Jim Donovan, the Ageless Boomer

This is the coolest thing since sliced bread.

Making money with Google Adsense and similar services, is so simple to get going; it’s a no-brainer. This is a game everyone can play.

You probably heard a lot lately about how people are making fortunes with Adsense. While this is certainly true, take it all with a grain of salt. It’s not as easy as a lot of people would have you think . . .

but . . . you can easily make some amount of money from it. How much is up to you.

To really appreciate how cool this is and how it works, you have to understand Googles reasoning. Google lets people buy key word positioning in searches known as “adwords,” to promote their business to people who are searching for a particular product or service.

To expand their reach, they also provide a way for people like you and I to display these ads on our Web pages. They then share the revenue with us. This is the Adsense model in a nutshell.

As of this writing, Google is doing some $6 billion in advertising a year.

You can share in this quite easily.

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The other day, in response to an article of mine that circulated the Web, I received a comment from a man who wrote, “. . . where there are winners, there must be losers . . .”

Says who?

This is a belief that dates back centuries and if it ever was true, which is unlikely, it’s certainly not true now.

Why do some people need to go without so you and I can be wealthy? They dont! We live in an abundant universe. Look around you.

Since it’s almost tomato season here in the Northeast US, go out and get a tomato and curt it open. Count the seeds. Now realize that each of these seeds is capable of producing an entire plant with a dozen more tomatoes, containing hundreds of seeds, and so on.

Do you really believe a loving, benevolent Creator would do less for us? Of course not.

The belief in there having to be losers in the game of life, in order to have winners, is absurd! It’s a convenient way for people to remain stuck. Of course, I know this is not you or you would not be reading this blog.

If you still have doubts about your deserving wealth and abundance of every kind in your life, download a free copy of my Wealth Without Struggle ebook.

Probably the easiest way to get started earning more money right away is by doing something related to your present career or job.

A word of caution: Make sure you are not in violation of any agreements you have with your employer or in any way competing with them.

For most people, the skills they use every day in their 9 to 5 job can be used elsewhere. Even some other skill you have from a hobby or previous career would work. My wife, Georgia, has performed work as a makeup artist even though her “career” was in high tech. She had worked in the London theater earlier in her life. We sometimes forget that we do not lose the skills we have just because we’re not working with them today.

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Lately, I’ve been hearing so much about how baby boomers can’t afford to retire, how people are buried in debt, the struggles families are having just making ends meet and so on and so on.

The real problem here, the big thing stopping most people is that they believe there’s nothing they can do about it.

They bought (no pun intended) into the idea that their paycheck is what they have to play with. I used the word play here because the more you begin to see money as a game, one which you can win, the better off you’ll be.

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As T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, so aptly points out, we are all essentially, living out our parents money blueprint or script, at least until we have actively changed it.

Along with all the good qualities I inherited from my Mother, her “laissez faire” attitude about credit cards and her mantra of “spend now, worry later,” was one I would have been happy to skip. Until I decided to take charge of my finances and challenge my beliefs about money and wealth, I was, like many people, simply carrying on what I learned growing up.

I was continuing to live out my parent’s wealth script, which, in my case, was not a good idea. The sad thing is, they were doing the same thing their parents did and so on. Chances are, unless you’ve already addressed this issue, you’re pretty much acting out your parents behavior and using their money script as your own. After all, where else would you learn about money and finances?

As a small child, you did not have many opportunities to develop your own beliefs about wealth, but there is no reason why you cannot choose your own model now.

Action steps:

1. Take a look at your spending patterns. Are they something you would choose for yourself now, as an adult?

2. What steps could you take to immediately change this? (Example: cut up your credit cards, get help, begin learning about wealth, take a course, read a book, etc.)

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I happened to catch the TV news the other night as they were doing a story about how we have too much debt, not enough savings and don’t know what to do about it. I posted this comment on the American Broadcasting Company’s message boards:

Cindy Taylor (and most other American’s) say- “I think often about . . . I need to save, I need to pay down my debt, I need to invest,” Taylor said. “But I really don’t even begin to understand how to do that.”

It starts with taking personal responsibility for the mess. You then use the grey matter between your ears to develop ways to increase your income while systematically reducing your debt. It may not be so simple but it’s easy enough.

We are living in a time of more opportunity for wealth than we’ve ever seen in this world. We have libraries filled with books to help and courses on every street corner.

The way out of debt is by maing more money. I’ve writen about this myself as have a ton of other people.

We have teenagers in far off countries making money on the Internet and in a myriad of other creative ways while the adults in the US sit and whine.

We have to get over being victims and take ownership of our lives once again.

The real problem is that we all (well, some of you:-) bought into the idea that your income comes from your JOB. It doesn’t. For starters, everything we need was put here by our Creator. Then, consider that your company, whoever they are, pays you for your contribution. It is not a gift. You earn it with your skills.

If Betsy Stark could not manage on her network salary, believe me, she would figure out a better way. Once someone takes responsibility for their situation, they are empowered to do something to change it.

Anyone expecting the government to step in and save them better get used to eating pet food. Decide what you want and take some action.

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If you’re thinking that you’re too old to start living your deams, think again.

Here are just a few of the people who defied age and made their dreams come true, regardless of their age:

Harland Sanders, best remembered for starting Kentucky Fried Chicken, now KFC, was 65 years old when he began his business. The story is that, when he looked at his Social Security check of $105 a month, he realized he did not want to try to live on it alone. Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC restaurants around the world.

On July 24, 1987, Hulda Crooks became the oldest person to climb Mt. Fuji in Japan. She was 91 years old at the time. Upon doing so, she exclaimed, “You always feel good when you make a goal.”

Ray Kroc, a mixer salesman, met the McDonalds brothers and began his fast food empire when he was well into mid-life. He noted later, “I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.” Even with his health challenges, he remained active in his business and lived to be 82 and today, there are some 24,500 McDonald’s restaurants in 115 countries.

Buckminster Fuller, bankrupt at 32 years of age, went on to receive international recognition for his geodesic dome as he approached 60. And in 1970 he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects at age 75. “Bucky” is rumored to have said, “A man doesn’t even get good until he’s 80!”

So what’s your excuse?
Happy Indepencdence Day in the US.