The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me

I had the greatest night last night! I met Richard Paul Evans (Author of The Christmas Box), got his autograph and was actually dorky enough to ask for a picture with him!!! As luck would have it my hair was in a ponytail, I had no make up on, and the photo turned out terrible but who cares? I got my picture taken with a famous billionaire!

I went to hear him talk about his book, The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me about life and wealth and he was an adorably fabulous speaker. Afterwards he presented his new multi-level-marketing business and I was pretty shocked to find out that he is doing something like that. Maybe you have heard of Bookwise? I'm sure people will be making millions from it but that is not how I want to make my millions so I passed.

I actually read his Millionaire book last year and I thought it had some great ideas in it which I promptly forgot to follow through with. One of them was that he started collecting silver coins when he was a boy. Seeing all of them stacked up in a jar made him want to buy more and more of them. He was able to pay for his mission and put himself through college all with his silver coins. I wanted to help Victor start collecting silver coins but I never did. I know he would love it because he is obsessed with money! Will you remind me to do this please?

Richard doesn't suggest putting yourself on a budget which he says is worse than dieting. He said that everyone knows that dieting makes you fat. Hello! Haven't I been telling you that for years now? He said that just hearing the word "budget" makes you want to eat! So thankfully no budget but I need to know how much money I have, I need to know where it comes from and I need to know where it is going. How sad that I don't know any of these things! Luckily Stranger is a good saver and he's very frugal so we have never been in debt for anything besides our house but I know we could be doing better. This is going on my Smart Habits list!

Speaking of Smart Habit Saturday I had a book autographed just for you and I will be giving it away next month as a door prize. Aren't you so excited!