I.e.”I don’t have time to take care of myself and take care of my dreams and promises I have to spend that time focusing on my kids etc”
I’m not a parent but I talk to them. I talk to a LOT of people because I want to understand beyond the scope of ONLY the shoes I happen to fill. My friend Lisa, who is a mom, is very wise. I wanted to share a parents perspective in case you happen to be struggling with this in raising your own kids. Just maybe this can help you and your family..
Asema Lisa – “I don’t have a 6 pack, although I would LOVE to. What I do have is a very unmotivated 15 year old. He drives me absolutely nuts because he seems to have no drive to do anything. As soon as something he wants turns into something he has to work for, he quits it. I’ve been racking my brain and have tried everything from rewards, to threats, to pleading for him to work for something. I mention all this because after training 3 days a week with my group and doing the Diva Dash this weekend, my son has taken an interest in something. He wants to do a 5k obstacle course with me, and he’s willing to WORK for it. I think the quality time issue here is null and void, because he is now asking to spend more quality time with me because he has seen my hard work and perseverance pay off. I have taught him more by taking care of myself than by focusing solely on him.”
A very big THANK YOU to Lisa for giving me permission to publish this Beautiful Valuable Wisdom in my Blog. We hope it helps!
-Tom
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War… It’s the one thing that makes our political Donors happier than anything else because it makes trillions of dollars.
I may delete this entire thread after posting it. WE shall see =)
We have a president who promised to “drain the swamp” and “I can’t be bought” who ended up taking Donor money just like the rest, and does their bidding, just as the rest. Our president, just like congress, takes legalized bribery and is completely bought and paid for.
We have a president and a congress on both the left and right who does not represent you or me.
Republican or democrat you’re all full of poo.
They do not represent you or I but you still vote for them.
They represent their donors not you so stop voting for them it’s obnoxiously self sabotaging.
YOU have to pay for socialism to the rich and powerful donors.
Our president is full of socialism but only for their donors not for you. YOU have to suffer losses, and if you gain you have to pay taxes… Otherwise how will they fund socialism for their donors??? You are saddled with that burden.
Our president railed against double standards. There is an economic double standard against you because you did not contribute a million dollors to the political class!
Our president railed against wealth redistribution while sponsoring legislation that redistributes wealth at a higher dollar than ALL presidents past.
Why?
Because he is bought and paid for like all the rest.
We need to get all private money Out of politics. We cannot have honorable agreements or disagreements with any of them so long as they are on the take they have a conflict of interest that would be illegal anywhere else except for in politics.
We cannot have a representative government so long as their is private money in politics.
If you’re on the left, or the right, it does matter to get the private money OUT of politics.
-Tom
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There is one particular form of snobbery that could actually save your life and inspire others to save their life, too.
Let me explain…
I’m going to use two examples.
1.) Food.
I consider myself a food snob. You might be like, “I don’t wanna be one of those”. Just maybe, yes, yes you do want to be a food snob without demeaning other people. Let me share why…
If you’re a food snob you’re gonna care about what you put into your body. You’re going to make informed decisions instead of just going along with whatever you’ve been programmed. You’re not likely to be an obedient consumer that’s going to make drug private health insurance companies lots of money. You’re not likely going to make very evil crooked corrupt people rich at the expense of yourself so they can have more while you have less.
So pay attention to what you eat.
Instead of the deep fried double wide have immune boosting food. Have your anti-inflammatory food. Have your plant based whole foods and your natural GMO free food.
Why?
Because you’re gonna FEEL better. You’re gonna BE better. You’re gonna LIVE better and you’re not gonna be a sucker for the drug and private health insurance companies anymore.
You’re not gonna be a sucker for people that make their living and their extreme riches at the sheer willful ignorance of their consumers.
I’m not going to be that person either.
I’m not any better than anybody else however my actions I believe are far better than the actions of most people.
You’re better than a deep-fried double wide greasy whatever.
You’re better than that behavior.
You’re not better than the people who engage in that behavior. You’re just better than that behavior and it’s worth it.
By the way when you become a food snob, an extra added benefit is that you get to elevate your taste buds. You actually get to enjoy food more not less. It’s a common misconception that people who eat healthier don’t enjoy their food as much. No, you get to enjoy food more not less.
2.) Money.
I’m a money snob, too.
Did you know that if you have more money you can give more?
Did you know that there’s going to be tens of thousands of people that are going to die this year because they don’t have frickin food and healthy drinking water?
Can you believe that crap?
Did you know that money could save their lives by getting them those things that they need?
Did you know that?
Did you know that there are certain kinds of income types that most people have no clue about because it’s not taught in school or in media?
There is ordinary earned income which you’re already familiar with because it’s the only one taught in school. Ordinary earned income is job or self employed income that enslaves all of it’s participants to the dollar.
There is another type of income that is opposite of the ordinary earned income nonsense.
It’s called PASSIVE and RESIDUAL money and it’s not just different it’s flat out superior vs the inferior ordinary earned income.
Passive and residual income can release somebody entirely from being attached to money so that one could live free in real security and stability for their family without ripping themselves off everyday by working out of neediness for a paycheck.
Did you know that those income types exist?
I do.
I learned about it.
I became an absolute money snob when I learned about it.
I’m better than ordinary earned income.
YOU are better than ordinary earned income.
It’s “ordinary” because it’s common and you can’t de-couple your time from it or you lose your ability to pay bills and eat. That’s so risky and unstable that all job titles should be changed to, “professional gambler”.
You are not better anyone else.
I’m not better than anyone else.
There is a nuance to be recognized in snobbery. Being a people snob is never acceptable. Being a food and money snob based on behavior with food and money can save your life and empower you to save other peoples lives.
Not all money is created equal.
Not all food is created equal.
Not all habits are created equal.
People are created equal.
People consciously decide to be conscious thinking people that taps into their free thinking critical faculties or people can make no decision at all which in effect you’ve decided to live your life by default and when you live your life by default, not thinking about the food you’re eating or the income type you’re making, the consequences are the results.
If you don’t critically think to make worthwhile nuances and discernment you live by default. When you live by default you’re constantly being pushed and tossed around like a rag doll by your circumstances and other outside forces you have no control over. Become consciously aware of your behaviors so you can refine them. Becoming a food and money snob can allow you to correct those behaviors and find better ways.
Those are just a couple of examples.
I hope that expands how you think about snobbery and how there are different kinds of it.
One form of snobbery is useful while another form of snobbery just means you’re a jerk face to other people.
You can use the better kind of snobbery as a mechanism to save your life and inspire others to save theirs, too.
So be a food snob. Be a money snob. Go for the better foods, the better money types, know why you’re doing it and start becoming a more free and critical thinking human being.
Never become a people snob.
You’re better than those behaviors that hurt you and others around you.
Make the decision to draw a line in the sand and decide that life is worth it.
Life is worth being a food and money snob.
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I have thousands of pieces of content all to do with health, healing, freedom, financial freedom, and how the real rich measures there wealth by their time not their money. But they connect the dots between being financially free and time freedom. They know the difference between different income types and that ordinary job money is inferior to passive and residual money. They consciously think about what they put into their mouths and what they put into their brain. They consciously think about how they deal with stress and how they enhance their personal lives. They don’t trash their relationships for the sake of becoming successful because that’s not success. Success is Yes and Yes. Poor is either or.
Share this and become a snob with money and food but never a snob with people.
-Tom
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Lets use the most common two big examples. Draw parallels to whatever you wish you had that you currently don’t have!
Let’s do money and health..
How many people are sayin, “I just wish I had a good winning lotto ticket!”?
People who win the lotto can’t keep it!
How do I know that?
Because they typically lose it!
They never learned how to get it so when they get it they lose it!
If you learn how to get money yourself you’ll probably not lose it you could get even more of it. You could leave it behind for your kids and grand kids inheritance and then they can lose it because they never learned how to get it..LoL
And then they are wishing for really great health. But then they can’t keep it because they never changed their life style.
BECOME the person who can CREATE Health.
Become the person who can gently heal and detox on a daily basis.
Every day we are exposed to toxins. That’s a fact of life. We have to negate that and do better than the toxins so we are on the side of health.
You learn how to go through that deal, learn how to feed your mind the right ideas, how to think the right thoughts, learn how to eat properly, how to minimize or annihilate stress, the kind of working out you should be doing, how you should be evolving your workouts based on your progress with your own fitness your own health and natural healers and immune system, you be the person that can learn those things and then you stack the deck and put the odds extremely in your favor that you’re probably going to be really healthy your whole life.
Pass on deeply in your sleep at a ripe old age without rotting to death the last two thirds of your life like how most people do.
Draw parallels to anything else you can think of you can possibly imagine that maybe you’ve wished for but if you had it you know you wouldn’t be able to keep it anyway because you never went through the deal of learning HOW to get it.
The most valuable thing in accomplishing a goal and getting something is WHO you become in the process to get it.
Once you’re there and you have whatever it is then celebrate for a while, but, you can only stay there for so long and then you have to get back on the train of learning again and maybe set another goal that creates another recognizable from where you are now and where you want to be with your new goal.
Now you have to BECOME more again and the learning and growing continues!
You’re basically graduating to a better quality of problems to solve to close those gaps and consistently become more.
It boils down to having an innate CRAVING to learn and hold oneself responsible for whatever happens and where ever you’re at right now.
It’s not the economy keeping you back or your boss.
It’s not bad health keeping you back, it’s not other people breaking promises keeping you back, nobodys making you act a certain way..
How many times do we say, “So and so makes me feel ______”? We do that more than we should!
We rationalize things all the time to make us feel better about ourselves because it can be hard and scary to have some real reflection and be responsible for our lives. It’s more productive to say to ourselves, “I can’t be responsible for what other people are doing and saying but I’m responsible for how I respond to what other people are doing and saying and I’m responsible for my thoughts, for solving my problems, and for becoming the person I want to become that can accomplish my dreams.
You want to be financially free so you can do what you want with your time?
If it was just given to you, you wouldn’t be able to keep it because you never learned how to get it so therefore that money would be transferred over time back to people more financially intelligent than you without you even knowing about it and you’d probably blame other people and never take responsibility for never becoming the person who could get your own financial freedom and keep it.
If you OWN IT and have a sincere LOVE for learning then you can get become financially free and you can accomplish a goal whatever that is.
That’s a life lesson!
Feel free to share this. Comment and LOVE up on it. Don’t “like”! Like is so impotent when there’s a love button right next to it!
If you love health and fitness like I do and you love learning how to become financially free and healthy connect with me. I’ve been doing this since august of 2007! Message me I’ll show you what I’ve got and if you like it we’ll do it. Bye for now.
-Tom
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If I have a bad day I show it to whoever is there with a positive aim to heal.
If I do something dumb it’s out in the open where I want it to be.
When I score a victory through the ashes of something that started poorly it will be on display so no one can have permission in my example to be a quitter.
Ya know what doesn’t inspire anyone to do anything?
Playing small.
Afraid to dream.
Afraid to make mistakes.
Quitting.
Excuses.
Ego tripping.
Everyone already knows how to act like a loser they don’t need you or I showing them.
Let’s show people how to be human, how to THINK BIG, DREAM BIG, cry, make mistakes, learn, grow, don’t keep it from people…
I hope my sharing all this stuff inspires you to be unafraid to be unreserved about all of who you are, too, and to dream bigger than you have before and just be unreserved completely about the process of making your beautiful dreams a beautiful reality.
Put it all on display the good bad and ugly it inspires people.
Too many people choose happiness or money.
Choose BOTH.
YES AND YES is rich.
One or the other is Poor.
Feel free to share.
-Tom
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My doctor didn’t tell me about the healing power of Simply eating more plants and Less meat and Dairy.
Maybe he was on the secret payroll of Private health insurance and drug companies to play dumb with the quality of my life?
My joints and muscles feels so good that I literally spring out of bed each morning even if I’m feeling emotionally sad I can physically bounce around at any time with great energy Even first thing in the morning when everyone else is sore and achy and popping pills.
The same ones that help me grow more youthful as I get older in years.
I had my dad and mom use the same stuff.
My dad lived another 9 plus years because of it according to his doctor.
My mom I still have hopefully for many more years.
-Tom
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But Tom I love my job when you love what you do you are free!”
Love of hard work and dedication is a wonderfully positive moral character trait and is different than a job which is a preconceived notion commonly confused with work.
A JOB gives you an illusion of safety. Hard work is the actions that you partake in to continue your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental development. A JOB is external, hard work is an internal character trait.
For my Curious friends… The only income that creates freedom of time is passive and residual. So Google research it if you’re interested in being a free human being. I have lots of blog posts and videos about it if you’d like I’m happy to share what I’ve taught on the topic matter.
-Tom
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Most people feel just fine living out the status quo designed for them by somebody else and the only time they tend to get agitated is when someone points it out.
I might be wrong for pointing it out! Who knows. I certainly like pointing it out though 🙂
I think a lot of us tend to take things way too seriously when it’s not supposed to be and we take things way too lightly when we are supposed to be taking things more seriously.
Just maybe the best thing to ask for is to learn when to take life seriously and when not to.
I’ve been guilty of this just like anyone else. Sometimes I’m guilty and Incredibly dumb at the same time lol
What I’m getting out of life so far is to love, be loved, make lots of money openly and proudly, express yourself without reservations, freedom without the expense of someone else’s freedom, reciprocal relationships whenever possible, learn to become closer to each others Souls than our physical bodies, get away from ordinary earned income, make lots of residual and passive income, and make lots of money brazenly in the face of anyone who dare hold a negative energy towards money so stupidly so.
Yes all of these things is what I’m getting out of a meaningful life so far. I can’t wait to see what else I learned in my next 40 years or however much longer I’m here for.
-Tom
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I have an extremely difficult time connecting with people.
My people skills are all but nonexistent.
I have no idea what to say to people in Social settings and I don’t like how that feels.
I don’t wear my lack of people skills with a badge of honor.
Still, I learned how to build a business from scratch in my precious minutes of spare time and haven’t needed a job since February of 2010.
There are always going to be people who want to get healthy, make better money, have more control of their time, be with their family instead of pictures of their family, become financially free, there is always going to be a need for more people to start their own personal businesses.
My people skills are so poor that MAYBE only one person at a time will be inspired to contact me about how they can get involved.
Thankfully I was able to do this only one person at a time.
I think that’s why this is so good because it’s one person at a time even in short increments at a time.
When I started I only had about 20 minutes a day that typically had to be broken up into 5 or 10 minute increments at a time.
A registered nurse recently did it in only 2 minutes at a time on her potty break at her job.
I’m in the midst of writing a new course I’m going to call the 5 minute potty break trainer to help people who want some help at retaking control of their time.
Shy and socially awkward people are typically the ones who do really well here which surprised me because I thought only the outgoing and socially advanced people could do this.
If you want to get involved feel free to private message me.
-Tom
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If you have no debt whatsoever, none, are you free?
No you’re not.
You have these bills that keep showing up every month.
Therefor you have Residual bills.
If you don’t have residual money to cover those residual bills you’re not free.
What if you stopped showing up at your job?
That turns off your income obviously because you stopped showing up.
So the income is going to turn off but you still have these bills that keep showing up every month and you have no debt.
Your time is still coupled to your income which means you don’t have time freedom.
So, that’s not to take away from being debt free if you are debt free.
No consumer debt, you own your house outright no mortgage, no car payments, no credit card debt and so on and so forth that’s awesome! Not to take away from that at all!
If you want to be a free human being where you’ve got your time de-coupled from your income you need residual and passive income.
You have residual bills so you might as well have residual income to de-couple how you spend your time from your income and then at last you’re a free human being unshackled from the chains that bound you to the dollar.
You could actually be in debt.. Let’s say you’re a million dollars in debt (extreme example but to make a point) but you have an annual residual income of two million dollars.
You’re a free human being!
Versus somebody who has no debt and has no residual income but they have residual bills.
The person with a million dollars of debt with two million dollars residual income is actually way more free than the person with no debt and no residual income.
I hope that makes sense.
If you have any questions please feel free to comment below, private message me if that’s more comfortable I don’t care I’m open and honest.
If you are debt free celebrate it but don’t confuse it for financial freedom or being free because most debt free people are still chained and shackled to the dollar or they can’t pay their bills and eat.
I’m offering a point of view that is way outside the box of what just about anybody is thinking about.
If you love the concept of being a free human being, free with your time, time freedom to be able to do what you want, it doesn’t matter if you love your job and you live a life style that doesn’t interfere with your job.
If you can’t de-couple your time from your income you’re not a free human being with how you’re going to spend your time.
The only thing that can give that to you is residual passive income and it’s something that can be built up in anybodys spare time.
One of the hallmarks of residual money is it can be built up even if you’ve just got twenty minutes a day like my start was when I started at only twenty minutes a day. It’s all I had time for in the beginning.
I’m teaching people how to build residual money in 5 minute increments.
I got inspired by somebody who did it in two minute increments. But that’s a bit extreme.
So it’s possible even in two minutes at a time but I’m going to do at least five minutes at a time.
Everybody gets at least a five minute potty break at work so.
I’m really looking forward to having that published and that will be out soon.
Feel free to ask me about that as well if you wanna be on a list of people that I make aware of as soon as it gets published.
It’s going to be a great training.
Browse around my website.
I have Thousands of videos and blog posts about anything to do with health, wealth, freedom, natural healing and organics and all those kinds of things.
Hope you enjoyed this post.
Share it. Like it. Comment below if you wish and I’ll answer any questions that you have.
Bye for now.
Muah!!
-Tom
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I feel happiness and sadness in the full scope of that spectrum of emotions.
I feel DEEPLY but WITHOUT stressing most of the time if not all the time.
There is a worth while discernment to be made between emotional sadness that we respond to with stress and emotional sadness that we respond to without stress.
I think it’s HEALTHY to have a full scope of emotions that you FEEL deeply.
The worthwhile journey is to learn to feel all emotions stress free including the painful emotions.
Life is like an orchestra.
I love this analogy.
There are happy notes and sad notes. It’s a mix. If you just hear happy notes all the time it would get annoying. If you just hear sad notes all the time it would get annoying. If you get a good mix of happy, sad, and everything in between then it’s a more rich experience.
You can get that full spectrum of emotions without stressing about it just like an orchestra can play a full concert and it doesn’t have to be a complete jumbled stress mess that destroys itself.
The wide spectrum enhances the experience.
You can walk out of the concert with a feeling of WOW… What did I just experience??? That’s Living! And you didn’t stress out about ANY of those wonderful ranges of emotions did you?
What if you approached lifes full scope of emotions that way?
What happens when you feel good?
It’s easy to respond good when you’re feeling good.
What about when you’re emotionally hurting?
Sometimes it’s easy to stress out about it and that induces the aging process. It makes you feel older over time. You’re going to feel older and look older. When you learn to condition your brain to feel without stress… when I’m emotionally in pain I can stress about it or I can just feel it and then bring myself back as it happens because life is kind of like a roller coaster that way.
Peaks and valleys.
We can have those peaks and valleys without stress, just FEEL and LIVE.
I think those peaks and valleys are actually very good for us when we mature ourselves emotionally to the point where we don’t have to stress about it. We can just feel it and we can be open with each other about it. We can talk about it and be vulnerable because there is a lot of power in that. It’s gonna go a long way towards helping you look and feel younger.
I’m going to go very briefly over the other major variables that contribute toward looking and feeling younger as we get older.
Sleep!
Regular deep sleep because that’s when the brain releases growth hormone and heals the body from the days stressors and other things you need daily and nightly healing from.
Eat lots of plants!
Whenever somebody compliments my skin, or how young I look, it’s an automatic gut response at this point. I simply smile and say, “Thanks! I eat a LOT of plants”. When they learn I’m in my 40s they are practically in shock. A lot of people guess I’m only 24. I don’t know why that weird number is so common to guess but it certainly makes me happy to tell them I eat a lot of plants and THANK YOU. They always giggle when I say that but it gets them thinking, too.
Regular physical activity!
Get in regular exercise that’s going to challenge you without stressing you.
I’m going to add the same nuance to exercise that I added to emotional pain.
Yoga is great for teaching people to find the calmness within the storm. It goes in alignment what I was talking about in the beginning of this post. You can feel emotional pain without stressing about it and just let it be part of enhancing your life in this adventure that you have in this physical world. With exercise it’s the same thing. You find your point where you’re being challenged so that you get more fit and more healthy but you find the calness in that storm when you’re doing a move, holding a pose, or whatever and its uncomfortable. Find that calmness in that storm man!
That’s certainly gonna go a long way towards looking and feeling younger as you get older.
I’m spring loaded!
All my joints feel like they did when I was twelve!
I’m on no medications.
I was suppose to have arthritis when I was 26. Today, in my 40s, not only do I NOT have arthritis, I jump out of bed every morning! Not because I’m happy. Sometimes I am sometimes I’m not. Just as a mechanical function I can spring into action out of a seated position and my joints feel like they did when I was twelve, literally. No exaggeration.
That’s pretty cool!
No medication, I eat a lot of plants, I get regular deep sleep, I get regular challenging exercise, and I feel the full spectrum of emotions without stressing when I’m sad.
When you are able to push yourself hard in your workouts and learn to find that calmness in the storm it translates into every day functional life.
When things in life get stressful or emotionally painful you learn to find the calmness within the storm. When you can find that calmness in the storm you’re just gonna be more productive. You’re gonna respond better to lifes challenges and emotional pain.
Sometimes we tend to do as humans, we take a disastrous situation and we create another disaster from the disaster because we don’t find the calmness in the storm. Instead we stress out about it and that tends to multiply the problem where we take an already messy situation and make it messier. Instead of that let’s respond with finding calmness in the storm. We can respond better.
Pretty cool stuff !
I hope you enjoy this post.
Please share this if you know some people that need to hear this.
We all need to hear things like this.
It would be a happier world if ideas like these were more commonly being floated around for people to absorb.
I need to hear stuff like this too so I study great ideas regularly.
How else do you think I’m able to keep coming up with all these posts? =)
Comment below with something that you do to help yourself and to help other people around 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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I’m gonna share some things that I’ve been doing for a really long time now and if you’re physically missing that spring in your step because of sore joints and muscles commonly associated with aging maybe I’ll share something that can help you out or someone you know that you can share this with.
It’s not really an emotional spring I’m talking about.
I have a mix of happiness and sadness that I live with I deeply feel both sides of that emotional spectrum.
The spring in my step I’m talking about is the feeling of every time I step down, I sit down, I get up out of a seated position, or a squat, or the fact I can squat at all, it’s a physical spring that connects to an emotional feeling of feeling really well and healthy.
I’m on zero medications.
I have no discomfort whatsoever and so every morning when I wake up literally I’d just kind of bounce out of bed.
It’s not like an oh I’m so happy all the time kind of bounce or spring.
It’s just my health and my joints feel so good.
14 years ago I was suppose to have arthritis and 14 years later not only do I not have arthritis but I’m in my 40s now and I have the spring in my step that I’ve been rambling on about!
Here’s what I’m doing that I believe is responsible for my not aging the way that most people age and the fact I was I had a predisposition to where I should have had arthritis 14 years ago and I still don’t have it.
My Dr. who told me this did not mention anything about nutrition let alone certain kinds of nutrition that do different things to the human body.
He didn’t tell me about the effect of deep sleep or deep sleep at all. We didn’t have that conversation.
He didn’t tell me about minimizing stress or eliminating stress. We never had that conversation let alone talking about it.
It makes me wonder if my Dr. was on the secret payroll of private health insurance companies and PhRMA companies who make their money managing everything and curing nothing.
So my diet I changed to a plant based whole food diet.
I get good sound sleep every night.
I have things I could be stressing about like anyone else but I choose not to have that stress response anyone. It’s like a survival tactic. Literally 90 percent of diseases generally comes from stress. I’ve heard many experts talk about it and go on to say that it’s even more important than what we eat.
There are plenty of people I know that eat squeaky clean but they’re stressed out all the time from a bad spouse, a bad job, they’re pulling their hair out from their heads and suddenly they get cancer and can’t figure out why.
It’s stress man ya gotta eliminate stress and get good deep sleep every night and then you also have to eat a plant based whole food diet that works for you.
Then you don’t have to age the way that most people do.
Tony Horton said aging is for people who don’t know any better.
I think he’s right by objective measurements that show he is right.
It’s really about stacking the deck in your favor because we’ll never have absolute 100% control.
Anybody that writes me or comments in this thread about how you could still get sick even if you do everything right, well, then you didn’t real this post all the way through because I’m saying it right now about stacking the odds significantly in your favor because we’ll never have complete control but we do control how we respond to situations to make them less stressful, or no stress, no matter how bad the situation was and we have decisions over what we put into our mouth and things like that.
If sleep is a problem that could be tricky but you can certainly go down certain paths to figuring that out so that you can eventually get a really good night sleep if you suffer from something that gets in the way of that.
I hope that helps you.
My website I’ve furnished with tons of this stuff.
Thousands of pieces of content all to do with health, healing, wealth, chronic disease, chronic debt etc..
I drink it every day for many years at least one meal per day.
Truth be told I do two most days because I really love the way it tastes it’s quite delicious
It has gone a long way in supporting me towards living free of any aches, pains, or discomforts whatsoever.
Being in my 40s now I was suppose to have arthritis 14 years ago and it never happened.
If I have anything to do with it, it never will happen so there you have it.
Feel free to share this. Like it. comment. If you’ve got some other ideas too that can add to this I’d love to learn from you too about how NOT to age the way most people age.
People think it’s normal to age with aches and pains.
It’s not normal. It’s common.
So if you know more please share and expand all of our minds =)
Share this post because I’m sure you know some people that would get some value from what I just shared with you.
Bye for 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
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When we were kids we have these big dreams that we allow others to beat out of us as we grow into adults.
Sometimes we have to put a filter in our brain and consciously choose what we’re gonna accept and what we’re gonna reject.
A lot of us have moments in our lives when we are thinking really big and then tough things happen, because that’s what happens when you think really big, and we shrink backwards into thinking small again.
That’s what happens when you think big! You get bigger challenges things become really tough.
If you think back to think small the challenges might become smaller and maybe easier to accomplish small goals.
Maybe we go back to thinking smaller and dreaming smaller as a way to make it easier to live with ourselves for being a quitter, or in some cases, a non starter.
Why not make your dream so important to you that you’re eager to go through the tougher challenges to make it happen because your heart would break not to.
I think the whole purpose of those tougher challenges that seem to happen when we dream and think bigger is to force you to have to get the skills, the emotional maturity, and spiritual growth you need to be able to get what you want and fulfill that promise you made to yourself and maybe to other people.
That kind of dreaming you did when you were a child gets a common response when you grow into an adult, “it’s so hard so maybe if I just shrink back a little bit and it doesn’t have to be this great or that big and the thinking can be a little bit smaller I can scale back here and there so that should be easier and then maybe I can do it when my dream is small enough.”
Maybe instead of chipping away at your self esteem in the long run it’s much easier to go through the deal of figuring stuff out.
Instead of shrinking your dreams so you don’t have to grow yourself you could grow your-self so you don’t have to shrink your dreams.
You don’t have to become anything to be nothing.
It’s time to go through the deal of figuring out how to make your big dreams a reality.
The only thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream is a beautiful reality.
If you dig this kind of stuff my website is Tom Birkenmeyer Dot Com. I’m full of it! Ideas and philosophies!!
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When the going get tough you have two options. Shrink or Grow.
Shrinking means you don’t have to become anything more than you already are. No growth. No expansion of your brain. No creative thought. It keeps you lazy. It’s emotionally immature. It’s poor. A temporary illusion of “easy” because over time the real damage comes when you realize you’ve been chipping away at yourself all this time. When you chose to shrink instead of grow you’re under the illusion of making it easier to live with yourself for being a quitter.
When you chose to GROW you have to unleash the power of your human spirit to get creative, learn new things, grow up emotionally, battle laziness, staves off dementia such as alzheimer’s, it’s rich. Instead of making lazy statements you begin to ask rich questions such as asking what books you might need to read, what webinars and seminars to attend, what teachers to teach you, maybe what classes to take, what mistakes can teach you, what kind of a student and action taker you wanna be, the kind of person you want to become.
Now these challenges are just things to figure out instead of road blocks to keep you back.
That’s much better than shrinking backwards don’t you agree?
I think so.
It’s even easier I’d say than subscribing to the illusion that shrinking is easier because you pay for it with the quality of your life.
Reminds me of a great philosophy…
Go for a worth while life not an easy one.
As it turns out the worth while life is easier than the delusional “easy” life.
Don’t you think?
-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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I’m gonna share some things that I’ve been doing for a really long time now and if you’re physically missing that spring in your step because of sore joints and muscles commonly associated with aging maybe I’ll share something that can help you out or someone you know that you can share this with.
It’s not really an emotional spring I’m talking about.
I have a mix of happiness and sadness that I live with I deeply feel both sides of that emotional spectrum.
The spring in my step I’m talking about is the feeling of every time I step down, I sit down, I get up out of a seated position, or a squat, or the fact I can squat at all, it’s a physical spring that connects to an emotional feeling of feeling really well and healthy.
I’m on zero medications.
I have no discomfort whatsoever and so every morning when I wake up literally I’d just kind of bounce out of bed.
It’s not like an oh I’m so happy all the time kind of bounce or spring.
It’s just my health and my joints feel so good.
14 years ago I was suppose to have arthritis and 14 years later not only do I not have arthritis but I’m in my 40s now and I have the spring in my step that I’ve been rambling on about!
Here’s what I’m doing that I believe is responsible for my not aging the way that most people age and the fact I was I had a predisposition to where I should have had arthritis 14 years ago and I still don’t have it.
My Dr. who told me this did not mention anything about nutrition let alone certain kinds of nutrition that do different things to the human body.
He didn’t tell me about the effect of deep sleep or deep sleep at all. We didn’t have that conversation.
He didn’t tell me about minimizing stress or eliminating stress. We never had that conversation let alone talking about it.
It makes me wonder if my Dr. was on the secret payroll of private health insurance companies and PhRMA companies who make their money managing everything and curing nothing.
So my diet I changed to a plant based whole food diet.
I get good sound sleep every night.
I have things I could be stressing about like anyone else but I choose not to have that stress response anyone. It’s like a survival tactic. Literally 90 percent of diseases generally comes from stress. I’ve heard many experts talk about it and go on to say that it’s even more important than what we eat.
There are plenty of people I know that eat squeaky clean but they’re stressed out all the time from a bad spouse, a bad job, they’re pulling their hair out from their heads and suddenly they get cancer and can’t figure out why.
It’s stress man ya gotta eliminate stress and get good deep sleep every night and then you also have to eat a plant based whole food diet that works for you.
Then you don’t have to age the way that most people do.
Tony Horton said aging is for people who don’t know any better.
I think he’s right by objective measurements that show he is right.
It’s really about stacking the deck in your favor because we’ll never have absolute 100% control.
Anybody that writes me or comments in this thread about how you could still get sick even if you do everything right, well, then you didn’t real this post all the way through because I’m saying it right now about stacking the odds significantly in your favor because we’ll never have complete control but we do control how we respond to situations to make them less stressful, or no stress, no matter how bad the situation was and we have decisions over what we put into our mouth and things like that.
If sleep is a problem that could be tricky but you can certainly go down certain paths to figuring that out so that you can eventually get a really good night sleep if you suffer from something that gets in the way of that.
I hope that helps you.
My website I’ve furnished with tons of this stuff.
Thousands of pieces of content all to do with health, healing, wealth, chronic disease, chronic debt etc..
tom birkenmeyer dot com
Last but not least for a very long time now I drink a very dense superfood whole food plant based shake.
I drink it every day for many years at least one meal per day.
Truth be told I do two most days because I really love the way it tastes it’s quite delicious
It has gone a long way in supporting me towards living free of any aches, pains, or discomforts whatsoever.
Being in my 40s now I was suppose to have arthritis 14 years ago and it never happened.
If I have anything to do with it, it never will happen so there you have it.
Feel free to share this. Like it. comment. If you’ve got some other ideas too that can add to this I’d love to learn from you too about how NOT to age the way most people age.
People think it’s normal to age with aches and pains.
It’s not normal. It’s common.
So if you know more please share and expand all of our minds =)
Share this post because I’m sure you know some people that would get some value from what I just shared with 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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I’ve slept at my moms house which use to be my parents house since dad passed on.
I’m most likely not going out tonight. I don’t know of anything going on that interests me enough to attend even though it’s friday night, but I’m open if something changes.
It feels like the whole universe has to re arrange itself but it’s not so it leaves me feeling disoriented.
I hurt, I feel a void larger than any void I’ve ever felt in my life that sits in the pit of my stomach that won’t go away, I want to run to my dad like I’ve always been able to and I’ll never be able to again.
Honestly I am well. Even in the midst of all that I am feeling I really do feel well.
Being open and vulnerable about this whole experience has been therapeutic for me and from I hear from lots of people it’s helped them, too.
So I guess this is an update post about how I am doing. I hope you are doing well, too.
Building my online health and fitness biz around residual money is the main other thing im doing that’s therapeutic. I love to work. I have to keep myself busy with something I love learning about.
I love working so much that I got rid of my TV YEARS ago and havent looked back at it.
My dad was proud of me. He still is proud of me from Heaven.
I’m even in the midst of creating a whole new training course called the 5 minute potty break trainer..LoL I’m pouring myself into it with all I’ve got which is a LOT when you consider I’ve been consistently learning every day without breaking for the past 10 years and counting. I’m looking forward to the first hundred or so people who take this training course and the feedback they give that I can post all over facebook.
Facebook is wildly valuable depending on how it’s used.
Even my dad got on facebook for the last 6 years of his amazing life here on earth.
This is one of those posts that irritates some while Inspiring others.
Depending on a job for income to pay bills and eat should be avoided with everything in your power.
Question: I agree but where do I get the money to pay the bills or eat?
Me: Research passive and residual money. It’s the only income type that de couple’s time from money. At first I found it very difficult but as I went through the process in my precious minutes of spare time (with a hunger for LEARNING) it got easier and it gave me time freedom. I have thousands of videos and blog posts about it on my www.tombirkenmeyer.com website.
Question: I dunno. I’ve done it your way. Neither worked for me.
Me: Find your way not my way or anyone else’s way. And when you find your way promise yourself you’ll try and fail over and over again until you figure it out. The word “until” is a huge part of figuring stuff out and solving problems. A deadline for quitting is not part of the equation in figuring stuff out and solving problems. The short cut is to find a teacher who has been there, done that, figured it out, and is willing to show you, and then you be the best student that you can be so you can in turn teach someone else as you get results, too.
Question: I don’t know what “my way” is. Not sure how to find it either. I’ll not “quit”. But I won’t beat my head on the brick wall for something that is not for me.
Me: Don’t use your head against a brick wall. The wall will win! LOL.. Find the right tool, the right teacher, the right training, and utilize those things against the brick wall or anything else. There is nothing in your way. Your obstacles are there to force you to get the skills you need so you can get what you want.
Question: A job is a reliable, safe, secure, intelligent source of income.
Me: When an income is owned by someone else, can be taken away at any time for any reason, it requires its participants to trade their time for it like a hamster treading it’s wheel, that income is of the highest risk possible and that person should change whatever their job title is to PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER. The “reliable safe secure income” is the grand illusion. It’s the unforgivable lie that keeps people obedient to the most sinister pyramid scam ever devised against people. Believing job income is safe, reliable, secure or intelligent is just silly. Don’t fall for that scam. It’s sold to you as safe and secure on purpose to keep you obedient to the leadership of the largest financial institutions in the world who need you so they can have more while you have less.
Question: Some jobs HAVE to be done, Tom. Humans need care, roads need repair, teeth need cleaning and repairing, heads need psychologists to shrink them. I can go on.
Me: I’m not anti job. I’m anti dependency. Those jobs can all be done by people that like their jobs, and IF they wish, they can build something that’s passive on the side that covers them financially so they are no longer needy and co-dependent on some company to take care of them. You’re making the talking points of the very people who thrive by exploiting you. Love your job and always go above and beyond with a sense of pride for the work you do. We have to recognize the discernment between a needy co-dependency in the income from a job vs. zero needy co-dependency in the income from a job. When a job becomes optional that’s independence. When a job is out of neediness to pay bills and eat then it’s co-dependency and modern day Obedient Slavery.
Question: I just can’t make a living like you do. That’s YOUR talent, not mine.
Me: It’s not about me and this is not my talent. I was hungry to learn. You’re capable of learning, too. The difference between learning a job vs. learning passive and residual money is if you rely on job income to pay bills and eat you’re time is coupled to your income. If you learn passive and residual income you de-couple your time from your income so you can spend your time how you wish and be where you want to be when you need to be. You’ve learned new skills in the past. You can learn this one, too. Passive and residual income is 100% adaptable to the individual. At a job you have to be adaptable to the job. It’s common to get this backwards and the result is a lot of people don’t believe they can do passive and residual income. There is nothing further from the truth.
Question: I’d love to but I’m broke, debt, I have no time, I have no skill, I have kids, my spouse doesn’t support me, I have too much going on, don’t wanna lose my disability, I have a rash on my butt, mercury is in retrograde etc…
Me: There is someone out there who had it worse than you who figured out residual money while starting at a place in their lives even worse than yours. Replace your rationale for why you can’t with HUNGER for learning how you CAN or you’re screwed and that’s an inside job, ya know, the same home as the solution. Let’s be problem solvers instead of excuse makers.
Question: I poured time, and money into these projects, over lots of years. And I’ve never seen a dime in residuals. So I have a job. And a boss. I wasted thousands of dollars over the course of 30 years, trying this one and that one. Literally, never earned a dime. I have yet to see a program that you can start with no money, or continue without buying products and paying fees.
Me: I hear you that’s part of my story, too. After I tried and failed I tried and failed again, and again, until I figured it out. My big breakthrough and shortcut came when I decided upon 2 things. 1.) I decided to find some teachers who had been there, done that, and willing to show me how. 2.) I returned to the wisdom we all had when we were babies when it came to quitting. When we were babies we didn’t give ourselves a deadline to learn to walk or quit and spend the rest of our lives crawling. We were EAGER, ANXIOUS, HUNGRY to continuously FALL over and over again UNTIL we figured it out. We have to dump the Bad philosophies we learned as adults and replace them with good philosophies. Throwing money at a problem doesn’t solve it, it makes it worse and more costly. Learning new relevant skills solves problems. Putting more time in also doesn’t solve any problems it just costs you more time. If you LEARN how to build residual money part time you win. If you can’t build residual money part time then you also can’t build it full time so the solution is to build your SKILL set in residual money.
Question: I don’t understand why you think it is that you don’t have a job. You spend time doing what you do.
Me: My incomes doens’t require any personal involvement from me. I can afford to work for free, spend my time for free, so I do. But I was not able to do that till I went through that process of de-coupling how I spend my time from my income. In my personal opinion a reasonable income does not come from a source that can take it away at any time for any reason and its recipient can only keep receiving it if they continuously show up on their human hamster wheel to get it. Residual and passive money is the only income type that de-couples time from money and it’s available to anyone no matter how good bad or ugly their circumstances.
Question: You seem judgemental. Not everyone is to walk your path. Everyone has their own purpose.
Me: I don’t want a captive audience I like free thinkers including free to think differently than me. A discrepancy I observe is when someone believes the earth is flat and they believe it’s open for debate. No, its not open. Its settled. The earth is a globe shape. In this case… When someone believes they are wild and free all the while they depend on their job to pay bills then they are just as objectively wrong as the person who believes the earth is flat. They are not wild and free they are chained and shackled to the dollar or they can’t eat. The solution is passive and residual money because it’s the only income type that de-couples time from money and that works for ANY and EVERY purpose and for ANY and EVERY individual. My main point I blog about more than anything is de-coupling ones time from ones money. That way one is free to spend their time however they want.
Question: I respect hard work whether it’s self employed or a job.
Me: Yes I do too! I’m not anti job and I’m definitely not anti work. I’m a workaholic myself. My post is about the dependency people put into income from a job to pay their bills and eat. It’s the worst idea ever and it’s lived by lots of very good people many of whom I love and care about. My post was not attacking the quality of anyone’s character or work ethics. My post was attacking a very stupid idea that very good people subscribe to on a very popular basis
My friend Keia Lavine worded it better than I ever could have so I’ll quote her: “Working hard… is a moral character issue and is different than a job which is a preconceived notion that is confused with work.
A JOB is fashioned slavery that’s gives you an illusion of safety. Hard work is the actions that you partake in to continue your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental development. A JOB is external, hard work is an internal character trait”
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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I’m not an Expert in money. I have a basic understanding of it, and that is why I would NEVER get a job again.
Lots of people think they have a basic understanding of money all the while they need their job or they can’t pay bills and eat.
Their neediness in their job to pay bills and eat shows they are chained and shackled to their income.
49 out of every 50 people unfortunately have been sold terrible unforgivable lies about money and how to pay their living expenses.
Not everyone is ready to learn how money really works.
If a person believes their job is an intelligent safe secure way to make money and not open to the possibility they are dead wrong then they are not ready and will continue their obedience training.
I did my obedience training, unknowing to me, but when I learned new information I changed course IMMEDIATELY.
Some people keep the status quo with new facts while others can’t help but to EVOLVE as they get new facts.
I’m letting you know I come from the world of Obedience so you know that I’m not demonizing you or pointing any fingers if you’ve fallen for this LIE that you’re job income is safe, secure, or even an intelligent way to pay your bills and eat.
I’m not even anti job! Jobs are awesome WHEN THEY ARE OPTIONAL!
If your job is not optional or you starve then you are nothing but at turd in the herd in the eyes of the leadership of the largest financial institutions in the world who need your obedience to perpetually exploit you for their gain at your expense.
In my personal eyes you’re not a turd in the herd. You’re doing the best with what you know. Using job income to pay bills and eat is for people who don’t know any better.
Be hungry to LEARN and TRASH this idea that you know anything about money so that you can become open to LEARN about money and FINALLY go through a worth while process of de-coupling your time from your income.
In the end that’s what its about!
If you go through that process of decoupling your time from your income then you are at last a FREE human being able to spend your time however you want. You’ll be able to be where your heart BLEEDS to be when you need to be.
Without that kind of freedom to spend your time how you wish then you are wasting that DASH between your birth date and death date.
You only get one dash.
Don’t waste it on being a coupled to your income.
Money is NOT that important that you’d tie your god blessed time to it!
De couple your time from your money!
Learn passive and residual income and go through that deal of LEARNING and doing with an absolute resolve that you will NEVER give up UNTIL you’ve solved that problem.
If you give yourself a deadline to quit you’re ripping yourself off.
There is no deadline.
Learn the word, “Until”.
“UNTIL” is a powerful world.
You’ll do it UNTIL!!!
When you were a baby you didn’t give yourself a deadline to learn to walk or quit and spend the rest of your life crawling.
You had more wisdom in that regard when you were a baby than you do now as a grown adult!!!!
Feel free to share this message it’s important and needs to be received more than the lies we’ve been fed all our lives.
If you enjoyed this you might also enjoy the Q & A for Getting a job to pay bills and eat is for people who don’t know any better.
With Love,
-Tom
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Lots more coming!!! I love making videos about Health and Wealth topics and for people who love to eat that stuff up because having both health and wealth, yes and yes, is cool. Picking one or the other is lame.
Yes and Yes! Not yes and no.
Your dash between your birth and death date is your one life you get so I don’t see the point in half-throttling it on choosing either or. YES AND YES =) Everything in the way of YES AND YES is just stuff to figure out. When the going gets tough the tough get going. Too many people quit when the going gets tough and deflect to make it easier to live with themselves for being a non starter or a quitter or both. Eff that self sabotaging non-sense =)
Since my dads passing I’ve been unreserved about my vulnerability. It’s not even a thing anymore for me to keep my crying to myself. If I need to cry I cry. If I have a bad day I show it to whoever is there with the aim of positively healing. If I do something dumb it’s out in the open where I want it to be. When I score a victory through the ashes of something that started poorly it will be on display so no one can have permission in my example to be a quitter.
I hope my sharing all this stuff inspires you to be unafraid to be unreserved about all of who you are, too, and to dream bigger than you have before and just be unreserved completely about the process of making your beautiful dreams a beautiful reality. Put it all on display the good bad and ugly it inspires people.
Ya know what doesn’t inspire anyone to do anything? Playing small. Afraid to dream. Afraid to make mistakes. Quitting. Excuses. Ego tripping. Everyone already knows how to act like a loser they don’t need you or I showing them. Let’s show people how to be human, how to THINK BIG, DREAM BIG, cry, make mistakes, learn, grow, don’t keep it from people…
Thanks for listening.
-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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One of MANY interesting things about my amazing superhero Dad…
Even though he controlled the largest guns in the worlds most powerful NAVY he had absolutely zero interest in ever owning, touching, or firing a gun in his life outside of the Navy.
He was not against them.
He was certainly passionately in favor of BETTER checks and balances.
My dad had a really cool nuanced position about guns based on what’s happening in our country.
He believed federally there are not enough checks and balances which allowed some areas to have to little regulation and other areas to have too much regulation.
He personally never owned a gun and had no interest.
A lot of people who served in our military never had any interest in them and all of them I’ve ever talked to passionately argue for better checks and balances.
The ones who believe in no regulations have always been, that I know of, a small segment of our population who’ve never served in the military.
There is a certain irony to that.
More credibility is on the side of the brave men and women who have a better understanding of high powered weaponry through serving in our military (the most weaponized force on planet earth) than people who don’t.
One thing that not even military men and women recognize is the private money in politics that has caused the gun violence to spiral out of control and why we can’t get regulation specifics that 93% of the country want.
How do we not have something as of yesterday that more than nine out of ten people want in a representative democracy???
It’s called legalized bribery, otherwise known as political donations, in our politics. It creates an egregious conflict of interest that would be illegal anywhere else. Our politicians bid for their donors at the expense of everyone else.
WE NEED TO GET ALL PRIVATE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS IMMEDIATELY.
Our military men and women are not fighting and dying for our Oligarchy corruption. No kleptocracy or plutocrats.
Our military personal is disgusted by our government. Their opinion weighs more in my mind than anyone elses because they are the ones paying the real price for our country to become a more perfect union.
Most of our elected leaders are on the take from big money donors. This creates an egregiously DANGEROUS conflict of interest.
They represent their biggest donors and not the people.
We cannot have an honorable or principled disagreement or agreement with our elected “leaders” because they are not honorable or principled people.
We need a constitutional amendment banning all private money from entering politics so we can have clean elections.
If we have clean elections unfettered by legalized bribes and other conflicts of interests then we can have honorable and principled discussions in disagreement or in agreement.
We can finally work toward solving problems because they’d be representing the people.
Private money (legalized bribes) in politics has corrupted, broken, and shattered our entire system of government and we can’t have any honorable principled public discourse because of it.
Some say this is not the time for politics. I HEAR YOU.
I believe this has to be the time for politics but NOT POLITICS AS USUAL.
Politics is where legalized change happens.
There are untold future gun violence events that are imminent.
The sooner we get political about it in an HONORABLE WAY the sooner we can begin preventing future gun violence.
If we wait too long then we will forget and no change happens.
If we hold these two thoughts in our heads at the same time, LOVE and ACTION FOR SOLUTIONS IN POLITICS, then just maybe we can begin preventing future gun violence even if just by chipping away at the number of mass shootings and death.
We have a terrible gun violence problem in the USA that is unprecedented by anywhere else in the world.
We need to embrace being able to hold onto more than one thought in our heads at the same time so we can LOVE each other AND take this to politics for solutions.
But again, it can’t be politics as usual or nothing will change.
How about politics as UNUSUAL in that we understand each other and working together for solutions beginning with amending our constitution to BAN ALL PRIVATE MONEY FROM POLITICS SO WE CAN HAVE THESE NEEDED DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR ELECTED LEADERS.
“There is nothing we can do about it” – says the only country that has this problem.
I feel so utterly helpless.
We in the USA have more than 1 mass shooting per day.
In 2017 we will be closing out the worst year of mass shootings we’ve ever had in a single year.
If it’s a white male it’s blamed on mental health before knowing anything.
If it’s a brown skinned male it’s blamed on muslim terrorism before knowing anything.
Politicians go through their well rehearsed meaningless condolences and warning against politicizing the tragedy.
Does anyone know the seed and soil of what sprouted an orchard of mass shootings?
I do.
It’s our system of legalized bribery, the ultimate corruption in politics, private donation money.
When you hear a politician give condolences followed up by, “Let’s not politicize this”, that’s how you know that vile cretin is taking money from private companies with a profit motive to sell more guns such as the NRA and major gun manufacturers.
Anytime you hear a politician warning us against politicizing a mass shooting or that their idea of a solution is to fight evil, love each other, pray, and unity in the community… They are on the take with generous legalized bribes to not do anything legislatively.
I’m not calling for gun control.
I’m calling for checks and balances.
If you don’t know checks and balances then you don’t know our constitution.
If you believe in control then you don’t believe in our constitution.
Every right we are given.. Every Amendment to our constitution.. Every freedom and liberty fought for by our military personnel… It all comes with checks and balances built in.
There is no such thing as an unlimited freedom.
If you want an unlimited freedom then you either don’t know our founding documents, or you do but you don’t believe in them.
Our 2nd amendment right to bear arms has checks and balances.
We need more checks in our 2nd amendment, not control.
93% of the country wants a mandatory universal background check and to close the gun show loop hole.
We can’t get it.
How do we not have something that has a 93% approval???
Our politicians are so corrupt that they won’t give us something with a 93% approval rating in what is suppose to be a representative democracy.
Even if you are part of the 7%, if you care anything about objectivity, you have to concede that we do not have a representative democracy.
Forget listening to a politician unless you have a list of their top donors with you while you listen to them talk.
If you are looking at a list of their top donors then what they’re talking about will begin to click with you and their corruption will become painfully obvious.
Every term and midterm election cycle is our chance to replace them with a representative government and so far we’ve blown it every time.
But, there is the next term and mid term coming up.
Let’s stop blowing it and start voting for candidates in ALL levels of government who are not on the take of legalized bribes.
Criminals don’t follow the law.
So lets create needed checks and balances and give law enforcement more tools to help prevent some of these mass shootings.
There are approximately 10,000 homicides per year from guns.
That number will never be zero.
But let me ask you this…
If we are able to chip away at that number and bring it down to 5,000 would it be worth it to introduce new gun regulations that 93% of us already agree with?
Of course it would be worth it.
Universal back ground checks in all fifty states, close the gun show loop holes in all fifty states, and make bump stocks illegal in all fifty states…
Just that alone would significantly chip away at the 10,000 number and those are regulations that 93% of us already want.
You’d still be able to hunt with a gun, protect your home and your family with a gun, because that’s balance.
Right now we are insanely out of balance.
We need regulations to give us checks and balances to our 2nd amendment right to bear arms.
Our current members of government are not going to do it because they are on the take in taking too much legalized bribery.
Remember what I said…
The next election cycle is always near by.
Every two years we have an opportunity to replace plutocrats with representatives of our democracy.
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People need to become aware of the legalized bribery.
People need to start looking at donor lists so it all starts making sense that our politicians are on the take.
That way maybe we will come together and vote them out and finally have representatives who represent us instead of their legal bribers.
Cash is debt and DESIGNED on purpose to lose money each year through inflation.
Using cash and building savings accounts reduces your buying power and transfers money in lil bits and pieces at a time to the most financially literate people that make up our economy without you knowing it.
Today most credit card issuers charge zero fees (unless you’re late on a payment) and will pay you between 1% and 5% on ALL credit purchases which means you get to leverage money for free and get paid a little extra for it.
The only discrepancy is a psychological one for people who use a credit card to spend more than they would if they were using cash and then go on to blame the credit card instead of looking inside themselves for the source of the real problem which is also the location of the real solution to that real problem.
For those of us willing to solve that internal problem then the credit card is your best monetary friend because it’s 100% leverage that is free to use and you get paid a lil extra for using it.
Credit also makes it easier to get ahead AND DE-couple how you spend your time from your income because credit is leverage.
Without leverage you cannot get ahead or DE-couple your time from your income because cash is debt and made by DESIGN on purpose to lose buying power each and every year through inflation and higher taxes.
There is a saying that the Establishment of Big Money does not want you to know, and that is, “SAVERS ARE LOSERS”. Translation = We at the heads of the largest financial institutions of the world don’t want you to know that savers are losers. We want you to buy our lie and illusion we are selling you that saving is good! We want you to use cash and save anything you can so that we can take from you financially illiterate peasants through inflation, fractional reserve, and higher taxes without your knowledge.
In my opinion having a savings account for some cushion is wonderful. I have a savings account I use just for cushion. But having a savings account as a wealth building strategy is completely obedient to the heads of the worlds largest financial institutions who are stealing from you, legally, and don’t want you to know about it.
What about a CD account? CD stands for Certification of DEPRECIATION. You were told it stands for Certificate of Deposit which is a euphemism to get you to put you’re money into them so they can take from you in lil bits and pieces at a time just like your savings account.
What about the interest you earn on savings accounts and CDs? You lose twice on those interest “earnings”. 1.) The interest rate is less than inflation and 2.) you pay ordinary earned income tax on Savings and CDs which is the highest tax a person pays right along with their financially dumb job. You’re double whammied with your savings and CD accounts all the while you were lied to and told it was an asset that you personally would financially benefit from. In reality it keeps your time coupled to your income so you can never get away from it and it makes it easy for highly corrupt people at the top of that racquet to get richer at your expense.
I have a lengthy video that goes into more detail about how to get out of this pyramid scam racquet. If you’d like to see it let me know ill post it in reply to your comment in this thread. Or you can private message me for it I don’t care either way.
Moral of this blog post is knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is potential. You’ve learned something valuable that you can sit on or do something about. Doing something about it with knowledge is power. Knowledge without action is for educated derelicts. Knowledge alone is not powerful it’s just intellectual masturbation and all the educated derelicts are only intellectually masturbating while the Action Takers are getting Results.
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Today was quite a day. More big steps in settling my late fathers financial affairs.
I’m so grateful he set my mom up well. The NAVY is taking care of my mom after taking care of him while we still had him physically with us.
I so badly miss my dad. I’m Heart broken and disoriented for the rest of my life until I see him again when I pass on.
My mom and I went to the navy base today. Great Lakes Naval base. The old hospital I spent a lot of time at had been demolished and turned into an open field. That was so weird to see.
Today I came across old birth certificates, baptismal certificates, and of course a newly death certificate.
Yesterday we attended part of a visitation of a family friend who passed away. Physical addictions took his physical life at a very young age of fifty two. He’s liberated from all physical limitations now.
I make the ” dad special” that very affectionately entitled a special chocolate super foods shake for my mom each and every day that I Sell and I also drink myself. Pm me if you’d like to know more about that.
I call it the “dad special” because it’s exactly how my dad liked me to make his when I had him here before he passed on to be in a much better place. The Dad Special. To you he is John or Larry Birkenmeyer. To me he is dad. He is in heaven now. I know it must be heaven because he is there.
I also wrote a blog today about CREDIT CARDS. I posted that just one post earlier. Scroll back one post you’ll find it easy peasy.
Now it’s time to unwind at 20:33 and go to sleep when I feel like like it.
I’m an old soul apparently 20:33 is late and I’m up before the sun is regularly.
Feel free to share if there is anything vulnerable and healing here that you feel someone else might find value in.
Even during 5 minute bathroom breaks at work sitting on the toilet it didn’t matter a girl in my company had no free time and she made the decision she was not going to let her time be manipulated anymore.
Me personally, I had 20 minutes a day sometimes broken up into five and ten minute blocks.
I wasn’t going to let that stop me either.
Lack of free time might be your present but does not have to be your future.
You have a finite Dash between your birth date and death date.
You don’t get multiple dashes just the one, the one you’re LIVING in right now, one shot at making your finite time here on Earth count for real.
Love your job hate your job it’s irrelevant.
LEARN how to decouple your time from your income so you can be a free human being.
Your one dash between your birth and death date is worth it.
I did it in 5 or 10 minutes blocks at a time you can do it too.
Feel free to ask me how I did it.
I’m not going to sell you sht you don’t want or need.
This story has inspired me to create a whole new financial freedom training that can be done in 5 minute increments and from a smartphone for when you only have 5 minute bathroom breaks and only a smartphone.
Mechanically there will be nothing holding you back. Not lack of time, not lack of a computer, just bad thinking will be the only thing left to hold you back but we can solve that, too.
I will have this training completed soon for your devouring =)
Tom
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You do your daily affirmations and pray for laws of abundance to be working for you but you still have too much month at the end of the money and no free time to yourself.
I want to share something friends shared with me long ago.
A friend said, “replace expectations with gratitude and all feelings of fear and anxiousness go away”.
Another friend told me, “faith without consistent relevant ACTION is dead faith”.
And then the big one for me was when one of my mentors taught me to DECOUPLE YOUR TIME FROM YOUR INCOME OR YOU’LL NEVER BE PROSPEROUS AND FREE. He taught me the only way to decouple time from money is to work to build passive and residual income.
That was the biggest game changer for me because I was never afraid of hard work.
I was putting my hard work into places that was not bringing me meaningful long lasting prosperity.
When I put my hard work toward residual and passive income my time began to decouple itself from my income.
It took me only two and a half years of going through that decoupling process until at last my time was 100% completely decoupled from my income.
Long lasting result of prosperity finally.
Love your job hate your job it does not matter.
The goal is to decouple your time from your income so you’re free to do what you want with your time.
Keep your job, leave your job, give to charity, start your own charity, spend more time with your family, take a family vacation.
No longer living underneath the thumb of others who can tell you what to do.
No more worry about how bills will be paid for.
You create your own life experiences without the permission of a gatekeeper.
Needing a job or some company to take care of you is not cool.
What is cool is not being needy and codependent on some company to take care of you so you can keep it or leave it you’re free.
You can do it for what it’s worth I’m your biggest cheerleader in this context.
If you are wondering why you don’t have more control over your time..
If you are wondering why you are not more free to do what you want..
I hope this helps you as it helped me when I learned these things.
But this is not even scratching the surface you have to love learning and be eager to dive in deep with learning and doing otherwise you’re screwed and that is an inside job.
You can do it.
Feel free to share this.
Tom.
P.s. if you’d like to see what I did to decouple my time from my income feel free to ask.
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This is the 1st Halloween I’ve been home for in 4 years. The last three I spent in Las Vegas.
This year I was looking forward to handing candy out to the kids for trick or treating with my dad but the Angels had other plans. We use to love doing that together. My dad really loved seeing the kids and handing out candy even when I was not here the last 3 Halloweens.
In the hospital just a few weeks ago I was telling my dad I was looking forward to being home for the first time in 4 years for Halloween. He knew.
My dad passed on since then.
I’m handing out candy tonight in memory and in honor of my dad. I’m doing a lot of things in honor and memory of my dad. I even talk to my dad more than God now.
I remember 24 years ago Halloween day and night I played my guitar all day and night only to stop to hand out candy with my dad and once and a while to say, “hey dad check this out” and I’d play him something I just learned. I was 16 24 Halloweens ago and just beginning to learn how to play guitar.
As I improved and got really good on that instrument my dad became impressed! I remember my cousin Robin telling me how my dad was bragging about me. I never heard my dad brag about my guitar skills first hand. I’m glad my cousin robin told me about it =)
Maybe he was bragging about me because in the early days, for a long time, I completely sucked at it..LoL Oh the horror of what my dad had to listen to just to be able to make a single note sound decent rather than like two cats in heat…haha!! But even when my notes sounded decent, it was Heavy Metal, and my dad would open the door to my room to peak inside and ask me, “Hey Tom can you play Solo? So LOW that I can’t hear you?” LoL My dad loved to make people laugh! I thought half of his jokes and puns were lame, but the other half more than made up for his lame ones.
I remember I was learning “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica. A very easy song, very basic and beginners like, and I was having a very difficult time with it. I can play that tune in my sleep now and much more difficult songs like second nature but that was my start 24 years ago on guitar.
I will always associate Halloween with my dad, when I started playing guitar, and handing out candy with my dad.
There is always that 1 person Deeply offended by my posts.
To that one or two deeply triggered people trolling me:
I’m sorry to see you so deeply triggered.
I’m not microaggressing you so i’m puzzled at why you’re so triggered.
If you need a safe space I don’t judge..
I just want you to know that I don’t want you to feel like I need your captive attention.
You’re free to ignore my crazy posts about money and surround yourself with people you agree with.
If my posts about Money, jobs, Freedom, Wage Slaves upsets you (the posts I make that triggers you so badly) I have much more coming in perpetuity just a fair warning to you.
The wonderful thing about being unreserved WITHOUT attacking people is when someone is magnetized to me and my ideas it’s organic and natural from them to me and from me to them.
If I become someone I’m not to protect you from feeling uncomfortable around me then anyone I attract to me will be attracted to a disingenuous facade and that would make my heart feel empty.
I like being around people with different opinions and ideas.
For me personally I have to bow out when one of these two things happens:
1.) The person I’m talking with crosses the line from attacking ideas they disagree with to attacking the person of whom they disagree with.
2.) The person I’m talking with confidently subscribes to false facts with zero openness to the possibility they could be wrong. I.e. 2+2=5 is not an opinion we get to have because it’s wrong and that’s when I stop talking with you to put my energy with someone else.
One last thing..
Thank you for giving me something else to blog about. This post is more for people of my “tribe” than my haters. It’s for my tribe because it feels good to come together around similar philosophies that we can high five each other about.
Let’s have some FUN =)
Tom
P.S. Whether you love your job or hate your job your freedom comes when you no longer need your job to take care of you and your family any longer and that only happens when you build an asset you own that produces passive and residual money that exceeds all of your expenses. And to do that you need to be hungry to LEARN because nobody knows how to do any of that! Do you LOVE learning? You’re welcome =)
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I found these today going through his stuff. He really loved going to school with you and seeing you all again at the various reunions.
This is his and your 50th high school reunion, as you can see.
At his and your 40th there was a family emergency here at home with my little brother but he found a way to go without neglecting anything here at home.
He could do it ALL that’s the type of man he was.
At his and your 50th he had already been placed on oxygen 24/7, as you can kind of see in this distant photo, and he still made it happen that he could attend knowing the trip would be tough on him because he struggled to breath as it was.
Despite his chronic respiratory challenges you can see him smiling so big and standing so tall in this photo.
He loved you all.
Any time he talked about his class of 1961 it was always good.
It was only a few days or so before he passed away as in inpatient in the hospital we were talking about which city / state of all the places we’ve ever lived feels most like home still. I didn’t really have an answer for me except maybe somewhere in the desert outside of las vegas (even though we never lived there the closest was San Diego). My dad did have an answer. It was clearly Crystal City, MO. Without question. He only lived in Crystal City a few years but it was during those years were the most formative to developing his character. And YOU, class of 1996, were a big part of my dads precious formative years.
THANK YOU.
I’ve never met you but I’ve heard about you from my Dad.
I just want to say THANK YOU for your part in making my dads finite physical life on earth a really great one for him. I can tell you absolutely my Dad hoped to have had a positive influence on you, too. That’s the kind of man he was and still is in eternity.
The next class reunion with all of you and him and others of your class who’ve passed on will be in HEAVEN. I know it must be heaven after all because my dad is there now. A class reunion in heaven is something to look forward to without discounting whatever finite time we have left here on physical earth.
I started reading one of them to my mom that we figured was from around the time I started driving and I just lost it.
My dad had quite a few talents. One of them was writing poetry. All of his poems were very sentimental and all about family and friends. A couple of his poems he even went through our entire family tree and made it work as poetry.
My dad was a genius in anything he was really interested in.
He use to write poems regularly before it became a struggle to breath.
Birthdays, christmas, other family type of events..
Some of them he’d put in a nice frame and give them as gifts to his mom, his grandmother, and other relatives. They were always a hit with the family everyone always loved these thoughtful poems of his.
Eventually I’m going to photo copy all of his work and do something with it. These shouldn’t be in a folder where nobody gets to see them.
Posting on my dads Behalf, this is Tom Birkenmeyer.
I was going through some of his stuff today and came across something I don’t remember ever seeing before. My dad was a proud career Navy Man. Senior Chief BIRKENMEYER. One of the ships he was on was the USS Morton (DD-948) Sherman Class Destroyer.
In December of 1973 the U.S.S. Morton Commading officer at the time made this really cool family gram for it’s crew to send out to family. I found a copy that was addressed to his grandmother and grand father, my great grandmother Grams and great grandfather George P. Orphan.
I don’t know how many in the ships crew, hundreds or thousands, but in this family gram they put a spot light on my dad and made me well up in tears. I’m so proud of my dad. I love him and I miss him so much. I’m typing it out for you word for word from the original that was also typed but with a type writer back in those days before computers.
Check out my Dad, Senior Chief Lawrence J. BIRKENMEYER.
USS Morton Merry Christmas Family Gram December 1973
“Chief Firecontrol Technician FTGC Lawrence J. BIRKENMEYER, leading chief and supervisor for the gunnersmates… Wait! An FT leading gunnersmate?
The cry went out and as in time past, FTGC BIRKENMEYER responded. He is a conscientious man who has the ability to formulate plans and organize men and their efforts. As one of the results of his endeavors, the division has an outstanding training program and the ship has a fine shore patrol indoctrination program. It’s been said that he claims “there is no electronic casualty I can’t solve, given enough time!” This positive and aggresive attitude stands Chief Birkenmeyer in good stead with the men who works for him, and with those who know him. He has proven that with a proper attitude and good management, a division can accomplish all of it goals and commitments. This is most obvious in the succesful operation of the gunnersmates.
Chief Birkenmeyer feels it is important to talk to his men so that they will understand their respective jobs and learn the responsibilities of being a good petty officer. His key to success is proper planning and management, tampered with understanding for his men.”
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So many people brag about how Wild and Free they are while having to go report to their job and gatekeeper over how they spend their time.
Yeah you’re real wild and free.
That’s one of the biggest nuisances (and lies people tell themselves) I ever see in our, you know, our new age thinking people.
I love new age thinking but most people don’t live up to it because the idea is I’m wild and Free, I think differently, I’m open but oh I’m so wild and free I have to go to my job or I don’t get paid and I starve.
Yeah you’re real wild and free aren’t you?
It doesn’t make any sense.
It’s not even logically intellectually honest at all.
Ya wanna be wild and free beyond a cute new verbal trend?
DE-COUPLE YOUR TIME FROM YOUR INCOME.
Put the guarantee into yourself and get involved in something that has a residual and passive compensation plan so you can de-couple your time, because, if your time is coupled to your money I hate to break it to ya you’re not wild and free you’re just another sucker shackled to the dollar like everybody else whose time is coupled to their money so ya gotta de-couple the two or you’re not free.
I love you,
Tom
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“Aging is for People Who Don’t Know Better” – Tony Horton
It’s Not Normal to give up our Health and Money to hospitals and drug companies no matter how sadly COMMON it is.
This is my friend Denise pictured here with me. She will go on to save lots of Money as she reclaims even more health and how she FEELS to enjoy her beautiful life…
Here is how I do it (I’m sharing this with you so you can do it too)…
You see my friends and I engaged in our own journeys that is specific to us with help from the beachbody catalog of home fitness and nutritionals sharing our journey openly and honestly with the mistakes, the challenges, and the little victories we score out of the ashes of big setbacks…
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Not just for yourself, but others around you who needlessly associate health problems with “Normal” aging.
I’m making this post in honor and memory of my Dad who LOVED drinking these chocolate super food shakes which supported his immune system and gave us at least another 9 years with him before passing away.
My dad was proud of me for how I behave as someone who uses and sells these programs.
He hates the typical behavior of telemarketers and other home business owners.
He loved the way I do it.
He loved how I’m the same person doing this. I didn’t become someone I’m not to do this and I have to believe that’s why I’ve been able to create success where others fail.
Others become someone they are not and tick off their friends and family.
I remained true to who I am so I was able to fire my boss, buy my house in cash, be there for my family and my dad during those most precious moments without having to check in with a gatekeeper or worry about being covered financially.
There are a lot of people oppressed and depressed underneath the thumb of a gatekeeper and others who can tell them what to do with their time.
I love you dad I’m gonna keep making you proud of me working with the willing who wanna get healthy physically and financially.
-Tom
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2 weeks ago today, Fri Oct 13th, I woke up organically an hour or so before the sun rise. Laying there in bed anxious to visit my dad that morning in the hospital I thought to myself I’d go and get in a great workout and a shower since I can’t see him for a few more hours anyway. Worked out, showered, did some facebook stuff, drove to the hospital, sat in the parking lot for a few minutes before walking in praying hard for some good news and posted something on my facebook timeline about how STARVED I am for some good news. Feel free to scroll back two weeks ago today you’ll see my post and then the post I made much later in the evening that day about my fathers passing.
I got to see my dad that morning for my last time physically while he still occupied his temporary physical body for 74 years. He was totally alert, sharp, aware, just not able to talk much because he was struggling hard to breath. I said a few things during my two hour morning visit but mostly I just sat there because I didn’t want him to focus on both talking and breathing. Just breathing was a big enough chore for him. So I just sat in silence visiting only to say something once and a while. He knew I was there. I walked in all stealth like and sat down next to him. After a second he looked up and knew he had a visitor =)
I won’t go into all the details in this post. I did that in another very long heart wrenching post a week or so ago. I’m going to have all of my posts around my fathers passing collected on a page I’m making within my tom birkenmeyer dot com website so for those of you interested, you’ll be able to read them all there. There are lots of messages of healing in those posts. Lots of emotion. It’s as it was all happening so it’s un filtered, un fettered, just pure heart unreserved. It is my therapy. It can also be help for others, too.
Today I did a workout from the Power Half Hour Program by Beachbody and Tony Horton. I use these programs regularly and I sell them proudly. My dad was proud of me for practicing what I’ve been “preaching” about these programs and nutritionals. He was impressed with my original before / after transformation. From “scrawny to brawny”..LoL
My dad was also proud of me for how I behave as someone who uses and sells these programs. He hates the typical behavior of telemarketers and other home business owners. He loved the way I do it. He loved how I’m the same person doing this. I didn’t become someone I’m not to do this and I have to believe that’s why I’ve been able to create success where others fail. Others become someone they are not and tick off their friends and family. I remained true to who I am so I was able to fire my boss, buy my house in cash, be there for my family and my dad during those most precious moments without having to check in with a gatekeeper or worry about being covered financially.
Here is how I do it (I’m sharing this with you so you can do it too)…
You see me engaged in my own journey that is specific to me with help from the beachbody catalog of home fitness and nutritionals sharing my journey openly and honestly with the mistakes, the challenges, and my little victories that I score out of the ashes of big setbacks…
If you love health and fitness like I do, and you’re interested in making some money in health and fitness like I am, or if you just want to get healthy without making some extra money, Private Message me.
I love you dad I’m gonna keep making you proud of me working with the willing who wanna get healthy physically and financially.
Since my dads passing this year I’ve found myself softening up in a way I didn’t see coming..
As for me, today, when someone is mean and nasty all I see in them is emotional pain from something that they are trying to cope with and all I want to do is hug them.
Crazy? Liberal? Dumb? Weak? I don’t think so…
I don’t hug them because it could get me punched in the face..LoL
But the urge is there because honestly I just see pain in them even as they are lashing out with unmitigated meanness.
I’m actually enjoying how this feels.
It’s a DEEPLY peaceful enlightened feeling that I don’t know how else to explain. I’d even call it Emotional Bliss.
Blood pressure is relaxed and stays even. I would argue that weakness would be when you lose control over your blood pressure and you become triggered. It’s a normal human response but it doesn’t make triggered erratic blood pressured responses right. It’s just something to figure out and improve through our own very individual journeys of personal growth and development.
The only thing I personally demonize is the act of inaction in ones own perpetual personal growth and development which seems to be most people, sadly.
I can see my dad just shaking his head at me over this “I just wanna hug everyone” response because my dad would snap back as mostly anyone else would, too..LoL
However, my dad fought back much more brilliantly than anyone I’d ever seen because he was an intellectual genius with Encyclopedic knowledge about ANYTHING he was interested in. He could have been a Trial Lawyer and MASTER litigator if he wanted. But in his passing, its just so completely different. I just want to hug anyone in pain even those who cope with their pain less than gracefully.
Does that make sense?
Feel free to share this backwards way of thinking and feeling.
Eventually it will be a month, a year, 10 years, 40 years…
I miss him.
I will always miss my dad.
I’m sad for me because I don’t get to run to him, talk to him, laugh with him, share pictures of my adventures with him, and ask questions as I always did with so much curiosity about almost everything.
My dad always supported anything I ever wanted to do as long as it wasn’t harmful. Sometimes he’d make sure I was committed before making a financial investment but once I passed his test he’d go all in on supporting me and I did not let him down. I saw things through. He admired that about me.
Anytime I had questions about anything he’d be there to answer all of them for me. He never rushed me or was too busy for me to answer questions and spend time with me. I was such a curious kid, and now a curious adult. I always had questions and wanted to show him stuff. I became more interested in seeing what he was doing and in his adventures as I got older. Always so excited to share experiences with each other.
His big Alaskan cruise he took with my mom happened just a few weeks before he passed away. I think I was just as excited as he was and I wasn’t even going with them. I counted down the days from dropping them off at the airport to picking them back up again at the airport 8 days later. I followed the ship tracker online to see their ships every move every day. So excited to see them again and ask them all about their trip, see pictures and videos they took, and possibly hear about my dads next big adventure to look forward to. Sadly the next big adventure didnt happen.. At least not the way we wanted it to. His next big adventure turned out to be eternal life after death.
“the money is the root of all evil”, (a clever trick used to control people because the poor were easily subdued and obedient!) and financial ignorance and illiteracy of previous generations. Well, money is not evil, it’s how we use it. Financial independence is FREEDOM and it gives us the ability to live this very short and often messy life to the fullest. They always preach that we need to donate, donate, and donate…But how is one suppose to do that without money?!!! Nobody ever asks that question. What we need to teach our kids instead is: make as much money as possible while following your dreams, however, never ever be greedy about it or make it your whole life. Instead, once you make it, share it and use it to lift others up! – My friend Yelena wrote this.
Adding to her well spoken words..
LEARN ABOUT RESIDUAL AND PASSIVE MONEY.
Building your own passive and residual money unshackles you from the control anyone has over you via dependency of money to pay your bills and eat.
In my opinion the point of life is to focus on creating experiences not worry about money.
PAssive and residual money is the only money that can de-couple how you spend your time from your income so you CAN focus on creating experiences instead of worry.
If you’d like to see how I build passive and residual money, or to see a video I made about four ways of doing it, let me know ill show it to you either in this thread or privately whatever you’d like.
-Tom
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If I was not so openly vulnerable to the world then I may not be getting such wonderful words of wisdom from so many people during my mourning of my fathers passing.
Don’t live in fear of being publicly vulnerable friends. I can’t imagine all the words of wisdom, all the love, all the support, I would have robbed myself of if I decided to shell up and live in fear of feeling how I feel openly and honestly.
I want to be just as good of a supporting loving friend as I love for people to be in my life, too
We want to love, to be loved, and have no reservations about that and absolutely zero manipulation, hidden agendas and motives.
Even people with a facade of darkness, I want to see their light no matter how dark their shell they’ve put on to try and protect themselves.
I’m just allowing myself to feel how I feel. No guilt. All my pain just comes from missing my dad and knowing I’ll never see him again the way I’m use to seeing him. I honestly can’t wait to see him again after I pass but without discounting life here on earth. That’s really important too, life here on earth. My dad worked hard and faithful so that my mom, my little brother, and I could have a wonderful life. I’m honoring that.
A friend said to me, “If you can allow feeling his or her soul closer to you rather than his or her body at this time it may help.” That resonated with me.
My dads passing has been the most devastating experience in my life I’ve never cried so intensely or as frequent. I need a loving support network in my friends and family.
For my 40th birthday I just wanted my dad and my mom and little brother. And I got them just a few months ago when I turned forty. It was one of my dreams and it happened. But sadly the last of my birthdays for my father. I think no matter when it happens, young or old, it’s a traumatic experiences that changes you forever. It certainly has changed me forever. I honestly want to be just as good of a supporting loving friend as I love for people to be in my life, too.
I love you friends. Feel free to share this if think you have friends who’d maybe need to read something like this.
You will not want to live in fear of how bills are going to be paid or if you can’t get permission from a gate keeper at your job who may deny you.
When you NEED to be where you need to be you will be so glad you learned to become free financially from ALL your expenses.
This past week I needed to be with my family for my dad who passed away. No boss to check in with. No worry about bills or how I’d be covered financially. I was free to put my energy where it needed to be and all my expenses were covered anyway.
This wasn’t given to me. I had to earn it in the midst of a dark period of struggle in my life years ago.
I’m grateful I’m of the minority of our population who is a starter and finisher. It’s worth it for these most precious moments when we truly need that wonderful passive and residual income to de-couple our time from our income so we can be where we need to be when we need to be without permission from anyone but ourselves.
It took me a while to figure it out. No one would join me when I first started. You can figure it out too with our endless help if you’ll take it.
The simplified formula for setting yourself free financially is 1. Make a decision 2. tell the world 3. Figure it out by falling head over heals in love with learning and applying what you learn along the way a constant course of correction and re correction that never stops.
Don’t fail to start because you don’t know how. Do start so it can be revealed to you how.
Don’t quit after you’ve started because you made a mistake. Do make mistakes and allow them to reveal the path to the finish line.
See your mistakes along the path of learning for what they are, that is, your road map to being a finisher rather than a quitter.
Getting started and making mistakes QUICKLY is your key ingredient to setting yourself free financially so you can LIVE free of worry about how bills and other expenses will be paid for.
My dad was very proud of me, and still is from Heaven now, that his son started and saw it through without quitting. I don’t know if he thought I’d see this through when I first started and then again when I wasn’t making any money in the beginning. He saw me stick it out and create my own success and that honestly is one HUGE motivating reason for me that I wanted to see this through. I wanted to make my dad proud of me. He already was, but still, this was really important to me that he sees me be well financially too because residual bills are a fact of life that never goes away as long as we are living so I wanted residual and passive income to over power my residual bills.
My dad saw, just as we all see, most people do not start or see things through and always have an excuse to make it easier to live with themselves for being a non starter and a quitter.
That life style of quitting is not worth it because the real damage comes as a person chips away at their individuality and self esteem.
It’s impossible to create yourself according to your own individual authenticity if you live the life style of a quitter.
It’s nothing to beat yourself up over if that’s your past. If it is your past just draw a line in the sand TODAY and tell yourself along with the rest of the world you’re jumping over that line with BOTH FEET and you’re going to start living now as your own individual free thinking authentic self.
Then watch how the world around you benefits from your light.
No more of this quitting or procrastination non sense.
To my friends who have been faithful with what you’ve been given, remember you were once a quitter too til you decided not to be a quitter anymore. Love everyone, but, prioritize your home business time and energy for people who are ready to take action now because action is the only place where a positive impact can be created.
I love you all,
Tom
p.s. If you’re interested in looking at what I’m doing just ask and I’ll show and support whatever you wanna do this or something else. My dad loved that about me and how I helped other people get healthy financially and even physically. I always supported everyone. My dad would get so pissed at telemarketers who pitched the way they did and would keep going even after he said he wasn’t interested. He loves the fact I just love and support everyone and that I build a team of people who love and support, too. How I build and how I help others build is one of many ways I love to honor the life of my Dad. Please feel free to share this on your timelines maybe you’ve got some friends and family who’d love the messaging of this post.
You will not want to live in fear of how bills are going to be paid or if you can’t get permission from a gate keeper at your job who may deny you.
When you NEED to be where you need to be you will be so glad you learned to become free financially from ALL your expenses.
This past week I needed to be with my family for my dad who passed away. No boss to check in with. No worry about bills or how I’d be covered financially. I was free to put my energy where it needed to be and all my expenses were covered anyway.
This wasn’t given to me. I had to earn it in the midst of a dark period of struggle in my life years ago.
I’m grateful I’m of the minority of our population who is a starter and finisher. It’s worth it for these most precious moments when we truly need that wonderful passive and residual income to de-couple our time from our income so we can be where we need to be when we need to be without permission from anyone but ourselves.
It took me a while to figure it out. No one would join me when I first started. You can figure it out too with our endless help if you’ll take it.
The simplified formula for setting yourself free financially is 1. Make a decision 2. tell the world 3. Figure it out by falling head over heals in love with learning and applying what you learn along the way a constant course of correction and re correction that never stops.
Don’t fail to start because you don’t know how. Do start so it can be revealed to you how.
Don’t quit after you’ve started because you made a mistake. Do make mistakes and allow them to reveal the path to the finish line.
See your mistakes along the path of learning for what they are, that is, your road map to being a finisher rather than a quitter.
Getting started and making mistakes QUICKLY is your key ingredient to setting yourself free financially so you can LIVE free of worry about how bills and other expenses will be paid for.
My dad was very proud of me, and still is from Heaven now, that his son started and saw it through without quitting. I don’t know if he thought I’d see this through when I first started and then again when I wasn’t making any money in the beginning. He saw me stick it out and create my own success and that honestly is one HUGE motivating reason for me that I wanted to see this through. I wanted to make my dad proud of me. He already was, but still, this was really important to me that he sees me be well financially too because residual bills are a fact of life that never goes away as long as we are living so I wanted residual and passive income to over power my residual bills.
My dad saw, just as we all see, most people do not start or see things through and always have an excuse to make it easier to live with themselves for being a non starter and a quitter.
That life style of quitting is not worth it because the real damage comes as a person chips away at their individuality and self esteem.
It’s impossible to create yourself according to your own individual authenticity if you live the life style of a quitter.
It’s nothing to beat yourself up over if that’s your past. If it is your past just draw a line in the sand TODAY and tell yourself along with the rest of the world you’re jumping over that line with BOTH FEET and you’re going to start living now as your own individual free thinking authentic self.
Then watch how the world around you benefits from your light.
No more of this quitting or procrastination non sense.
To my friends who have been faithful with what you’ve been given, remember you were once a quitter too til you decided not to be a quitter anymore. Love everyone, but, prioritize your home business time and energy for people who are ready to take action now because action is the only place where a positive impact can be created.
I love you all,
Tom
If you’re interested in looking at what I’m doing just ask and I’ll show and support whatever you wanna do this or something else. My dad loved that about me and how I helped other people get healthy financially and even physically. I always supported everyone. My dad would get so pissed at telemarketers who pitched the way they did and would keep going even after he said he wasn’t interested. He loves the fact I just love and support everyone and that I build a team of people who love and support, too. How I build and how I help others build is one of many ways I love to honor the life of my Dad. Please feel free to share this on your timelines maybe you’ve got some friends and family who’d love the messaging of this post.
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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Grieving and Healing from the passing of someone you Dearly LOVE…
Whenever a friend would tell me their parent(s) passed away I would say something like, “I’m so sorry to hear that. I still have both of my parents so I have no idea what that feels like. I know there is nothing I can do that will prepare me for when I no longer have them and it terrifies me to think about it.” And then id turn it back to them letting them know I’m here for them even if just to listen because I don’t know what to say that could possibly help.
Now I’m on that other side of the fence that I never wanted to be on. It’s been 8 days since the passing of my father on oct 13th 2017. 3 days since my fathers funeral.
I feel disoriented, lost, like the universe is re arranging everything, light headed sometimes, constant pressure on my chest and knots in my tummy that won’t go away. I will never be the same. But never being the same is always true. This change of never being the same again is exponentially greater than other constant changes. A friend shared some advice with me that I believe I will start to share with friends who lose a parent or anyone really close to them. If you can allow feeling his or her soul closer to you rather than his or her body at this time it may help. Yes, I think that does help. We identify visually with our loved ones their temporary bodies that they occupy because it’s all we’ve ever known them to occupy. When they shed their very limited fleshly body they become truly free in their Light Form. Is there anything more liberating than that?
I’m happy for my dad that he is free now. Truly free. Even if you occupy a healthy body its still very limiting. My dad occupied a body that required an oxygen feed 24/7. His lungs were shot. His body was limiting him more than the average body but his spirit was so strong he still played poker, he still went on a cruise, he still went to Las Vegas, still got on an airplane, still lived life and wanted to do things despite struggling to breath.
I’m happy for my dad but sad for me because I’m here still in my temporary limited fleshly body missing my dad. I can’t wait to shed my body so I can see my dad again but at the same time I want to enjoy life in my temporary body and live the best life I can because my dad wants that.
I want the pressure in my chest to go away and the knots in my tummy to loosen. I want to feel my dads soul closer to me rather than his body.
If this helps you grieve the passing of someone close to you or if you have friends who you think this might help please feel free to share this around.
I love you friends and family and I love your friends and family, too.
Tom
p.s. ALWAYS leave on a positive note NO MATTER WHAT WAS SAID BEFORE because you never know when someone is going to pass even if they seem completely healthy and safe. Always spend the time you want to spend with people you love. The last thing I said to my dad, just four and a half hours before he passed away and totally coherent and not knowing this would be the last, “… I’ll see you again shortly ok?” to which he nodded yes and gave me a quick wave. I literally spent more time with my parents than at my home for years. When my dad was in the hospital for the last time I was up there visiting up 2 or 3 times every day for 12 days. I made sure we ended each visit on a good note for the last number of YEARS each and every time and still do with my mom. Please make sure you are doing something similar, ok?
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