Annie says:
How I love the Money Gym property workshops: the transformation of property investment into something seriously sexy, the endless lightbulb moments, the look of sheer amazement as people suddenly find they’ve gone through the proverbial looking glass, the reworking of their money blueprint. It’s great stuff.
Ok, so I’m a Money Gym property workshop groupie. This was my third and the thrill is still there. The first time it was scary: "Oh my Gawd. Me! Buy buy-to-let properties. You CANNOT be serious." The second time the entire Kaszina menage attended (including Sharon the blogging Shih Tsu) and it came home to me that I’d actually become a property investor. This time it was a pleasure to watch other people, some of them already savvy investors, salivating at the thought of all the tempting property strategies available to them; toothsome HMOs, tasty reversionaries, luscious passive investments…
Remembering just how scared I’d been, it was fantastic to watch fears being dispelled and the old money blueprints challenged. (And, yes, coincidentally, Tim and I have both been reading T. Harv Eker’s ‘Secrets of the MIllionaire Mind’ with equal enthusiasm.)
The blueprint is Eker’s concept. To put it another way, it’s the programming and attitudes you absorbed, most likely in childhood, that determine the values by which you operate; whether or not you are conscious of them. Eker talks about your money blueprint. Is your property blueprint merely a subsection of that or a separate entity? I’m not sure. (And anyway, why split hairs when you can be searching out great property deals?) It was great to watch people consigning their old blueprint to the scrapheap and adopting a new, empowered approach: "I can do property.Oh yeah."
The best was still to come. These workshops always end with each person sketching out their individual strategy which is then submitted anonymously to the group for brainstorming.
It wasn’t just because there were few able mathematicians among us - I apologise in advance to anyone I may have unwittingly maligned- that the whole was far greater than the sum of the parts. :-) In the process of brainstorming a resourceful and supportive group developed which highlighted the skills and strengths that each person had to offer.
There’s a lot of powerful, limiting old baggage around anything money related - it’s not by chance that we talk about self-worth. One workshop member told us how just starting on his wealth creation journey had freed him up to clear a lot of emotional blocks that had stymied him for way too long. Once self-worth start to rise, not only will it lift the load of a lot of old emotional baggage, but it will do Nicola’s favourite trick and start creating compound interest.
There tends to be a correlation between self-worth and net worth.
