Hi everyone! I am not the world’s most accomplished reader, but this past year I have started to read more and more and am really enjoying myself. Recently my wife shared a book with me that is really changing my life. The name of the book is “THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER” by Dave Ramsey.

I actually read this book in 2 days, and that is saying a lot! Now, let me also tell you that this book is a very easy read and the font is right up my alley.

Here is what the book looks like:

Total Money Makeover

I’m going to leave you with one more author that I absolutely love reading, Jon Gordon! More about his books soon…

Yes, it is true! I really did win $12,000 ROVIA BUCKS! What the heck is a ROVIA BUCK you might ask? Well, I’m about to tell you…

I am a member of an amazing travel company called WorldVentures. They launched in December 2005 and I have been a member since May 2008. Since joining my wife & I have been on 5 of the companies DreamTrips and saved over $2500 dollars on those vacations. They have been some of the best vacations in our lives BTW. I just decided I might type like I text…shorthand. We’ll see…

So I’m in California on Sept 1st and I get a call from my friend and business partner, Dave Baird (co-founder of z57.com). He was like “Buddy, have you looked in your back office today?” I had not because we had been super busy talking about vacations for the last 3 days and hadn’t stopped to check it. Dave then said “Well, I’m reading here that they just announced the 3 winners of the ENDLESS GETAWAYS PROMOTION and Buddy Buck won the Grand Prize!”

Now, let me just tell you right now… I have never won anything in my life. I have to be honest right now. I knew what the promotion was all about, but I couldn’t quite remember what the Grand Prize was. When Dave started to tell me what it was I couldn’t believe it. I must have said “SHUT UP, NO WAY” like 5 times. I hustled over to the computer and read it with my own eyes and here is what it looked like…

Endless Getaways Promotion

At this point I’m starting to think it just might be true…lol. I told Dave I had to go and call corporate to make sure. The girl I spoke with on the phone was asking me if I was excited and if I could believe it… obviously I couldn’t and I told her that. It actually sounded like she won too just because she was the one talking to me about the results. I felt like I had just won the lottery!

After Heather verified it was for real, I hung up the phone and called my wife, Eve. Oh my gosh…what a fun call to make that was! She could hardly believe it either. She might of said “SHUT UPPP” a few times as well…lol. We had just been trying to work out the details of a vacation to South Africa this December and what a blessing this news was! After talking to Eve for 10 minutes or so saying the same things “Can you really believe that we won!?” We ended our conversation and then some of the “CONGRATS” calls started coming in from my friends that had read the news in the back office as well. How exciting!!!

Buddy & Eve - DreamTrip in Nuevo Vallarta 2010

So here’s the deal… my wife & I won $12,000 ROVIA BUCKS to spend on anything that has to do with travel. Think of 1 ROVIA BUCK like 1 real dollar. It’s like having $12,000 in monopoly money to spend on travel anywhere we choose!

Click on the picture to see it for yourself! $1,000 ROVIA BUCKS already deposited into my account.

Rovia Bucks Summary

I have to spend $1,000 every month FOR A YEAR on vacation or we lose it…that’s the “catch” HAHA! I LOVE THAT “CATCH”! A few of my friends kindly offered that if we can’t use them all in a given month that they would “help us out” and spend them for us. Yeaaaa…. I don’t think that will be a problem.

I will be documenting how we spend our $12,000 ROVIA BUCKS throughout the next 12 months. So thanks for being a part of the journey. It’s going to be quite a ride!

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THANKS AGAIN WORLDVENTURES!!!