08.10.08
Be Prepared!
The Financially Confident Woman is more than just a book of information on how you got into debt and how to get out. It’s about being prepared.As we grow older, which we will unless Jesus comes or He comes and gets us, we need to be able to support ourselves and not be dependent on others.
The fact is, that most women outlive their husbands. Knowing about money and how to use it wisely will be to your advantage.
Savings, investing, planning for the future is vitally important.
I know older couples who have to rely on their grown children to help them financially due to poor/no planning. That’s a little scary to me.
Reading Mary Hunt’s book gets you thinking about how important, especially in the younger years, to plan for the unexpected and for the future.
08.07.08
Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae
I just finished reading Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae. He really gets you thinking about how you think about marketing.
We need a new approach in how we market our business. With the internet and all that entails, we can’t work it the old way. Attention spans are shorter, there are more options available, and everyone seems to be going at a faster pace.
Think about it, you can record a show, and fast forward through the commercials – there goes that advertising money! (The Super Bowl commercials are the only ones I look forward to watching.)
“If the New Marketing can be characterized by just one idea, it’s this: Ideas that spread through groups of people are far more powerful than ideas delivered at an individual.”
232 pages of pure, thought provoking, encouraging messages that will have you rethink your thinking!
08.04.08
First Sunday Film Club
Lost Horizon
The first Sunday of the month, the Fort Worth Library shows classic films for free.
This Sunday the choice was Lost Horizon, a black and white film made in 1937. Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt stared in this adventure-fantasy directed by Frank Capra. It was nominated for 7 Oscars.
The British author, James Hilton, wrote the book in six weeks, but it took Capra two years (and half of Columbia Pictures’ annual budget that year to bring it to the screen). The Shangri-La set is considered to be the largest ever built in Hollywood history.
What was so cool about this film is the restoration that took place. By the late 1960’s, the original film negative had detereiorated to the point of being practically unusable. Restoration started in 1973 and took almost 10 years to complete. The complete sound track was located and restored. But there was 7 minutes of missing footage of the film, so still shots were used to fill that gap. It made for an interesting addition to an already amazing film.
