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5 Enjoyable Benefits For Seniors From Building An Online Business

Kristin van Tilburg
Sep 3, 2018 · 5 min read

Creating an online business offers retired seniors many benefits. The joy of creating a successful business in one’s retirement years is deeply fulfilling.

Don’t fall prey to the idea that you are are an old dog who cannot learn new tricks. You absolutely can learn new tricks, and profit from them if you will invest the time and energy into learning how it’s done.

With time and effort, most seniors will have no problem understanding the internet, how it works and can be used beneficially.

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” — Will Rogers

Let’s look at 5 benefits that seniors can enjoy if they get into internet marketing.

You don’t know what you’re missing until you give it a try.

Benefit #1: Earning money with an online business.

Spiraling health care costs, inflation, unpaid debts, and more, place tremendous financial stress on seniors who may not have income beyond what they have set aside for retirement.

The idea of going back into the workforce is undesirable at best… and unbearable at worst. After working hard all your life you probably prefer to enjoy life instead of working more just to pay bills.

Online marketing is done at home and can generate a decent income. In fact, there are many seniors already making 5 to 6-figure incomes from their home internet business. It’s not physically strenuous and you work when you want to.

This added income boost can relieve a lot of financial pressures.

“Retirement, a time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, where you want to do it and how you want to do it,” — Catherine Pulsifer

Benefit #2: Gives you something use to do

Many people look forward to their retirement years as a time to do nothing.

To rest.

To relax.

To do whatever your heart desires.

But many people find after they have a chance to recharge their internal battery that they long for something useful and meaningful to do with their time.

“We work all our lives so we can retire — so we can do what we want with our time — and the way we define or spend our time defines who we are and what we value.” — Bruce Linton

Building an online business is the perfect solution.

It will keep you busy for as many hours as you want to give it… and it’s very interesting to learn how it all works.

There is a lot to know.

As your life changes, it takes time to recalibrate, to find your values again. You might also find that retirement is the time when you stretch out and find your potential.” — Sid Miramontes

Getting good training is a good first step.

Don’t be in a rush and plunge in without knowing how to succeed. Like anything else, there are plenty of ways to do it wrong, that lead to failure.

Take your time to understand the fundamentals so that when you execute your plans, they yield fruit.

When you succeed in your online business, the sense of accomplishment and pride you get from it is priceless. No bingo game or soap opera on TV can come close to the exhilarating feeling of owning and running your own profitable online business.

Benefit #3: Supports Your Brain’s Continued Learning And Growth

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” — Sophia Loren

There’s a saying that goes, “Use it or Lose it.”

There is a price to pay for not using your brain. It gets sluggish, and doesn’t perform as well.

When you learn new things you build new neural pathways in your brain. This is vital to your continued health and well-being. Boredom is hazardous to your health!

With boredom comes depression, sadness, loneliness and a host of other negative emotions. Negative emotions cause stress reactions in the body which causes increased inflammation. Inflammation leads to chronic disease and pain. Surely you don’t want that.

Benefit #4: Meeting New People

Retirement can be a lonely proposition. You may not realize how much of your social life revolves around your work. Staying home every day can be isolating.

When you’re online, you’ll get to meet people who share your interests.

When you build a website you will have readers and customers to interact with.

Benefit #5: Keeps You Focused On What You Want

Focusing your mind on what you don’t want is a great way to insure that you will have unwanted experiences. Building a business is a good way to focus on desired outcomes and goals. This keeps you moving in a positive direction.

You’re always aiming to earn profit by making a contribution or adding pleasure or value to the lives of other people.

You could be giving out useful information on a blog that helps others. Or you could be selling products to a desperate crowd that needs them.

“The joy of retirement comes in those everyday pursuits that embrace the joy of life; to experience daily the freedom to invest one’s life-long knowledge for the betterment of others; and, to allocate time to pursuits that only received, in years of working, a fleeting moment.” — Byron Pulsifer

Online marketing gives you mountains to scale and peaks to reach. You can’t get this euphoria from working robotically at a fast food outlet.

Once you understand these 5 fantastic benefits, you’ll realize that online marketing can be a worthy pursuit. It’s waiting for you. Every adventure requires a first step. Do take it today.

You also might consider setting an impossible goal.

The reason to set an impossible goal is so that you focus the power of your mind on becoming the person who can achieve that goal, even though it might seem impossible today.

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Kristin van Tilburg

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