You Now Have Choices

Unlike our active duty days when we received orders for new assignments, we now have choices about almost everything. We get to choose where, when, and if we will travel. We get to choose where we will live and what hours we will work. We even get to choose our income goals and make our own tactical plans for achieving these goals.

We enjoyed traveling while on active duty. We saw some really interesting places and met some wonderful people. Our travel now is a combination of business and pleasure. Our company has 3 conferences a year which allow us the opportunity to travel to such places as Hawaii, Mexico, Greece, South Africa, and Australia. Since these are business conferences, the cost of this travel is tax deductible. Because our business only requires a telephone and a laptop computer, we can continue to work regardless of our location.

This coming week we will be traveling with our daughters to Houston, Texas, for a conference related to our daughter's business. We will help her with her work, babysit our grandson, and continue to work our own entrepreneurial business. How cool is that?

To top it all off, our goal in the next 6 months is to purchase a fifth wheel travel trailer and new truck to tow it with. This will afford us even more opportunity to travel when and where we like and stay as long as we like without missing a beat with our business.

If your life has gotten a bit boring since your retirement, maybe it's time to give yourself some more choices. There is an abundance of money for you to make, places for you to visit, and people for you to meet. Retirement is no reason to stop being adventurous. Set new goals for your life and make the choices to take your life to a new level.

To Your Continued Success,
Ed and Sandra Hayes
askmred@bellsouth.net
803-364-3918

Retired and Living Big

If you have recently retired from the military or if it's been a decade or more like us, you are invited to explore the possibilities that retired life has to offer. Ed retired from the USAF as an aircraft maintenance officer in 1994. Military retirement pay and benefits are inadequate for a comfortable, let alone exciting, life. We explored such options as working for someone else as well as working for ourselves. Working for someone else was a real drag but the positive points were a regular paycheck and paid vacation - neither of which were great. Entrepreneurship, in the form of selling real estate, was okay but very demanding of our time - we felt guilty when we left town and weren't available for clients.



When we became empty-nesters 5 years ago, we decided to set some new goals for the rest of our lives. Our first step was to build our dream home on Lake Murray in South Carolina. It was hard to leave our good friends in the panhandle of Florida where we had retired. However, the lake had been beckoning us for many years so off we went on this new adventure. Sandra found a job as a nurse, her vocation all of her adult life, and Ed dabbled in real estate and worked as a retail store manager. The biggest drawback to these J-O-Bs were time and money. They used up too much of our time and rewarded us with too little money.



In March 2006, Ed was looking for a new job opportunity online and found our current business. We both saw the "big picture" in this opportunity right away and got started. What a dream come true! We both now work from home or wherever we happen to be visiting at the time. All we need is a cell phone and a laptop. Our business is direct sales of personal development products and the income potential is very lucrative.



If you are looking for a way to live big now that you have retired from the military, contact us. We love sharing stories of our military days and are passionate about sharing our new lifestyle with anyone who is interested.



To Your Continued Success,

Ed and Sandra Hayes

askmred@bellsouth.net

1-800-852-7695