Money Madison Blog

2010-07-08T15:32:00.001-07:00

$22.000 a month residual permanent income in less than 100 days!

Greetings Fellow Marketer,
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The best part of the AshMax system is that it allows various streams of income with only promoting your AshMax link. AshMax promotes 2 separate programs, GDI [Global Domain International] and Freeway To Success. You first have to join them and direct them to AshMax. We have great turotials and tools to help you achieve this.
You earn commissions from everyone who joins you in the 5x5 matrix in AshMax from both programs. The simplicity of the system relies on the ability to invite only 5 people in 20 days. Can you fullfill this one requirement? Do You think there are people that will jump on this as my friends and myself have done? There is no need to promote the two programs separately because AshMax does this effortlessly.
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Attitude

2007-03-29T22:52:00.000-07:00

Several friends sent me the following ariticle on attitude to my email and I thought it very befitting for seniors who are trying to learn the ropes of online marketing and working from home where help is limited to the internet. I hope you will enjoy it and be inspired too as I was.
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Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. If someone would ask him how he was doing he would always reply, “If I were any better I would be twins.”
Many of the waiters at the restaurant would quit their jobs if he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant. Why? Because Jerry was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there telling him how to look at the poositive side of the situation.
Seeing his style really made me curious so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! No one can be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?”
Jerry replied “ Each morning I wake up and say to myself ‘I have two choices today, I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood’. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. Everytime someone comes to me complaining I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life to them. I always choose the positive side of life.”
“But it’s not always that easy,” I protest.
“Yes it is,:” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. It’s your choice how you live your life.”
Several Years later…………………I heard that Jerry did something accidentally that you should never do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open. In the early morning he was robbed by three armed men. While Jerry was tryng to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily Jerry was quickly found and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied “If I were any better I would be twins. Do you want to see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds but I asked him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
“ The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices – I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”
“Weren’t you scared?” I asked.
Jerry continued “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I really got scared. In their eyes I read ‘He’s a dead man’.
I knew I needed to take action.”
“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry, “She asked me if I was allergic to anything.”
“Yes, to bullets,” I replied. Over their laughter I told them , “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Jerry lived, thanks to the skills of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours ---- that no one can control or take away from you----is your attitude. So if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
You have two choices.

How To Write Articles For Fun And Profit

2007-03-24T15:33:00.000-07:00

Article writing is an awesome and easy way to make money on the internet. There is more than one way to accomplish this. You can create articles that generate free traffic to your website to get sales for youand they in turn can send traffic to your affiliate sites for commissions and residual income for a long time.

Fill your websites with good content and add google adsense ads to generate income from their targeted advertising. Start your own blog and fill it with good content articles and add google adsense ads to it for lots of free advertising. Your content needs to fit the google ads so this article would fit with ads on getting started on the internet or how to start a new business. The more pages you have about your niche topic, the more adsense ads you can have. There is money in adsense ads so write lots of articles. You can create your own ebooks and advertise them on their mini sites or your webpage and sell the resell rights ..That is another article to come.

It isn’t necessary for you to come up with good content or even write from scratch. Every possible topic has been covered by someone, somewhere on the internet and you simply have to delve for it. Many articles are written by people who just write for the joy of it and not for profit. You would naturally want to have our own article so you can learn from these articles and get great content ideas and write a new version of their article and add more content from your own knowledge or other articles. It does not take long to write an article containing from 350 to 700 words.

If you are writing for a particular niche, which can be the main idea or content on your website, you can then go to the internet sources for your idea, such as online bulletin boards, FAQ pages and Article directories. Try these places for anything you might want:
http://www.faq.org/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.groups.google.com/

You will have to do some searching on these sights but you will find some of everything you can think of. Then you simply collect the ideas you want on your word pad and rewrite your article in your own words. First go to Groups.google.com and type in your topic to see what questions people ask about your topic. You now know what people want to know. Then go to goarticles.com with your topic and see what articles are already written about it and collect some content for your article. Then go to FAQ.org and ask for your topic to find out what people are asking about your content topic. Now you know what people want to know you can rewrite the content ideas in your own words without copying verbatim as that may be considered stealing from copyright.

When your article is written you now have the big decision for a title. It should be catchy but give an immediate how-to answer to the question you have posed. Write and rewrite titles until you have one that you feel will grab attention for the content in your article.

Now it’s time to check and double check your article for spelling errors. You don’t have to worry too much about the grammer but your spelling can easily be checked. You can get a spell checker here if all else fails:
http://www.jspell.com/jspell.html or
http://www.spellcheck.net/

If you are only having trouble with one or two words, you can try:
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Reread your article to be sure you haven’t missed a necessary word or simply put a wrong letter into a word that changes the meaning. Now you might want to have someone read your article back to you or simply read it aloud to yourself. It’s a good way to know if you might have left something out that the reader would want to know.

There a many ways to make money with articles but the first thing you want to do is get your article out to all the article directories you can. Go to Google for directories you can send to. I would start with:
http://wwwgoarticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.articlecentral.com/
http://www.articlehub.com/
http://www.authorconnection.com/
http://www.zongo.com/

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Spring Has Sprung!

2007-03-21T10:27:00.000-07:00

According to the time in my area Spring was Sprung last evening around dinner time. Have you seen the trees budding? Can you feel the warmth in the air and best of all can you smell the scent of spring rain? The air feels soft and fresh like clean clothes on the clothes line and there’s a promise of freshness and color from the crocus and daffodils peaking through the last remnants of snow.

Spring is messy too! The once glimmering white snow is now laden with road dirt and other indescribable litter. The run-off water mixes with dust and debris as it rushes across our pathways to ditches and sewers. Yet the arrival of Spring extends a welcome greeting that hears only the mating bird songs and feels the desire to fondle the warming Earth.
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The vernal equinox announces the first day of spring March 20 or 21 when the sun sits directly over the equator. As the earth revolves around the sun the top half called the Northern Hemisphere, which is where we are, tilts more toward the sun and moves us away from winter and toward Spring.
On the other hand, the bottom half, the southern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun bringing autumn and winter to people in Australia and South America and Africa.

“Equinox”, a latin derived word means equal nights. At this time, sunrises and sunsets are about 12 hours apart all over the Earth, give or take a minute or two when the days are a few minutes longer than the nights.

Spring can be rowdy too! It can get extreme in temperature and bring more of the dreaded snow or rains that add to the run-off and burst the banks of the rivers and streams. Lightning and thunder and winds can often preclude twisters and tornadoes.
There is a similarity between Life and Spring that gives us the determination and courage to renew us in the face of set-backs and misfortune. Human Beings rise up to adversity in it’s many forms from personal tragedy to the disasters of Nature. And Human Beings, being human in nature, rise to the aid of humanity.

Seniors In The 21st Century

2007-03-20T12:27:00.000-07:00

Life may not have been the party you hoped for but while you’re here you may as well dance!

In this the 21st century, a graduall increase in life expectancy is seeing seniors live for two or more decades after retirement. The increase in medical advances and the growing interest in natural health and alternative remedies finds many more seniors are in better health than their predecessors of the 20th century. As a result, the percentages of working seniors is rising proportionately.

While working seniors are getting older they are often better educated than those of even 10 or more years ago. According to statistics the main occupation of seniors in the last century was farming, followed by retail positions. This was mainly true for women while men held managerial and higher professional positions.

As a result of more younger women entering the male job domain and rising to higher positions of authority, there is a greater percentage of women reaching their senior years in the work force. This trend is expected to continue and will open the opportunities for women to occupy almost any job that was in the male realm previously.

Due to the rising costs of living many seniors now find that their savings are not sufficient for the lifestyle they were accustomed to while they were working. Many jobs now available were once the choice of young people who now find higher paying jobs, not only for the educated youth but also the high paying labor jobs for those with limited education. While many Seniors are working for lower wages in the workplace, others are opting for the unlimited pool of opportunities on the internet.

In this century the 80’s are the new 60’s and seniors are looking for something to occupy their hands and their minds. While crafts and volunteering are often the choice, many now want the income that a job offers them. They find a wealth of these opportunties online with their computers. Here they can easily compete with the rest of the world and their years of knowledge are a great asset. They can enter training courses online and take their own time to become proficient in their choice of endeaver.

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Work At Home On the Internet

2007-03-18T19:00:00.000-07:00

The internet can be a very daunting place for many people when they first start out, but for many seniors who have never had the chance to learn about anything more difficult than typing while they were young and able to retain a lot of information, even the new picture cell phones can be almost insurmountable.

The computer itself is a big leap in learning for many who are in their later senior years. There are, however, a lot of courses available for seniors for only the cost of the books needed to learn them.

Many seniors from 50 up have been let out of the work arena due to layoffs, illness or businesses dissolving and they are then not able to get employment because of their handicaps or age.

This does not have to be the end of the work world for them though. With a little perseverance and a lot of help from the available training programs there are many opportunities to work at home online on the computer. Marketing yourself or products or information online can be very satisfying and rewarding both financially and personally.

A good place to start is to take inventory of your talents and interests and you can start by asking yourself some of these questions: What are your talents, characteristics, interests and abilities? What do people tell you that you do well?. What kind of compliments do you receive from others now and in the past? What kind of activities do you enjoy? Do you relate better to children, youth, adults, the elderly or to animals? Do you prefer to comminicate by phone, email, writing, speaking or teaching? Do you enjoy music by listening, playing, performing or writing? Are you interested in the arts, painting, drawing, crafts, quilting, sewing, decorating, writing, photography, scrapbooking etc, etc? What about gardening, cooking, entertaining, cleaning, organizing.

What motivates you? Do you have a secret wish you always wanted to accomplish but were too afraid to try ? You can get information on any subject you are interested in by going to the search engines on the internet and expand your ideas or join programs online where you can invest little or nothing to add to your income. Two well known Search engines are google.com and yahoo.com. There are hundreds more.

One of the most enjoyable activities is in making a blog online and entering all your personal information, pictures and stories or jokes simply for your own and your family’s enjoyment. If you want to make some money you might set up a website and use it to market whatever it is you most like to do, for instance, if you are into music, you can write about your achievements and you can join other related programs about music and advertise them on your website. You can also add your blog to your site. When you decide on your niche and continue to write and advertise about your niche you will rise to the top of the search engines and get literally hundred of clicks on your site.

You should be aware that once you start a work from home project online you could become addicted to your computer and the internet.

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Sweet And Spicy Health Remedy

2007-03-05T19:19:00.000-08:00

Sweet And Spicy Health Remedy

You want to augment your income by working online at home on your computer and that can entail long hours of sitting in one place and you are not so young anymore. You are a senior or soon to be senior and you need to enjoy your new business or you wll soon give it up. To accomplish that you must take the best care that you can of your body without spending a fortune on it or overdoing the vitamins or the exercise regimes
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Here is an easy fun way to start out. I will be adding other ways in future artices.

Today’s science recommends a mixture of honey and cinnamon for relief of many problems.
Cinnamon is an extract from the bark of a small southeast Asian evergreen tree and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Ayurvedic, as well as Yunani medicine have been using honey as a vital medicine for centuries. Ayurvedic medicine originated from India and is taught and prescribed in clinics around the world. The Ayurveda clinic in New Mexico being one of the most recognized. Banyan Botanicals offers an extensive line of Ayurvedic herbal remedies made from certified organic, sustainably sourced and fairly-traded Ayurvedic herbs.

Scientists today use honey as a very effective medicine for all kinds of diseases without any side effects occuring. They also claim that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage, it does not harm diabetic patients.

World News, a Canadian magazine gives the following list of diseases that can be helped or cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western scientists.

Heart Diseases: make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder and spread on bread or chappati instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast.
It helps to reduce the cholesteral in the arteries to save patients from heart attack. In America, many nursing homes have found that as patients age the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged. Patients treated with honey and cinnamon have successfully revitalized their arteries and veins.

Insect Bites: Mix one part of honey with two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder to make a paste and slowly massage it onto the sore and itching area. Patients will notice the pain recede within a minute or two. When appplied to pimples, ringworm, exzema and other skin infections it yeilds miraculous results.

Arthritis: Arthritis patients may take one cup of hot water with two teaspoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder twice daily, morning and night. Research conducted at the Copenhagen University found that when doctors treated patients with a tablespoon of honey and a half teaspoon of cinnamon before breakfast, within a week approximately 73 patients out of 200 were totally relieved of pain and after a month, most of the patients who could not walk or move around started walking without pain.

Hair Loss: Persons suffering from hair loss or partial baldness may apply over the head a mix of one tablespoon honey, one teaspoon cinnamon powder and hot olive oil to make a soft paste. Leave on for 15 minutes and then wash the hair.

Bladder infections: Add two tablespoons cinnamon powder and one teaspoon honey to a glass of lukewram water and drink.

Toothache: Apply a paste of one teaspoon cinnamon powder and five teaspoons honey as often as needed.

Colds: One tablespoon warm honey and ¼ teaspoon cinnamon taken daily relieves most chronic coughs and colds.

Upset Stomach: Honey and cinnamon eases stomach ache and relieves the build up of gas. It also relieves acidity and allows easier digestion of food.

Immune System: Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts and if consumed regularily it strengthens and enables the white corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases. This in turn increases longevity and a healthy complexion as well as weight loss due to the inability of fat to accumulate regardless of the diet one eats. This increased immunity helps to deter any cancers from forming.
Seniors who take equal parts of cinnamon and honey are noticably more alert and flexible and maintain healthy memory.

Diabetes: Dr. David Williams reports on research he has discovered all around the world on the balance of blood sugar levels to support insulin function in the pancreas. Preliminary research has shown that aking at least one gram of cinnamon a day may help maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Cellular research indicates that cinnamon contains methylhydroxy chalcone polymer [MHCP] which can help activate the insulin receptors on your cells so the glucose can go in. The research dose recommended is one full gram. Ayurvedic medicine originated from India and is taught and prescribed in clinics around the world, the Ayurveda clinic in New Mexico being one of the most recognized.
I hope you will take this with a pinch of cinnamon and enjoy!

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It's Tea Time

2007-03-04T21:26:00.000-08:00

Join me for a spot o’………………………

What will it be --- black, oolong, green or white? Is there any real difference? Researchers all over the world are tooting the benefits of green tea. Are there any real benefits in drinking green tea and why is it better than black tea?

If you're a tea granny there is nothing more relaxing than a fresh brewed cup of tea. When you work at home on your computer for long hours, a cup of tea is a welcome break and can save you from burnout. Here is some info on the best varieties for yhou.

Black, oolong and green tea all come from the same Camellia sinensis plant but green tea leaves are not fermented before steaming and drying. As a result green tea is rich in a substance called catechins which are bioflavonoids. These catechins have been used successfully in the treatment of liver disease and hepatitis. Actually, all the colors of tea are beneficial for us in varying ways.

For thousands of years the Chinese people have been drinking green tea and they show the lowest incidence of esophageal and stomach cancer any where. In fact the Chinese had very little cancer until they migrated to the Americas and adopted the American way of living. Dare we dismiss these remedies from other cultures?

Researchers have performed many tests in recent years and found that green tea and green tea extract with catechin can trigger weight loss by stimulating the body to burn calories and decrease body fat. None of the research subjects experienced any side side effects or increased heart rates which is significant to those with thyroid disease who may be sensitive to stimulants [The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition].

Tests against a placebo over a 12 week period showed a 11% increase in total cholesteral but with a 16% decrease in the bad cholesteral [LDL] Another test done in Japan on 35 Japanese men who all drank oolong tea but half of them had their drink fortified with green tea extract and a high dose of catechins. The men who drank the fortified tea experienced a significant reduction in waist size as well as general body fat and a big decrease in the bad cholesteral [LDL]. Catechins have been very effective in patients with food allergies by blocking the formation of histamines. As well they have strong antiviral effects against herpes simplex virus and they work as powerful anti-oxidents.

Caffiene free green tea and green tea extract are available for those who prefer to avoid caffiene.
Many more research projects have been done and are ongoing that suggest many more menefits to drinking green tea. In what better way could we improve our health?

If the tea has steeped for five minutes as it should in order for it to release those antoxident qualities, let us now sit and relax while our blood pressure and blood sugar simmer down to help protect us from heart disease and cancer. Mmmmm!

Post script - I offer natural alternatives for disease prevention and in no way suggest that they are cures.

Stop Feeling Guilty About Your Weight

2007-03-03T22:25:00.000-08:00

Do you believe that “eating fat makes you fat”? Well it just isn’t true and I want to help anyone who is overweight, all seniors in particular, to learn how they can lose as much as 20% of those unwanted pounds over a 12 week period and keep them off.

Eating beef, cheese, eggs, poultry and other dairy products should be a path to lifelong weight control but only if they contain one very important fat that has a slimming effect on the body, and that is conjugated linoliec acid [CLA for short] which is one of the essential fatty acids [EFA’s for short]. When the fats we eat contain CLA they are converted into muscle and energy but without CLA they are simply stored as more fat cells.

So where is the CLA that should be in these foods? Many other countries have an abundance of CLA in their foods but in North America the CLA content has fallen to almost nothing. And since our bodies can’t produce it on our own --- and it is essential --- where do we get it?

Ever since farmers started feeding cattle in feed lots where they got only processed packaged grains with added vitamins instead of grazing them on fresh natural grasslands, the CLA content has slowly depleted. In Australia, for instance, where cattle and poultry still graze on free range the CLA content is 400% higher than ours.

Have you tried the high protien/low carbohydrate diet and lost some or a lot of weight? But what happened when you got off it? Did you gain the weight back faster than it took to lose it. Your body needs fresh air, clean water, sunshine and exercise ---- but it also needs a balance of protiens, carbohydrates and fats or in other words, EFA’s also called vitamin F, particularly omega-3 fatty acids [found in flax oil, fish, wheat germ, pumpkin seeds and walnuts] and omega –6 fatty acids [found in safflower, sunflower, canola, soybeans, sesame seeds and pine nuts].

There are now many forms of EFA’s available but most of them have an equal balance of omegas 3, 6 and 9 and our diets already get an abundance of omega-6 due to the feeding practices of the animals and poultry that no longer free range. Omega-9 can be found in virgin olive oil which you should try to supplement your diet with to help balance the omega-6 that is found in almost all other oils that are used for frying foods. Avoid other oils that are high in only omega-6, and throw away that margarine!

Some omega-3 rich foods are eggs [preferably free range] salmon, trout, catfish and shrimp but they are now being fed omega-6 rich grains and byproducts. Flax seed oil and crushed flax seed is one of the best sources of omega-3 oil. To insure you get enough omega-3 you can take CLA capsules in a form called tonalin. Each sofgel contains 1000mg of safflower oil, 750 mg of which is CLA. Be sure you get the conjugated tonalin from Safflower oil. Taking 4 per day will give you the recommended 3000 mg of CLA. You can find them at your local health food store.

If you don’t need to lose weight there are other great benefits from CLA. It has a significant impact on cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and bone and joint health. It may reduce tumor growth and slow prostate and breast cancers. It improves immune system response to attack and inhibits harmful inflammation such as arthritis and also increases muscle mass.

On my blog, you will find information on working from home online with your computer as a retirement way to supplement your income or simply find an enjoyable hobby to pursue. There are hundreds of easy work at home programs to be found in google. Pick one that suits you best.
I suggest you work diligently at weight reduction if it is a problem for you as work-at-home projects tend to aggravate the weight problem due to easy access to food and a sedentary life style. It is to your benefit to make these later years as comfortable as possible and may you have many of them.

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What Is Your Worth As a Senior?

2007-02-28T18:55:00.000-08:00

A senior is a man or woman of 50 to 100 years of age, of any nationality or color, living in any country worldwide, rich or poor, male or female and either working a job or self employed or retired.

There is no place in the world that you do not find seniors or a connection to seniors.
Almost all CEO’s in big million dollar companies are seniors or soon to be seniors. From government to law enforcement to teachers to health care programs, most top positions are held by seniors.

Seniors have years of knowledge from all their experiences whether they are now janitors or Presidents or Judges, they all have much to offer in their time remaining.
Many seniors tend to feel rejected and useless when they are retired from the workforce when in fact there is still life ahead for them at any age or any ability. The internet is a whealth of information for possibilities that they can pursue whether they want to earn an extra work-at-home income or simply find a hobby or just play games on the internet.

Prepare yourself for the senior years by purchasing a computer and make a hobby of learning how to operate it while still working on the job so that it will come naturally later when searching on Google and Yahoo looking for opportunities to make money, or places to travel, or even worthy volunteer work.. There are many search engines on the internet and a lifetime can be spent just discovering thousands of new and wonderful and astounding events in our world.

There are many real and honest programs that are easy to work and can make extra spending money just working online at home on the computer . Ezines and newsletters are great places to learm and there are hundreds of forums where thousands of people visit each other and discuss their joys and their failures and many new friends from all around the world are made this way.

One of the greatest things seniors can do is write. Write articles and stories. Tell about life experiences and dreams and failures or successes. . There are many books and articles being sold that are actually biographies of interesting lives. Learn how to start a blog on the internet, that is like a daily diary with all the interesting things that happened in your lifetime and include snipits of interest to you and invite other people to join you and make comments on your blog. If the comments are not acceptable to you, they are easily removed. A long life lived certainly has a lot to tell about.

Most newspaper and magazine stories today have a website URL that can be enterd into the computer and bring up more information that was not included in the article. Reading is one of the best ways to keep the mind alert and hungry for more information.

One seldom has regrets for the things accomplished in a life, but often regret the things one didn’t get to do. Truly, the life of a senior is priceless.

All Too Late

Each morning he stacked up the letters he’d write – tomorrow,
And thought of the folks he’d fill with delight – tomorrow,
It was too bad indeed, he was too busy today
And hadn’t a minute to stop on his way;
More time he’d have to give others, he’d say – tomorrow

The greatest of workers this man would have been – tomorrow,
The world would have known him had he ever seen—tomorrow,
But the fact is he died and faded from view,
And all that he left when living was through,
Was a mountain of things he’d intended to do -- tomorrow

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Black History In Alberta

2007-02-24T16:30:00.000-08:00

“Clicks of wheels on steel beat a monotonous cadence to the rhythmic sway of rail cars. Day and night the clicks seldom ceased except when the train stopped to take on water and coal. A shriek, like fingernails over a blackboard, and a hiss of steam told the weary travellers that they could leave their cars, stretch their legs and get a breath of fresh air. Then the journey would resume.”

Leduc poet and author, Gwen Hooks wrote this memoir in her book “The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler" in absentia for her late husband Mark, whose parents along with hers came to Alberta from Oklahoma,

Blacks were tired of segretation and racism in the southern states so they migrated to Canada. The word Canada had a magic ring to the ears of the early black settlers looking for a better way of life.

In 1834, Canada had officially banished slavery and during the years of the underground railroad about 30,000 black slaves were welcomed into the country. In 1901 Alberta had only 37 black settlers but between the years of 1908 and 1914, large migrations from Oklahoma, and as far as Texas, swept into the province.

In the early years of the 20th cnetury settlers were offered 120 acres each by the government, to break, cultivate and help settle the West. Black Albertan settlements were soon established in Amber Valley, Campsie, Wildwood and Keystone [now known as Breton]. Keystone had a population of about 200 people who learned to cope with the bitter cold and harshness of the Canadian winters in their efforts to establish new beginnings.

Eastern Canadians showed the settlers how to build sod houses and how to mud plaster their log homes. But not all who came stayed. Due to growing racism in Canada many were turned away at the border and many others simply could not stand the extreme cold that they were not used to.

Opposition to the black settlers in Canada and Alberta reached a high point in 1911, and the Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs Frank Oliver was openly promoting racism by propaganda against Black settlers.
Under the acquiescence of the government and the placing of blocks at the border crossing, it became very difficult for Afro-Americans to enter Canada.

Those that made it through the border and those that stuck it out and worked their quarter section of land not only created a life for themselves but greatly added to Canada’s growing economy.

Many Blacks joined the military and fought for Canada while others with great determination opened their own businesses. Many worked in Leduc or Edmonton to help supplement their income from farming or to learn a trade

Settlers in Keystone would alternate to make frequent trips to Leduc for necessities like flour, sugar and salt. It was a distance of about thirty miles and was made rather infrequently in winter with their horses until later years when roads were better and cars were more prevalent. They built schools in every community to help their children get started on a good education.

At her Mother’s insistance, Gwen trained and became a teacher and from 1942 until her retirement in the late 1990”s she educated many Leduc County children, both black and white.

As the years progressed, many black settlements began to change and become deserted or integrated with the white settlers.. By 1983, Keystone had gone from a totally black settlement to an almost all white one. Eventually it’s name was changed to Breton and today, the achievements and history of the black founders can be visited at the Breton Museum. Hook’s book ends with the musings of her husband that also represent the spirit of all blacks who came to Canada with hope in their hearts.

“The breeze seemed to breathe me in and out and I was made one with all myselves, the rebel boy, the soldier, the farmer, the loving husband and father. All had merged at last and my heart filled with gratitude for having been lucky enough to live in and serve a land like Canada where so many like me were able to live in freedom, peace and prosperity”.

Gwen Hooks is a senior now and has been for more than 35 years and has contributed more to her own life and to Alberta during these senior years than many give in their lifetime. She has also written books of poetry and is an accomplished pianist. It was her senior ancestors who worked the land and brought the younger ones to their senior years where many of them continue to make a living and improve the economy of Canada. She is a fine example to all seniors who would like to make a living working at home whether it be on the computer and the internet or to start a home based business.

Gwen and Mark Hooks raised four children who are highly educated and now entering their senior years and raising families of their own. As friends and neighbors they are unsurpassed and very deserving of the life they have earned in Canada.

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At What Age Are You A Senior?

2007-02-18T19:33:00.000-08:00

At What Age Are You A Senior?

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope and as old as your despair”.

Most Seniors have seen hard times at one time or another in their lives. They have had to struggle financially to care for their families or they have lost close family members or have suffered grave illness of family members or themselves. They know the reality of how fast the good times can disappear. Through the years they have gained enormous knowledge, often from their own experience and perseverance rather than from education and training. Where youth pays huge fees to get an education, the years accumulated by Seniors can be equal in value.

Their most precious commodity now is Time. Not even youth knows how much more time they are allotted but Seniors certainly know that theirs is limited and now is not the time to worry about how much is remaining but to remember that the future still comes to them one day at a time and it is up to them to live each one to the fullest.

There are many projects that Seniors from 50 up are able to accomplish and we have only to look at the internet to see all the hundreds of work-at-home projects offered. The list goes on from learning to cook or play a musical instrument, to making money at internet marketing online with some of the dozens of programs offered, or getting paid to type or do data entry via the internet. The internet certainly offers a mosaic of ideas and money making work-at-home opportunities.

Regardless of whether Seniors need to make a living or just entertain themselves to keep busy, the underlying goal should be to find happiness in thir work. Happiness is a way of life. George Bernard Shaw wrote “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than we have to consume wealth without producing it”. Happiness is meant to be enjoyed, not someday in the future, but today – Now!.
Happiness is being true to yourself
Happiness is keeping busy
Happiness is accepting the inevitable
Happiness is ones work and family life
Happiness and health are closely related
True happiness is making others happy
Remember, your financial Past does not have to be your Financial Future!

Age is a quality of mind.
If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is cold and you no longer plan ahead,
If your ambitions are all dead,
Then you are Old.
But if you make of life the best
And in your life you still have zest,
If you hold love no matter how the years go by
No matter how the birthdays fly,
You are NOT old!

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Seniors Can Make Money Online

2007-02-16T13:37:00.000-08:00

Are you afraid to tackle a computer? If you have never tried with earnestness then how do you know that you can not do it. If you give it a fair try you may find it is really simple. Of course, like everything else .... anything is simple once it is learned.

Once you master the computer to at least send and write emails, there is a whole new future out there in marketing online. And there are many programs that are legitimate and give you specific instructions to get started marketing online. You can find programs that can get you started for FREE where you can learn and make a small amount of money. Once you get your feet wet, you can make small investments in the programs that they suggest.

When you have a cash flow from your online internet marketing you can invest more to upgrade some of the FREE programsyou joined. That is not to say that the money will start to flow immediately -- there really are no get rich quick online marketing programs. The time required to start the money flowing can be in days or weeks depending on how fast you learn and apply the training you get.

Many seniors growing up worked hard and lived frugally along side many siblings. They learned to make their own entertainment and fun without TV's, computers, cell phones or any of new inventions that are coming on the market daily today. All these new inventions tend to make seniors feel incompetent to use them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just get a computer and experiment until it becomes familiar. You can learn to master it like many others are learning, and you too can make the computer your best friend.

If you're already a master of the computer, you will find online marketing is easy and a lot of fun. What could be better than working in a corner of your own home and making money?

For work at home projects, there are some legitimate and easy to learn programs in internet marketing suitable for seniors that cost very little to start and can be added to easily for desired additional income. Some programs set everything out in detail for you to learn what to do and what not to do. There are many resources that are FREE and offer you a great starting point to realize a small income until you can afford to invest a small amount and continue to expand if you wish to do so.

One thing that is key to success is to join a good legitimate online program and give it your all for a reasonable time . If you find that you no longer have upline support and the money is going out but none is coming in, then you should move on and look for another program. The idea is not to jump from one to another. There is a lot of hype on the internet and it can be difficult to sort it out. Try not to succumb to it.

If you can find a program with live help via phone and email and a truly supportive upline you are almost guaranteed success. However, you will learn that there are many requirements you will have to perform. Just take your time and learn one step at a time and it will soon become familiar to you and start to pull in the money. It's a great experience..

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Blogging For Self Esteem

2007-02-16T13:35:00.000-08:00

When some people reach 50 they are suddenly terrified of being ‘over the hill’.
In their mind they feel that life is almost over for them. Others reach the age of 80 and wonder how they got there and how come they don’t feel a day older than 40 or 50, and will they have time to do all the things they still want to do?

I submit it is all in your ‘head’ or mind. You are as old as you want to feel or be or act. There is no set time when your life is going to end, and there is no set time when you should stop doing all the things you always did, provided you are physically able and coherent. Those are things we cannot control whether we be a senior or a junior. However, many people have not been stopped by seeming insurmountable afflictions.

I knew a great old lady who lived in three centuries [1899-2000] to the age of 101 and managed her own home until the third century that she lived in and when asked how she did it, she would reply with vehemence, “Stay away from them old people”. This is very sage and sound advice.

Many seniors of 50 simply stop going forward and even degress into the past. The past is a good place to learn about the future but one needs to heed those lessons and move forward into the furure. They know all about the things that were invented in the past but learn nothing about the inventions of today.
To spend time with these people is actually depressing and should be avoided.

One of the biggest advancements in the last 50 years is the computer. Many seniors saw it is the future and quickly learned to adapt to it while they were still young seniors. That is not to say they could not learn it when the reached 60 or 70 or 80 or beyond. Many seniors do not seemingly know their actual age and continue to act as though there is no tomorrow. They are mastering the compupter and going on to make a living marketing online. They will live for a very long time because they are truly ‘alive’ every day of their life.

Age is only a number. You are only old if you believe you are. Start with a Blog to build your self esteem. Market yourself with your blog and make some money online. And most important, have fun.
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Internet Marketing For Seniors

2007-02-09T12:15:00.000-08:00

Hello Senior Citizens and all bloggers,

I am a senior citizen making money on the internet, and it occurred to me that there may be thousands more out there like me who would like to know how to earn a living marketing with the internet.

There are many ways to succeed on the internet but there are also many more ways to lose money on the same internet. You see, I tried for several years to "get rich" on the internet and failed miserably, even lost considerable money at it.

As time is running out for old timers like myself, I had to find something that would start earning early on and be easy to do and also be very inexpensive – like FREE!! At least to get started.

I was born on a farm on the prairies in Canada, which is much like the prairies any where else. Like you and many other seniors ages 60 and up, we worked hard and lived frugally along side many siblings. We learned to make our own entertainment and fun without TV's, computers, cell phones or any of those newfangled things they have today. These things only serve to make us feel inadequate.

However, thanks to my grandsons, I have learned to master most of them and the computer is my best friend now. I have learned that there are some legitimate and easy to learn programs in internet marketing for seniors that cost very little to start and can be added to easily for desired additional income.

To see my blog and learn more about Internet Marketing for Seniors go to my website at http://moneymadison.com/

Feel free to give me a note about yourself.

See you there!

Jean Madison
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Money Madison Launches Senior Citizen Blog

2007-02-08T09:38:00.000-08:00

Hi,

My name is Jean Madison. I am starting my senior citizen blog to help people make money on the internet who are retired and looking to make a little or a lot more money, or are just looking for a pastime. The internt has a lot to offer everyone.

Please check back often as I will be posting here on a regular basis. Also please check out my website if you would like to join me. I welcome your comments and any ideas you may have.

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