Twitter Updates for 2008-04-30
by Nicola Cairncross on April 30, 2008
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- Attracting the NC Cover /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – Nightingale-Conant just printed their latest catalog … http://tinyurl.com/42w8jf #
- writing my wealth strategies ezine after a very lively week – see previous issue here http://www.themoneygym.com/ezine #
- Lea, recommend the Cumberland – great huge modern rooms, right on Marble Arch, about £130 a night and a Gary Rhodes restaurant! #
- My mother’s birthday today, or was it yesterday? If only we knew where she was…. #
- Pavilion Boutique Rock ‘n’ Roll hotel in Bayswater is fun at just £80-90 per night …. #
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Get Property For Free
by Nicola Cairncross on April 30, 2008
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Did you get chance to check out the video “interrogation” video of the 2 UK Multi-millionaires – my mates Greg and Andy – who I mentioned in my previous email?
http://viralurl.com/moneygym/passivedvdmg
I have seen them present their business many times, and I was amazed when, watching this again (coz I love some of the stories and jokes!) I realised something completely NEW because it was described in a different way again.
Sometimes we need to hear something many times in a different way, before we get it, or before it moves from the place where we say “Oh! I know that….” to the place where we can say “Oh my gosh, I really GET that now!”
For me, this time, it was – in Section 2 or 3, I can’t remember which one now, where Andy was talking about how property is essentially free, and I thought great, he’s going to explain how, if you put some money into a property then you are able to pull it out again, then that makes it free.
O no! He went on to say something I have heard him say before BUT IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WAY and I really got it this time.
It’s about how, if you buy a house for say £200,000, and you have an 85% mortgage of say 6% (interest only), and you are paying £10,200, or £850 a month, and you live in it (so there is no tenant paying your mortgage), then your property is still totally free.
The interviewer, Rob says, but how CAN it be?
And Andy replies “how long have you had your house Rob?” and Rob says 15 years.
Andy asked (and I’m remembering the figures here so may have them slightly off but not much – watch for yourself!!)
What did you buy it for (£46,000)
And what is is worth now? (£170,000 or thereabouts)
And what have you paid in mortgage? Rob says £300 a month.
So Andy says…..
Phew! Judith’s Week…
by Nicola Cairncross on April 30, 2008
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I’ve been too busy to blog much this last week but I’ve been twittering (mini-blogging) which has fed onto my MySpace, Facebook accounts, and onto my blog which has fed onto my Ecademy, MySpace and personal website. Are you getting this yet about Twittering?
Judith’s a brilliant writer and I’m her business partner and didn’t know half of this !! so read with me and enjoy the week of a serial entrepreneur…..
“I’ve been a busy little bee lately, rushing around. How does it happen that your life creeps up on you like that and suddenly its ten days full on? Poor diary management I hear you cry, and much though it pains me to admit it, I fear you may be right, Gentle Reader.
Here’s what I have packed in during the last ten days:
Monday – podcasting Ann Ross on BlogTalkRadio and producing our weekly tapping script on TapToTheTop. Malek returned to fit the curtains and blinds which are toptastic, a DebtBusting call, an EEC client, a referral from coach George who I referred onwards to coach Heather, hired a car for the week from Enterprise and went to an Ecademy networking evening at the Tower Hotel, my first despite having been a member for YONKS and living almost next door for YEARS! What are we like? Didn’t do much networking, enjoyed chums Sarah and Carolyn and the speaker Phil Calvert.
Tuesday – lunch outside in the really hot sunshine in Wimbledon then whiz up to London to meet a coaching colleague at my new, favourite central London meeting place, The Brunswick, juice al fresco. Rush back home to study teleclass with Sandra about Squidoo and Linkedin, keen as I am to get deeper into social networking online. Sandra sends me a copy of her new ebook asking for a testimonial by Thursday and when it arrives it has over 100 pages of closely typed script about WordPress. I print it off and put it aside to take with me on my travels on Wednesday.
Wednesday begins as it always does with my cleaner, Beverley, at 10 a.m. and me dodging her hoover during The Money Gym weekly wealth creation webinar, then me rushing off to meet a multi-millionaire for lunch at Jamie’s Fifteen – my turn to pay! Whilst sitting outside in my car, I call a friend who has been abroad since selling her business last September. I call her on a hunch only to discover she’s been back in the UK for less than 24 hours and was thinking of me only 30 seconds earlier, while reading a local magazine and gazing at a photo of me in an advert in it. Synchronicity at work there. After lunch I drive to ….
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-29
by Nicola Cairncross on April 29, 2008
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- Property Crash B*ll$£ks – my two multi-millionaire property investing mates get really mad explaining it http://tinyurl.com/6yu2ct #
- What’s the Point? /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – Singer Michelle Malone playfully asked me if I ever felt like … http://tinyurl.com/599vm4 #
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Happy Birthday | Patricia Ann Lish
by Nicola Cairncross on April 29, 2008
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My mother Patricia Ann Lish, was a talented performer and a dancer, is 69 today and in 2009 she will be 70. As far as I know.
She was in musical theatre and performed in the first West End production of The King & I, with Yul Brynner. I think she played the “Little Eva” part. She was also, with my “Aunt”, her best friend whose name I can’t spell but was pronounced Aethnae, a member of the dance troup The Dolly Birds, who appeared with Lionel Blair on one of the first TV shows in the very early 60′s. After a glass of wine, they told racy stories of travelling the country in dance acts, repertory theatre, dodgy b&b’s and Adam Faith!
When she met my father, Thomas Cochrane McKenzie, a naval officer, she fell in love, and was forced to give up her showbiz career and get married, by her mother, Amelia Lish, who was a wonderful woman but a right old matriarch. You had to give stuff up for love in those days…..you couldn’t have it all unless you were particularly strong willed and lucky.
She ended up back in Worthing, with two small babies, on her own most of the time, because Tom was at sea a lot. I remember him coming home and imposing his presence and rules on us but he was a distant and frightening figure. He was also a philanderer of the worst kind, smuggling women off the ship on one gangplank as my mother and his children came up the other. She knew but was trapped and helpless.
For some reason, he kept her short of money even though he was a First Officer in the Merchant Navy, and she had to go out to work in the local telephone exchange at night, leaving us in the good care of Janet, who was totally blind but somehow managed to look after us.
When I was about 7, and my sister Heather about 5, Mum suffered badly from depression, caused by loneliness, stress (and massive disappointment in life I would imagine).
She was forced by her doctor, her mother and my father, to endure several episodes of electric shock treatment during the 1960′s. This led to a complete breakdown and Dad took her off on a “world cruise” to recover. How much of a cruise going away on a Ben Line Merchant Navy ship might have been…..
One minute our mum was there, every day, all the time, the next she was gone – for two years. The abandonment issues that has caused are still very real. We were sent to live with our aunt and uncle who did their best, but we were desperately unhappy, and we ended up with our nan and grandad, who we loved, settled in with and were blissfully happy with.
Then Mum came home – and with a new Dad, the Chief Engineer from the same ship, another Scots sailer! A messy divorce ensued, two more children who we loved dearly and treated as our dollys, and we all – though my mum had nothing from her marriage due to a crap deal she made with my father who never honoured his side – gradually pieced their lives together. My stepfather was a good man – Alexander “Sandy” Cairncross who we came to love and still call Dad.
However, my Mum was not easy to live with, always striving to make something of herself and she made us all move every 18 months, buying up and renovating houses, clawing her way up the property ladder. Going from money in the bank, to debt on credit card, selling to pay it all off and starting again, creating equity as she went.
But the stress and constant moving took its toll, my dad escaped – as men often do – by having a long-running affair, and she eventually found out after months of him (and all of us) telling her she was imagining it. He left, she finished the latest house project, rented out the rooms and promptly had another breakdown, so total that I had to sign the papers to section her, as she was a danger to herself. I was 18.
She’s never been right since and while she looks like my mum, on the outside, on the inside she is paranoid to the point of hearing voices all the time, she is foul mouthed, racist and homophobic. Not good as I married a black man, her grandchildren are a beautiful chocolate colour, and my brother is gay.
Where is she now? No idea. Not dead, but she might as well be.
Her illness has made her impossible to be around, and she just won’t take the bloody tablets! Paranoid Schizophrenia is a terrible thing – they look like the people you know and love, but their minds are taken over by the illness. In my mum’s case, she has become a racist, homophobic old lady, which is awful because my ex-husband Irving Soremekun has half Nigerian, my children Phoebe Soremekun and Nelson Soremekun are a lovely chocolate colour, and my brother Alex is a happily gay man.
But it was her who taught us to be tolerant of all people, so it’s doubly shocking that her illness has changed her so completely. And it’s doubly tragic that the so-called “Care In The Community” means that, unless she is a danger to herself or to others, she will get no help. One doctor who shall remain nameless, once told us three sisters “Well at least she isn’t lonely with all those voices in her head!”.
Why am I paying tribute to her?
Because she was a bright, strong, talented woman who had a bloody tough life, who never had a chance to fulfil her potential.
Before her first breakdown she made me feel loved and clever enough that I’ve never lacked confidence and know that I can do anything I want to in life. She passed on her creativity and drive.
She instilled in me an ability to read, and a love of reading, and that love of reading has enabled me to learn anything I wanted to, since leaving school.
Her unintentional abandonment of us as very small girls, has pushed both of us to seek approval and love by being clever and special and needing to perform. I now own a business fulfilling my mission of giving women choice, and escaping economic traps, and I speak and write, and my sister, Heather Cairncross is now a world class Opera and Jazz singer
Everything I am, is down to her.
This is my tribute to my mother, Patricia Ann Lish.
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-28
by Nicola Cairncross on April 28, 2008
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- The AAA Plan to Wealth /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – The other night while soaking in the hot tub the idea for … http://tinyurl.com/6lg4q7 #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-27
by Nicola Cairncross on April 27, 2008
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- Finding Good People /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – Five years ago I co-signed for my (then) web guy to get a … http://tinyurl.com/5s9u8x #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-26
by Nicola Cairncross on April 26, 2008
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- How to Get Inspired /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – I’ll be doing a free teleseminar with Craig Perrine on how … http://tinyurl.com/5sbrx9 #
- money gym "lets talk money" rocked – we really messed with their heads about money (in a nice way) #
- playing texas hold’em to work off my post workshop energy – came third out of eighteen – I want to play live so bad! #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-25
by Nicola Cairncross on April 25, 2008
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- had a lovely time at Women Talk Money – these birds are AWESOME – looking forward to Let’sTalk Money tomoz but missing my babies x 3 #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-24
by Nicola Cairncross on April 24, 2008
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- Showing my client Susanne @thesinglesgym how to use Twhirl properly #
- twix internet mentoring clients, agreeing with @SethGodin about silly traffic. Tripled ours recently but killed sales (how did that work?) #
- Just installed the TwitThis plugin on our blog at http://www.themoneygym.com/blog – but why have we not got a pagerank yet?!! #
- What I Think of The Opus /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – Here’s what I really think of the new movie The Opus: … http://tinyurl.com/42xqzu #
- Oh…@leawoodward is coming up with the best twitwords…..tweeple indeed! And loved that Jonathan is now feeling like a twit-ow..geddit? #
- all alone in a hotel for 2 nights – hate it! Money Gym workshops will cheer me up tho’ Women Talk Money tomoz, then Let’s Talk Money Sat #
- recommending @PhilipCalvert ‘s workshops very highly – went to his "Successful Seminars" one and loved it. Stuffed with new ideas… #
- I was scared to go ther #
- there…but it felt so good http://crazybob.org/twubble/ #
- Can someone make @ThomasPower go on holiday? Penny, please! He’s going faster than ever now he’s Twittering – so distracting!! LOL #
- @jeffwalker – no, love music, but as a visual person, any aural stimulation distracts horribly #
- bored in a hotel in London – must plan ahead and set up business networking dinners (stops me thinking about popping to Ministry of Sound) #
- or something even more fun…..LOLOLOL #
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