LIVES in #Kenosha witnessing the violence the world is focused on right now, I need to share with you the BIGGEST mistake outlets are making in covering this and how it’s causing more perpetual violence instead of less..

There is a polar opposite difference between peaceful protestors whom we love, and violent agitators who take us 10 steps backwards on our mission.

When an individual is violent toward innocent people and their property they make it less possible for justice and systemic change.

The media and political figures are missing this point and it’s too important to over look. We want meaningful productive protest for justice and systemic change. The violent agitators are NOT part of the protests.

Having been a Kenosha resident for 30 years, and counting, and being present in the moment, I’m seeing the damage caused to innocent people and their property first hand by people who have nothing to do with black lives matter or any legitimate protests.

It’s BEYOND IMPORTANT everyone in our country recognize the difference between protestors for change, and violent agitators harming innocent people.

Push back against ANY and ALL outlets and narratives that use phrases like, “Violent Protestors” or “Protests turning violent” because if enough people buy into this gross narrative of equating protestors to violent agitators then we will never evolve and the violent ones will win.

Please share this. We need to get this CORRECT messaging out there and END the violence.

#kenoshastrong
#BlackLivesMatterMovement
#blacklivesmatter
#blm
#lovekenosha

Moroccan Lentil Soup Warms the Soul and the Tummy

This is what I call healthy medicinal therapeutic comfort food <3   You can toss out the traditional comfort food that causes health and wealth problems for a better quality comfort food that minimizes the chance of developing a chronic illness or a medical blow to your finances.

Ingredients:
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped or sliced carrots
1 cup chopped or sliced celery stalks with the greens left on
2-4 bulbs of garlic minced, pressed, or finely chopped or sliced
2-3 tsp of turmeric
1-3 tsp of black pepper
3-4 tsp of ginger
2 tsp of cumin
2-4 tsp of smoked paprika
1-2 tsp of cinnamon
2 cups red lentils
-optional 1 cup plant based milk or 1 can of coconut milk with whole fat
-optional 2 chopped medium tomato or quarter cup tomato paste
Juice of one small lemon or half of a large lemon
-optional a couple fist fulls of spinach

Directions:
Add minimal amount of Avocado oil, coconut oil, or grapeseed oil to bottom of stock pot pan and bring to medium heat.  Add onions, carrots, celery, and garlic.  Saute for a couple minutes, or so, til slightly translucent.

Lower heat to a low heat.  Add turmeric, black pepper, ginger, cumin, smoked paprika, and cinnamon.  Stir for a minute.

Add 1 cup of water.  Stir for a second.  Add lentils and let cook for a couple minutes without sticking to the bottom.  Add four more cups of water, stir, add optional tomato or tomato paste and keep stirring, raise heat to a med/low heat stirring for another minute.  Cover and reduce heat to a low heat for approx 15 – 20 minutes until lentils are soft.

Turn heat off and stir in plant based milk or can of coconut milk, lemon, optional spinach, and stir til the spinach has wilted.

Now the BEST part… Serve and ENJOY!  <3

-Tom

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Easy Red Lentil Coconut Indian Dahl

My personal favorite comfort food that warms your whole body, soothes your gut, makes your taste buds dance, and guilt free enjoyable because it’s crazy medicinal!  <3 <3 <3

Ingredients:
2 cups red lentils
1 tablespoon coconut oil
2 large onions, chopped or diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons ginger, grated or minced (fresh, frozen or paste)
1 tablespoon curry powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
4 medium ripe tomatoes, finally chopped or pureed
1 can coconut milk (full-fat)
1 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander

optional for more heat, spice, and flavor:
optional 1/2 teaspoon salt pink himalayan salt
optional teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
optional teaspoon black pepper, or to taste
optional more curry powder and crushed red pepper to taste

Directions:
Add 2 cups in its own saucepan with 4 cups of water on a high heat.  When water starts simmering turn down heat so it doesn’t boil over.  Stir once every other minute or so, or as frequent as needed to keep things moving and from sticking. Simmer until lentils are soft, this could take about 20 minutes or so.

While the lentils are cooking…

Heat oil in a large skillet or stock pot over a medium heat.  Once oil is warm, add onions over medium heat and saute until lightly golden for approximately 4-6 minutes.

Lower heat and add garlic and ginger.  Saute for half minute to a full minute until it becomes fragrant.

Add curry powder, cumin, and crushed red pepper.  Saute for a half minute until fragrant on low heat.

Add tomatoes. Still on a low heat, cook for only a minute or two while stirring to prevent sticking and burning.  Bring the heat down even more if needed.

Add coconut milk and cooked red lentils.  Stir thoroughly to mix.  Keep heat low and keep stirring for a minute or two.

Add optional ingredients, stir in, and let sit for a few minutes to thicken up.

Serve and intensely enjoy this tasty medicinal healthy dish <3

-Tom

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Facebook blocked me from grieving the loss of my sweet mom on their platform with all of you for the past three days :(

Everyone has showered me with love and support except for one person. What would you do, if anything? Comment below after reading the rest please I need your feedback I’m not sure what to do.

Posting open letters to my amazing mom to my Facebook so we can all love and support each other was a meaningful part of my therapy for the loss of my mom.

One individual, we have lots of the same friends here in Kenosha, harshly layed into me for being a self centered narcissist going out in public trying to get people sick with the virus.

I commented back saying, no it’s all cool I am healed and I was cleared to remove myself from isolation by a professional health care worker!

Instead of being grateful I didn’t pass away and welcoming me back out into the world she double downed with, you’re lying you’re trying to get people killed you still have the virus etc just laying into me very heavy.

At this point I said, you’re starting to act like a lun a tic impervious to new information. I don’t know who this new mean person is you’ve become but if you can reclaim the sweet person I knew a few years ago that would be awesome.

She reported that particular comment to Facebook for bullying and harassing her. Last Sunday morning I go to share something on my Facebook and I get the pop up from Facebook that says I’m blocked from commenting and posting for three days for bullying and harassing, next violation will get me blocked for 7 days.

I clicked to see which comment this was for because I couldn’t believe I had done anything resembling bullying and harassing, it had to be a mistake.

I’m guessing a computer reviewed my comment and flagged me for the “acting like a lu n atic” part. I clicked to dispute it in disagreement with their decision. A split second later they reviewed it, obviously done by a computer again instead of a human being, and they stood by their decision to block me for three days for bullying and harassing.

So for the past three days a sick, callous, cold hearted individual person was given power by Facebook to cause harm to another individual who just lost his mother to covid and survived the same virus himself.

The one viciously and falsely attacking the other who just lost his mother and survived a deadly virus is ok she was not doing the bullying or harassing. It’s the one receiving the vicious attacks who did the bullying and attacking. The one who just lost his sweet mom and survived the same virus is the one who needs to be blocked from Facebook for 3 days because he is the one bullying and attacking.

That’s what Facebook has become. Facebook is now a platform for sick vile individuals to cause harm to the already grieving.

It’s one thing if someone is just sick and vile, but to be given power to cause harm to another who is suffering the biggest emotional loss of his lifetime, well that is a whole other thing.

If Facebook would simply review my comment with a human being they would see their automated reviews are severely broken.

As far as the cold individual who did this to me with the assistance of Facebook, do I share this with our mutual friends? I’m meeting with my lawyer next week on unrelated matters. Do I talk to my lawyer about a possible lawsuit for using her extreme callousness to cause harm?

I’m interested in your feedback friends. What would you do?

Final thought and this is super important. The person who caused this harm in the extreme cold way in which she did will see this post and derive pleasure from it. I don’t care. Unfortunately, I think it would keep a lot of others from sharing and being vulnerable. But you know what? I care more deeply about sharing all the love and support with all of you than I do about this one cold individual getting more pleasure than she already has.

A friend of mine shared with me very recently, “surround yourself with people who care more about you than societal expectations. Who really feel/hear you and protect your space from lions while you do what YOU need to do for YOU to be reborn in peace.” – Alicia Garnet Chestnut

Friends, once and a while someone cold, vicious, and receives pleasure at harming others who are already graving, is going to be given power to cause more harm. Most of the time they are completely harmless and have no power. But, in an instance where one of them is given power to cause harm, I just want you to know, I’m here for you and I love you.

-Tom

 

Thank You for your LOVE and Support During my Moms Passing

I just wanted to say in Video THANK YOU for the love and supporting the past few weeks right up to and beyond my moms passing. I hope you take the time to to watch, to hear me, and to receive my love and support for YOU

❤ ❤ ❤

I’m reading ALL of your comments. The outpouring of love and support in quality and quantity makes a difference so as you’re wondering if you’re being drowned out by so many other comments, no, you are not drowned out I SEE YOU and I LOVE YOU  
 
I hope you take the time to to watch, to hear me, and to receive my love and support for YOU      
Click the image to ‘Play’..

Tom

This is my sweet Mom

on my shoulder in the black outfit who ascended into heaven about 48 hours ago. My birth mom is the woman in the forefront.

Don’t just read one line and “like”. Read all of this and “love”, comment, share yourself, it’s important we are more involved with each other <3 <3 <3

Let me tell you some things about these two remarkable women in my life. What a story I have for you <3 <3 <3 I will get to the story of how my birth mom and my mom and dad met for the first time further down below after I mention a few more amazingly cool things. It’s a wonderful story and one of the happiest moments of my life, my mom and dads lives, and my birth moms life and I hope it touches some of you, too.

BRACE YOURSELF.. As I typed this I kept typing and typing so many random thoughts popping into my head after the story of everyone meeting for the first time. I didn’t even have to stop and think. It just flowed. So much emotion. So much purpose for us all to see a long post like this and be even more inspired than we already are to love and support one another with full on vulnerability and realness absent of all “tough guy” vibrato.

Look how happy my sweet mom is that we are together. The expression on her face.. Wow.. Yesterday and the day before I was going through pictures to find for her Obituary photo and when I came across this one the search was immediately over. Cropped her out of the photo and this is it. I’m going to use this whole photo with myself and my birth mom at the memorial and celebration of life service sometime after covid-19 dies down so that’s probably going to be a while from now.

The picture was taken at the time of my dads funeral, about 2 years and 10 months ago. My Colorado mom made the trip from Loveland Colorado to be here. I can’t wait to see her again whenever it is we have the memorial and celebration of life service after the health pandemic is over.

My mom was born to be my mom, even though she did not give birth to me, I am her son and she is my mom. She is the only one I call, “Mom”. My birth mom I either call LouAnne or my Colorado mom. When I’m talking to my biological sisters about my Colorado mom I refer to her as “Mom”. To everyone else I call her her LouAnne or my Colorado Mom.

My mom encouraged me to find my biological parents my whole life. When I was 35 I finally did. Between my moms encouragement to keep trying after failed attempts, and my dads amazing brain finding a minor technicality that gave my adoption case worker a legitimate legal avenue of reaching out to my biological mom directly via a phone call, it finally happened. I talked to my bio mom for the first time ever at age 35 and from there came in contact with my bio dad, aunts, uncles, cousins, two siblings I never knew I had, even one more living grandparent I got to know for a few years until she passed away just a few years ago. My bio mom and dad did not end up together after they had me and adopted me out. Both sides of my birth family are wonderful people. I lucked out because a lot of re-connections end up going very badly and therapy is needed. This has just been wonderful all around and I know I am lucky.

On to the story..

I’ve already met my bio family at this point of my parents and my bio mom meeting for the first time. I had already gone out to loveland to meet everyone and spend time with them. I remember my mom driving me to the airport to send me off to see my birth mom who would scoop me up at the Denver airport. One mom to another mom… Wow that was so cool <3

Fast forward to the day of myself picking up my Colorado mom from the Milwaukee airport to bring her to my parents house. Oh god that was one of the most blissful and most happiest moments of my life I will forever play on constant re-run in my mind!

I’m at my parents house. Just as I leave to pick up Colorado mom I say something like, here I go! I will be back soon with my Colorado mom. Man that was so cool to say! They were excited to meet her finally after all these years and a few conversations over the phone. Look at it from my parents point of view. They were about to meet, in person, the woman who birthed their son and adopted him out. If not for my Colorado mom my parents would not have had me as their son <3 They were about to meet this woman! That filled my heart with so much happiness to see my mom and my dad about to have this experience.

So, I take off to the airport. Very anxious I am. No delays in her flight that I can remember and Milwaukee Mitchel airport is super easy so I was able to pick her right up and whisk her away straight to my parents house which was only a 35 minute drive! She stayed with me at my house which was only 2 minutes away from my parents house but we just wanted to get to my parents house asap and then unpack at my house later!

Pulling into the driveway of my parents house. Oh my god I’ve got butterflies in my stomach, I’m on cloud 9, I can’t believe this is finally happening, I can’t wait to see the look on everyones faces and the hugs and whatever else happens!

I open the side door into the house that goes to the kitchen, my birth mom right behind me, my parents are already sitting at the kitchen table, chairs turned toward the side door… My birth mom following behind me.. As soon as she is visible to my parents I say, Mom and Dad this is LouAnne, my birth mom.

In the spirit of transparency as I’m typing this I am having one of many random moments of crying. Reliving this moment in my mind is triggering a good cry right now <3 <3

Immediately my birth mom drops whatever she had in her hands and their are warm hugs all around. Ohhhhh the look on my sweet moms face to see the woman who is responsible for me being her son was priceless. My sweet mom was so happy. I know for sure this was one of the happiest moments of her life and I hope she replayed it in her mind anytime she was feeling sad.

Everyone was so happy. My dad was happy. My birth mom was happy. I was certainly happy. The expressions on everyones faces and the love felt between everyone truly is what life is about and makes all the extremely difficult times worth while. That is something I have to remember no matter how many times I have to remind myself. As much as I am hurting right now, as much as my heart has been broken right now, it’s these memories that makes the heart ache worth while. I have to remember that and I hope all of you reading this remembers that as well. I have never been more heart broken in all my life. Not for any girl I had a romantic interest in, not for anyone else. The loss of my mom to the next life, and my second and last parent, is the most emotionally challenging experience of my life. It’s memories this one here and the support of great people in my life is what I need to help me.

You’ve probably figured out by now the picture of the four of us is the day my mom and dad and birth mom met for the first time. I love this picture and I will carry it around in my heart forever. Both of these pictures I will carry with me forever because of the memories they invoke that mean so much to me. There was so much laughter. You can even see some of the laughter captured in this more candid picture of the four of us. There was so much hugging. So much story telling. So much love. This was deeply therapeutic for everyone all around. It was days like these that were the best days of my life.

Oh mom I miss you so much. My heart hurts beyond belief that I will never get to see you again, hear your voice again, or hear you talk back to me while I still talk to you out loud with my voice. I have to admit It feels lonely now doing so much talking but never hearing your voice talk back to me again. Now I’m pretty much uncontrollably crying as I am typing this right now. Mom I so desperately want to hear you say, “Honey, ….” knowing I will never get to hear those sweet words to me with your sweet voice ever again. I have to keep stopping to blow my nose and wipe tears from my eyes. I knew typing this up would do this but it’s ok. All of my crying and heart ache is really a deeply powerful testament to the love we feel for each other. I have to look at it that way because it’s true and it might be even mildly comforting to recognize that truth.

I hope sharing this un polished and raw experience with the world helps other people out who might be grieving. There is a lot of emotional suffering out there and we all need to be there for each other. I think that is one of our most important tasks as humans; simply to be there for each other. A lot of times we tend to polish things up when we should be 100% transparent and forthright. A wonderful thing happens when you have courage to be 100% transparent and forthright when you are emotionally struggling the most. Others recognize it more than the polished version which helps them with their grieving processes because their is now true empathy between us. You are going to receive less polished condolences and various offerings of support because you’ve opened the door for more full-on realness which is the best therapy for all involved. There is going to be less judgement. From most people their will be no judgement at all even if they have a habit of judging they will not judge you because of the doorway that’s been opened to 100% realness and vulnerability for deep compassion for one another. I’m not saying there is never a time to be polished and proper, I’m saying in certain times like this, it’s better to be unpolished so all of the aforementioned human therapies can happen for all people. For the occasional person that might judge you, it makes it easy to identify that individual and excommunicate while wishing them the best.

My mom had a HUGE heart. A heart of gold. She loving to do things for other people and give to other people. It drove my dad nuts at times because it usually involved spending money..LoL Or, it involved my moms unhealthy weight gain and diabetes which also drove my dad nuts because he loved her and wanted to see her improve her health as did I.

One of her favorite things when she was still healthy enough to be more mobile around the house was to bake various sweets for people. Often times she would eat some of what she baked and it contributed to destroying her health up to her dying day. I know it feels good in the moment to eat sweet fatty food but is the price to pay a worth while one? I guess that is for every individual to decide for themselves. I’m sure there are a large plurality of people who decide it was not worth it after it is too late and that is the catch 22 of that deal. How do you know for sure it will be worth while to live an unhealthy life style until after you experience enough of the consequences. I think the primary reason it happens with so many people is because it happens so slowly over the course of many years. I’ve always thought it to be like a lobster settling in for a nice warm bath. He doesn’t get out because the heat is turned up sooooo slowly and feels so good at first until the horrible consequences kick in.

In my opinion, and I tried so hard and so desperately to get my mom to subscribe to this, it’s better to go for a worthwhile life than an easy life. Learning how to make healthy food taste amazing, and regularly fitness, is worth while for how your mind and body rewards you on a daily basis as you grow older feeling and looking more youthful. One of my life goals is to help people transition over to that philosophy of living so we can all live and love one other for more years and with better energy and capabilities. The best gift you can give to your loved ones, I’ve been saying this for years, is to simply be here living and living well.

My heart didn’t just start hurting when I realized my mom was not going to survive covid-19. My heart started hurting a couple of decades ago when I noticed my mom starting to pay the consequences for not being faithful to her health and wellness. Slowly over many years her health and wellness would be chipped away. The proverbial lobster settling in for a nice warm bath. It happened so slowly it never shocked her senses into turning a new leaf. For the last maybe ten years of her life I searched my brain DAILY for new ways of appealing to my mom to turn over that new leaf. Over the course of time I did have some success but it wasn’t enough to turn the corner for long term health. There was a couple instances where she did make enough changes that she lost about a hundred pounds, brought her A1C level below 6.0 from about 8 if I remember correctly and that was a HUGE thing to have an A1C below 6.0!! Her blood panels came around but that was also with the help of medications. For a little bit at one point she was doing so good. I praised her so much and encouraged her to keep going. But it did not last. The last two years of her life she really took a nose dive, starting with her new amplified toxic way of thinking, and self sabotaged for the rest of her life. It just continued spiraling down from there. One health scare after another for 2 years until her passing. I think the worst moment was when she finally had her knee replacement surgery but she did not follow through with her rehabilitation exercises and ultimately never walked without an upright walker ever again. She never regained the strength in her knew stable knee, thereby never getting around to having the other knee replaced.

Mom, it all started with your mind and your body followed. Toward the end your heart became weak so you were refereed to a cardiologist. The first warning was when you were being screened for knew replacement surgery to make sure you were healthy enough for it. You just basically had to lose 50 more pounds because everything else was great. You got the weight down which was awesome! I was shocked to be honest when you were told you met the criteria for surgery with your weight loss and you didn’t have any expression of excitement or accomplishment over it. The Physicians assistant who gave you the great news and myself were so excited and you didn’t really express any emotion at all. I remember that was one of the first signs that your mind mentally had taken a bad turn and just became more toxic from there 🙁 There was however just one more possible issue to deal with before clearing you for surgery and that was your heart. You had lived in extreme sedentary for so long the surgeon was concerned about your heart so you were sent to a cardiologist to make sure your heart was ok. You barely passed. The surgery went perfectly. You recovered perfectly. You just didn’t do your rehab follow through which makes me so sad mom 🙁 I will always wonder for the rest of my life why you didn’t follow through, why your mind took a turn for the worst about 5 or 6 months after dad passed for the last two years of your life, and why you agreed to this surgery after you were clearly informed of the consequences of not following through with your rehab. For the rest of my life I will wonder. I asked her quite a few times why, but you never had an answer. The few times you did answer you just said you didn’t know. Sometimes you said, “what is wrong with me?” So you knew something was going on with your mind. I encouraged you to develop a relationship with a really good therapist who could help you. I tried that once with a really nice lady but you weren’t motivated to keep going back or following through with treatments. I don’t know for sure what happened but it’s kind of like you lost motivation to live any longer even though you had so much love and support. Maybe it’s the dozens of medications your doctor had you on that took over your mind and chipped away at the real you. The past two years of your life I feel like you were not yourself most of the time. The rare moments you were yourself I would turn everything else off to soak that up because I was well aware you could go at anytime and I did not know how many more of those precious moments I would have with you as your true self.

Mom you had always struggled with depression and anxiety but the last two years of your life it was all magnified at extreme levels. It’s like you were a tortured soul. I’ll never understand it but I know it broke my heart every day because I just wanted my mom back and on those rare moments you were your old self I really soaked all that up and I’m glad that I did.

Mom, I hate to say this, I said this to you while you were still living, your stress, anxiety, and over all toxic thinking got so bad it became palpable and you broke my tolerance for it. I actually started to give myself a 50/50 change of a heart attack if I hung out with you for too long so for the last couple years of your life you didnt see me too much except for those moments you were your true self. At one point, I will never forget, you said to me, “Tom don’t let me take you down with me.” That was heavy to hear. I said, don’t worry mom I won’t but I don’t want you to go down either I want you to get better I love you you’ve got support here but I do promise I won’t let you take me down with you.

That was quite a conversation to have. My mom knew something was going on in her mind. It’s amazing how something intangible like the mind affects something tangible like the rest of the body. But what started it? I think the most likely culprit are her many medications including anti depressants which messes with the chemistry of the mind. But with those you can’t just come off cold turkey or two quickly or it could kill you. This gets into the territory of how harsh I am in criticizing the paradigm of which the medical community operates in a curriculum created by the Pharmacological industry. However, because of my moms extreme unhealthy life style, these drugs saved her life for many years while simultaneously taking her life away 🙁

I don’t know if my mom would have beat covid-19 at 75 years of age otherwise, but, you have to factor in everything that goes into that. Her lack of tolerance for the virus, and her already very compromised immune system and weak heart and lungs played a huge role in being ill-equipped to deal with a virus that attacked her upper respiratory system. She was already seeing a heart specialist. In fact, Im supposed to take her to Saint Lukes in Milwaukee this August 12th for a special scan they can do up there to get a better look at her heart, figure out why her heart is so weak, and then go from there. That appointment is obviously not happening anymore because her heart is no longer beating. She is gone 🙁

Living a life style that builds STRONG natural defenses on a daily bases is what stacks the odds overwhelmingly in ones favor. That has to be worth while. Remember, go for a life that is worth it rather than a life that is easy. In my opinion we need to redefine what is “easy”. Suffering, losing your mind, being pumped up on different prescription drugs for life etc is NOT easy. Being able to walk and run, play, have feel good bowel movements daily, to feel youthful IS easy. Learning how to make healthy food taste really good is easy. Working out regularly becomes so easy if you do it regularly enough, you get to a point where you actually feel pumped up and even aroused once you get into the warmup of your workout. Then a really weird but cool paradox happens… The HARDER you workout the EASIER it becomes because as you get fitter it’s the stuff that challenges you physically that you innately need! If you’re not challenged you’re bored so whats easy is hard and what’s hard is easy! I’m sure there is a better way to explain that so hopefully everyone reading this knows what I’m talking about.

Mom, I loved you unconditionally throughout everything. Even when I got sad, heart broken, frustrated, or pissed off. I desperately tried to help you with your mind and how you feel because I knew that was the crux of everything else. I am not a yeller I hate that people yell and scream at each other. But, I wanted you to snap out of the toxic thinking more than I hated yelling. So, reluctantly I yelled at you a few times which always made me feel terrible. And here come the tears again as I type this 🙁 I know you understood why but I still felt horrible and still do. But, if I didn’t try different things to try and get through to you then I would have wondered. So I am glad I tried yelling after years of not yelling and only speaking softly to you. I was desperately because after all you are my mom and I knew it was not going to end well for you unless I could find a way to get through to you. Sadly I never found that way and it is final now. Every day I thought to myself that I still have you so there is still time, still hope, so I kept trying knowing that once you’re gone I would have no more opportunities to try. I can at least safely not have any regret regarding that but it still hurts that I was not successful. You are my mom. I just wanted you in my life longer and to be feeling well and like your true self. I wanted you to get your mind back and become mobile again which the knee surgery would have made happen if not for your devolving mindset.

Mom, I know you felt loved knowing I did everything I could think of, including things that made me feel bad like yelling, to help you get better. I also think you probably felt pretty terrible not giving me the success in your wellness that I so desperately fought for and never got. I would have done anything for you. I know you know that. I also know that when you were so toxic mentally you understood that I could not take it anymore and had to leave on many occasions but always came back the same day. I would say typically, “Mom I can’t take this I have to get out of here” and I would turn my ride share apps on which made me feel better but still so heart broken. But, I sure did soak up those moments you were your old self. I’m glad I got those as recently as the day I called 911 for the last time.

Actually, I got that moment of your true self one last time the day before my 43rd birthday. You called me from your hospital phone, the day after being admitted, to say, “well Happy Birthday!” I was like, “Thanks mom but this is the day before my birthday my birthday is tomorrow but I thank you anyway lol”. You said, “Oh I was thinking it was already Sunday but it’s Saturday! LoL”. I said, ” no worries mom this just means you get to wish me happy birthday again tomorrow 🙂 ”

Man, that was a wonderfully phone call. She sounded in good spirits. Her old self. I figured she would be ok and in a rehabilitation center soon to bring back the strength of her legs so she could come back home which I was so anxious for to be able to bring her back home again. I had no idea at the time that would be the last conversation with mom where she was feeling good but now a days I replay it in my head over and over again.

The following day she called me again and this was the beginning of the end. She told me she tested positive for Covid-19. This was on the day of my birthday. I also started developing symptoms the day before, on the 18th, which I told my mom about on the phone on the 18th, the day before my 43rd birthday, the same conversation that turned out to be the last feel good conversation with my mom I would ever have. My symptoms flared up FAST out of nowhere beginning late night of the 17th of July now that I remember, just as I called 911 for the ambulance to take my mom to the ER. I didn’t think anything about it other than wow I am legit sick for the first time in 13 years. So on the 18th of July, the day before my birthday and final feel good phone call with my mom, I told her suddenly I came down with something but I was already starting to feel better so don’t worry. On the 19th of July, my birthday, my mom tells me she is covid-19 positive. Then we both mutually decide I need to get tested but we are all sure, including the doctors and nurses, that I have it too since we live together and I was helping to take care of my mom. Naturally I became scared for my mom with the covid news.

My mom had been following covid news daily always worried about it and fearful one of us would catch it. Since my mom had a tendency to hyper focus and stress about things it’s almost as if she manifested it or maybe even willed it to happen somehow. I really don’t know. I also have no way of knowing if I got it first and gave it to my mom which can be a mortifying thought, or if she got it first and gave it to me, or if we both got it independently of each other. We will never know. I did practice social distancing and sanitation guidelines since march 17 when it became realized on a wide scale that this was serious. My primary motive was for others around me that I did not want to transmit too because I figured it would be no big deal if I got it but I’d be mortified if I passed it on to someone else so I took the CDC guidelines seriously from the beginning. If I did get it first and pass it to my mom it wasn’t out of carelessness. But we will never know. My mom over the phone said she was worried she’s the one who gave it to me. I told my mom I really had no idea who had it first or maybe we both got it independently. I re assured her I practiced all the guidelines just as I had been reassuring her all along I haven’t had physical contact with anyone since the middle of March which was actually my most recent travel to Las Vegas and back. By the time I got back home from vegas all the initial big closures were in the process of going into affect so even right from there that early on I did not give my mom a hug or make physical contact like I always would coming off a trip. I didn’t hug my mom again until the eve of her passing while she was still conscious and I was gowned up, masked up, goggled up, hopefully not looking to alien for her. But I am so grateful she was able to see me and feel my touch, hear my voice, see my eyes, as she slipped from consciousness to unconsciousness.

I love my mom. I will never stop saying it out loud with my voice. My mom loved the sound of my voice. She loved my presence. I just wish she would have taken all that energy she put into her stress and anxiety, and instead put it into doing the long hard consistent work toward healing, recovery, and wellness. I would have done ANYTHING to help her do that. I would have given up my ride sharing and my network marketing online goals which for me is a HUGE deal because I’m extremely goal driven in support of my purposes. But nothing would have been more of a priority than spending more time and energy with my mom if she had been more interested in self care than self destruction those past couple of years 🙁

Sadly, most of my time spent helping my mom for those last two of her years was lots of doctor appointments, lots of random trips to the ER, and more regular trips to the store after she lost a lot of her mobility and became a bigger risk for falling.

Another random memory… Remember when I said for some moments she did really good and made some wonderful healthy changes? One of them was right after my dad passed on and I moved back home as she became more immobile, I started making healthy plant based lunches every day that I would stop my ride sharing for. For a little while she would have these healthy home made lunches with me. I just LOVED that. I thought it had turned into a regular habit but it did not last too long. I was settling into the wonderfulness of a nice healthy lunch every day with my mom and then suddenly out of nowhere she was no longer interested and went right back to the terrible unhealthy foods. Comfort foods? Probably. My mom was doing real good for the first five or six months after my dad passed on. I don’t think my dads passing was a factor in her mindset for her last two years. I still go back to all the meds she was on by her various Doctors. I would have loved to have kept that daily ritual going of a health lunch with my mom. It was also a great bonding experience that I miss so much.

Another thing my mom liked that was super healthy was this super foods shake I got her and my whole family on starting in November of 2009. My dad, my brother, my mom, of course myself. It’s the flagship product of the home business company I joined in August of 2007. I sell these super foods shakes. If you’d like to look at it let me know I will send you my company replicated website link with info and an order button if you decide to try it out. Comes with an automatic thirty day full refund promise. All four of us in my immediate family enjoyed this super foods shake. The last two years of my moms life I would make hers for her. Typically two at a time. One for now, and another I’d put in the fridge already made for later when I’d be out ride sharing or whatever I was doing. Toward the end she even stopped drinking the super foods shake unless I happened to be home the same time she was not in bed. Even the ones I’d put in the fridge for her she stopped drinking, most of the time.

This was another developing problem toward the end, it was the amount of time she spent in bed. Her heart and lungs never got anymore exercise which developed into the problems I eluded to earlier in this huge article. My daily experience became this… I would ride share, come home several times during the day between rides hoping to see my mom but she’d be in bed. I saw her very rarely and when I did it was always a 50/50 shot at her being in an intolerable toxic mood or resembling her old self. If she was up and her old self I loved turning my ride sharing apps off and hanging out with her, asking her if she would like me to make her something etc.. But it happened so rarely and just broke my heart each day. My favorite way to come home to her would be I would simply walk through the side door and into the kitchen where her chair in the living room facing the T.V. would be visible to me, to see her sitting in her chair comfortably watching T.V., and saying, “Hey Mom”, and her saying, “Hi Honey”, and wherever the conversation would go from their. I might ask her if she wanted anything, Can I make you something, how her day is going, watcha watching, do you need anything from the store etc.. When she initiated conversation with me it would typically start with how are you doing with your goals, did you meet your goals, I wanna talk to you about something, I have a question for you, do you still talk to …, I want you to make sure you …..

My moms big beautiful heart and spirit of giving is going to live on in me forever. My mom will live on in me and in Heaven with my Dad. I have many facets to my personality. I’m still going to be fiercely passionate, I’m still probably going to harshly criticize sociopathic lunatics who are more emboldened than ever in the present moment, I’m still going to guilt free LOVE making money so I can buy more passive money and have more FREEDOM in life, and I’m always going to CREATE and have free resources I can give, give, and give away to people who need it forever and ever. Even long after my own passing these resources will remain on line and available. I have thousands of videos, articles, and other pieces of content I’ve personally created all to do with NATURAL chemical free health, Organic BETTER wealth, mindset, philosophy, and anything else that can help people live a better life.

I started with free stuff to be able to graduate toward investing in myself and building up from there. So I first hand understand both the value of free and the value of investing money into myself in ways that are not free. You start where you are and build from there.

Positive minded people are always welcome to my group Change Makers

If you want to make better money too, or live a healthier life, or do both, or just soak up the free stuff, or invest in yourself, you are welcome to join my group.

I know I’ve typed up a lot but there are so many random thoughts that go through my brain at a time like this that what I’ve typed is just a drop in the bucket. It’s hard to remember it all long enough to type it all out and I type about 80 wpm! So many feelings and emotions, memories and reflections, that I can’t possibly get it all down but I wish I could.

Love,

Tom

To my sweet mom

in an open letter to which there will be more to follow after this one.

Mom, I did my best to make sure you slipped away releasing anything that might have been worrying you or making you feel sad. I was able to spend the last fifteen hours of your life with you and one hour after you slipped away.

For 7 straight hours I talked to you not knowing if you could hear me but hoping you could. Before you transitioned into unconsciousness you had your last conscious experience you would ever have.

You reached your hand out to hold mine. And with my other hand I rubbed your head, moved into eyesight, and said I Love You as your eyes closed and you drifted off to sleep.

For the next 15 hours of unconsciousness I stayed with you to your last breath. I can’t believe I talked non stop to you for 7 hours but I really did. I went from topic to topic fluently mostly about good memories, family, feeling loved, anything that would make you feel blissful and deeply loved.

I have no idea if you could hear me once you drifted into unconsciousness, or if you could, for how long could you hear me? At the very least maybe subconsciously you could hear me and I helped you dream some really sweet calming kind of dreams that made you feel very loved.

All night into the morning to your last breath I lulled you with my voice, I had you feel the touch of my hands on your head and shoulders, and I stayed in eye sight just in case you opened them briefly for one last time.

Remember Kermit the Frogs Rainbow Connection song you use to love watching me sing one foot in front of the TV screen when I was only four? That’s our song mom. At one point during the night I loaded Rainbow Connection up on you tube and sang along for you in your ear. I hope you could hear that. At the very least I hope you had the most wonderful dreams from it that made you feel loved.

My goal in doing all of this was to help you release anything that might be worrying you so you could be comfortable and slip away in peace, feeling loved ALWAYS.

Mom it means the world to me that your last conscious experience was feeling our hands holding, feeling my other hand rubbing your hand, and seeing my face and my eyes just as you began closing yours. You got to take me with you as you drifted away one last time. You didn’t have to make this transition alone or with a stranger. Earlier in the day you got to see both of your sons and hear our voices for an hour until the other had to go due to hospital covid policy.

Mom I will be ok but in the meantime this is really a struggle for me. After dads passing I had you and I loved having you for emotional support. Now you’ve passed and I am out of parents for emotional support. You and dad were BORN to be my mom and dad. You were born to be my little brothers mom and dad. All of the support out there is wonderful and I need it, but, nobody can fill the void of two great parents.

When I was a kid I literally felt bad for every other kid in the entire world because they do not have the parents I have. That sounds silly but that’s how natural and awesome it felt to have you and dad as my parents. You were both born to be my mom and dad.

I am hurting because I’ll never get to see you again, have a conversation, get advice from, or to be there for each other like a strong family does. I’ll never get to walk into the house, see you on your chair watching little house on the prairie, and say, “Hey mom how are you doing?” I’ll never get to ask you questions again. You’ll never get to ask me questions again. We will never get to have a dialogue again. I won’t be able to help you reach for something or go out to eat. The list goes on and on.

Mom I haven’t been able to talk without crying all day today. My sadness has to be a testament to the love and that’s how I have to look at it <3 Tom

My sweet mom passed away this morning from covid-19

🙁 I was able to spend the last 15 hours of her life with her up to her last breath and one hour after that. She didn’t have to die alone and without family like so many other covid patients do so we received a wonderful priceless gift from the ICU Nurses.

I’m more heart broken over this than any other girl in my life. I’m out of parents now. It’s like a new beginning where I start off very disoriented. My mom didn’t make it, but she did make it to heaven today to be with my Dad, her mom and dad, and everyone else who passed before her.

Mom I love you so much, I miss you terribly, I’m crying uncontrollably as I type this and I will cry randomly for a while. Nobody can fill this void you were simply born to be my mom and my little brothers mom <3 <3 <3 <3

This is sooooooo hard but there is a lot of empathy and support out there because it’s a common occurrence in our lives.

THANK YOU to everyone who checked in on me and my mom over the last few weeks you mean the WORLD to me.

Today I make funeral arrangements with my brother.

Stay healthy and happy <3

Tom


July 18th 20:36
am legit sick for the first time in 13 years as of yesterday. My only symptom is bad head congestion and 102 degree temperature. Share your best remedy?

I guess no matter how healthy you live your body has to learn something new at least once every 13 years lol

I’ll write more later. Happy 43rd birthday to me for July 19th 1977.


July 19th 21:02

My mom tested positive for covid in the hospital 🙁

I’m getting tested tomorrow. I just lost my dad 2 1/2 years ago. I hope my mom pulls through. This sucks. 🙁


July 22nd 13:53

My mom was just transferred to ICU this morning with a BiPap 🙁 Drs give my mom 50/50 shot at surviving Covid. If you pray, please offer them..

Today they are beginning blood plasm treatment from someone who beat covid. The Dr explained to me they’ve learned a lot about how to treat covid patients since this started and continue to learn.

I am scared. Before this I was clinging on to the fact she was not in ICU or on a ventilator. She’s still not on a ventilator but she is in ICU now on a BiPap and the ventilator is next if the blood plasma treatment does not work.


August 7th

My sweet moms Obituary is now published. Feel free to share. My mom knew and worked with a lot of people over the years of her life. The more this is shared the more people who knew her at any given phase of her life will learn of her passing <3 <3

My mom loved her family and friends so much. I’ve always only ever heard how fun my mom is to be around. Whether it’s the poker table, at work, a social gathering, everyone loved my mom <3

https://www.bruchfuneralhome.net/obituary/joyce-birkenmeyer


August 8th

It was one week ago today at this hour I watched my mom take her last breath with my hand on her head and my voice telling her I love her. My mom was loved as she crossed over. I miss you mom I can’t wait to see you and dad again.


August 14th

Early this morning I had the biggest emotional break down I’ve had since the day my mom passed on, August 1st.
I was doing so good for the past week and a half.

Just random moments I’d get chocked up thinking about stuff.

Today I did good to because that kind of a cry renews the soul it feels like.

I don’t know why I even call it a break down. I just had a really good cry that forced me to stop everything else I was doing to get it out of my system.

The memory that triggered it was a few years ago after my dad passed on, my moms husband of over forty years, my mom found reason to smile during that sad time because she was with me.

I was the reason she felt comfort during that time.

I’m beyond moved and touched that I could have been that source of comfort and support for my mom right after she lost her husband and my awesome dad.

It brought me to tears so heavy I was forced to stop everything else I was doing this morning and cry for a spell to get it out.
I miss you mom. I love you so much.

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Your BEST sore throat remedy?

I’ve already tried gargling with razor blades…

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  • Jane Wermeling Gargle with salt water, drink throat coat tea. Chloraseptic to numb you if you’re very painful.

 

 

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  • Lisa Oddo Gets me on the mend within the day. I also drink lots of water (warm or room temp), throat losenges, citrus is good for opening airways too.

 

 

  • Lisa Oddo I drink this often, squeeze limes or lemons in. Delicious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Katrina Smith I add lemon to this mix and is the best I have found to help

 

 

  • Tina Hill Hope you feel better !! Praying for your mom and you all!

 

 

-Tom

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Chicken Soup by Sheila Stirling

Ingredients:
-5 organic chicken legs
-1 large onion cut up
-2 to 3 carrots cut up
-1 to 2 parsnips cut up
-2 or more celery stalks cut up
-pepper to taste
-spike seasoning to taste
-kerry gold butter

Directions:
cover bottom of stock pot with kerry gold butter. Once melted, add onion until a nice translucent golden brown (approx 10 minutes). Add chicken legs and some water to cover chicken legs. Bring to a low boil for about an hour to cook down the chicken legs and make a nice bone broth. Add all other ingredients.

-Tom

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Cynical Corporate America

Corporate America has made sure to let us know they are with #blacklivesmatter while they still offshore jobs to sweatshops in black African countries.

Is this to distract us so we don’t pay attention to how they continue to loot the public Treasury of our money?

Do they want us to praise them so we stop paying attention to how they pay their workers a subhuman wage they can’t live off of?

Do they want us to look the other way while they legally bribe our politicians in our insane system of legalized bribery?

-Tom

Black or Kidney Bean Bowl in 5 minutes

Beans, in my opinion, is natures most perfect food for human consumption. Not Dairy! Beans have healthy fats, slow digesting carbohydrates, biologically available proteins, trace minerals, and lots of insoluble fiber to support a healthy micro biom and over all digestive track. 80% of your immune system is in your gut. 90% of dopamine and 50% of serotonin secretion comes from the gut. For this reason, the gut has been dubbed as the second brain. Sometimes if you’re feeling sad it just means you need a better healthy diet for your gut!

Ingredients:
1 can of black or kidney beans
Fresh Dried Thyme Leaves to taste
Black Pepper to taste
Ginger Root Powder to taste
1 or 2 splashes of braggs liquid aminos
Cayenne Pepper Powder to taste – optional

Directions:
Rinse and strain can of beans. Heat up in a pan for a couple of minutes. Pour heated beans into a serving bowl. Add all other ingredients, stir, and enjoy!

-Tom

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Healthy Medicinal Anti Inflammatory Bread Toppings

All of these wonderful toppings are anti inflammatory, healthy, and medicinal.  It takes maybe two minutes to make.  It tastes insanely delicious!  The turmeric and black pepper coupled will increase the nutrient absorption of the turmeric for more health benefits!

Ingredients:
Sprouted or sourdough bread
Coconut Oil
Turmeric Powder
Black Pepper
Hemp Seeds (Optional)
Cayenne Pepper (optional)

Directions:
All ingredients are added to taste I actually never measure them out for this recipe.  First spread on some coconut oil over a slice of sprouted or sourdough bread.  The rest of the ingredients will stick better!  Add turmeric, black pepper, hemp seeds, and cayenne pepper.

Enjoy =)

-Tom

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George Floyd Thoughts and The Power Structure That needs to be Re-Built Entirely

Violence (I DON’T AGREE WITH IT) is the logical conclusion of a government that leaves its people with no other alternative.

The violence we are seeing right now is much bigger than the one recent tragic incident of another unarmed black man murdered by law enforcement.

It’s the whole power structure and political system who represents the interest of their corporate donors at the expense of the rest of the population.

I don’t agree with the looters in Minneapolis, but, president trump has allowed his corporate donors to loot the United States treasury with full swing corporate socialism at a scale a TRILLION times greater than poor people looting their communities.

Honestly I think people setting fire to their own community are insanely dumb and the fact they are willing to hurt small business owners who work HARD for their business goes to show this particular fragment of protestors has no interest in the cause at hand.

Having said that, president trump and his corporate donors have looted this country in TRILLIONS more than the obviously stupid and self absorbed people in Minneapolis.

Trump said in a tweet that when the looting starts the shooting starts. If trump feels that way then he’d be target number one as the single largest looter in our country.

I don’t want ANY violence. I don’t want to see anyone harmed on any side of this.

The only point I’m making in this post is that the logical conclusion of no other options left is going to be violence and anger spilling out into the streets.

Nothing else has worked to create real change. The killings happen every day and most of those we will never know about because no one was around with a recording device.

In 2008 BANKERS crashed the economy on purpose rendering millions of Americans homeless and some of them dead. Not a single banker went to jail or was even charged.

Obama, Bush, Clinton, all of them are guilty of this. Trump is just an extension, more dangerous, and far more dumb than even george W.

We still don’t have health care for everyone financed by a single payer. The result is over forty thousand people die per year as a result of no coverage. This year it’s projected to be nearly 70 thousand.

We still have large corporations buying politicians to legislate in their favor at the expense of everyone else and this is perfectly legal.

There are countless examples of the power structure harming people, often on purpose, and the ones they point their fingers at are the poor and powerless.

The poor and powerless can’t take it anymore. This could be the beginning of the kind of rioting that literally burns down ALL of our biggest government institutions to the ground because they are left with no other choice. It’s the logical conclusion that I don’t agree with, but has to be recognized for what it is.

There is a racial aspect, but, this is largely the top point one percent verses the rest.

Trump Supporters: Think about who you are supporting and how you value human life. The german people of the 1920s felt they were on the right side of history too. You are on a similar trajectory to how you will be judged.

I finally watched the George Floyd Video.

I think there is a fair chance that if I had been there to witness that, they’d have two deaths to explain.

I don’t know for sure, but I think if I was witnessing what that coward pretending to be a cop was doing to that man my tension would have continuously intensified for so long until I snapped and close lined that son of a bitch knocking him out.

It would have been a sudden explosive move that would have taken him out before anyone could stop me.

Right after I’m sure the other three cowards pretending to be cops would have drawn their guns and shot me to death.

I can’t know for sure if I’d do that unless I was in a situation like that, but that’s what I was thinking as I watched that video and my blood boiled.

-Tom

 

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Protein and Fiber Wraps

This takes just a couple of minutes to make. Add one minute if you heat it up.  It’s DELICIOUS and crazy healthy.  The sprouted tortilla shell makes it more blood sugar friendly, more fibrous, and more medicinal.  Hemp seeds add trace minerals otherwise hard to get in most foods.  The chic peas, lentils, and hummus pack this dish with lots of protein and fiber which makes this an idea night time food.  I’m using herbs and spices instead of salt and sugar (game changer!).

Ingredients:
Sprouted Tortilla Shells
Chic Peas
Lentils (I used Canned; much quicker!)
Hummus
Pitted Kalamata Olive Halves
Hemp Seeds
Black Pepper
Ginger Powder
Tumeric Powder
Cayenne Pepper (Optional for heat)

Directions:
I eat these cold but you can heat them up if you’d like.  Place all ingredients onto open tortilla shell in this order to make it easier.  Hummus spread, hemp seeds, chic peas, lentils, and pitted Kalamata olive halves.  In any order add the black pepper, ginger powder, tumeric powder, and cayenne pepper powder.  Fold over the tortilla shell with all ingredients packed in and enjoy!

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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$1350.13 surprise today. Not stimulus money.

I didn’t invest a single red penny to get it and exercised no strategy at all for it except for the simple strategy of consistency.

I had no idea this money was even there accumulating every month, I was just having fun with no expectation of getting paid.

Once I saw it, I filled out the tax form so they could deposit it into my credit union account.

Each month this new passive income will automatically deposit passively.

I wrote 31 ways to raise money without having any and this isn’t even included in that awesome content I created for anyone who wants it for free from my website. Ask for the link if you don’t have it.

What this shows is you do not need money to make money. You can have fun, just be consistent.

Here is what it is..

YOUTUBE.

I’ve been creating and uploading videos to my YouTube channel for YEARS about topics I love talking about. At one point a while ago I decided to turn on ad revenue just in case it actually generated any free money for me. I guess I made the right decision..LoL

It looks like I’ve been getting an average of about $80 per month extra from this. I’m going to find some trainings on how to analyze youtube analytics so I can find out what exactly has been driving this source of free passive revenue my way and then scale up on that. If I’m getting an average of $80 per month then I can get it to $100 per month. Then $100 per week. Then $100 per day. Eventually $1,000 per day and keep going.

This is in addition to my online health and fitness business passive and residual revenue. It’s in addition to my rental property passive revenue.

All three of these revenues have one thing in common..

CONSISTENCY.

I’m not super talented or highly skilled.

I was a D student in school.

I’m socially awkward.

I will beat a smart, talented, and socially connected person who is not consistent because consistency is more important and it’s the one variable most people underestimate.

Maybe my story will move some of you into the lane of consistency so you can become a financially independent person and live free with your life to create experiences rather than worry how bills will be paid.

That’s why I’m sharing this, to undo whatever estimation you’ve made about the power of consistency.

I also love to drive with uber, lyft, and I recently started door dashing. Every penny I make from those things I buy more passive income with because that’s why you want to make money.

You don’t want to make money to pay bills and eat!

That’s how you stay behind and never become a free human being!

You make money so you can buy passive money and then pay bills and eat with passive money so you can live as a free human being to do whatever you want with your time.

I help people live natural chemical free natural lives and make BETTER money.

Feel free to request free membership to my group Change Makers I’m happy to accept POSITIVE people into our energy vortex. It also doubles as a huge middle finger to the status quo of business as usual.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Butternut Squash Curry Coconut Fat pumpkin seed lime Soup

Twas Delicious! Thank you Tamara Burgos for being the first person to try it out I’m glad you enjoyed this healthy tasty morsel

-Tom

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Anti Aging and Natural Health Together

Several instances per week someone guesses I’m in my twenties, 24 specifically seems to be the magic number for whatever reason. Then I let them know I’m over 40. Then they shit a brick. Then we all get a good laugh and it’s pretty awesome.

So I figured I would make an invitation out of that becuse I guess I’m sort of a living embodiment of Anti Aging Concepts. Not that we are anti getting older. We just want to get older but as we get older we want to feel better, move better, have better energy, over all look and feel younger as we get older.

Here is what’s behind that…

A healthy lifestyle, what we eat, what we put into our bodies, how we think, how we sleep, and how we DON’T STRESS!

Not stressing is severely underrated.

I’ve found through personal experience when you don’t have to worry about bills because you’ve got residual money it makes all the difference in the world.

Most people don’t have ANY residual money. They’re trying to pay residual bills with ordinary earned income from their job. You cannot get ahead of that curve! If you have residual money all your stress about money is gone. Not just bills but funding the next vacation, paying for the better food, the better whatever you want.

Everything is inter-relatable with everything else. The food, the money, the physical activity, how you think, all of it.

If you want to come with me, I’ve been doing it since 2007. I typed up a beautiful blog about it. I’ve got a video about it. If you want the blog or video or both just comment below or private message me. I will send it to you.

If you want to come with me on this natural health journey of these anti aging concepts where you’re looking and feeling younger as you get older then I invite you to come with me. Just ask me for the info.

It’s a good thing when people guess that you’re DECADES younger than you really are. No joke! You want people to think you’re decades younger than you are? Yeah, let’s go =) Let’s do this!

I’ll talk to ya soon ok?

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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How I got out of the Rat Race early with no skills only a love for learning and YOU can too

In the Rat Race…
…you’re being held underneath the thumb of other people who can tell you what to do while dangling your lively hood in front of your face because they can pull it back from you at any time if you don’t adhere to strict obedience mister!

Here is how I got out of the rat race.

I was 32, started the process when I was 30. It took a couple years in my precious minutes of spare time. That’s important to know because nobody has fulltime availability at the beginning of the process.

The girl I was dating at the time in august of 2007 invited me in to a home business around natural health, natural healing, and residual money in addition to not being involved in the Rat Race.

I signed up with no skill and not really knowing anything about what I was doing. I was a D student in school. No social connections. No one joins me because they like me, it’s because they see an opportunity for themselves.

This is the thing… It’s just a love for learning something new and it’s wrapped around residual income.

That’s the key!

Most self employed people don’t have any residual income so they are a bigger slave to money than people with a job. They pay a higher tax rate than people with a job. It’s hilarious in a way because it goes against everything a self employed person is typically motivated by to become a self employed person in the first place but they never learned about residual income!

Residual income is the thing that protects you and your family. Residual income gives you a life of freedom and an exit from the pyramid scam known as the Rat Race!

If you love learning about natural health, natural healing, and you want to wrap yourself around residual income so you can exit the rat race and spend the only time you’re going to get on this planet the way that you want instead of adhering to strict obedience to other peoples thumb over your head!

If you’d rather have freedom then ask me for a blog I typed about it. Or a video. Or both. Just ask for it and I promise I will share it with you in the comments or Private Message.

That’s all I’ve got!

Take care everybody.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Broccoli Soup Plant Based So Good You’ll LOVE Broccoli even if you don’t!

Ingredients:
Broccoli
Coconut Oil
Broccoli
Yellow Onion
Pumpkin seeds RAW

Direction:
Lay down coconut oil in a pan to melt. Loosely chop up an onion, or two, and throw down in a pan for a couple minutes to a translucent golden brown. Add chopped up broccoli to pan. Few dashes of SPIKE seasoning to taste. Add a little bit of water. Add just a touch of better than bouillon (veggie). Once Veggies in pan are soft pour or scoup entire mixture into a good blender. Blend to puree soup like consistency. Pour into sop bowls and enjoy! As an optional thing, top the bowls of soup with some raw unsalted pumpkin seeds =)

-Tom

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Butternut Squash Soup All Plant Based and only Two Main Ingredients

Ingredients:
Coconut oil
Butternut Squash
1 or 2 Onions

Direction:
Lay down coconut oil in a pan to melt. Loosely chop up an onion, or two, and throw down in a pan for a couple minutes to a translucent golden brown. Add chopped up Butternut Squash to pan. Few dashes of SPIKE seasoning to taste. Add a little bit of water. Add just a touch of better than bouillon (veggie). Once Veggies in pan are soft pour or scoup entire mixture into a good blender. Blend to puree soup like consistency. Pour into sop bowls and enjoy! As an optional thing, top the bowls of soup with some raw unsalted pumpkin seeds =)

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Diabetic Teaching to HEAL instead of Manage

The only Diabetic Teaching worth while in my belief is the kind that teaches you how to completely reverse it rather than only to treat or manage the disease.

Drug companies teach you to manage only via the medical community.

Drug companies make approx $2 MILLION per person who gets the diagnose. If a child gets it, even more millions.

There is a time and place for pharmological drugs but from the drug companies perspective they want to manage you of everything and heal you of nothing for their profit motive over people.

Learn how to heal naturally it’s worth it.

To help you with your overall journey of health and Natural chemical-free Wellness I created group Change Makers where I upload free workouts regularly and healthy immune boosting recipes.

All positive minded people are welcome <3 -Tom P.s. If you'd like to work with me I don't charge any fees I'm not going to sell you something you don't want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Consistency is KING

$1350.13 surprise today. Not stimulus money.

I didn’t invest a single red penny to get it and exercised no strategy at all for it except for the simple strategy of consistency.

I had no idea this money was even there accumulating every month, I was just having fun with no expectation of getting paid.

Once I saw it, I filled out the tax form so they could deposit it into my credit union account.

Each month this new passive income will automatically deposit passively.

I wrote 31 ways to raise money without having any and this isn’t even included in that awesome content I created for anyone who wants it for free from my website. Ask for the link if you don’t have it.

What this shows is you do not need money to make money. You can have fun, just be consistent.

Here is what it is..

YOUTUBE.

I’ve been creating and uploading videos to my YouTube channel for YEARS about topics I love talking about. At one point a while ago I decided to turn on ad revenue just in case it actually generated any free money for me. I guess I made the right decision..LoL

It looks like I’ve been getting an average of about $80 per month extra from this. I’m going to find some trainings on how to analyze youtube analytics so I can find out what exactly has been driving this source of free passive revenue my way and then scale up on that. If I’m getting an average of $80 per month then I can get it to $100 per month. Then $100 per week. Then $100 per day. Eventually $1,000 per day and keep going.

This is in addition to my online health and fitness business passive and residual revenue. It’s in addition to my rental property passive revenue.

All three of these revenues have one thing in common..

CONSISTENCY.

I’m not super talented or highly skilled.

I was a D student in school.

I’m socially awkward.

I will beat a smart, talented, and socially connected person who is not consistent because consistency is more important and it’s the one variable most people underestimate.

Maybe my story will move some of you into the lane of consistency so you can become a financially independent person and live free with your life to create experiences rather than worry how bills will be paid.

That’s why I’m sharing this, to undo whatever estimation you’ve made about the power of consistency.

I also love to drive with uber, lyft, and I recently started door dashing. Every penny I make from those things I buy more passive income with because that’s why you want to make money.

You don’t want to make money to pay bills and eat!

That’s how you stay behind and never become a free human being!

You make money so you can buy passive money and then pay bills and eat with passive money so you can live as a free human being to do whatever you want with your time.

I help people live natural chemical free natural lives and make BETTER money.

Feel free to request free membership to my group Change Makers. I’m happy to accept POSITIVE people into our energy vortex. It also doubles as a huge middle finger to the status quo of business as usual.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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$1,200 stimulus money dropped on my lap today.

I’m taking every penny of that and buying passive income with it.

This means it will constantly regenerate itself so I can continue to do whatever I want with my time and create experiences instead of bill payments.

Look into it my friends learn passive and residual money.

Rather than spending money take on the learning curve of passive and residual money so you don’t have to constantly need that next stimulus check or that next check from your boss..

Then you can finally live a free human being free to have those moments and create experiences in life untethered from needing that next check to pay bills and eat.

I show it in my group Change Makers along with tons of free workouts and medicinal healthy recipes because if you’re going to be a free human being you might as well have the health and wellness to enjoy it.

I’m happy to have all positive minded people in change makers.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Job loss and pandemic is not causing Financial shortcomings for people.

It’s the tradion of go to school only to get a job, save your money, and you’ll get a pay check the rest of your life for being an obedient worker.

The pandemic exposed a bad error in judgment to depend on your job or the government as the main source of your income.

I’m not anti job. I’m anti dependency.

Learn about residual and passive income and there will be no recession or job loss that could hurt you financially.

They don’t teach this in school, the media, or in political bickering because they need obedient workers to be vulnerable to their carrot stick they dangled in front of you.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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…then when a pandemic strikes you aren’t financially vulnerable and your bills and living expenses are still covered.

Bills have a tendency to “disappear” when you learn about residual and passive income.

Whether there is a pandemic or not Life can be about creating experiences and having moments rather than making it about paying bills and affording food.

It just so happens when there is a pandemic it really exposes in a harsh way the Folly of depending on your job or the government as the main source of your income.

Be the few who evolves and get into residual and passive income it is the ultimate security for you and your family.

-Tom

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The reason you go out to make money is so you can buy passive money.

The reason you buy passive money is so you can buy your life back.

Live your life, have those moments, and create those experiences without ever having to put energy into paying your bills or affording better food ever again.

The pandemic is exposing how harsh and self-sabotaging it is to depend on money from your job to fund your livelihood..

For a few this is a wake-up call to learn about passive and residual money.

The many will continue heeding the call for obedient workers. The many will go back for more right after a pandemic. The many will live and die dependent on the federal government or their job to take care of them.

Be the few.

Life is worth it to be the few in this context.

You only get one singular dash between your birth and death date.

Don’t spend your one life living and dying underneath the thumb of others who can rip your livelihood away from you if you don’t do as you’re told.

Even if you do as you’re told, it’s being exposed right now, you will suffer needlessly if you continue to play their sick vile game.

I’m not anti job I’m anti dependency.

Learn passive money and become free <3 I started learning passive money in August of 2007. If you'd like to be in my Change Makers group all positive minded individuals are welcome to request to join. -Tom P.s. If you'd like to work with me I don't charge any fees I'm not going to sell you something you don't want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

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Declaration of Gratitude and Invitation

My coach wrote this declaration of gratitude and invitation that pretty much mirrors how I feel so I wanted to copy and paste an excerpt with all of you. If at the end of reading this you’d like to be in my Change Makers group let me know…

I fully admit that I’m hella lucky to still have income during all of this. Every day I’m f***ing thankful as ever that I decided to become a coach all of those years ago, and that I never gave up on it. I’m not sure where I’d be right now without it.

By being a coach I not only was able to align myself with a company that I trust, believe in, and have had amazing results with… but I was also able to learn skills I never would’ve dove into myself. It’s because of being a coach that I dove into learning more about finances, investing, and everything else as well – since I was running my own business (as an independent contractor) at that point.

That being said… nothing in life is ever certain. All I know is that I’m ok right now, I’m I’m super hella grateful for that! I also know that I’m in a position where I can help others, and I’m SUPER HELLA grateful for that. I don’t know how long anything will last, none of us do… but right here, right now, I know that I can breathe, and I can hopefully help others breathe as well.

This company has been my rock, my family, my friends, my motivators, and everything in between for all of these years. Sometimes I feel as though it was a gift that came into my life to prepare me for something like this… and it has. I didn’t know what I was getting into, but I said “yes” and I’m so f***ing happy that I did. My life was forever changed.

If you ever want to do fitness with me, whether as a client or as a coach, I got you. Even if you are in hard times right now, I’m offering a TON of free stuff in my group Change Makers! My main goal is to give and help… anything else is icing on the cake at this point.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

follow your heart

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Take Notes and Keep Learning in Perpetuity!

Awww… She even wrote down don’t be an intellectual a masterbator when she was taking notes from my content I published <3

Most people do not take notes. Some people do. Do the opposite of what most people are doing and by default you are going to be more unusually successful than the average person.

Be a note taker, dedicate yourself to taking action on at least 1 item daily, and watch where your life is one year from now!

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

follow your heart

Have you enjoyed this? Was it helpful in breaking some circular thought patterns you might have been stuck in? Do you know anyone who could benefit from this? Sharing is caring. Share with friends and family.

Was this helpful? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if you commented and shared on Facebook and other Social Media, too. You might also enjoy Fire Your Boss & 31 Ways to Raise Money Now.

If you enjoyed my blog you might LOVE my YouTube video about changing one thing, the direction of your cash-flow, to change Everything:

Better than Cheap Food and Living Broke

You will need the money you save on cheap food to afford the down payment on your medical bills.

Plus, big Pharma needs you to be sick so they can make more money at the expense you and your kids.

Or, learn about natural plant based foods you can prepare yourself.

Now you are saving money and eating healthy and doing good by your family and I can make more run-on sentences about it.

-Tom

P.s. If you’d like to work with me I don’t charge any fees I’m not going to sell you something you don’t want or need: http://workwithtom.fireyourboss.xyz

follow your heart

Have you enjoyed this? Was it helpful in breaking some circular thought patterns you might have been stuck in? Do you know anyone who could benefit from this? Sharing is caring. Share with friends and family.

Was this helpful? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if you commented and shared on Facebook and other Social Media, too. You might also enjoy Fire Your Boss & 31 Ways to Raise Money Now.

If you enjoyed my blog you might LOVE my YouTube video about changing one thing, the direction of your cash-flow, to change Everything: