Create a Go-to-Work Ritual

Right now people are adjusting to all type of changes at a rapid pace one of which is working from home. Michael Hyatt does a great piece on this which I wanted to share with all of you. – JM

“Due to the complexities of today’s crisis, we’re making an effort to send you daily encouragement and tips to thrive in this season.  

Today’s tip: Create a Go-to-Work Ritual  Working at home offers a lot of advantages, including casual dress and zero commuting time. But there’s a tradeoff.  Getting dressed for work and driving to the office play an important role in getting you psychologically ready to work. Without them, it can be difficult to get your mind to focus.  In the same way, driving home provides time to unwind. Both transitions are important: from home to work and from work to home.  The solution is to add a transitional step to your morning routine. That might be as simple as putting on shoes instead of slippers, or taking a walk around the block. It can be anything that signals, “It’s time to shift into work mode.”  You can create a similar transition from work to home, maybe the same one in reverse.  Try it, and see if it doesn’t boost your focus! ” – Michael Hyatt @ www.MichaelHyatt.com

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VA Partners with Treasury

VA Partners with Treasury Department to Deliver Economic Impact Payments to Veterans

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it is working directly with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury Department to ensure delivery of ‘Economic Impact Payments’ to Veterans who receive Compensation and Pension (C&P) benefit payments from VA without additional paperwork or IRS filings.

 The ‘Economic Impact Payments,’ authorized by the Treasury Department under the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, will be issued automatically to recipients of non-taxable VA benefits who did not file annual income tax returns for 2018 or 2019. VA and the IRS have been collaborating since the passage of the CARES Act to ensure Veterans receive their EIP.

 “Many have expressed concern that Veterans and their beneficiaries would be overlooked during the distribution of Economic Impact Payments from the CARES Act simply because they don’t file an annual tax return,” said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. “This collaboration will ensure our Veterans receive CARES Act payments without any additional action or paperwork required.”

 Economic Impact Payments will be automatic for non-tax filing VA beneficiaries. For VA beneficiaries who filed a Form 1040 for 2018 or 2019, those payments will also be automatic. No further action is needed. They can track the status of their payments on the Get My Payment tool on IRS.gov. For non-tax filing VA beneficiaries, please note their information will be loaded on this tool within the next few weeks.

 For VA beneficiaries who didn’t file a tax return in 2018 or 2019 and have a dependent, there is a special step they need to take, and the sooner the better. They should visit the Non-Filer: Enter Payment Info Here tool on IRS.gov. By quickly taking steps to enter information on the IRS website about them and their qualifying children, they can receive the $500 per dependent child payment in addition to their $1,200 individual payment. 

VA recognizes that many non-tax filing beneficiaries have already begun using the IRS’ EIP payment portal to provide the necessary data to IRS to receive their EIP. There will be no interruption to payments being processed using the IRS portal, and Veterans with internet access are encouraged to continue providing information and track their EIP through the IRS portal. 

For those who do not have access, or choose not to use the IRS portal, their EIP will be processed without further action on their part.

 While no date for distribution has been set at this time, VA is securely sharing necessary beneficiary data with Treasury which will allow Treasury to begin issuance of Economic Impact Payments.

 For more information on CARES Act ‘Economic Impact Payments,’ visit: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/economic-impact-payments-what-you-need-to-know.”

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Promise Kept to Veterans

Trump Signs Order to #END27 VetSuicides a Day : A Personal Response

VetsForTrump Greats Donald J. Trump 2016

During the 2016 Presidential race I decided to set aside most of my other professional endeavors and hit the road to lead the Vets for Trump campaign movement.  Working on the front lines at rallies and behind the scenes in organizing and creating activism, I did everything in my own personal power to help Donald Trump get elected.

Why?

Last Tuesday is why.  On March 5, now President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called the “National Initiative to Empower Veterans and End Veterans Suicide.”  This is addressing the single most devastating issue in America today; the abandonment of those who have served in our armed forces and allowing them to slip into such an abyss of loneliness that they feel the only rational choice is to take their own life. 

The President said in signing the order “To every veteran, I want you to know that you have an entire nation of more than 300 million people behind you.  You will never be forgotten. We are with you all the way.”

In 2016 we were able to mobilize Veterans to come out and support Donald Trump because we sensed that he was the first candidate from either party to mean it when he said he cared about Veterans and the failed system of Healthcare being managed through the Veteran’s Administration.

Our support made a difference.  Veterans made the difference in electing Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton, a woman who stood at the flag draped caskets of fallen heroes after Benghazi and lied to a nation about the circumstances of their death.

Every politician who runs for office says that they “support our troops” and that they “want to make sure that every veteran gets the care they need.”  Every politician promises it and every politician, even those who have served in the armed forces, ignores it once they get into office.

President Trump is the first President to step forward and try to make a real change.

This Executive Order comes in behind a previous Order issued in January of 2018.  Taken together, these two Orders provide an opportunity and a directive for real progress to be made in providing holistic care for our service men and women.

I am one of the founding members of the Non-Profit collaboration #END27.  That number is the minimum number of suicides our research indicates happen every day among those who serve, or have served, in our armed forces.  These are people who risked their lives deliberately in order to help protect the life of every American, regardless of their race, religion, economic status, political beliefs, or anything else of which you can imagine.

Then they end up losing their own life at their own hand.

As a Service Connected Disabled Veteran, I have been inside the system myself and I have been inside it with my brothers and sisters who have served.  I have watched the bureaucracy operate within a culture of inefficiency.  Previous administrations have paid lip service to reforming this culture but when the time comes for real action and reform, the status quo has “trumped” the willingness to change.  Now, hopefully, there is a new “Trump card.”

The Veteran’s Administration gets all the attention because they are the Federal Agency responsible.  It is always easy to focus people’s view on a single, large object.  The truth is that at the State level everywhere across the country the needs of Veterans are also being ignored.  When our organization talks about the need for holistic care, we are talking in part about the full range of treatments and support groups and activities that need to be in place for service men and women.  We are also talking, however, about how every unit of government at every level needs to be stepping up in support.

This action by President Trump needs to be a call to every member of the military, past and present, to get engaged and show support for him in the next election.  He is the only President to this point to take a stand to help us.  There is absolutely no reason, none, to assume that anyone who might replace him would continue with his efforts.

While people might say they care about us, their interest can be hard to hold.  Witness the reporter from CNN who right after the President’s announcement of the new Executive Order, stepped in to ask a question about Michael Cohen.  Attention being paid to Veteran issues rarely survives the next news cycle.

The most universally recognized symbol of human suffering may well be depiction of the Pieta, that moment when Mother Mary is shown to be holding the lifeless body of her son, Jesus.  Every day, there are approximately 27 non-depicted events of still more human suffering.  They are those of men and women, alone and without hope, doing to themselves what an enemy combatant failed to do.

Nobody is carving a sculpture for them.  Nobody is putting oil to canvass for them.  There is work to do.  Let’s get started.  Let’s support our President and his initiative #PREVENTS and let’s come together to #END27 today!

Date: September 3, 2018
Appearance: Exposing #DeepState #SpyGate | Ann Interviews me on #YourVoiceAmerica
Outlet: Ann Vandersteel
Location: Florida
Format: Television

FROM #END22 TO #END27

A VETERANS WELLNESS ALLIANCE REPORT 4.14.18

“A LOOK AT THE VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM FAILURES”

“WHY WE NOW NEED TO CHANGE FROM #END22 TO #END27”

BY @BluEyeViking  & @JoshuaMacias

President Trump has stood by us with the passage of the Veterans Accountability Act, additional VA funding, mandating internal VA reforms, and his recent Jan 9th 2018 EO “CARING FOR VETERANS IN TRANSITION” which mandated the VA to fix and restructure the Veteran Choice Program (VCP).  President Trump knows this has not been implemented as the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act (Choice) 2014 called for and intended as we were told it would be.

Yet past and current VA Leadership failed to act and execute. The recent VA OIG report exposed that then Under Secretary for Health Administration Dr Shulkin was negligent in implementing, per: “VA OIG AUDIT OF VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM (VCP) PAYMENTS” (Click HERE for reference).

The Veterans Wellness Alliance is exposing this egregious lack of VA leadership that we believe was intentional given there is unbelievably an on-going debate over not spending VA dollars on providing private care access.  Once again, this is another failure by our Government to mitigate Veteran Wellness Issues / Suicides as promised.   Taking the numbers of Veteran Suicides from 2014 till now in 2018 this compounded the problem from = #END22 now to #END27.

The VA Directorate of Health Administration and its Business Office of Purchased Care (CBOPC) share an apparent willingness to derail the Veteran Choice Program by not forcing Tri-West and HealthNet to do what they were contracted to do:  To pay VA VCP Providers who were contracted to treat referred Veterans seeking immediate care because the VA demonstrated it was incapable of providing Veteran healthcare and treatment in a timely manner.

This recent VA IG Report Foot Stomped that former Sec Shulkin was totally aware of VA Leadership authorization of fiduciary subcontracts to Tri-West and HealthNet to pay VA VCP Providers. VA Leadership knew that they were totally worthless as these contracts had no real VA oversight power to hold these subcontractors accountable to actually pay on time VA VCP Providers, hence causing Veteran Access To Quality Healthcare outside of the VA to be nothing more than a sham.  VA Leadership knew that limited healthcare access resulted due to causing VA Providers to stop offering their services for non-payment, the VA not being able to expand and secure more doctors and clinics due to this slow no-pay actions on the part of Tri-West and HealthNet.

The VA OIC Report documents this all, yet there has still been no VA Action taken to immediately reverse these VA Leadership and VA Contractual failures as President’s Jan 9th VA EO called to be addressed as outlined in the “ACTION PLAN” by June 9th 2018.

Register your disdain and call for change as instructed below so President Trump gets our united message loud and clear! The GOP Congress must listen if they want our  VETERAN VOTE in the upcoming Midterm Elections in November.

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/01/03/obama-veterans-choice-contractors-39-million/

NEXT REPORT : WHY #HEALTHNETGATE IS THE LATEST  VA SCANDAL OF THE DECADE!

#VWAlliance FROM #END22 TO #END27 IN 4 YEARS #HEALTHNETGATE 

About Joshua Macias

Following his honorable discharge from the Navy, Joshua had the same experience as every transitional Veteran – he was a hardworking veteran with a strong résumé but no job.

Now, as an expert in business systems and Veteran housing, with over four generations of family involved in real estate, Joshua is an experienced and creative housing crisis problem-solver.

In addition to 16 years of grassroots, faith-based, and nonprofit service,  Joshua founded Vets For Trump in 2016 to insure the Veteran Voice was heard. In fighting the homeless housing crisis Joshua’s contributions started by volunteering as a Project Manager with the 2011 Virginia Beach Extreme Home Makeover project.

Continuing as Co-Founder of Veterans Homefront whose team was honored as a key instrument in the 100 day governor challenge in 2014.  This success allowed Virginia recognition to be the only one to reach functional zero in Veteran Homelessness.  Most recently Joshua was honored to be designated as Chairman of the Veterans For Trump Coalition growing with his team the largest Veteran Coalition seen since JFK around a President.

Joshua spends his days speaking to business owners, congressmen  and women, cabinet members and their policy makers alike.  Working with the Vets For Trump team he maintains communication with 500,000 grassroots Veterans asking for change in their backyard through numerous Social Media outlets and websites.  Alongside 2nd District Congressman Scott Taylor Joshua looks to create jobs supporting the DOD as well as our Veteran Communities. As a Bio-Technology innovator Joshua continues on his track for PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology working on projects in B.C.I (Brain Computer Interface).

As a father of three young boys, Joshua believes in modeling philanthropy and has devoted his time to creating housing solutions across the country. He hopes to set an example, for both his sons and others in the community, by establishing a legacy of Veteran housing assistance, Veteran Activism, Technology and Social Integration.