My Dedication to Helping Fathers

 

As we honor fathers across this land on Father’s Day this weekend, I have to admit that I have been feeling truly sorry for them lately.

 

We live in the richest country in the world.

 

We are more educated than any other people on earth have ever been.

 

We dominate the most cutting-edge invention of all time – the Internet, yet way too many highly educated fathers can’t pay their monthly bills.

 

And although this country is heading for bankruptcy, just like in the days of the Depression, those who were prepared for hard times, thrived. Those who weren’t, jumped out of windows.

 

With the cost of gas rising daily and political change about to overtake the White House, who can guess what is about to happen in our economy?

 

How can this be?

 

Well, I think there are several factors to attribute this to but here’s one of the main ones.

 

Our government educational system doesn’t tailor education to fulfill the calling of the individual. That’s fine because that’s not really its purpose.

 

Parents, however, are supposed to be responsible for helping their young people find their direction, especially the father.

 

But somewhere in our recent history, we’ve delegated that duty to the state so now the state prepares men and women to work for it.

 

That IS the purpose of government education and it does a decent job.

 

But… what if you want to actually find fulfillment in what you do and desire to live a quality life with 5, 10 or 15 children, many grandchildren and your extended family members (all which can be expensive), while also blessing others?

 

Do the math on THAT bill.

 

Then imagine the stress.

 

(Maybe you don’t have to imagine it. Maybe you already live with it.)

 

I am really concerned about the weight that so many fathers bear on their shoulders these days.

 

And I am dedicated to helping as much as I can. My oldest son and I worked together to bring our dad home and I want to help you do the same.

 

Imagine how you could help those around you if you only knew exactly what you are supposed to be doing on this earth so you could tap into the power of God ASAP and channel the abundant blessings He has waiting for you to those who truly need them.

 

Just imagine.

 

Then imagine the cost of starting all over again with a new career AFTER you’ve found out that the one you fell into won’t provide for your basic needs… or give you the fulfillment that doing a good job with what you love brings.

 

The question you have to ask yourself then is this, “What can I do to change the situation?”

 

If you seriously need to do something different, there are three things you must do.

 

1.      Get vision for YOUR life.

 

You won’t get that from watching CNN or hiding in online video games.

 

2.      Get specific education.

 

You won’t get education on how to make money from government schools. That is not their purpose.

 

Yes, you can go back to college and spend 4 more years learning another trade or getting another degree, but you won’t be much closer to your goal than you are now. They don’t teach you the principles of success in college. They prepare you to have a job.

 

How do you think I know that?

 

3.      You’ve got to take action as soon as possible to solve the problem.

 

Waiting won’t make it better. If you don’t do something now, you won’t be any better off a year from now.

 

The problem is, where are the men and women who understand how to make money who should be directing fathers to help their teens make wise decisions?

 

Why aren’t the fathers of this land qualified to help their children directly?

 

Could it be possible that they lack vision, education and positive action? Hmm….

 

So we find ourselves knee-deep in debt and struggling frantically just to keep up while the flood waters of the economy are rising faster than the water in the streets of Cedar Rapids.

 

We’d better do something quick.

 

If you want to change your life, here’s one place to start:

 

http://www.EntrepreneurDays.com.

 

It may not be easy to make it happen, but hey, what are your options?

 

Read this page, and then plan to join us. And don’t forget to bring your teens. You’ll kick yourself once you get there and see what they’ve missed.

 

I am serious about changing this country.

 

I am serious about helping moms and dads.

 

Picture me as a redneck home school mom from the backside of nowhere driving through the floodwaters of Cyberspace in a monster truck coming to rescue you.

 

You’ve heard the joke about the guy on the rooftop in the flood who prays to God for help, then refuses to take the helping hand of two different guys in boats and a ladder hanging from a helicopter just before he drowns.

 

Well, here comes that ladder again.

 

Grab it before it’s too late!

 

 

So many books, so little time…

 

Rhea!

 

P.S. No matter what’s happening in your life, forget about it all for just one day and have a happy Father’s Day!

When Your Kids Ask You to Go, Go!

 

 

My oldest son, Drew,  has been selling backhoes on eBay lately and making a great profit on each one.

 

That’s besides the houses and junk he’s still listing.

 

So this year he decided to go to eBay Live in Chicago in a few weeks to learn more.

 

The other day, he casually asked me if I wanted to go with him since he is going by himself.

 

Now, to go to a big city like Chicago is not this country girl’s favorite thing to do.

 

To book an expensive hotel room there is not my idea of a good investment.

 

And to book a flight this close to the departure date doesn’t seem very economical at all.

 

But when your 26 year old son asks you to join him at a professional event where he hopes to learn more about his interests and meet experts who can introduce him to others and to concepts that will take his business forward, should I say “no”?

 

I weighed the costs.

 

I weighed the eternal value of spending a weekend with my married son at yet another conference.

 

(I’ve escorted him to many since he was 18.)

 

And I determined that even though this oldest son has already left home and has a family of his own, he is one of my top priorities in life.

 

So this year, I will be going to eBay Live with Drew.

 

And we will be hanging out there with our new sponsors from Powerteam International and Franklin Covey.

 

We also have plans to meet with one of the speakers from our upcoming conference EntrepreneurDays.com, Kerim Emre, who is one of the featured speakers there.

 

Kerim is a Titanium PowerSeller who has created a system and ships 5,000 items per day!

 

So I think this event might just be eventful for us.

 

If you want to go, I’d love to meet you there… if you can make it!

 

 

 

So many books, so little time…

 

Rhea!

who believes in investing in young people

 

Here’s an investment you don’t want to miss!

 

http://www.EntrepreneurDays.com

 

 

 

 

Creating Homes That Minister

I just took my daughter Sannah Beth, 17, with me on a business trip to Chicago. We stayed in a very large house on an estate built to serve others as a small business conference complex.

What an experience!

The flights there and back were fun and relatively uneventful. But the time we spent with others from all over the country discussing business ideas and learning how to use state-of-the-art technology developed by two very young men was worth making the sacrifice to be there.

The house was very large, modern and open. In the center of the house, there once was an in-ground swimming pool. The owner had remodeled the house to fill it with a small auditorium full of 8-foot tables, chairs, printers, office supplies of all kinds and white boards on the wall for brain storming and presentations.

There were several areas throughout the house where small groups of people could gather to discuss their ideas and sketch their business plans.

Our host kept coffee brewing, the refrigerator stocked full of soft drinks and bottled water and all the guests felt very welcome to get something to drink from it any time they wanted.

It was like staying at a nice hotel with all the comforts of home plus all the business needs you could possibly need right at your fingertips.

When it was time to go to the airport, his assistant drove several of us in a late model Cadillac.

To me, that is a picture of business success.

That is one way we can use our homes to minister life in a business realm to others.

Not many people teach how to have a successful business these days. I personally think it’s because not many of us have experienced true financial business success.

One thing I truly believe is this: once we get the vision that we CAN work from home, and once we get the vision for WHAT we want to do and once we get the education to DO what we have been called to do and once we actually TAKE ACTION to set up systems to get the work done, then we will be back on the “ancient path.”

All of that can be done from home.

And home should be the center for social events, educational events, business events, and activities of all kinds.

I challenge you to make YOUR home a place of ministry for others.

So many books, so little time…
Rhea!
who loves her haven

 

Mentors Can Change Your Life

The following is part of an article my oldest son wrote a few years ago. 

When I was 14 years old, I flew to
Boise, Idaho to spend a month with Chris Verhaegh. That was a month that changed my life.  

While I was there, Chris took me to about a hundred different places and each one had a lesson of its own. 

He taught me lessons at a motocross race, coin shops, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, auto body shops, a grocery store, and in his airplane hangar. We visited hangars in his neighbors’ backyards where I met mechanics that built their own ultra-light airplanes. 

Each one had at least one lesson to learn. 

Here’s just one example.  

One day he took me to a landscaping company where they were selling huge oak stumps for $500 each. 

 Landscapers were buying the stumps for big expensive houses that needed “something.” 

I told him, “Back home in
Alabama, we burn stumps like that. I’ve seen big piles full of stumps just like that burn all day.” 

He said, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” 

Now even though I was just a kid, I knew everyone had heard that saying. Then he said, “You should stop burning the stumps and start selling them. Why burn something others are willing to pay good money for?”The important thing I learned was not that you could make money with stumps; it was that successful people learn to see opportunity in other people’s common problems. 

I’ve never met anyone who thinks like Chris Verhaegh.  

Neither has Mom or Dad. 

 He retired when he was 28 and has spent the rest of his life learning and raising four kids with his wife Karen.  

He’s also mentored other young men who have been more successful than me. Chris has also taught investors in many cities and countries how to profit in the stock market.

Drew has seen that a good mentor can change your life. I have too. 

So many books, so little time… 

Rhea!

who hopes you find a mentor

Creating Financial Wellness

The more I interact with homeschoolers, the more
I see how there is so much more we can do than what
most of us are doing.

We attend workshops on selecting the right grammar
program and we study books on how to teach multiple
levels of children simultaneously. But we tend to focus
so much on the details and the subject matter that we
don’t see the bigger picture.

Most of us simply replicate what we learned in traditional
school which was designed to move a large mass of students
through a particular amount of information. Basically,
traditional schools train good employees.

That’s fine. Our country needs good employees. It can’t
survive without them.

But what if your child is not going to be an “employee”?

What if your child is gifted and with a little freedom and
mentoring would be the next Thomas Edison or Mozart
or Albert Einstein?

If you’re child regularly complains that what you’re doing
isn’t relevant to life, don’t accuse him of being rebellious.
It may be that he or she beginning to experience vision
for his or her own life.

That’s a good thing. That’s what we want. We don’t want
to squash that.

Maybe the education you “think” he needs isn’t sufficient.

Maybe he needs more.

How do you know if it is?

Good question. Sometimes, you don’t.

I could talk about this for hours.
But for now, let me just give you one thought to ponder.

Who taught you how to buy a house?

Answer: Nobody.

And if you paid full retail, you did it wrong.

The largest purchase most folks make in their life is
usually made with absolutely no training. The only
advice most of us got was from someone who was
either trying to sell or finance the house, right?

How do we know we can trust that advice?

We don’t.

When it comes to real estate, you don’t know what
you don’t know, yet no one ever takes Basic Real Estate
101.

Well, I challenge you to add that to your high school
curriculum.

Problem is: Education is not available. How can you
know who to trust?

Well, that is exactly why I have created a weekend real
estate investing event with 10 experts who know what
they’re doing and how to make it easier by using the
Internet.

You won’t find folks like these just anywhere. They are
extremely rare because of what they know.

If you think you can’t afford to attend an educational
event like this, you are probably not as financially healthy
as you think you are.

Real Estate investors are.

Until you understand the mindset of an investor, you’ll
never be financially healthy no matter how much you
earn in a year.

That’s what you’ll learn when you attend our upcoming
event.

Plus, this is the only real estate event I’ll probably ever
produce so if you truly want your teens to be educated
to be financially healthy, try to make it.

Are you ready to improve your financial health?

Here’s where to learn how:

http://www.RealEstateDays.com

Let’s make it happen next weekend in Huntsville, Alabama!

So many books, so little time…

Rhea!
who wants to see America’s home educated kids think
differently so they can change the world

P.S. Make sure you teach your kids how to buy a house.

Is the Economy Collapsing?

I’m starting to get emails from people telling me to cash in all my assets to get away from banks with as much cash as possible.

“The end is coming so be prepared,” they say.

Something is happening in our country, you can feel it. And I agree that we are near the end. But no one knows when anything is going to happen.

Some are saying the American economy is collapsing.

It may be.

Some are saying that banks are collapsing.

They may be.

Some are saying that what is about to happen is worse than the 1929 Depression.

It may be.

If any of this is true, it is urgent that we start creating our own sources of income.

Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, said, “Divide your portion to seven or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.” (Ec. 11:2)

That means, “Don’t put all your economic eggs in one basket.”

If you have a job, you could get laid off. If you have one source of income, it could end.

So diversify slowly by doing one thing at a time to create streams so that if one dries up, six others are still providing income.

One of the best ways to do that, (and which has created 70% of the financially free in
America) is real estate.

You can create cash quickly if you know how to do it.

You don’t need money to buy a house, you need education.

If you think women are only supposed to cook, clean and birth babies, think again.  What is a woman to do when her husband dies at age 47, or 36 or 25.

It’s happening way too often these days.

Look at how women are able to multi-task.

If you want to create streams of income, or if you have teenagers in the house that you would like to prepare to be financially free in our unstable economic world, teach them the basics of real estate in high school.

I don’t know anywhere else for families and homeschoolers to get real estate education for the Internet except one place. That’s because we put it together.

We have invited family-friendly experts to teach you what to know at a live 3-day event where teens are welcome.

If the future scares you, prepare for it now.

Take your teens to our once-in-a-lifetime conference on April 11-13, 2008 in
Huntsville, Alabama.

Don’t let the distance or timing keep you from being there. This information could change your life.

We’re never hosting this event again so if you are interested in real estate and are looking for wise mentors, don’t miss this opportunity. You’ll kick yourself when you hear what others who attend say.

If the economy really is about to collapse, it’s time to focus on the essential, forget about the trivial.

If you’re ready to learn more about real estate, get real education here: http://www.RealEstateDays.com

I hope to see you in
Huntsville!So many books, so little time…

Rhea!
who thinks it won’t do any good to worry; instead, get ready

Real Education

People ask me all the time how I encourage my children to think like entrepreneurs.

I always tell them: we focus on real life.

Yes, we do math and spelling and we read history and science and all that. But we do more than that.

We are students of real life, real business, real stuff.

My oldest son Drew just finished building his and Carol’s new house a few weeks ago and is on to the next project now.

To set the foundation, he bought a backhoe on eBay for $5,000. He used it for two or three months, fixed my drive-way with it, built his sister a pond in her front yard, then sold it on eBay… for $6,000.

Do the math. He used the backhoe for 3 months and made $1000 profit when he sold it.

He learned to think like that from his real estate education.

Then he discovered that his little brother is a very good backhoe operator.

So this past week, he bought another backhoe. A bigger backhoe.

And this summer, those two will tear up all kinds of dirt together in North Alabama.

And they’ll get paid to do it.

Hey, when you’re young, it feels great to try new things.

When they are ready to move on to the next thing, they’ll sell the backhoe… for a profit.

Then they will move on to the next project on their life long To Do list.

I personally believe that the early adult years are for exploring career options. The more you experience, the more you discover what you DON’T want to do.

Once you’ve identified that list, you can move on until you find what you DO love.

And hopefully, you won’t get stuck along the way in some good paying job that you come to hate because it pays the bills but isn’t fulfilling and robs you of your well-deserved joy.

I hate to see people unhappy in their work.

Life is too short to work in misery. Each of us is called to do something of purpose in life and once we discover it, the work brings joy to the soul.

So many books, so little time…

Rhea!
who thinks every boy should have the experience of driving – or owning - a backhoe

http://www.RealEstateDays.com

Want to Learn Real Estate?

If you want real education about real estate investing, this is the event of the year.

Real Estate Days is a 3 day family event for anyone who wants to learn how to invest in real estate using the Internet.

10 expert teachers will teach 10 different aspects.

Topics are:
Buying and selling pre-foreclosures

Buying and selling foreclosures

Buying and selling bank-owned properties

The art of the short sale

How to create the ultimate buying and selling machine

How to sell houses on ebay and get the price you want

How to make $500 a month as a real estate Virtual Assistant

Investing in commercial real estate

Where to find private financing

How to create a passive monthly income without leaving the house

How to create true financial wealth

And more!

The event is in Huntsville, Alabama on April 11-13, 2008.

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The Value of Apprenticeship

This past Thursday, we completed our Writing for the Web class and are already getting posts thanking us for the cool online education.

Now the folks who watched the Webinars and did their homework have started apprenticing with some web site owners to get some practical hands-on training.

The VA’s who took our Virtual Assistant class at the end of last year are now in their second phase of apprenticeship.

They all seem to be loving it!

Plus, they are learning so much from those they are serving.

People often ask me why I expect our students to be involved in an apprenticeship. They question its value and wonder if we are just trying to get some free work out of the newly-trained students.

That’s because this country has forgotten the concept of true education that results from apprenticing with a master or someone who is more knowledgeable about a topic.

In early America, that’s how most of the craftsmen were trained.

That’s the principle behind medical and legal internships.

Mentors can teach a wide variety of topics so don’t limit your scope when looking for great education.

In education, it’s very valuable to have access to someone who knows more about the subject than you do.

In fact, having a mentor cuts your learning curve by years because they can steer you away from the mistakes they’ve made.

So whenever you get the opportunity to participate in an apprenticeship, realize that the good you will get out of it way outweighs the amount of work you have to do for someone that is seemingly “free.”

The experience you get is one thing; but the contacts and association you make with the mentor is often way more valuable than the skill you learn.

Don’t forget, in business, it’s not what you know that counts, it’s who knows you!

So many books, so little time…

Rhea!

who thinks everyone should teach at least one class in their life and mentor one other person

Attend a Live Event with Your Teens

People ask me all the time about how we homeschool. They want to know the “secret of success” that not only launched Drew into his career but that creates that bond between a parent and a teen.

Well, here it is in a nutshell:

Do cool stuff with them.

So many moms (with perfectionist mindsets) try to do everything FOR their kids. They give them all the best toys and clothes, sign them up for all the best classes, and expect them to do all their academic lessons perfectly.

I have found that kids often prefer to stay home more and work on lots of messy projects with just mom or dad.

At least that’s what my kids told me when we moved to the country and I finally started listening to them.

Here’s an example.

Drew has just finished building his house about 30 minutes down the road. He recruited three of his brothers, one sister and his dad to help. He also hired contractors for jobs he doesn’t like or know how to do.

Now he’s ready to start speaking at real estate conferences to teach how he sells houses on eBay. (He’s sold about 50 and is the only teacher I know who is doing what he does.)

So even though he hasn’t been to a conference in a long time, he asked me to go with him to one today.

When your 26-year-old asks you to go somewhere with him, that’s a good thing. So even though I’m already very busy, I’m going.

I consider one-on-one time away from home with a teen or young adult, the same as seeking the privacy of your bedroom to nurse your newborn. Both have special needs and both will grow out of the stage they’re in way too soon so I cherish that stage while they are there. And I try to meet their needs as quickly and as efficiently as I can.

The problem with attending a professional event is finding one that is family-friendly where teens are welcomed. That’s why my team and I have created the events we host.

The only real estate event we may ever host is coming up this April 11-13, 2008.

If you would like to go on what has been called “the ultimate field trip” with one or two of your teens and learn how to invest in real estate at the same time, consider joining us at our Real Estate Conference in Huntsville, Alabama.

This is real education. They don’t teach this stuff in school but you can write it in your journal.

Just call it Business: Real Estate Investing. It’s worth about ½ to 1 credit.

It could also make you and your teens financially free.

At least you’ll learn how to buy and sell a house and that alone could save you or even make you tens of thousands of dollars.

But here’s the main reason.

The experience you have with whoever you take on that trip will strengthen your relationship. Talk about what you like. Talk about what you don’t like. Talk about the future.

At least talk!

Years from now, you will both look back at that weekend where memories were set in stone and you’ll thank God that you invested the time and effort to work it in to your very busy life.

Besides all that, it could just change your life.

Make sure you say hey to Drew when you get there!

So many books, so little time…

Rhea!

who thinks all parents should take their teens into the business world instead of throwing them into it to learn from their peers

P.S. Learn more here: http://www.RealEstateDays.com

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