REVIVE BEING ALIVE: Baratt Core Lore System for those in their sixties already retired.

Pre-retirement

Retired seniors face many choices and changes.
Which of the following will pose a problem for you?
• Part Time Job • Loneliness • New Relationships • Anti-Aging • Disability • Disease • Transportation • Medical Treatment • Social Contacts • Credit • Learning • Skill Training • Bad Habits • Medications • Meeting People • Assertiveness • Bones and Joints • Nighttime Driving • Shopping • Time Management • Paying Bills • Cooking • Residence • Change • Death • Anger • Goals • Money • Friendships • Volunteering • Household • Commitments • Bureaucracy • Sleep Pattern • Vacations • Insurance• Exercise • Stress • Pain Control • Confrontations • Self Image • Lifestyle • Prescription Drugs • Independence • Sexual Issues • Impotence • Tranquility • Vacations • Grandchildren • Beliefs and Values • Fears and Phobias • Security • Pension • Investment Losses • Accidents

I'm an ex-pat in sunny Spain, retired and living the life I've always dreamed about but never thought I would have. My wife is as happy as I am. It's like we never grew up in New York City.
We're now in our early seventies. Five years before retirement, we worked out a detailed plan. More important, we took the steps necessary to put it into motion.

We had lots of help from your Core Lore System. It became our instruction manual for getting every part of what we wanted started and finished.
We consider ourselves very lucky. Or maybe it's not so much luck as it is a willingness to take the plunge when you know what you want and are willing to step out of your comfort zone, doing all the things advocated in your Manual..

W.T., Malaga, Spain
It wasn't supposed to be this way at his stage of life. Years ago, he felt he could conquer the world. He had plans.
This is the story of Clarkson George, and also of Corine Bisset, who came into the picture years later, after his first wife had died.
Perhaps it was his name that set the tone for the way his life played out. Everyone called him George because they thought that was his first name. Even his wife, whom he met in California shortly after graduation as an aeronautical engineer and employment with a defense contractor.
Looking back, he realized that two things had shaped the course of his marriage and his life.
First, the nature of the industry smacked of feast or famine. Boom time, then bad times, until the next turnaround and the next move to another defense contractor.
Second, his wife developed a heart condition three years into the marriage, which rendered her weak and unable to fully carry out her homemaker chores. Her condition worsened as the years went by.
The script plays out, often in a manner not anticipated. So easy to think that life is unfair. But fairness is irrelevant. What is, is. Period.
George decided to leave his aeronautical engineering job, move back East, and find a job doing something else. Even three steps down, if necessary, as long as there was medical coverage and a pension if he worked ten years. He was then fifty-five years old.
Clarkson George and his wife moved back to New York State.
The job he found was a comedown in a lot of ways. It was in a large tool and garden store owned by a supermarket chain. His duties were to help customers purchase supplies and material for their home projects.
On the minus side, lower salary, lowered status in the eyes of friends and relatives, long hours, including weekends.
On the plus side, people contact and problem solving challenges. More important, a pension plan vested after ten years and a medical plan for his family that included coverage for pre-existing conditions.
In retrospect, time passed fast. On a day-to-day basis, it was a different story. He was always tired, after a day's work. Then he had to force himself to do the chores around the house and spend time helping his wife.
Life became ritualistic -- waking, working, eating, television, sleeping. Day after day. No excitement. Plenty of worry.
He was nearing the end of his eighth year on the job, at age 63, when his wife died from a coronary that came on suddenly.
He took it very hard. Shut himself off from the world. Stayed In his apartment, behind closed doors, grieving.
He also had died, within, he thought. And looked forward to absolutely nothing.

Time finally healed the hurt and the wounds. In its wake, faded dreams and lassitude. Just bare bones existence.
He went back to work, even though he felt trapped in the routine. The years of struggle had made him timid. He feared further rejection and failure, so he made no attempt to step out of his niche.
Occasionally, a couple his age would come in, and he would feel a tinge of envy, watching them laugh and relate. Then it would quickly fade, and the empty feeling would return.
Before the first step can be taken, desire for change must become more powerful than staying put. It must be all-consuming.
One day, he came home from work and found a letter from his oldest daughter telling him that his son-in-law had lost his job and that she also had developed a heart condition that appeared to be genetic. Their money had run out and they were contemplating bankruptcy. Could he help?
It was the final straw. Bad enough that I can't help myself, he thought. Much worse when I can't help my children. His anger mounted.
Eventually, a fork appears on everyone's road of life. Which path to choose?
Clarkson George was totally fed up, ready for change.

He was thoroughly disgusted with life in the survival zone, moving from one disaster to another, year after year.

And with what was happening to his looks, his weight, his health.
He yearned for a woman to love and do interesting things with. One who, despite age, had an appetite for intimacy equal to his suppressed desire.

He wanted to travel. He had been cooped up long enough.

He longed to see his children on the West coast more often, and help them financially.

Naturally, I was offended when you detailed the Japanese bias you used to have. In reverse, I was taught to dislike Americans as a child living through the war.
When I read that Last Soldier story and the Timeline Techniques you employed to overcome your negative feelings, I began to think that you really had developed something unique.
You will be interested in knowing that those same things you did have worked well for me. I am very glad now that I purchased your Core Lore System and have been telling my friends about the American who is so smart and knowing.

Y.T., Tokyo, Japan
Action is necessary. One cannot stare at possibilities. Steps must be taken. Moments must be seized. Or it will be too late.
He knew he needed help. He knew his every thought was coated with negativism. He knew he had to change his attitude or he would never be able to change his circumstances.
He also knew there was no way he could afford a therapist. So what, he reasoned. Outside of his formal education, everything he had learned was on his own. From books. From his job. From trial and error.
Why not teach himself? Why not acquire the late life skills he needed in do-it-yourself fashion?
When the senior isready, the solution will arrive. What happened, is a testimonial to the majesty of life.
Someone mentioned the Baratt Core Lore System. He found the web site, bought the Manual, downloaded it onto his laptop.
Every night, he read and absorbed the conversational and rapport techniques it taught, then made sure to put them into practice the next day. His skills increased, and so did his sales.

Self-confidence returned. Energy and enthusiasm as well. Life started to interest him again.
When love walked in one day, it was in the form of an attractive, well-dressed woman who had a small shop in her basement that she used to fabricate a gadget she had patented. She was into crafts big time, marketing at shows around the country, selling to other hobbyists in the same niche in twelve different countries.
No marriage ring on her finger and no indication on her part that she was in a hurry to leave. He was immediately attracted to her.
Finding love late in life is a process encumbered by baggage. Two seniors, strangers at the outset, must unearth where each is coming from and where each has been and then resolve value differences if the relationship is to blossom.
It started low key on the outside but with intense inner feelings. He did not want it to die aborning.
They each had needs the other could fill. But there were differences as well.
She was independent, with an established business and an income larger than his. She traveled. Lived well on her gadget and art product revenues. Called her own shots and liked the idea of not being dependent on or answerable to anyone.
So he probed carefully, in Core Lore fashion. It gave him an understanding of what made her tick, how she would most likely respond in any situation, the strategies that had made her fall in love before. And he made sure that she was aware of the same things.
Were it not for the tools and tactics involving Genderistics, Metaprograms, Representational Matching, Mirroring, Pacing, Leading, and Strategy Elicitation, he says, he would never have been able to court her as successfully as he did.
Their feelings for each other blossomed and differences dwindled to manageable proportions.
They were married by a judge in a civil ceremony, and after a brief honeymoon, set about resolving the practicalities.
Resolution frequently revolves around factors other than luck. The key is to micromanage until it fits into the mosaic.

Using the Precision Questioning technique, his plan evolved.
They would travel together and rediscover the joys through dual perspective. They would also exhibit together at the craft shows. He knew do-it-yourself and he knew how to talk to people.
He started to make decorative enamel frames in different sizes, colors, finishes. They sold well and enabled them to savour each locale. It was a life he had not thought possible a year before.
Today, they are a happy couple enjoying each other. She is as knowledgeable about the techniques of the Core Lore System as he is, and they use them all the time.

For more information on the program and techniques that changed the lives of Clarkson and Corine George, click on the book cover below.

My friends tell me it was fate and destiny, meeting a wonderful woman and falling in love after a painful and bitter divorce.
I say it was finally learning how to do it, thanks to your guidance. I feel like making you the best man at our wedding.
Frankly, I had never heard about 'Genderistics' and 'Metaprograms' and 'Love Strategy Elicitation' before, and all those negative anchors that can ruin a marriage. (In retrospect, I think that's what killed my first marriage.)
Using your techniques, I'm convinced I really understand Lori and I do everything within my power to cater to her outer and inner needs. She's also interested in the protocols, so it's really become reciprocal.

M.R.B., New Orleans, Louisiana

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