Blogging Baby Boomer (BBB)

Today is a very special day. Apart from being 09-09-09, a nice combination of figures,
it also is my husband’s birthday and I have my first post on my first blog ever.

As I stated in my introduction under “About”, my intention with this blog is to write about my transition, my journey as I call it, from a person with an employee mindset to become an entrepreneur. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi everyone,

Deana is very well again! The flu has passed.

A problem at our ISP has caused this blog to be ‘off the air’ for a couple of days.

Sorry about that.

Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2010 to you all!

Ronald.

I’m sorry to inform all you Deana-followers that she is ill.

Muscle-aches, sick, fever, tired, so probably the flu.

Regards, Ronald.

I’ve learned some important basics and I want to share some of them here in this post.

I don’t pretend that these are all the basics. These are basic rules I find important.

1) The true intention of business should be: To make someone’s life better. To advance someone’s life with the particular product or service you offer.

2) You need a group, a team, business partner or assistant to help you become successful. You can not do it in isolation. No man is an island on his own. And you need to surround yourself with people who support you. Have somebody, a mentor or somebody to be accountable to.

3) Remember, people buy for their own reason, not for the reason you think they should buy. You need to know what their reason is. You need to know the problems they want to solve and offer them the solution. Build relationships. People buy from people they “know-like-trust”.

4) You need to know that money doesn’t solve problems, your thinking patterns do.

5) Losing is part of the process of becoming successful; don’t fear failure, it is part of the deal. Stop being afraid to make mistakes.

6) Know some of the important truths about money. I will write a post to talk about some of them.

7) Know the difference between Assets and Liabilities. Contrary to how I learned it in school, in his books “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and “Cashflow Quadrant”
Robert Kiyosaki, explains this simply as:
Asset is something that makes you money and Liability is something that costs you money.
This is very clear and true, because in school I learned book keeping from the point of view of the bank and the business owner I worked for. Doing business yourself you need to know what costs you money and what brings or makes you money.

Robert Kiyosaki keeps saying in the books I named earlier that Rich people know how to let money work hard for them.
Poor people will stay poor as long as they keep thinking that they have to work hard for money and make other people rich.

He also says that: “It’s not assets, real estate, stock, mutual funds, business or money that makes you rich. It’s the information, knowledge, wisdom, know how and one’s financial intelligence that makes a person wealthy.”

I agree that it is using your potential that can make you wealthy.
But unless you do something with it, take action and practice it, it will be only potential.

I don’t have blogs on my blogroll yet but I do have a blog I would recommend you to check out.
This blog is a feast to my eyes.

As much as I would like my own blog to evolve in a conversational blog, where the writer of the blog, has interaction with the readers audience, I do enjoy this blog so much, because of things you wouldn’t easily find on my blog.

The owner en writer of this blog, eof737, Elizabeth Obih Frank, writes very good, she has a unique and creative way of mixing colorful images and photo’s with good writing and interesting quotes.

The killer content on this blog reflexes the interest the writer has in different cultures and in nature in general.

Two weeks ago she had a blog post about the 10 reasons she thinks you should blog.
I have seen lots of articles about this subject, but hers is something so different than all the others I’ve seen.

It’s a combination of good writing, fantastic images, and interesting quotes. A colorful mix of all three things, as I already mentioned “A feast to my eyes”. Something so unique.

I would recommend you to go take a look at this blog: eof737

Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think of this blog.

Do you also have such a blog you love to visit?

Do you have a bog you do find very special and would recommend to others?
Feel free to leave a comment.

I’ve learned a lot since I decided to let go the idea that I have to get a job again.
I stopped looking for a job and accepted the fact that employers are just not interested in people my age (Baby Boomers). Despite all my 37 years of experience and the education I have had.

This “letting go” gave me such a relaxed feeling. I felt no stress anymore.
My mind became ready for new things. I started to sleep better and I feel so grateful for what I do have now and I enjoy learning new stuff.

Some of the books I’m using to help me change my mindset are books I had never heard of before. Read the rest of this entry »