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Yep...I found a truly hidden gem in the country on the outskirts of the small quiet town of Deridder, LA. At a time in my life when I felt everything in my life was completely hopeless due to a particular situation I had gotten myself into (to put it mildly, biting off WAYYY more than I could chew), I found this gem when I wasn't even looking for it.  What is this gem? It is the location in which a community like-minded people come together each week to learn about the Creator, share about their lives with one another, and break bread together. That is the simplest way I can put it, but please understand it is so much more than that.  Let me first tell you about the people in attendance there. These people, though few in numbers come from all over the state of Louisiana, and a few even travel from East Texas. The online reach actually extends internationally, including Israel and the United Kingdom! They come from all walks of life, occupations, and denominational/cultural bac...

Hello everybody, thanks for taking a minute to check out this review. As you may have noticed I am expanding this blog to a little more than just book reviews. I honestly don't have a clear vision as to where we are actually going with it, but thanks for joining me for the ride. This short blog post is a very personal post for me as it brushes up against some things I have wrestled with for many years now. Yes, the subject matter is a bit on the religious side of things, so buckle up! In 2020 I purchased this lecture from FIrst Fruits Of Zion because I was struggling with some new understanding I was getting from the Bible. I was questioning some things that I was beginning to see on the subject of Paganism and how as a Christian I was to conduct myself before The Father. Long story short, I found myself in a very tough spot. I thought at the time that this lecture would help clear some of the muddy waters that I was wading through. I purchased the digital download, and there it sa...

Everything about the BigDaddyBigz series of blogs is an attempt to help the people around me become better stewards of what The Creator has given us. You are not a finished creation. You were formed in God's image but you were unclothed, immature, and unlearned. He left the finish work up to you. You are unfinished. His desire is that you become more like Him as you refine yourself. Our collective purpose is to love the Creator and love one another. It is imperative that we live for others. We are to care for other people. Jewish tradition teaches that we are to give charity. In their tradition it is recommended that 10% of our income should be given to charitable causes. More is allowed, but they generally set the limit at 20%. There are legitimate reasons for this cap, but I don't feel to share them here. If you are a frequent reader of my book reviews, watcher of my beekeeping videos, listener of my bible reading, or if you keep up with my investment practices you have helpe...

In case you haven't heard Bitcoin shook off about 50% of it's value last week leaving a whole bunch of people dazed and confused. I just happened to sell most of my bitcoin the week before and turned around and bought a bunch of Ethereum at $4000+. Ethereum was not immune to the selloff, and although I was not 100% in the market at the time, I was enough in the market to have suffered a huge decline in the value of my account. Like, MAKE ME WANT TO THROW-UP huge. I didn't crack, I didn't sell. I just held on for dear life. at one point I had to turn off my phone and computer, go outside and play with my bees. I had to get my mind off of it.  Why did I do this? Because the only sure way to lose your money is to sell your investments when the market is lower than when you purchased them. Common sense, right?! Then why did so many people sell their investments for less than what they bought them for? I'll tell you exactly why. Most people are too lazy to do any kind ...

So, today is Mother's Day 2021. Happy Mother's Day to any mother that stumbles upon this post, no matter what day of the year it when you do so. It is Mother's Day and I was able to spend the day with my mom. She lives in a nursing home now, but they did allow her to leave the nursing home today in order to come spend time with her kids and a few of her grandkids in her house that she and dad built back in 1981. It was a good day despite her desire to stay at her house. Please understand that it just is not possible. None of her kids are in a financial position to pay for the type of round the clock care she would need. This is part of why I am mad as hell. Mom and me  My dad was a good man. He was the son of 2 great people who I miss very much. These two people, my grandparents, lived through the Great Depression. Although my grandpa had a good job with the telephone company during that time, they witnessed the hard times that many around the country were suffering. They w...

So today Dave Ramsey released a video on Facebook where he gives a rather negative perspective on using apps like Robinhood and STASH as well as others. You can view the video here if you'd like.  I have to admit that I nearly always agree with Dave on some level. As a matter of fact I can even find common ground with him on this topic. Make no mistake, I am not saying that I think he is 100% correct on this matter, but understanding his stance on saving and investing helps you to properly put his view into perspective.  Dave deals with many people on a day to day basis that are in very tough financial circumstances. There are diverse reasons why they have gotten where they are, and in one form or fashion it will ultimately boil down to mismanagement of money. That being said Dave knows the personality he is dealing with in the people who are calling his show for advice. One thing you cannot do is advise someone who is quite possibly feeling desperate to go out and begin ...

In my last post I talked about swing trading and how it can be used to increase your portfolio value over time. I showed a few ideas on just how even a small amount of money in your portfolio can make a huge impact in your financial future.  I was once given the example of how water can be used used to split a rock if it is used correctly. If you place a giant boulder under a water tower and then open a valve under the tank of the tower and release all the water at once you will have a very wet and unsplit boulder. However, if you only crack open the valve enough to allow one drip at a time to fall and hit the rock over a much longer period of time the same amount of water will eventually cut through the rock splitting it into two pieces. My point? It is not how much big stuff you do that makes the greatest change, it is how much consistent small efforts you do with laser focus on the goal that brings the most amazing results.  Below is an example of just how that lit...

In a nutshell Swing Trading is best described as buying a stock or ETF(Exchange Traded Fund), holding it for a short amount of time, and selling it for small to large gains. It is similar to day-trading except that day traders buy and sell a stock within the same business day. Swing traders buy a stock on one day and at least hold it until the next day hoping to capture better returns on a more stable stock. As a swing trader you are looking for companies who's stock is already in a rather consistent and steady uptrend. Meaning its value is constantly moving up over the long term having only slight pullbacks from time to time.  Checkout the chart below. It is one of my favorite stocks to swing trade, or as I like to say, FLIP. You know, just like you would do as a real estate investor. You would buy a property, fix it up a bit, wait for the value to go up, and sell it for a profit. That's called flipping houses. We are flipping stocks but we don't have to "fix...

Are you prepared financially? I don’t think most people realize how big of a number 1 trillion dollars is. Here is a little illustration. If you earned 1$ a second how long would it take to make a trillion $? Ok If I paid you 1$ a second you would earn $86k a day! Awesome right? Making $86,000 a day it would take about 11 days to earn your first million dollars. Sweet! A millionaire in a little over a week! Still earning $86,000 a day you would earn your 1st billion dollars in about 30 years. Ouch. That took a while. Well what about a trillion? Earning $86,000 every single day it would only take 32000 years to earn a trillion... Multiply that by 6 and that is how much money the fed has printed out of thin air in about a month. We will see massive inflation from this. This is the greatest time in history to begin investing in and trading stocks. It is not difficult! It is not gambling once you learn a few things needed to understand a stock chart and a balance sheet. Th...