Mid-Life Help

Enlightened Women Know the Truth

Rick — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:40:09 +0000

For many years, brilliant women from around the world have encouraged Hollywood to spread their propaganda that
Richard Geer, George Clooney, Denzel Washington and Brad Pitt are the sexiest men on the planet.

Why? Because the really sexy men have become so rare that these selfish women want to keep them all to themselves. Who are these men and how do they satisfy the needs of the luckiest women on Earth? I may be labeled a traitor to my gender but I'm going to blow the cover off these hidden hunks of sensuous talents right now…These real men among men are the "Fixers".

The media tells women they need hours of "foreplay" before being truly satisfied. Enlightened women know, it all really starts with "choreplay"…

Don't have a spoon?

A Fixer can take care of that.

Seatbelt broken?

A fixer knows what to do.

New TV too big for the old cabinet?

Carpentry is a Fixer's specialty

Electrical problem? No Problem

A Fixer knows what to do.

Car stereo stolen?
An obvious solution for a Fixer.

Bookshelf cracking under the weight?
Not even a second thought from a Fixer.

Original equipment GPS too expensive?
Your gift from a Fixer.

No ice chest for the party with your girlfriends?

Get the beer – your Fixer has got it covered.

Can't read the ATM screen honey buns?
Your Fixer to the rescue.

Car imported from the wrong country?

A Fixer knows what to do.

Satellite always goes out in the rain?

A Fixer's natural solution

Electric stove broken and you need your coffee?

Your wish fulfilled by your Fixer.

Wiper Motor Burned Out?

Your Fixer wants you to be safe.

Gotta feed the baby AND help you do the laundry?

A Fixer can do that!

Cables falling behind the desk?

A Fixer can be practical and ingenious!

Rick actually likes this idea.

Out of diapers in the middle of the night?

Come back to bed, your Fixer solves another problem!

Hope this tongue-in-cheek report put a smile on your face.

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A Real Fixer

Anti-Aging

Rick — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:16:25 +0000

The Four Anti-Aging Tips You May have Missed

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Clones and nanobots may not be here in time to stop the effects of aging that we are all starting to feel. The only real fountain of youth we have is the information about slowing the aging process. You ought to know by now that we are all different. Even though extreme regimens work for a few people, I like the idea of moderation in good health programs.

1) Assuming you are not abusing your body with drugs, excessive alcohol or smoking, it is time to actually think about what you are feeding yourself. Fruits and vegetables need to be a bigger part of that and sugar needs to be less. You don't have to become a vegan or never eat a cookie again. Just be aware of what you eat and if you are overweight, start to replace those excessive calories with more whole vegetables and less sweets.

2) You knew exercise was next, didn't you? You don't have to join a gym or run a marathon but you must exercise enough to maintain a healthy heart and lungs. Find any pleasant physical activity that you can do several times a week. If you are out of shape, it may be uncomfortable for a while but that extra oxygen and blood circulation alone will start turning back the clock. Attitude plays a big part in the appearance of aging.

3) You feel old when you look old so make sure you think young. Wear sunscreen, moisturize your skin, make sure you are well groomed and don't start wearing shabby clothes just because they are comfortable. Be aware of what young people are watching at the movies, listening to on the radio or playing on their computers. Be open-minded and cheerful even when you don't feel like it. Nobody like a whiner or an old grouch.

4) If you are the competitive type, you need to continue to play and compete, not for the thrill of victory but the shear joy of being able to play. Playing is winning now. Enjoy yourself. You are in your "Second Adult Life", something the average person didn't have 100 years ago. Attitude again, consider it a "second chance". Make the most of it by using this information in your daily life. You might make your senior years the best years of your life.
Here is your free, "Healthy Life" cookbook HERE.

There is more! Power Foods – Wrinkles – Sunscreen Facts – Gravity Effects Get your FREE copy of The Smart Person's Guide to Anti-Aging right HERE

Rick

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The Choices You Make

Rick — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:05:28 +0000

Once again you have come to the beginning of a new year. Albert Camus says that “Your life is a sum of all your choices”. While technically, I might disagree, Camus is not here to defend his position so let's give him this one.

So what choices are you making tomorrow morning? The same ones you always make? Do you know the incredible power that you control every waking moment of your life? Whether you have spent forty or ninety years getting to this moment, you still get to choose. Will you say to yourself, "I am going to be in complete control of my attitude today and I decide to be happy?"

Will you finally decide to do what is right for your own well-being? Healthy eating and exercise, focused hard work and taking action toward achieving your goals…will these be part of your choice? Do you realize what an awesome time this is in your life?

My friend, Pat Kamerath, is an award winning artist. The title of this painting, Metamorphosis, came to mind while writing this post about choices.

metamorphosis

"A profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism."

This is your chance to set free the "butterfly" you have been holding inside. You have a lifetime of knowledge, the desire (passion), my encouragement and the resources of addedyears.com…everything you need to create the life of your dreams, once you make the choice.

Your clock is ticking. There will never be a better time. Whatever you need to do to improve your life can start right now but you have to make the choice and be committed to the "new and improved" you.

Good Luck,

Rick
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No Sex After 40?

Rick — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:42:00 +0000

Everybody wants to know how this all came about. You can help me by watching the video and then taking the really short survey (1 minute) Click Here to take the SURVEY

Directory of Help Organizations

Rick — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:30:31 +0000

On this page is a great directory of over 300 organizations who help people in their Second Adult Life.

http://midlifehelp.com/help-organizations/

Let me know if you find one particularly helpful.

Rick

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Who Will Remember You?

Mr. Fixit — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:34:29 +0000

Hey Rick,

I've got all I really need to continue with the "good life" during the time I have left on this planet. Although I'm happy, I've started to wonder why I'm here and what have I done for mankind. I can't leave a huge trust fund to my grandkids so will they even remember me when they get older?

Olsen

First of all, Olsen, congratulations!! I love to hear about success. It is not at all unusual for a hardworking, driven person to reach all of his/her personal goals and still feel that something is missing. Many feel unfulfilled or simply want to know that their life had "meaning". Your grand kids are the perfect place to start. Create memories for them by teaching them what you know, be a mentor, help them think through tough situations. Don't be the grumpy old man they visit in a nursing home. Be the "superstar" that taught them how to fish, ride a horse, use a library, draw a cartoon character or appreciate a museum. Teach them the one magic trick you know or how to make a paper airplane. Show them the value of learning from "old people", about personal responsibility, how the "bad guys" try to control people with fear tactics. You are financially successful. What if someone had taught you about the stock market, compound interest and taxes when you were fifteen? You don't have to have grand kids or money to do this. The best way to be remembered is to pass on a piece of yourself. In the member's area, I have two good sources for many more ideas on being a mentor and leaving a legacy. (Under Mental health in "Free Products for Members" area)

Good luck and have fun.

Rick

Woodworkers-Have you seen these plans?

Mr. Fixit — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:46:10 +0000

I know this is not for everyone but I'm a woodworker and I just couldn't help promoting this product.

This is a straight up product recommendation for these 14,000 woodworking plans.

If you or your partner are a woodworker just take a look at this package. You can search, print…just take a look. Click on the download button.

I will receive an affiliate commission if you purchase these plans. Rick

Women Over 40 – The No. 1 Way To Improve The Years To Come

Mr. Fixit — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:12:41 +0000

We all have made compromises to create a "comfortable" life for ourselves. Will you settle for "comfortable" in your Second Adult Life?

You have worked hard for many years, perhaps raised a family, built a career or both. Your life has become fairly routine. Whether this is good or bad, you have recently begun to realize that you may live another thirty to fifty years or more. That is another entire adult life! The next thought that crosses many minds is, "I can't go through all this again."

So what does it take to get out of a rut and make the coming years the very best of your life?

YOU MUST MAKE TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF YOUR TOP PRIORITY.

There seems to be a lot of resistance to this concept. Women have sacrificed their well being "for the sake of their spouse, their children, their parents and even their career or their company." For whatever reason, many women never realized that they could have "served" everyone around them even better if they had taken care of their own needs first. There is a good reason that the airlines say, "put your emergency oxygen mask on first, before helping anyone else."

Trying to convince the doubters of this concept takes more words than I have today. So I'm going to concentrate on the one area that almost all agree. "The freedoms and comforts available from having money will help me live a happier, healthier and more fulfilling "second adult life."

Money is just a tool; a way to make bartering easier. It has no qualities of good or evil. The sole purpose of collecting it now is to help you take care of yourself in the future and make it easier for you to share the very best of yourself with the rest of the world.

So what steps can you take now to ensure this future happiness?

• Personal Savings – You must have a place to accumulate money.

• Retirement Fund – An IRA or 401K or other plan if you work outside the home

• Savings Mindset – "Sock-It-Away" either by habit or auto-withdraw

• Question spending – Do you really need a new __________?

• Avoid & Eliminate Debt – The future is unpredictable but "Cash is always king"

• Avoid having to say, "No" by not telling your friends and relatives about your nest egg.

There are hundreds of excuses not to save. Eliminate them from your mind and replace them with ways and reasons to save. Use your positive thoughts to find ways to add to your account. If it helps, make it a game and add some incentives. Calculate how much the ten dollars you deposited this week will be worth in twenty years. If you want singing lessons, your own apartment, a trip to Tahiti, imagine what that will be like. Remember, this is not a savings account for auto repairs or a birthday gift for your spouse or bail for your sad-sack brother. This is for your future.

Where to save. You want your "pot of gold" to be safe, earn interest if possible and not so easily accessible that you are tempted to dip into it for daily living expenses. Online banks can offer such a place but do your homework and avoid any "hidden" fees, minimum deposits or charges for holding your money. Don't look for just the highest interest rate. Unless you have a substantial initial deposit, fees and charges can be a lot more that any interest income you might make. Ask questions; call the institution and tell them what you plan to deposit and how you plan to add to it. Specifically ask if there will be any charges or fees. Take notes on each institution you call including who you talk with and when. If you have a few thousand dollars to start with or you have an IRA, you can open multiple accounts with an online broker like E*Trade who will recognize your brokerage account, retirement account, savings and checking accounts as one balance, making it easier to eliminate minimum fees and monthly charges.

You can do this and should DO IT NOW! I'll let you come up with more reasons to save for your better future years. Here are some ideas for finding and making more deposits to your savings:

• The coins collecting dust around the house

• Cash rebates from product purchases

• Cash birthday or Christmas gifts

• Make sure to use employer matching funds to your retirement account if available

• Automatic deposits from your pay check

• Every time you choose to "brown bag it" instead of eating out, put aside $5 for a deposit

• Sell any "junk" that has been in your storage area for years.

When you start feeling good about doing this for your future you may be ready to start doing more things for yourself. In the years to come, you can keep growing as a productive, happy individual, benefiting everyone around you. If this is a new idea for you, it may take some time to sink in but it is true. It is time to take care of yourself. Remember the oxygen mask…

I'm here to inform and encourage.

Rick Perkins

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Your Body – You Can't Trade It In

Mr. Fixit — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:47:11 +0000

Most of us love the look and feel and smell of a new vehicle. And all we have to do is make enough money to buy a new one. Wouldn't it be nice if we could do the same with our aging bodies? Sorry, its not going to happen.

The best we can do is take care of the one we have. The sooner you start, the better. Every year you wait makes it harder to maintain the level of mobility and good feelings we would all like to have in our second adult life.

EXERCISE Mature adults must strive to maintain balance, strength and a good circulatory system to stay active.
NUTRITION Weight control may actually get easier but watching sodium and sugar levels are more important than ever.
SLEEP I thought I could avoid the consequences of sleep deprivation but everyone was right; my memory went first…
REGULAR CHECKUPS Avoid hospital stays whenever possible so practice preventative medicine and go to the doctor regularly.

Of course, you already know this so tomorrow will probably be a lot like today. If you need some incentive, volunteer at a senior center for a few days. You may see ninety year olds dancing and having a great time and sixty year olds in wheelchairs or just too fat or creaky to move away from the tv. If this doesn't wake you up, nothing I can say will.

There is plenty of practical "anti-aging" information in the main membership site and more on the way. Here are a few of my "101 Tips for Losing Ten Pounds" :

#6 Include in your diet things that contain more water like tomatoes and watermelons. These things contain 90 to 95 % water so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the pounds.

#19 Go easy on tea and coffee. Tea and coffee are harmless by themselves. It’s when you add the cream and sugar that they become fattening. Did you know that having a cup of tea or coffee that has cream and at least two cubes of sugar is as bad as having a big piece of rich chocolate cake?

#44 Instead of frying things try baking them without fat. Baking is by far a healthier method of preparing food than frying. Baking requires lesser oil or fat.

#47 Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent thing to munch on in between meals. Not just is it good for you in terms of vitamins, but it is also a perfect way of making your breath fresher.

Join with us to make the next thirty years the very best of your life.

Rick

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Basic Computer Tips

Mr. Fixit — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:49:08 +0000

I have a large list on the main membership site for basic computer tips.

Casual computer users can sometimes be amazed how much easier a task can be when they are shown a basic tip. Here is an example:

Enlarge Your View

When you are browsing the Internet, you may want to take a closer look at a particular page. While that page is on the screen, hold down the Ctrl key and press the plus key (+). Each time you press the + key the image will get larger. While holding down the Ctrl key, press the minus key (-) and the image will get smaller.

Hold Ctrl key press + Enlarges

Hold Ctrl key press - Shrinks

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If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can try this: Hold down the Ctrl Key while you roll the wheel forward or backward.

Try it.

Rick Perkins

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