Welcome to the first blog on the Get Going 2 Get Growing site. To introduce you to GG2GG, I want to give you some background as to how this site and concept came into existence.
If you read “About Us”, you’ll see a bio on my partner, Geo, and me. As you can see we have very different backgrounds and quite a gap in our ages. The first question everyone asks is “how did you two get together” in this venture? Answering the one question essentially explains how GG2GG came into existence.
Geo and I met originally at an Enlightened Wealth Institute conference. EWI is the organization created by best selling author, Robert Allen. EWI offers extensive training in various aspects of real estate investing as well as multiple streams of income. Although I had ten years investing experience the wealth of training interested me enough to sign up for several programs. Geo, who I met at a break, signed up for coursework as well. Even though there was a wealth of available options, such that we should not have seen each other again, as it turns out, Geo and I bumped into each other at the next two training programs almost as if by divine intervention !
As we talked and became friends we realized we were on the same path. Geo’s job was helping others deal with their issues hopefully to be better able to cope in society. Like most in those roles his income certainly wouldn’t allow for any but the most basic necessities and not many of those…and there was no upside…ever ! Geo was ready for a complete life change in terms of how to make a much better living and not be hostage to a low paying job and the whim of an employer.
Conversely, I had just been “early retired” from a corporate career spanning over 30 years. Although I had good earnings, savings and investments, I wasn’t ready for retirement for several years, particularly with a “201K” and real estate holdings (land) where values dropped like a rock and buyers disappeared overnight. I had created over $1,000,000 of wealth in the stock market and even more in real estate in relatively short order yet lost it both times. Losing 75% of your wealth approaching retirement will get your attention. With little ‘runway’ and a financial plan in shambles, I was seeking safer ways to rebuild my wealth quickly so I would still be healthy and young enough to enjoy it.
Geo and I were on a collision course with destiny. During a Total Prosperity seminar in Orlando early in 2009, we decided to do something about our plight and the plight affecting so many others who did not have the income, wealth, freedom or independence they deserved.
As Paul Harvey would say….”Page Two”, however in the blogosphere, I must say “To be Continued on Blog Two”
Till next time and to a life of abundance.
Al Sauvageau
