I’ve been a fan of Dave Ramsey for about 5 years. I first heard him in my high school economics class. He gives great common sense financial advice. I’d definitely recommend reading one of his books, attending one of his classes, or listening to his radio program.
What he offers is not a get rich quick scheme. He offers a set of sound financial principles that, if followed, will ensure financial peace. If you can’t do any of the above, at the very least consider reading and following his 7 baby steps to financial peace.
I’d also like to share with you a great tool for helping you in this process, mint.com. Mint.com is a great web app that integrates with all of your financial accounts–checking, savings, investments–to give you a full view of your finances. It tracks spending and helps you create and easy budget. I’ve just started using it and am already very pleased with the tools it offers. I have to give credit to Wesley Donehue for informing me about it via tweet.
Most of yall probably know I have a friend in Venezuela who is a missionary. Well, if you didn’t already, now you do. We met almost a year ago online while doing B90X together with Elevation Church. Marcus and I have since grown close to her despite never meeting in person. She stepped up to the plate and helped me raise support for my trip to Haiti, the least I can do is return the favor. Please take a moment to watch her video then click here to make a donation.
UPDATE: Video Removed for security purposes. I’ll have another update soon with info on how you can read about my friend.
I’ve heard before that integrity means doing the right thing when nobody is watching. These days that’s pretty hard to do. I just read an article article today about people that have lost their jobs over a tweet. If you’re reading this, chances are you have at least a minimal online presence. People are watching you. Your friends, your mother, your teachers, your boss. I think this is going to be a small sacrifice our generation will have to make for the technological advances we enjoy. Let’s try to turn it into a positive—a reminder to stay on our best behavior.
Sorry, I know it’s late again, but here it is. Avril Lavign has popped out of nowhere thanks to being on my run playlist now. With my foot injury, hoever, she may slip down the next month. Stay tuned to see. What are your top songs on your iPod?
1. Shove by AVA-91
2. Young London by AVA-83
3. The Flight of Apollo by AVA-81
4. Epic Holiday by AVA-75
4. Hot by Avril Lavigne-75
6. Hallucination by AVA-68
7. Arizona by Hey Monday-64
8.Homecoming by Hey Monday-56
9.Soul Survivor (…2012) by AVA-53
10. Sk8r Boi by Avril Lavigne-50
Back in Cola for work today. Got out of the office to go to the SCGOP luncheon. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the speaker. He endorsed Nikki and gave a pretty good general speech. It was my first event with the new camera, still getting used to it. Some of my shots didn’t turn out that great, so I’m holding of on posting.
The best part of the day, however, is yet to come. I’m about to leave the office for the weekend. I’ll be heading to Charleston for Charity’s birthday tonight. Then we have Amber and Andy’s wedding on Sunday in Aiken. But before all that I get to go on a much needed WaHo run. Not just any run, mind you. A run with one of my favorites, Allison Paige-out-of-the-Book-of-Awesome Quattlebaum, better known as AlliQ, and Bryn I-spell-the-possessive-of-Marcus-Marcus’s Acuff. It’s been too long, and we’re definitely happy to have Alli back in town from NC for the weekend.
One of my favorite aspects of my job is it’s not a 9-5 in the same office every day. Actually, it’s sometimes an 8:30-6 or 7 in the office. Other days I get to travel around our beautiful state and meet an interesting assortment of people. Much of my work can be done from anywhere so long as I have an internet connection [and with tethering on my Droid that's pretty much everywhere]. Well, today I got to work from Hartsville. I almost got to sleep in a bit longer due to the much shorter commute that is the doorway in between my bedroom and living room/office, but alas, I was woken up by a phone call with early morning duties. Such is my life, but I love it right now.
What’s your favorite job you’ve ever had? Do you like your job now? What’s the thing you like most/least about work?
ps–today I was told I look like Jacob/Taylor Lautner for the first time ever. Odd, but a nice change from the constant Jonas comments
Ok, I know I’ve said this several times, but I’m really going to try to get back into this thing. As many of yall know, I’m working on Nikki Haley’s campaign. I won’t be writing about that much here, anything I do campaign related will be on our official site. I’ll try to post any videos or pictures that I do for other projects on here. We’ll start today with my daily booth shot. Yes, that’s my new Nikon D3000. I used working on the campaign as an excuse to buy it, but I hope to use it for outside projects as well. Stay tuned, hope to hear feedback from yall on future posts!
I have been really busy the past few months. As many of you know, I have been working on Nikki Haley’s gubernatorial campaign. It’s been a great experience.
I hope to share some of the things I’ve learned and have been able to do. I’ll start today with a small preview. I got thrown into the mix doing some things I’ve done for years, but on a whole new level. I’ve also had to hit the ground running with some new stuff to learn. These have included video production, social media outreach, website management, and driving. Driving,driving, sooo much driving.
I am so thankful to God for this opportunity, and want to publicly thank Nikki for calling me and offering me a job. It’s been the experience of a lifetime. Until my next post, please enjoy a short video I compiled from debate footage. It was probably the most fun I’ve had on a political video [they're usually dull and boring]
OK, a bit late, but I’ve been busy lately. I’m hoping to get back into this blog soon as well. This month we finally saw AVA lose it’s iron grip on the top ten.
1. Shove by AVA-90
2. Young London by AVA-80
3. The Flight of Apollo by AVA-79
4. Epic Holiday by AVA-77
5. Hallucinations by AVA-66
6. Hot by Avril Lavigne-55
7. Soul Survivor(…2012) by AVA-50
7. Arizona by Hey Monday-50
9. Letter to God, Part II by AVA-46
10. Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce by AVA-45
10. Clever Love by AVA-45
10. Homecoming by Hey Monday-45
Hey yall, it’s been a while since I’ve written. I’ve been pretty busy with Nikki’s campaign. We’re all working hard day and night to get her elected.
In any free time I get I’m working on putting together my new business startup. I’ve been talking with a few people and getting excited. Stay tuned for updates!
