The two books Im reading and listening to right now are The Total Money Make Over and Rich Dad Poor Dad. There is no doubt they can change a persons life IF they will follow what is in them.

My biggest mistake has been consumer debt (CD). CD is not just credit cards…it comes in the form of those 0% loans that turn into the we just buried your ass in high interest rate loans debt. I didnt just buy junk with these loans.

I got braces for Libby, saved my dogs life at the vet, and got a new pair of glasses. So it wasnt that I didnt need those things…the problem is that I didnt PLAN for those things. In other words, I live to high on the hog as we say back home. Im not saving any money for when emergencies pop up. Dont get me wrong, Im able to pay my bills and even have some nice things. The problem is that I have just been winging it and not saving ANYTHING.

As Dave Ramsey says, my money has been managing me instead of me managing it! And that leads to a major mess and major stress! Send some positive thoughts my way as I try to change some bad habit$.

Written via my iPhone so please ignore errors.

I am a horrible money manager, and that is embarrassing to me on many levels. Especially since I was raised by a father who was a bank president and retired as a real estate broker. I simply suck at finances but I have finally found a book that helps with it…that is, it will help if I follow it! Ill tell ya more about it later. Please subscribe to my blog so u can keep you up to date!

Im listening to the song by Brandon Heath called, Give Me Your Eyes. It is a song about asking God to help us to see the pain and suffering of those around us. I love that prayer! It is the one I pray often. I spend way too much time focused on ME.

The radio biz is much like any form of entertainment…if we arent careful we become VERY self-absorbed. Our life becomes about getting as much attention as we can. Its not so much about wanting the attention as it is about wanting job security. We want to be loved so we can keep our jobs. Thus we become shameless self promoters. And it gets very easy to miss what is going on in the world around us. We can forget that we are here to give back and to love those around us.

My prayer is that one day God will truly use me to help a lot of people find the hope they need. Whether it is the homeless, the sick, or the many who just want to give up…my little piece of the spotlight needs to find a way to break through their darkness.

I know Fitz accuses me of not listening to our station or any country music for that matter, but here is something you need to know about Fitz…if his mouth is moving then he is talking smack! 

I was raised in West Virginia and then spent 10 years in the desert of red dirt and dried up riverbeds called Texas.  I have to love country music because it is in my blood!  And they are the only musicians who know how to pronounce words correctly so that I can understand them.  I also love country music because the artists are real and the music tells great stories.  However, the reason I love it the most is because of you…the listener.  I love the listeners of our radio station.  Y’all are absolutely awesome and make us feel very special.  Just know that is not the case…you are the ones who are special.  In other words, “Who’s better than you?????”

If you missed the audio Fitz had put together for Bethanys birthday check it out on podcast later today!!!!! I cried like a 7 year-old girl. lol

More stories of Cow love

I enjoy reading and listening to seminars on leadership.  The strange thing is…I don’t consider myself a strong leader nor do I really pursue leadership positions.  I simply find it very interesting to study what makes up a good leader.  My favorite leader would likely be Martin Luther King Jr.  He was leading people in the right direction and his intentions were pure.  He was a charismatic leader that made a positive impact.   People love charismatic leaders and will follow them to the ends of the earth.  Unfortunately, there are many charismatic leaders who take people in the wrong direction.

In the church world, where I have spent much of the last 10 years of my life, I have met a lot of charismatic leaders who were wrong.  In other words, they were moving in the wrong direction with the wrong intentions, but they had many good people following right behind them.  People who would later feel like the fell off the end of the earth!  I heard a man say, “there is nothing more dangerous than a charismatic leader who is wrong.”   I have honestly seen people stand behind a charismatic leader that they knew deep within their hearts was a liar, and had purposefully misLEAD them.  Why are we so easily lead by those who are charismatic?  Maybe it is because most of us are starving for direction and excitement in our lives?  Maybe we are so desperate to find a cause that we will jump at anything? 

I may not know much, but I do know this…we have to open our eyes and begin choosing to follow leaders that truly care about us and the well being of our country, organization, or community.  We, meaning ME TOO, can’t continue to be manipulated by the leaders who know how to spike our emotions and get us excited about what could very easily be empty promises.  And isn’t that how they get us?  They make those huge promises or paint a beautiful picture of the place they want to take us.  The pastor tells us that we need to give our money to support building HIS…uh, God’s Kingdom, and the politician says he must raise our taxes to build better schools, roads, and court houses.  After all, if you build it they will come! 

What a beautiful morning! I have a funny WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME STORY coming up at 8:20. Lets just say that two people got busy in a busy intersection!

Being fairly new to the NW, I still think it is cool to ride the ferries. Unfortunately I dont know ferry etiquette and etc so i missed the first run and so here I sit and sit and…well you get the point.

I do wonder why they dont have waiters who walk or better yet, skate around taking food orders. I went to one of the food stands and I soon realized they were slower than the ferries. Lord have mercy I just wanted some peanuts and some gum (I have bad breath). Then the little cashier tried to hook me with the tip jar that read tuition.

I probably could have driven and got there faster, but I feel much cooler taking the ferry. I especially feel cool when I stand on the front of the boat and scream, Im the king of the world!. People look at me like Im nuts, but I know they are just jealous of my coolness!

So I am dictating this blog into an app called Dragon Dictation. I will then copy and paste it into the word press application which will post to the blog. So I guess there really is an app for everything. Thus leading me to spend even MORE time on my iPhone!