Retirement Life in the Villages By Ryan Erisman

O.k., maybe you aren't a golf nut like a lot of the people moving to The Villages. If that were the case with most golfing communities in Florida, you might be out of luck. But not so in The Villages!

To begin with The Villages Recreation Department organizes and runs hundreds of activities and events throughout the week. You've of course got your swimming pools (family pools, sport pools for aerobics or laps) and parks, lakes for fishing, softball and sport fields, recreation centers throughout The Villages with things like tennis courts, shuffleboard, bocce, horseshoes, billiard tables and more.

Then you've got lots of organized entertainment in the town squares (Spanish Springs and Lake Sumter Landing) like live music and dancing almost every night of the year. The town squares also house restaurants and shopping galore. Plus there are two movie theaters to choose from, Rialto Theatre and Old Mill Playhouse that show all of today's current big hit movies.

Depending on the night, there are also classic car shows, festivals, parades...you name it!

There is also a long list of clubs and organizations that Villagers have joined together to form. Among them are (and this is a SMALL sample):

Amateur Radio, Archery, Badminton, Ballet, Basketball, Billiards, Bird Watching, Canoeing, Ceramics, Computer Club, Democrats, Folk music, Foreign Film, Genealogy, Gin Rummy, Golf Cart Drill Team, Harmonica, Kiwanis, Knitting, Mac Users, Parrot Heads, Pet Lovers, Red Hat, Scrabble, Scuba, Table tennis, Tai Chi, Wine Club, AND SO MANY MORE!

For more information on life in The Villages check out The Complete Guide to The Villages at http://www.TheVillagesFloridaBook.com

How to Retire Early From Corporate America Jobs - Reducing the Number of Working Years By Wesley Daughtry

The average person believes retirement comes at the age 70. However, this is not true. You can retire whenever you wish. The most effective way to retire early from Corporate America is becoming successful in a Network Marketing home based business. Below are the 10 steps on how you can fire your boss before your boss fires you.

1. Join someone's Network Marketing business that has a reasonable start up cost, marketable product, and a brilliant compensation plan. Make sure the person that enrolls you possesses coaching skills, people skills, and internet marketing skills.

2. Follow simple instructions from your recruiter. Make that person your coach and mentor. Most likely, your recruiter has a coach and mentor too!

3. Network market your opportunity to people by word of mouth, giving out business cards, using a sizzle call, calling into conference calls, and going to presentations. If you are computer savvy and want people hunting you down to join your opportunity, do article marketing, video marketing, video presentations, blogging, participating in forums, and etc. (Your coach will teach you these things)

4. Just like a CEO of a company can have an organization of people working under him, you can have an organization of people working under you. Start building your organization by personally recruiting people. Start off small so you can get the hang of it. Find three people that share the same vision as you, to retire early from work. Also, market the product at the same time. That person will either turn into a potential customer or a new distributor.

5. Help those three people get their three people by teaching them what you know. If you help them make more money you will make more money. This is the beautiful part about being in a Network Marketing business.

6. Keep educating yourself and learn other marketing strategies. If you are not recruiting at least 30 people a month, you are not an expert yet. Also, develop your personal development skills more. When dealing with people that are so negative and objective, you can always use some more motivation and inspiration.

7. Now that your personal recruits are sharing this opportunity with other people and their personal recruits are doing the same thing, relax a little bit because your money is now working hard for you. You are also building a residual income.That means you have a steady check coming in the mail every month, money you are not working for.

8. Whether it is six months later, a year later or X amount of years later, your business and job are now making the same amount of money per month and your monthly expenses are covered. You now have the option to become a work from home entrepreneur and quit your job.

9. Quit your job! You do not need it anymore.

10. Live a lifetime of financial freedom and time freedom.

If you follow these steps accordingly, you will not quit out of frustration and reduce the number of hard working years that are yet to come.

Wesley Daughtry is a young entrepreneur with heart, internet marketing skills, coaching abilities, and a beautiful smile. He is the online marketer for http://thebestonlinefranchisebusiness.com, and ALWAYS looking for more people to join his winning success team.

Why We Never Retire Here in Asia? By Tim I Gurung

In the early nineties, when my western friends and associates used to ask me for my next holiday or retirement plans, I used to kind of stutter my words, not knowing exactly what to reply next. The reason for that was simple! We had none and it was not uncommon. In fact, planning for holiday and retirement is still new to us here in Asia. It might be picking up gradually in big cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and now in Shanghai and Beijing. People here definitely take regular holidays and also plan for retirement well ahead and in details. But I am talking about the majority of the ordinary people who still live in the villages and farmlands, where farming and keeping livestock are still the main sources of living.

Most of the developed countries where people have decent job, medical care and education facility, it is normal to have a good relaxing holiday after a hard good year work. With good governance and maintenance of public funds on top of basic infrastructure and system already well in placed, the continuity of the development of the society and people's livelihood is almost guaranteed. Higher taxation might be a burden for some but the cost of running a good system is also not cheap. It also pays for your pension!

In the contrary, we have almost the opposite here in Asia. People do get almost nothing from the nation. Yet, they still have to pay certain taxes here. Although it might be a small change for you people out there, but it can be a big burden for farmers whose only income is crops from his farmlands, not actual money. It is definitely not an easy task to turn them into actual money. The only way to get the hard cash is to sell his crops that would normally feed the whole family. Less crops means someone will go hungry in the coming winter. And in order to avoid that he has to work much harder than the previous year on his fields. The risk of the whole harvesting being completely wiped out by natural disasters like typhoon, drought, flooding, hell stone and landslides is always there. The cruelest part of all is that it is getting even harder by each year. There is simply no respite for the poor guy!

The families in Asia are rather closed and integrated within the society whereas in western countries they are more independent and also individual. People here in Asia, will have to look after, at least two generation back, to his father and grandfather and another two generation ahead, for his children and grand children. The same rule also applies to the woman side of the family too. On top of that if you are a big earner, the whole relatives will be in the lines for the handouts. In fact, in some cases, the whole village is belonged to the same family tree. And that is definitely not an easy task to make them all happy at the same time.

It is definitely the reason behind the closed family tradition in Asia, but for the same reason, it also became a baggage that you always have to carry on your back. It will go on and on until the day you will probably die. That is reason why we never think about retiring in Asia.

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