Every Friday, Mama M. hosts 5 Question Friday, here are my answers to her 5 questions. If you are feeling motivated, leave a comment answering the 5 questions about yourself, I love to learn about my readers!

1. Did you have a favorite blanket or toy as a kid? If so, do you still have it?

I had a Smurf blanket I really liked, but I was never super attached to it. Actually, my sister “stole” my baby blanket from me when she was a baby and still has it to this day! She loves it more than I ever did, so I don’t mind, but it’s kind of funny!

K has “Pink Bear” that she is VERY attached to… just like her “A.”

2. Do you dream in color?

You mean some people don’t? Yes, super vivid dreams and nightmares. Sometimes when I wake up I have a hard time deciding if it was a dream or real. (Ask my hubby how often I have woken up mad at him for something he did in a dream!)

3. How tall are you? Do you wish you were shorter or taller?

5’6 1/2″ Notice the 1/2. I always wanted to be 5’7″, but I never got there. Shy by 1/2 an inch! Oh well

4. If you could have anyone’s (celeb or other) voice as the guide on your GPS, who would it be?

Voice on my GPS… Not sure. I kind of like the lady I have now, although every time she gives me directions my daughter says, “What’s dat?” EVERY time. So, if I need directions its a LONG ride of telling her that it is just the car giving me directions at EVERY turn!

5. Do you return your shopping cart to the corral or leave it wherever in the parking lot?

YES YES YES!!! RETURN THE CART!!! This is a HUGE pet-peeve of mine. Seriously, how long does it take? Be a good person and return it. I was once the “victim” of a rouge shopping cart in a parking lot during a storm. Someone’s laziness cost me $800+! Since I often have my daughter with me, sometimes I will even flag someone going into the store to take it with them. I also do the same for people who have their hands full. Come on people, clean up after yourselves… your mama taught you better.

Have a GREAT weekend!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter. All opinions are 100% mine.

We may still be in the dog days of summer, but the buzz is all about back to school. Charter wants you to nominate your school to win one of two sets of 50 laptops to make sure you school is ready for the kids to come back to school. (Oh, and you can enter for your chance to win a laptop for home too!)

In order to help your school win 50 laptops:

1. Nominate a school by Aug. 12 by entering in the school’s name and address, your contact information and a short essay about why that school should win.
2. Charter will choose 50 finalists and announce them on Aug. 16
3. Tell your friends and family to vote from Aug. 16 – Sep. 20
4. Charter will announce the two winning schools on Sep. 27

After you finish entering your school, enter yourself in the laptop-a-day giveaway. There are two ways to enter 1) ordering any Charter service automatically gives you a chance to win and you can get up to $300 cash back 2) you can also register online with no purchase necessary. Be sure to become a fan of Charter on Facebook so you don’t miss any updates on the contest and other TV nuggets.

If you nominate your school, be sure to let me know so I can vote for your school!

I am so excited, I am so excited! My new book launches TODAY!!! This book is full of successful Power Principles on Health, Wealth, Success and Happiness from America’s PremierExperts®. I am excited to have been asked to be a contributing author for this book, and I hope you will support me by buying a book. To make the deal even sweeter, and to promote our big launch, just for buying my new book today (7/28) we’ll give you literally THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS worth of bonuses! That’s right, tons and tons of freebies for buying the book! Check out everything you will get, and check out the book! (Remember the freebies are only good for purchases on 7/28 to help push the big launch!)

Just for purchasing the book today, and helping us get off to a great start, I’ve put together a huge bonus package for you!

Here is a link to buy the book for $19.95!

Here is all the great stuff you’ll get JUST for buying it today!  BUT REMEMBER YOU MUST BUY THE BOOK AT AMAZON.COM TODAY – 7/28 to get these bonuses!

You’ll Get:

• The book – “Power Principles for Success” (of course)
• The ebook of America’s PremierExperts® last 2 bestselling books: Big Ideas for Your Business & Shift Happens (Valued at $39.98)
• Access to Nick Nanton’s famous Cracking the Celebrity Code presentation, complete with audio and transcripts (Valued at $197)
• A mortgage property appraisal by America’s Premier Mortgage Expert (Valued at $450 )
• 3 months of Double Your Sales Coaching (Premium) program from InfusionSoft at www.DoubleYourSales.com (Valued at $450)
• FREE Membership in a revolutionary new program to help CEO’s attain their #1 priority for their business… Growth. Participant CEO’s will receive services free of charge that will empower them and provide them with the three key components for growth:

1. Consciousness: High end tools for detailed corporate, consumer, and competitive analysis
2. Edgepertise: Tools that will give you leading edge expertise required to grow.
3. Orchestrate: Tools to create high growth plans and the people to implement.

• A free 2 hour SWOT 3D analysis of your business. See how your business stacks up against customer expectations, competitive landscape, and industry standards. This process will show you what your ‘go-to-market’ strategy needs to be in order to successfully, and profitably, compete in your marketplace.
• Free credit repair consultation.  You will receive a secret on bumping your credit score within 30 days.  Learn how the system works in these easy steps and take control to a more profitable future. You will also receive secrets to saving thousands of dollars on your current expenses from bank loans to common yearly expenditures as well as information on bringing home more money in your paycheck immediately.  (Valued at $150)
• The eBook of Scot Ferrell’s latest book “What Men Don’t Get About Women” and 1 hour of coaching one-on-one with Scot via phone (Valued at $350)
• 1-hour consulting session with Kimberly Moore,  America’s Leading Small Business Expert on creating your Top Picks List of Action Items to increase value and profits in your business  – INCLUDING how to Put It Into Action!
• 2 Months of BreakingFreeBlog.com Gold Membership which will help you achieve the lifestyle and business you always wanted! (Valued at $194)
• A Free ebook and audio cd on Baby Boomer Blunders and the Worlds of Money (Valued at $200)
• A Free E-course on how to get your first luxury real estate deal in 88 minutes! (Valued at $88)
• A FREE Financial CAT Scan worth $700 for everyone with over $250,000 in net worth
• A Free ebook “Dealing with the Grief of a Wrongful Death”
• 30-Day FREE Trial Membership to the CleanBid.com Janitorial Bidding Program – Offer valid for 1^st time members only
• An ebook that tells the InfusionSoft story of entrepreneurship and success
• Free set up and one month free membership to www.MyMark.com (Valued at $344 )
• Transcript of Ben Glass’ recent keynote on the many challenges that lawyers and small business owners face with their marketing (and what the really smart ones are doing to meet the challenges).  (Valued at $97)
• A detailed special report on how to build a professional practice (Valued at $27)

Then just send your receipt to info@AmericasPremierExperts.com and you’ll get all the bonuses!

Just for purchasing the book today, and helping us get off to a great start, we’ve put together all of these great bonuses for you!

Here is a link to buy the book for $19.95! And you’ll get all that great stuff JUST for buying the book today!  BUT REMEMBER YOU MUST BUY THE BOOK AT AMAZON.COM TODAY!

Here is the link one more time!

Then just send your receipt to info@AmericasPremierExperts.com and we’ll send you access to all the bonuses!

Thanks for your support! Enjoy the book!

Friday before last I announced that my book would be coming out last Thursday. Unfortunately, there was a hold up in the launch (I am told these things happen, but since this is my first time…). At any rate, I am excited to say that everything is back on track and the book will be launched TOMORROW!

As I announced previously, I have been working on a book with my esteemed colleagues from America’s PremierExperts®. America’s PremierExperts™ is an organization that recognizes celebrity experts in their field for spreading knowledge and awareness in their expertise and making significant contributions to their industry and the marketplace as a whole.

The great news is that the book that we all wrote together, “Power Principles for Success: America’s PremierExperts® Share their Biggest Success Secrets for a Life of Health, Wealth, Happiness and Prosperity” is coming out tomorrow!

Just for purchasing the book tomorrow on Amazon.com, and helping us get off to a great start, we’ve put together a huge bonus package for you!

I will send you a link to buy the book tomorrow on Amazon, but here’s a sneak peak at all the great stuff you’ll get for JUST $19.95!

You’ll Get:

• The book – “Power Principles for Success” (of course)
• The ebook of America’s PremierExperts® last 2 bestselling books: Big Ideas for Your Business & Shift Happens (Valued at $39.98)
• Access to Nick Nanton’s famous Cracking the Celebrity Code presentation, complete with audio and transcripts (Valued at $197)
• A mortgage property appraisal by America’s Premier Mortgage Expert (Valued at $450 )
• 3 months of Double Your Sales Coaching (Premium) program from InfusionSoft at www.DoubleYourSales.com (Valued at $450)
• FREE Membership in a revolutionary new program to help CEO’s attain their #1 priority for their business… Growth. Participant CEO’s will receive services free of charge that will empower them and provide them with the three key components for growth:

- Consciousness: High end tools for detailed corporate, consumer, and competitive analysis

- Edgepertise: Tools that will give you leading edge expertise required to grow.

- Orchestrate: Tools to create high growth plans and the people to implement.

• A free 2 hour SWOT 3D analysis of your business. See how your business stacks up against customer expectations, competitive landscape, and industry standards. This process will show you what your ‘go-to-market’ strategy needs to be in order to successfully, and profitably, compete in your marketplace.
• Free credit repair consultation.  You will receive a secret on bumping your credit score within 30 days.  Learn how the system works in these easy steps and take control to a more profitable future. You will also receive secrets to saving thousands of dollars on your current expenses from bank loans to common yearly expenditures as well as information on bringing home more money in your paycheck immediately.  (Valued at $150)
• The eBook of Scot Ferrell’s latest book “What Men Don’t Get About Women” and 1 hour of coaching one-on-one with Scot via phone (Valued at $350)
• 1-hour consulting session with Kimberly Moore,  America’s Leading Small Business Expert on creating your Top Picks List of Action Items to increase value and profits in your business  – INCLUDING how to Put It Into Action!
• 2 Months of BreakingFreeBlog.com Gold Membership which will help you achieve the lifestyle and business you always wanted! (Valued at $194)
• A Free ebook and audio cd on Baby Boomer Blunders and the Worlds of Money (Valued at $200)
• A Free E-course on how to get your first luxury real estate deal in 88 minutes! (Valued at $88)
• A FREE Financial CAT Scan worth $700 for everyone with over $250,000 in net worth
• A Free ebook “Dealing with the Grief of a Wrongful Death”
• 30-Day FREE Trial Membership to the CleanBid.com Janitorial Bidding Program – Offer valid for 1^st time members only
• An ebook that tells the InfusionSoft story of entrepreneurship and success
• Free set up and one month free membership to www.MyMark.com (Valued at $344 )
• Transcript of Ben Glass’ recent keynote on the many challenges that lawyers and small business owners face with their marketing (and what the really smart ones are doing to meet the challenges).  (Valued at $97)
• A detailed special report on how to build a professional practice (Valued at $27)

Just for purchasing the book tomorrow on Amazon, and helping us get off to a great start, you’ll get all of these great bonuses!

Don’t forget, I’ll post the link to buy the book tomorrow for just $19.95, and once you buy it, then just email your Amazon.com receipt to info@americaspremierexperts.com and they’ll send the bonuses right over to you!

Until Tomorrow!

This has really become something I look forward to doing! I hope you will play along with me.

Every Friday, Mama M. hosts 5 Question Friday, here are my answers to her 5 questions. If you are feeling motivated, leave a comment answering the 5 questions about yourself, I love to learn about my readers!

1. What were your school colors?

I bleed Orange and Blue! Don’t know what I am talking about, then you aren’t from Florida! I am a die-hard Florida Gators fan through and through. My parents met while at UF, I went to my first football game at around age 2 and it is the only college I applied to because it was the only school I ever even considered. Toward the end of the most amazing 4 years in college, I met my husband at UF – so we are a true and true Gator family! GO GATORS! And football season starts in

2. What’s the best compliment you ever received?

Being told I am a good mom because that’s all that matters to me.

3. Do you buy cheap or expensive toilet paper?

Charmin Ultra Soft all the way! It’s the only brand we use!

4. Have you ever had a surprise party thrown for you? Or have you had one for someone else?

I have been involved with throwing a surprise party or two, but I’ve never been the hostess or had one thrown for me… I like to plan my parties!

5. What is one material possession that you “can’t live without”?

Material possession… That’s a hard one. I think I am going to have to go with my laptop b/c I can work, I can play, I can watch TV. Really, I have my very own relationship with this thing. LOL

Sesame Street Live “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends” is coming to the UCF Arena in Orlando from  September 30th through October 3. If you are wanting to take the family to the show, here’s your chance to grab some tickets before they go on sale to the public.  All you need to do is head over to the Ticketmaster site here, and use code STWW in the presale ticket box.

Imagine singing and dancing with Elmo, Abby Cadabby and all your favorite Sesame Street Live friends. It’s as easy as counting 1-2-3 Imagine! Ernie captains the high seas, Elmo dances to the rhythm of the African rainforest and Bert meets an octopus who has the blues in Sesame Street Live “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends.”

Just another reason I love Chipotle.  Chipotle is sponsoring a “No Junk” campaign where they are encouraging people to forward their junk emails to them.  For every 100,000 junk email received, they are donating $10,000 to The Lunch Box. The Lunch Box is a non-profit organization which works to help give approximately 32 million school children at 100,000 schools nationwide access to 100 school tested, junk-free recipes.

The Lunch Box is a web-based portal that enables all schools and school districts to make a healthy difference for all children in America by providing relevant information and the pragmatic tools necessary to make good food available for all kids.

The Lunch Box is in beta mode. When fully functional, it will provide the multi-faceted approach necessary to transition any processed food based K-12 school meal program to a whole foods environment where food is procured regionally and prepared from scratch for the student population. As a free resource, The Lunch Box will provide the essential “tools” for examining, learning about, and implementing this type of healthy meal program. From the “why” to the “how to,” The Lunch Box will offer a complete menu of choices for those seeking to implement program change in their schools and districts.

The campaign is set to run until August, or until they recieve 1 million junk emails which will meet their max donation of $100,000.

All you need to do to help out is forward your junk emails to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com. To see how many junk emails have been recieved, you can also visit chipotlejunk.com.

I have hinted around about this for a while now, but I am now excited to announce that my first book will be launched NEXT WEEK! I have had my work published in magazines for years, but this book marks the first time I have been invited to contribute to a book!

I have been working on this book with 30 esteemed colleagues who were also named to America’s PremierExperts®. America’s PremierExperts™ is an organization that recognizes experts in their field for spreading knowledge and awareness in their area of expertise and making significant contributions to their industry and the marketplace as a whole.

Being with the group this year has been a remarkable experience, and I have learned so much by spending time with them.  If I could wrap up everything I learned from them over the course of the past 12 months, I would, but that would be next to impossible.

The great news is that the book that we all wrote together, “Power Principles for Success: America’s PremierExperts® Share their Biggest Success Secrets for a Life of Health, Wealth, Happiness and Prosperity” is the next best thing!

We’ll be launching the book next week on July 22 (don’t worry I’ll remind you!), and we’ve put together a huge bonus package for you if you’ll help us launch the book next Thursday, July 22.

Like I said, I’ll remind you, but if you are willing to help us launch with great success, by buying the book (it’s only $19.95!), then we’ll give you thousands of dollars worth of bonuses in addition to the great ideas you will get from reading the book.

I appreciate your support, and I’ll get back with you next week to remind you about the launch and tell you more about the bonuses I’m putting together!

Stay tuned!