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Final Hours of Promotion is Here. 15 Hours Left!

The time has come to end the second promotion for free books. Someone will win the controversial top selling book, What’s so Great About Christianity,by Dinesh D’Souza, right after midnight on Friday 5-15-09. That means you only have about 15 hours left as of this writing. This book is autographed by the author, Dinesh D’Souza.

Our very first giveaway was a huge success. If you didn’t get your subscription in before the end of that one, you missed out on winning one of the hottest books on the planet right now called, The Shack, by William Paul Young. It is even autographed. I have about three left and they will be given out in a future promotion.

I am happy to announce the ones that won the book:

Linda Schaefer-Oregon
Shelley Ledfors-Oregon
Shelley Sheehan-Oregon
Rick Stein- Nevada
Anne Anderson-Oregon

Some of the responses from the winners:

“Wow!”

“I’m excited. It’s not often I win in a drawing.”

“Very cool!”

“Thank you!”

“Go BEAVS!”

That makes me feel so good. I love it when people get excited, and I was the one that caused it.

Don’t get too comfortable however. There will be a new promotion starting on Saturday 5-16-09! The book that will be given away for that promotion is very timely. The book is called, How to Win Over Worry, by John Edmund Haggai. John is the founder of Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership Training.

Some topics he discusses in this book are:

Improve you home life
Increase you financial security
Control negative feelings
Handle put-downs and criticism
Control your thoughts
Catch the habit of optimistic living
Improve your health
Enjoy endless energy
Overcome the crippling misery of guilt
Utilize the privilege of prayer

There are several other topics that you can read about to help you make it through these tough times.

This book has sold over 2 million copies. That means that it has been a book that many people look to for help.

The only way you can have a chance to win this book is to sign up for my free newsletter. That is it! You will then be put in to a drawing to win the book. This new promotion will end at midnight June 12^th. Get your name in NOW to make sure you are doing it. Don’t tell yourself you will come back later and do it. Most people forget and don’t do it.

So, be sure to get your subscription in now for the drawing today, and that will also put you in the drawing for the new promotion. You will see the icon that says, “Sign up for my free newsletter,” over on the right sidebar. Click on it, and put in your email address. That is it. You will then be put in the drawing.

If for any reason you do not like the newsletter, (I hope not,) you can opt out at the bottom of the newsletter. I have a very low rate of people opting out. I think it is because of the quality of the newsletter. BUT that is just me talking. You tell me yourself.

BTW…. For every new person YOU get to sign-up, you will get another chance to win. That means if you get 10 people to sign-up, you will have 11 chances to win. All you will have to do is let me know by emailing me the addresses of who they are. I will then look up their email addresses, and if they are there you will get another chance to win for each one you get to sign-up.

This is great fun for me, and you benefit from not only winning a free book, but receive a quality newsletter as well.

You ask….. What is in the newsletter???? I am glad you asked.

There are four pages to the newsletter:

The first page is my introduction to what is in the newsletter for that particular issue, plus excerpts from my book, Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind: Life beyond Bumper Stickers. I sent out manuscripts to many people and I am getting some wonderful endorsements coming in, which I will be putting on this site as they come in. (See the endorsement tab at the top.)

Another page has my travel experiences. I also have many guest writers writing about their travel experiences. I will have one in the next issue from a young man that went on a trip to the Panama Canal area. You will be amazed to see the progression of his thoughts from the time he started to when his trip ended. It is a transformation that is pretty cool.

One page will have resources to help those that want to know how to cope in a hostel world. There will be articles from all over the world about anxiety, fear, depression, and self doubt.

The last page is a very popular sports page. I realize this is an unusual page to have on an author site, but I love sports, and I have many readers that do too. My main thrust is talking about Oregon State University sports. Read the latest about what is happening in OSU sports.

Get those people to sign-up! Win a free book. It might as well be you! The people who won above didn’t think they had a chance, but they won anyway!!

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The count down is almost finished. You have 48 hours to get your name in the hat to win a free book called, The Shack. It is written by William Paul Young. His book has been # 1 on the New York Times best selling list for 45 weeks on a row, and has sold 6.2 million books in just two years! You have a chance to win one of those book. BUT WAIT! There’s more!!! (Sounds like one of those informercials.)

The books each have a personal note, and a signed autograph by the author!! These books will be real collectors items.

Yup! Now you have only 47 hours left! (Notice another hour is gone.)

Now you are saying….What do I need to do to have a chance to win one of those books? I am glad you asked. All you have to do is go to the right side bar and sign up for my free newsletter. In the newsletter you will receive excerpts from my book, Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind: Life Beyond Bumper Stickers.

The newsletter will also have some sports from Oregon State University, where I graduated from. I also talk about other sports from time to time.

There are two other pages in the newsletter. One page will have articles that I have submitted to magazines, newspapers, and newsletters. They have ideas on how to survive in a down economy, and face live each day. The other page has hilarious adventures about my travels. Other guest travelers will share their adventures too. It is one of the favorite pages in the newsletter.

46 hours left….there goes another hour. Sign up quick!! The drawing will start at 5:00 P.M. Pacific time, on Wednesday April 15th. (Great time to win something for free don’t you think?)

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Why do people feel like the sky is falling in our world today? Why are they so down and depressed?

As a child, I didn’t have an extra dime to share each month. We didn’t have TV, nintendo, cell phones, or computers. We had FRIENDS! We went outside and played all day. We would leave in the morning, and not come home until the street lights came on and no one worried.

We had family gatherings where we we actually sat and talked. We all sat at the dinner table and shared our day. We read books, LOTS of books. We paid a dime for comic books, and traded them with our friends.

I could go on forever sharing how we survived in the “good ole days.’

I am not saying that people don’t appreciate what they have and don’t have. I think the problem is that they are not creative enough to help themselves be happy. If they can’t have that nintendo game anymore, the world is coming to an end. If they can’t afford to go to a movie right now they feel defeated. They evented TV to cover that!!

I have a saying that I use from time to time, “Life is tough and then you die.” Pretty harsh, but life doesn’t have to be tough if you will not let it be tough.

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going!”

Take everything one breath at a time. Look around you and find things that will make you happy. Notice that some of them do not cost you a penny. Go fishing; play tennis; read a book; go to the library. Now YOU make your OWN list of things that do not cost anything that you haven’t done in years that was enjoyable and fun. Then……Just do it!!!

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