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By: Charles W. Boatright
How to Forge a Faith Based Abundant Life– One of the most satisfying/most contentment in our life is The Quiet Strength using one’s skills. We all have primary careers; but the most satisfying career is learning a trade skill or hobby.
We all want to defy the ravages of life and aging and have a more content life by enjoying our health and having peace of mind. The health and peace of mind, body, and soul is heavily influenced by our strength and conditioning that we follow daily. But there is a Quiet Strength that can achieve the peace of mind we all want to pursue in Life, Liberty, and pursuit of our Happiness.
I have worked out and followed a healthy diet (MELIORA DIET & FITNESS Program) since my early 20’s and worked in the field of Engineering in bridge and utility work. I enjoyed a full life with challenges that provided me with tremendous fulfillment and livelihood. But planning for retirement, I established a 401(k) Plan for my financial and one for my health and fitness where I invested money in one and followed a fitness routine for the other. This has paid off in allowing me to retire at age 57 with health that I had in my mid-30’s.
Before I retired, I decided to attend a local VOTECH College to pick up welding as my second career, for retirement. I want to retire from doing what I HAD TO DO to enjoy the things I WANTED TO DO, this is the new approach to retirement! The trade skill of welding has provided what some call active meditation, or the Quiet Strength. The time I spend in my welding shop allows me to lose track of time where the hours shrink to minutes. This is a great method not only suspend the aging process, but reverse the again process.
There is tremendous amount of contentment that is achieved during our Quiet Strength when the conscious mind and the subconscious mind are forged together to take advantage of our skills. Along with a healthy diet and fitness routine, I develop a highly skilled hobby that has become my second career, essential for our health and wellbeing. It just happens that welding and aviation are my hobbies.
In the featured photograph, above, I’m welding a mounting bracket onto the frame of a friend’s Jeep that loves to go duck and deer hunting and working on his farm that needed to mount a WARN Winch to his Jeep. There is nothing that gives me more pleasure and contentment than being in my welding shop.
The biggest advantage of a trade skill is that in less than 24- months, or less, you can pick up a skilled trade as your primary or secondary career and enjoy the best time of your life. Even if that trade will only become a hobby. A hobby is just as important as a hobby is to your overall health. I enjoy burning rods while having the time of my life working in my shop. I love the smell of flux in the morning with my morning coffee.
Reference verse- Proverbs 22:29 Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will stand in the presence of kings. He will not stand in the presence of the unknown.
I am finishing up my third book on Kindle entitled- EXCALIBUR Athlete’s Forged Performance that allows an athlete to perform in the ZONE with AUTO-APP skills that they have presently. Expect it to be out during the last of September or first part of October of 2024.
This book is based on Faith Based Strength, Training, & Conditioning. This is especially great for Homeschool students that would like to have an athletic and fitness activity added to their present curriculum. I center on golf because it can be played as an individual or teams sport.
The cover of EXCALIBUR Athlete’s Forged Performance Faith-Based Strength Training and Conditioning:
