Dining on a Dime Book Giveaway

Living on a Dime is having a giveaway!!!

I have just received an email from Tawra from Living on a Dime about a crazy sale they are having. Here’s what she said:

We are going to be having a 50% off sale on all our books and 63% off if you buy 3 you get one free. (yes, this is just barely above our cost but it’s not worth having books sit around

Here is the link to check it out:Mothers Day Crazy Book Sale

She has given me one ebook to give away to one of my blog readers – this is the giveaway lowdown

Dining On A Dime – e-Book
Eat Better and Spend Less with Real Food for Real People!
Dining On A Dime Cookbook – Money Saving Recipes, Grandma’s Home Cooking

Save $10,000 a year on food?

Without cutting coupons! Unbelievable? Read Tawra Jean Kellam and Jill Cooper’s advice in their e-book: Dining on a Dime (formerly Not Just Beans) and find out that it really is possible.

Tawra has told her story to millions of listeners and readers on the radio, on the web and in women’s magazines (including Woman’s Day and Woman’s World) and now she’s put her best tips and tricks into a 476 page e-book. Using these tips and suggestions, Tawra shows how anyone can tighten his or her food budget.

Dining on a Dime is packed with over 1,200 money saving recipes and tips, kids tips and snack ideas, gift baskets, menus, food storage directions, Cleaning Cents and Pretty for Pennies. The recipes are easy to cook with ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. To make shopping easy and economical, Tawra has also included a pantry list and a shopping list.

This is worth $19.95 and 481 pages!!!!!!!!! – you could be the lucky reader who will get this for free!!!!

Here is how you can be in to win:

I am a speaker at New Zealand’s H.E.A.R.T retreat this year and my topic is “Avoiding Burnout” I would love to hear your ideas on how you avoid burnout as a wife, mum, homeschooling mum etc.

Just leave a comment with your avoiding burnout advice and the suggestion that appeals to me will win the “Dining on a Dime” ebook. You will have until 20th April to post your ideas.
Good Luck!

Rachel

Six Steps to Successful Personal Change

I came across a short article from John C. Maxwell about change. I am going through a lot of change right now. It can sometimes be quite disconcerting. My changes are all external changes that are happening to me ,but John Maxwell was talking about internal changes and gave 6 steps towards how to change.

We sometimes wish that our lives were a little different – well this short list of steps shows us clearly where we start and that we can change our lives – we are the only one responsible for our own life and we can change it.

1. When you change your thinking you change your beliefs.

2. When you change your beliefs you change your expectations.

3. When you change your expectations you change your attitude.

4. When you change your attitude you change your behavior.

5. When you change your behavior you change your performance.

6. When you change your performance, you change your life!

It all starts with our thinking!

Let’s change our thoughts today towards what we what to see our lives become.

Rachel

Turning Typing Mistakes into Liquid Gold

Anyone who has ever used a typewriter has experienced the frustration of hitting the wrong key. Depending on which year you made this mistake, you had very few choices as to what you could do after making the mistake.

For most of the typewriter’s existence, if it was an important piece of paper you were typing you had no choice but to throw away the one with the mistake and start over again.

This was very time consuming. For some, it was impossible to actually type a whole page worth of characters and not make a mistake. This meant many people couldn’t use the typewriter…at least not until someone could solve this problem.

A Valuable Solution

In 1954, an executive secretary, Bette Graham, decided that there was a better way. Her mother was an artist and Bette decided to use tempura paint to cover up her typing mistakes.

Soon, others in the office saw what she was doing and wanted some of this magical liquid Bette called “Mistake Out.”

The demand for it grew and she started making it at home. Her son and his friends would bottle it up.

In 1958 an office magazine ran an article about “Liquid Paper” which resulted in over 500 orders. This grew to over 5,000 bottles per week by 1962.

By 1975 she moved the headquarters of Liquid Paper from San Antonio to Dallas. Three years later she sold her company, Liquid Paper, to Gillette for $48 million.

Bette’s Acres of Diamonds was sitting in her mom’s painting supplies. She turned an irritation with typing mistakes into a multi-million dollar fortune.

Other Solutions

Over the years this same problem has led to many other solutions:

* Typing training (teach people how to not make mistakes)
* Typing tests (screen out the bad typists)
* Erasable paper
* Erasable ink
* Ink remover
* Cover-up sheets – looked like white carbon paper
* Different keyboard layout like the Dvorak keyboard
* Correcting typewriters
* Type ahead buffers with built in dictionaries
* Dedicated word processors like the Wangwriter
* Word processing software like Wordstar, Word Perfect and Microsoft Word
* Voice dictation software like Dragon Speak

Each of these solutions is someone else’s Acres of Diamonds. There can be more than one successful solution to a problem.

Finding Your Own Acres of Diamonds

Ask yourself a series of questions:

What problems are you facing that others face?

Which of those problems would people be willing to pay money for a solution?

What possible solutions are there for that problem?

Which solution seems like the right one for you to pursue first?

What are your next action steps?

You don’t have to have a degree, a special background, previous experience or certification to come up with a great solution to a persistent problem. You just have to decide you want to find a solution and take action. The power of intention and persistence will yield great rewards.

About the Author

Dan Swanson is an Internet marketing consultant, who systematically increases qualified traffic and improves conversions of visitors to customers for client’s websites. For more information on his Internet marketing consulting services visit http://www.iq2.com. For more Acres of Diamonds success stories, visit http://www.AcresOfDiamonds.net.