Discover Your Gifts

Welcome to my Friday newsletter!

This issue features:
Writing for the Web Class deadline: Dec. 30
eBook Deadline: Dec. 30
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Our real estate event on Real Estate Via the Internet
New book due in January
What is your gift?

Deadline for Writing for the Web Class is midnight, Sunday!

If you haven’t registered for our writing class yet but plan to, don’t put this off.

The deadline is midnight, this Sunday night and we’re starting this coming Thursday.

The first class is on searching for keywords to use and writing headlines that grab readers so you can tell them more about your blog, article, press release, ebook or website.

Whether you write for yourself or for others, you’ll learn how to harness the power of the Internet to make your writing more powerful.

If you are ready to learn how to get paid to write, register today:
http://www.EducatingforSuccess.com/webwriter

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Last Chance to Get Your Copies of Our 3 e-Books is Sunday!

This year, I recorded 20 years’ worth of lessons I learned about raising and educating entrepreneurs.

Until Midnight, Sunday, you can get them for just $9.97. After that, they’ll be offered individually and for a more regular price.

Titles Are:
“Educating for Success: Developing the Mindset of an Entrepreneur”
“10 Things This Mama Taught Her Kids about Having Their Own Businesses”
“How to Start a Business with Nothing but an Email Address”

Download your copies here:
http://www.EducatingforSuccess.com/ebooks

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To stay in touch so we can help your family get out of the Rat Race, make sure you enter your name and email address in the box at the left.

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Announcing: Rhea’s Real Estate Days!

Mark your calendar now to attend a one-of-a-kind real-estate-on-the-Net event.

That’s right!

My team and I are hosting a live real estate event featuring family-friendly real estate experts who use the power of the Internet to make investing so much easier!

Date: April 11-13, 2008

Place: Huntsville, Alabama

Details will be released soon.

If you own a house or plan to purchase one in the next five years, this information can save you tens of thousands of dollars so plan to join us!

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Look Who’s a Guest Expert in a New Book!

Jillian Wheeler and legend Joe Vitale have just finished a book that will be available in January.

"Your Internet Cash Machine, The Insiders Guide to Making Big Money, Fast!" will be on America’s bookshelves on January 8!

And guess who has a chapter in it!

Me!

I want you to receive a special gift – a Sampler of the book which you can download absolutely FREE.

Grab your copy here: www.YourInternetCashMachine.com

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What Are Your Gifts?

As you evaluate the past year and plan for the next, here is something to think about.

Bezalel was a young man who was “filled with the Spirit of God:
*in wisdom and ability
*in understanding and intelligence
*in knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,
to:
*devise skillful works,
*work in gold,
*work in silver,
*work in bronze,
*cut stones for settings,
*carve wood,
*work in all kinds of craftsmanship.”

Aholiab was “appointed wisdom and ability to make all that I have commanded you:
*The Tent of Meeting
*The ark of the Testimony
*The mercy seat
*All the furnishings of the tent
*The table of showbread and its utensils
*The pure lamp stand with its utensils
*The altar of incense
*The altar of burnt offering and its utensils
*The laver and its base
*Finely worked garments for Aaron and his sons
*Anointing oil
*Incense of sweet spices for the Holy Place.”

We often think gifts from God are only spiritual or just for use in the church.
Some are.
But I personally believe God gives gifts or specific abilities to everyone.

The wisest man who ever lived (and one of my future Best Friends) said, “…as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, (that’s everyone in America, by the way), He has also empowered him to
A. eat from them
B. receive his reward
C. rejoice in his labor

This is the gift of God.” (Ecclesiastes 5:19)

To me, that means:
1. The God who designed you built specific gifts into you so you can provide for yourself and those you are responsible to care for at the time. (Have you ever noticed how we often end up taking care of those who initially took care of us?)

2. Your gifts bless you with earthly rewards. (After all, everyone works better when there is some kind of prize at the end of the competition.)

3. Using your gift correctly also gives you a good feeling deep inside when you do a job well that helps others.

The problem I see is that generic education often fails to help each of us identify our natural gifts so we can get specific education and become the best we can be doing what comes to us naturally.

Don’t let that stop you from discovering your gifts.

Keep searching and learn to be like Bezalel and Aholiab from Exodus 31 so that you can serve the Lord in the way He designed you to.

Until you discover your gifts, your purpose and your assignment, you can’t help but be continually frustrated. Some men even die in discontentment.

Henry David Thoreau (another one of my future Best Friends) said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Don’t do it.

Find out who you are and get educated so you can incorporate your gift to serve those around you (and God) better.

Decide to make 2008 the year you quit being frustrated.

Live by the words of Sir Winston Churchill: “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

So many books, so little time...
Rhea!
who hopes you have a wonderful 2008!

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P.P.S. Watch for more news next Friday!

Writing for the Web Class Info

Welcome to our Friday newsletter - Rheavings!

This issue features:

• Writing for the Web class
• How My Family Got Started Online With Nothing But an Email Address and Brought Our Dad Home From Corporate America
• Accounting Education for Small
• Help for the Grieving
• Mark Joyner to Explain Simpleology to Rheas Proteges in December
• Drew’s Smashed Car Auction on eBay – you won’t believe this story!
  
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  Writing for the Web Class
  
  This past Tuesday, I announced a class we will be offering in January and February, 2008 to teach writers and editors how to write for the web.
  
  For years, I have needed help putting together all the emails, articles and press releases for our events, classes and mentoring programs but haven’t had anyone trained in each one of those areas to do it.
  
  We also need to produce ebooks to tell all the marvelous stories that are resulting from this move of God that is sweeping across the country where families are going back to working from home.
  
  So that class will begin in January. Deadline to register is midnight, Sunday, December 30.
  
  To download the call, visit
  
  http://www.EducatingforSuccess.com/webwriter
  
  Join Us!
  
  If you have no idea who I am because one of your crazy friends forwarded our email to you, but would love to hear what all we’re doing, just enter your name and email address in the box at the left.
  
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  Our Philosophy of Home Schooling
  
  I started homeschooling my 7 children in 1987 and decided to fill their lives with practical "real world" education.
  
  My oldest son Drew wasn’t the most academic kid on the block, but when he was just 18, he became a real estate investor.
  
  By the time he was 21, he replaced his dad’s income so his dad could come home from corporate America and care for his elderly father.
  
  Drew figured out a very cool way to sell houses on eBay in just 7 days while getting the price he wanted so now he now teaches real estate investors how to sell houses on eBay and has become a popular speaker at real estate investment seminars.
  
  When I told my Yahoo! Group about it, 100 people came to my house for a one-day workshop. Four flew! The next year it happened again!
  
  That’s how we found ourselves in the middle of hosting an annual international home business conference where families learn how to become financially free together.
  
  That conference has also expanded to educational courses and mentoring.
  
  So, until Midnight, Sunday, December 30th, you can get 20 years’ worth of the lessons we’ve learned the hard way in 3 e-books for less than the price of one! Just $9.97!
  
  After that, we’re going to offer them separately and for much more.
  
  Titles Are:
  
  * "Educating for Success: Developing the Mindset of an Entrepreneur"
  * "10 Things This Mama Taught Her Kids about Having Their Own Businesses"
  * "How to Start a Business with Nothing but an Email Address"
  
  To learn how to grab your copies, visit
  
  http://www.EducatingforSuccess.com/ebooks
  
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  Accounting Education
  
  One of the dads I am working with who is an accountant has just created a wonderful new resource for small business owners who need help with the financial side of their business.
  
  Not everyone can get a degree in accounting before they begin a business, so Darrel Hawes of Washington has developed an interactive site where you can log on to his forum and ask ANYTHING you want about your finances.
  
  In other words, he is making his knowledge and expertise available for the members of his online small business community. Is that amazing or what?

For a limited time, he is opening his site to charter members.

To learn more, visit: http://www.BasicAccountingforSmallBusiness.com.

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Grief Support

One of the Moms I am working with, who is a former Hospice worker and social worker, has a heart for helping those who are suffering from grief.

No matter what the cause of the grief is, we all need to learn how to deal constructively with emotional pain.

Pam Clark, a homeschooling mom of five from Colorado, shares her story, her heart and her compassion with the members of her site. She wants to help others step through the grief that is inevitable on this earth.

To become a charter member, visit:

http://www.SteppingThroughGrief.com

If you know anyone who is hurting for any reason, you are welcome to mention this ministry to them.

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Mark Joyner Explains Simpleology to Rheas Proteges

On the first Monday of each month, a guest expert teaches Rheas Proteges about an important aspect of life or business.

In December, our guest will be Mark Joyner, one of the early pioneers of the Internet who recently appeared as one of the guest experts in Joel Comm’s The Next Internet Millionaire reality show.

Join RheasProteges so you don’t miss his valuable teaching on creating a better life for yourself on Monday, December 3.

http://www.RheasProteges.com

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Drew’s Smashed Car Story

You can only imagine what life is like with Drew around. Well, this week, he almost sold a smashed car that’s been sitting in the front pasture since his friend wrecked it about three years ago.

He put the auction on… where else?

eBay.

The winning bidder drove three hours from Mississippi to our place, the Backside of Nowhere in Southern Tennessee, to pick up this car.

The winning bidder, Dennis, buys wrecks, fixes them, and then resells them. Well, they had poured gas into the carburetor to start it so just as we were loading the car onto the car dolly, the car caught on fire!

Well, Dennis said, "I don’t think I want that car after all," and left.

So if anyone is interested in a slightly burned, smashed, low mileage Honda Civic, let me know.

Oh, and go read the auction copy before it expires. It’s a riot!

Just go to eBay.com, log in, search for Seller – DrewTheWildMan, then check his completed auctions.

Boys!

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For years I have been helping families focus on working their way home from corporate America as my son and I helped our dad, Wendell.

It doesn’t happen quickly so if that is your desire, pray and decide to get started.Something is happening in this country.

I don’t think it’s good.

During the Depression, those who had cash in the bank not only survived but thrived when everyone else was jumping out of windows.

I personally believe that those who are prepared financially when hard times arise soon will shoulder the storm better than those who are not.

I am dedicated to helping families enter into the freedom that my family has discovered.

There is more than just having a job.There is more than living paycheck-to-paycheck and focusing on paying the power bill.

If you are sick and tired of being poor and powerless, then make up your mind today that you aren’t going to be content with "not enough" any more.

Decide today that you are going to Do Something to change your life.

Join us, along with others who have decided to change the world!

As we say here in the South, "Come go with us!"

So many books, so little time...

Rhea!
who loves to stand back and watch the power of God operate through the lives of men and women on the face of the earth

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P.P.S. And watch for more stories of our crazy antics next Friday!