From House Wife To Film Maker

I have admired Trump for many years now.  The guy amazes me.  And lately he’s been popping up in my life.  First by way of the game I bought my daughter Grace for her b-day.  She requested his game, called, no surprise: Trump.  Believe it or not I forgot to give it to her and found it squirreled away on Monday this past week, in my closet still waiting to be taken out for her birthday.  Grace, by no influence whatsoever from me, has found him equally amazing for years and watches his show like religion and as I’ve mentioned before she fully intends to become his apprentice and be a billionaire herself one day.  In addition, last week I watched two different movies and they both had scenes in Vegas where I saw Trump’s name at the top of his building.  This caught my attention in a flash.  First thought?  “Wow, that’s cool.  He’s in Vegas.  Smart move.  I bet that is a beautiful, awesome building.”  The day after the second movie I saw with his building in it I’m in Books A Million with Caleb scanning books.  Hunting to see what might be out there on organizing/bookeeping.  Then I see his books.  Hard bound copies on clearance prices.  $6.95, $5.95, $7.97.  Crazy cheap.  One of these books I’ve been wanting.  But the $27ish price tag has been daunting.   At any rate I forced myself to only pick two and cashed out.

Only two because I know when I get home I will have to enter these purchases into my newly created expense sheet and guilt will spread across me causing me to fear the worst, like I may undo my entire monthly budget…LOL  I’m kidding about that of course, but the knot in my stomach did make me relish the days where I didn’t give this entire matter a whole lot of thought.  Before expense tracking I would have seen them at the cheap prices, reasoned: I needed them, they’re ridiculously cheap, I been wanting to read his books… and bought them with NO remorse.  Excited to have found them so cheap.  Instead my new commitment to getting my bookkeeping/finance tracking all ship shape has left me nervous, tense, jumpy when I spend money.  No kidding.  The whole drive home I had a tight stomach over this purchase.  I was thinking, “Why did I spend that money?  I hope these books end up being worth it for me to read.”  I nearly reeled my truck around and took them right back.  However I’m happy to report… once I began reading, “Think Big and Kick Ass”, a title that Caleb had to point out had a swear word in it, repeatedly, and I think because I’ve told the kids that every time they catch me swearing I have to pay 50 cents to the one who catches me first… so I think his little mind was hawking for some way to connect that word to me and some cold hard cash to him, I couldn’t put it down.

I have to say I love it.  It’s an easy read.  It’s great material.  And it has been worth every penny.  I think that if one is to be successful business wise then how can you go wrong if you follow others who have more than made it?  What do they have to lose sharing info with me?  I mean, Trump is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world.  He doesn’t have competition that is going to sweep away his lively hood.  So when he writes a book it cuts through it all and gets to the truth and the heart of the matter.  It’s obvious that he’s sharing because he really wants to assist.  And what he says obviously works and should be heeded and applied.  I can read this book with confidence.

So far one thing I’ve leaned about him is that whatever he does he does because it’s his love and passion.  Thus, it’s not really work to him.  It’s his life.  It’s what excites him.  A while back I read Martha Stewart’s book and she says the same thing.  Here are two individuals doing what they love and having tremendous financial gain as a result.  Making this thought a great example to follow and excites me because I’m doing this very thing myself.  What I’m involved with with our businesses I really enjoy.  Rendering what I do not work.

Besides that another thing this books is doing for me is encouraging me.  Propelling my vision.  Building my hope.  Driving me harder toward my goal.  Getting may attention where I may be being sloppy spurring me to zing that area into being… on the ball.

I recommend this book to anyone in their own business.

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane
-whose thankful for my job I worked today, my kids I was able to be with today, the meeting we had tonight, the project I’m involved in spear heading, friendship, my health, good food, and my home

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