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To Start Off

2005-09-06T21:56:00.000+08:00

Don't we like to dream about our future, say a cosy retirement. Hence this starter-off on creative retirement by guest author Dave Wright.

Many authors talk about multiple sources of income, including investing and building a business. But venture a thought to streams of revenue on the Internet- it presents a work-at-home, flexible-time and income approach.

Here are some links to explore opportunities on dot.com enterprises. They provide the infrastructure, while the Internet public helps them create publicity - cool arrangement.

Super Affiliate Handbook - raking in more than $400k in Affiliate Profits
Google Cash - advertising on Google for Affiliates to bring in income
Silent Sales Machine on eBay - no inventory needed yet there are profit streams to be activated on eBay
AdSense Secrets - advertise for Google and let Google send the cheque
Affiliate Adventure - a dream of retirement, and an adventure with Internet affiliates

What is Your Creative Retirement Plan?

2005-09-06T21:51:00.000+08:00

What is Your Creative Retirement Plan?
By Dave Wright

The idle are a peculiar kind of dead that cannot be buried.”

Oriental proverb

One thing is certain - when you do not have a creative challenge during your retirement years, the idleness and its accompanying despondency blots out any chance for happiness and contentment and can even encourage an early death.

We spend a great deal of time on our retirement financial planning thinking if we have a roof over our heads and food on the table we’re all set. But no matter how big or small the roof or how limited and abundant the food, without a creative challenge to fuel your mind and spirit, the money is meaningless.

There’s a story about US President Calvin Coolidge. He died at the early age of sixty. He had an office but little or nothing was accomplished there – few came to visit. At his home, he had no hobby or interests. So empty was his life he used to go down in the cellar to watch the handy man throwing coal in the furnace.

In Michael Connelly’s novel “Lost Light”, the hero, a Los Angeles cop describes his retirement.

“….I was now retired. I was supposedly comfortable. I had a house with no mortgage and a car I’d paid cash for. I had a pension that covered more than I needed covered. It was like being on vacation. No work, no worries, no problems. But something was wrong and deep down I knew it. I was living like a jazz musician waiting for a gig. I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine. I needed to pawn my instrument or find a place to play it.”

That is not a good place to be.

When fuelled by continuous creative challenges, the ability to originate new ideas does not diminish with age. When you think of your retirement years, remember age is just a number - health, heart and mind determine age.

In his book, “Staying Young Beyond Your Years”, Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard notes that many people have acquired the habit of NOT learning – they allowed themselves to get out of the habit of learning.

Don’t fall into that trap. If you are planning for your retirement remember - to be a happy, contented and creatively-active older person is to make yourself a happy, contented and creatively-active younger person.

If you are retired NOW is the time to step up to the plate and go for a creative homerun. Create a life work that pops you out of bed in the morning.

Here are a few extras – retirement add-ons that wrap a blue ribbon around a happy, contented and challenging retirement.

See don’t just look - study the beauty that surrounds you. Take time to sit on a park bench or on a lakeshore and play the “Positive Game”. Make a mental list of all the positives around you – the laughter of children playing – a couple holding hands – the structure of a flower – the movements of a bee.

Spend time with the younger generation – their youthfulness will rub off on you. My grandchildren keep me young in mind and spirit.

Exercise is vital – even a daily thirty minute hike works wonders. Play the positive game on your walk. I download motivational books and listened to them on my portable CD player while I’m walking.

“Do not act as though you had a thousand years to live”

Marcus Aurelius

Dave Wright is a retired television reporter and editor of http://www.PPPretirementplans.com a site dedicated to the development of Postive, Productive, Profitable and creative home based business opportunities.
Copyright © 2005 PPP Retirement Plans - Reprints Accepted

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Interesting Insights

2005-08-02T23:24:00.000+08:00

An Empty Future?
For a generation of singles, living life to the fullest could spell the end of life..
declining brith rates, and impact of child shortage on future generations in the world.
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3 Signs of Impending 'Asian Century'
Will the 21st century be another "American Century" or will it be the first "Asian Century"?
India & China as the 2 emerging countries in global technology.
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Trendwatching

2005-07-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

HYGIENIA
Welcome to HYGIENIA: a marketplace inhabited by mature consumers from South Korea to Brazil, from Australia to Canada, who can instantly and expertly point out the various hygiene factors for each and every good, service and experience on offer. Who do these consumers turn to? A select group of brands that are meeting and exceeding consumer expectations with such vigor, that even following their lead is now a hygiene factor in itself for their competitors. And not following or out-innovating
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Bountiful
Companies have long rewarded their employees for bringing in talent. Now, intermediaries like YorZ are casting an even bigger net, cleverly turning to the rest of the world for help.
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Vanchising
Fully equipped vans that unfurl into actual sandwich and coffee shops, delivering sandwiches, salads, hot pies, snacks and bean-to-cup specialty coffees to hungry office workers in food and beverage challenged business parks. Hungry yet?
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Reality holidays
Until there are enough Reality TV shows to guarantee the entire world population a starring role, Reality Holidays may be packing them in.
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Carvertising 2.0
Short term rental cars for free are so 2004: how about cheap long term rental, or actually getting PAID to put advertising on your car?
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New Scientist - Penguins, Dinosaurs & more

2005-06-04T13:55:00.000+08:00

Penguins
How far penguins can shoot poop and whether people swim faster in syrup were among the sticky questions honoured by the awards...
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Exploding the myth of cultural stereotypes
Americans are pushy and the English are reserved, right? Wrong, says a new study, which reveals there is no truth in this sort of national stereotyping...
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Long-necked dinosaurs had shellfish desires
Palaeontologists thought elasmosaurs just used their lengthy necks to catch free-swimming fish, but two new fossils show they were just for starters...
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New Scientist

2005-06-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

First pictures of live giant squid in its natural habitat
Using a cheap camera and fishing boat, two researchers have succeeded where international film crews have failed ...
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Ice age 'twins' found in ancient burial ground
The 27,000-year-old infants were buried together with great ceremony on an Austrian hillside overlooking the Danube
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Deadly dog flu jumped from horses
A virus that has made pets and racing greyhounds sick in the US jumped virtually unchanged from horses, making the outbreak unprecedented
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Pulling the blue iguana from the brink
There are only 25 wild-born blue iguanas left on the Caribbean island, but can conservationists pull off one of the greatest rescues of all time?
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Yahoo Buzz

2005-05-04T13:55:00.000+08:00

An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life
From the 1930s to the early 1970s, the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros hoarded souvenir postcards, tore pages out of old National Geographics, and collected the work of some of the century's great photojournalists. From ancient figurines and brassiere billboards to the Triple Crown–winning racehorse Citation and a "man with traditional attire," little escaped Siqueiros's gaze or interest. Eventually, he amassed a stockpile that exceeded 11,000 images and embodied much of the...
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Midnight Ukulele Disco
Many play guitar, while others strum the bass. Some traveling showmen carry banjos in a case. But what about the ukulele? Does it not deserve its due? Play it for a rowdy crowd And no one will argue. Ukulele Disco is worth a look, This much we promise you. Full of calming stories set to tunes, Relax and spend a moment or two...
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From the Lake to the River
"FEMA makes the IRS look user-friendly, and the torrent of forms necessary for other assistance would choke an alligator." --M. David Gelfand, Professor of Constitutional Law at Tulane University Law School To assist New Orleanians in navigating the murky waters of post-Katrina assistance and insurance claims, Gelfand and other law scholars, students, and attorneys formed this coalition for legal aid and disaster relief. The group offers legal and benefits assistance, and its site answers...
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What kind of tree lives the longest?
The world's oldest living tree is a 4,767-year-old bristlecone pine. It resides in the White Mountains near the California-Nevada border. An average bristlecone pines lives for 1,000 years, with a few surviving to over 4,000 years. Alerce trees and sequoias also live well into their thousands...
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Why does Donald Duck never wear pants?
Many have wondered why Donald refuses to bow to society's conventions by donning pants. Or shorts. Or a kilt. Or something (anything!) to keep his tail feathers from prying eyes. A number of theories exist, presumably formulated by people (like us) with way too much time on their hands...
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Yahoo Buzz

2005-05-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

ConverseGallery.com
Can a sneaker inspire art? The folks over at Converse think so. They've invited talented filmmakers and animators as well as amateurs and wannabes alike to create short films in homage to the venerable Chuck Taylor, Jack Purcell, and their cousins. Sure it's blatant commercialism, though Converse insists it doesn't want advertisements -- it wants Art. Regardless, these mini-movies are cool. Each one is a gem of filmmaking that's part sneaker ad and part indie flick, and features a great...
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JahSonic
Jahsonic: NOUN: 1a. Web site montage of articles, pictures, reviews of books and films, and more. 1b. Alias of webmaster Jan Geerinck 2. A map of modern culture. It's difficult to define a site like Jahsonic. If anything, it's a testament to the value of serendipity. Sure, we all expect the Search box to give us exactly what we want, but sometimes the real rewards of knowledge-seeking come from unexpected discoveries. Jahsonic documents one individual's obsessions with high and low culture,...
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Miami's New Skyline
Anyone who hasn't been renting a small unfurnished hole under a rock knows there's a real estate boom in this country. And nowhere is this more evident than in the bold development plans for the waterfront property along Miami's Biscayne Bay. Roughly 100 new buildings are either planned, under construction, or complete. This interactive Flash map from The Miami Herald reveals the prospective location and proposed design of each building, and forecasts the future skyline of one of the United...
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How are flight numbers assigned? And who assigns them?
We tracked down the answer to your question on an Aviation Safety Reporting System newsletter called "Directline." The ASRS, which was created by the FAA and NASA in 1975, analyzes aviation safety accident reports in order to prevent future mishaps...
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If a person was buried in space, would the body decompose?
Although plenty's been written on the effect a total vacuum would have on a live human body, there's little information about the effects on a corpse. Based on what we've read, however, we'll venture a scenario...
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Google & Yahoo Updates

2005-04-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

Google Wifi
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Gmail: New From Address
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Google Talk
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Be an Empowered (mobile) Shopper
On the heels of the release of Yahoo! Shopping APIs, we at Yahoo! Shopping have developed our own application based on those very web services. It...
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Buzz Game
The Tech Buzz Game is back to test your mad prediction skillz for a second round. But first, many congratulations are in order to Rahulkul, Farmersckn and Zex, our first-round prize winners (subject to final verification), who walk away...
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Ezine Articles Newsletter

2005-03-31T23:55:00.000+08:00

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Ezine Articles on the Web

2005-03-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

Articles and Ebooks: The Ultimate Leverage on the Web
Do you know how so many people, perhaps even you, put off writing articles and ebooks because they are intimidated by the process. Here are some tips to make it simple.
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How to Write an Ebook
The hardest part of writing is the first sentence.
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A Niche is Forming...Run Ahead, Get in Front, and Write e Books for its Members It!!!
E book writing and marketing strategies
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Social Interaction in the Age of the Internet
It was Aristotle who stated that human beings are, by nature, social animals. Yet, while information technology is making the world a smaller place, recent
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Secrets To Successful Selling Online
What is the secret to selling online? This is a significant question on the mind of anyone who has ever attempted to market a product or service via the Internet.
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BBC News

2005-02-04T13:55:00.000+08:00

Leaving 7 July behind
A survivor of the 7 July bombings in London set up a website to help fellow victims deal with the trauma. Three months on, how has it helped?
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'We scare tourists'
An Australian nature expert comes clean about dangers.
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Been and gone
Our monthly look at interesting - but lesser reported - departures.
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BBC News

2005-02-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

Blogging v dogging
Forget podcasting. It seems more people know what dogging is than blogging.
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1964: Kennedy murder was 'no conspiracy'
The Warren Commission concludes there was no conspiracy surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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eBay Success Newsletter

2005-01-28T11:01:00.000+08:00

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2005-01-25T10:55:00.000+08:00

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2004-12-24T23:50:00.000+08:00

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2004-11-28T09:17:00.000+08:00

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