Reset To Zero – tune!

Something for the weekend?

Here’s a marvellously modern tune with a great retro feel….think “Valerie” by the brilliant Amy Winehouse or “Mercy” by Duffy….if you liked those, you will love this…now do I bring you the best tunes or what? Presenting Anthoney Wright for your pleasure

Word Up! 36 Things…

I was investigating Chris Barrow’s post about PayPal closing his account down because his techie whiz Kimberley Black was using his account (with full authorisation of course!) to help run his business.  I found this rather intriguing list which I though I would copy and adapt.  I “dugg” Kimberly’s list and tried to Sphinn Chris’ posting but it involved registering with Sphinn and they kept saying the security code I entered was wrong (this in ADDITION to solving an equation to prove I’m a real person!!) so I had to give up on that one, sorry Chris.

1. Where is your cell phone? no idea, suspect in depths of handbag uncharged
2. Your significant other? Hmmm, Judith & Steve at the moment!
3. Your Hair? Dyed – mutton dressed as lamb I’m afraid LOL
4. Your Skin? Holding up well for my age
5. Your mother? Missing….last seen in Hull
6. Your favorite thing? Kids & Work & X-Factor
7. Your dream last night? getting burgled and running up the road shouting “not my lappie!”
8. Your favorite drink? Chablis
9. Your dream/goal? £1 million T/O for The Money Gym by next Christmas
10. The room you’re in? Home office
11. Your ex? Hahahhahah, you want a whole list?  Take years…
12. Your fear? Being lonely in my old age
13.Where do you want to be in 6 years? Alive, well and living in Greece
14.Where were you last night? Home
15.What you’re not? Boring
16.Muffins? Gotta be double choc
17.One of your wish list items? A house in Greece, till then an iPhone (I think!)
18.Where you grew up? Worthing, West Sussex; Wales; Scotland
19.The last thing you did? Made coffee
20.What are you wearing? Gym kit as off when kids wake up
21.Your TV? Way too old!
22.Your pets? Fish, including the lovely Millhouse
23. Your computer? Laptop, need more powerful one now I’m doing video
24. Your life? OK verging on good
25. Your mood? Optimistic as ever
26. Missing someone? Not really, out of sight….
27. Your car? Ancient and dying mercedes – I only go to Tescos and the station in it LOL
28. Something you’re not wearing? Contact lenses (yet)
29. Favorite Store? Selfridges, Oxford St, London
30. Your summer? Hot ideally
31. Like someone? Yes, several
32. Your favorite color? Black
33. When is the last time you laughed? This morning at Steve moaning about getting old (it’s only 08:51)
34. Last time you cried? Last week
35. Who will respond to this? No idea but let’s make it viral!
36. Who’s Answers are you anxious to see? Everyone’s – it’s fun!

OK, so all you need to do is copy this list onto your own blog, link back to this posting and Kimberly’s list too and away we go!

Property? Yes! Right Now!

Judith has picked me up on the fact that there’s one more wealth creation event we need to draw to your attention for your urgent action this week.  And it’s for you if you are still keen on property even while all around you are gnashing their teeth and wailing doom and gloom.

We are holding a little property evening next week to introduce our clients to Tamkin Riaz (who I have known for a long time and speak for regularly) and his business partner Abdul of South2North.

** This is not to be confused with a previous well known Manchester “opportunity”.  Tamkin and Abdul have access to some great contacts in the financial services industry, allowing them to be buying properties wholesale from the banks and building societies and they are selling them onto us in The Money Gym, still at very much wholesale prices. **

The South2North offering is five properties in Manchester and surrounding areas for £10,000 fee. The five properties will be made available to you within 12 months and each one will have either instant equity of at least 15% or, in some casess cashback – up to £25,000 across the whole five properties, net £15,000.

This is a really exciting opportunity for people who want to own five investment properties by this time next year for only £10,000.   What a stonking bargain!

On this special information page which Steve has created you can find out the answers to all the questions we have already received from our clients about this and listen to an hour-long teleseminar Judith and I ran with Peter Stanley, our man on the ground in Manchester, who is helping us with this project.

You can also book your seat for the event – just £25 which is totally refundable when you arrive.
Steve will process refunds the next day to those who turn up using the same card you used to book.

All details here:   www.themoneygym.com/south2north

If you are interested in this opportunity but are not free to attend next Tuesday evening, 4th November 2008 at 6-8 p.m. at our usual venue, the Southwark Rose Hotel, please email Judith (judith [at] themoneygym.com) and she will bring you up to speed after the meeting.

Remember – true entrepreneurs learn how make money in any market!

Cheers,
Nicola

The 2 Nic’s – Money Gym Fun

Niki Duffy, Money Gym client, took this pic of us two while out for dinner with some clients who came to the fantastic Brett McFall “Make Money While You Sleep” event we co-promoted and spoke at, in September.

We had a great time and proved YET AGAIN that making money really is fun!

Money Gym TV – 5 November 2008

Here’s this week’s show archived for you – below!

And if you click the “comments” link below, you can ask your wealth creation questions for next week’s show in advance.

Live Streaming by Ustream.TV

How To Enter

HOW TO ENTER:

** Both methods of entry should cover the following info **

• 2-3 minutes on your life to date (no sob stories, just the facts)
• 1-2 minutes on the lowest point of your life so far and what you learned from it
• 1-2 minutes on the highest point of your life so far, and what you learned from it
• 2-3 minutes on which of the Four Wealth Highway Lanes appeals most (business, internet, property or stockmarket)

Method 1: Entrants to submit their video entry in writing via the comments box below

Method 2: Entrants to submit their video entry to YouTube

Entries can be pre-recorded, edited and uploaded to YouTube (or recorded direct using the Upload > Quick Capture button)

Entries to include http://www.themoneygm.com in the first line of the description

All entries to be tagged as follows “money, money gym, video, contest, competition, win, wealth, million, millionaire, prosperity, property, business ,internet”

When entry are successfully uploaded to YouTube, send the URL of the entry (URL will look like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsVI3LJktWc) to nicola [at] themoneygym.com

Your entry will be embedded in blog posting and the URL sent to the entrant to publicise themselves & invite votes and comments.

Your entry will be mentioned in the Money Gym ezine & tweeted & posted on Facebook to encourage votes, entrants are encouraged to invite votes too.

Ezine readers and visitors to the blog will vote, by “Digg’ing” the entry using the “share/save” button under each blog posting.

WINNER: The winner will be chosen by Nicola from the Top 10 “most voted for” entries. Nicola’s decision will be final. RUNNERS UP: Will be the other nine of the Top 10 “most voted for” entries.

Special Conditions of Entry:

1. Entrant must agree to their entry video being used on our blog and ongoing in any promotion
2. Entrant must agree to make themselves free at 1pm on 1st Tuesday / Thursday of the month, from February to November (except January’s calls which will be held in last week of Jan 2009 and April’s which will be w/c 20th April)
3. Entrant must agree to be active in the Mastermind group and post progress to it at least weekly and agree we can use anything posted for case study / promotion.
4. Entrant must agree not to share anything publicly about their finances that they might regret later
5. Entrant must agree to give us monthly progress reports by video that we can use for case study / promotional purposes
6. Entrant must agree to our using their coaching calls as a case study and that we can use that case study in any way we choose.
7. Entrant must agree to give us a specific and true testimonial at the end

Any questions or feedback on the competion are welcome – just use the “comments” link or the comments box.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO RECORD & UPLOAD YOUR ENTRY HERE >>>

Warm Regards Nicola

This post was sponsored by Money Gym Gold – the only proven 1:2:1 wealth coaching programme that has been making millionaires since 1999!

Bill Gates Has One, So Should You?

Bill has one, so does Woodie Allen. Madonna is one and so is the actress Ingmar Bergman. Are you missing out?

Thousands of influential people throughout history have believed they were ‘worth it’, as the TV ad says and cast aside the cloak of ‘self can manage’ in favour of, yes, a mentor.

Homer started it. No, not Homer Simpson but Homer’s Odyssey. The Goddess of Wisdom used Mentor, a debilitated old man, to guide Odysseus’ son through a difficult time in the young man’s life. Lucky chap – today’s youth aren’t so fortunate down at the local community centre! Imagine modern life if there was a mentor on every street corner in inner city areas instead of young ladies and gents plying their wares. How powerful would that be?

And you thought it was new!

Some of the greatest philosophers, renowned for their learned, far-sighted thinking shared a little known secret. The triplet of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are linked, although they preceded each other.

“How so?” you may be thinking. What a fascinating discovery to learn that Socrates was the mentor of Plato, and Plato mentored Aristotle who went on to mentor Alexander the Great. And there we were thinking mentoring was so ‘now’.

Our very own 21st Century Bill Gates has a very rich and respected mentor, none other than Warren Buffet, one of the greatest stock market investors. And, guess what? Yes, spot on – Warren Buffett had a mentor too! Ben Graham, an influential economist, guided the young Warren in the ways of the markets!

It’s not just in business but in music and theatre that a mentor is the new “little black dress” – an absolute ‘must have’ that’ll take you anywhere you want to go. In the happenin’ scene, the rapper Dr. Dre is mentor to younger rappers Eminem and Snoop Dogg. In the movie industry, the famous and late British actor Sir Laurence Olivier mentored actor Sir Anthony Hopkins.

There’s a pattern emerging here . . . what gems of learning lie all around waiting for a curious hand to lift them into life once more? Is that hand yours?

OK, Warren (or another chosen guru) might not be available to mentor you personally but you can still experience their thinking by reading about their lives, listening to tapes and watching any available videos. Learn more about how they ‘’tick’, cut through confusion and enhance your winning performance.

Why spend time reinventing the wheel when the trailblazers have done the work for the modern business already? “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill, written in 1937 is as great a read in 2008 as it was then.

Dear Santa – Please bring me a guardian angel – wings optional!

It can be lonely out there, surrounded by “can’t do” people who never wanted to anyway . . . and don’t want you to either! Leave your headaches behind!
Imagine having someone on your side, challenging and guiding you towards your goals.
Yes, the ones your mentor helped you set – you know, those achievements that will stretch but not overwhelm you and keep you in a totally positive mindset?

Sometimes in this high-octane world, finding a safe space to deal with questions, struggles, emotions and doubts can be nigh on impossible. The metaphorical (and sometimes literal!) embrace of a mentor can give just that. When all is going well, there’s a great space where learning can take place and ideas flow freely. As trust grows, it’s OK to confess fears and to reveal blockages to progress, to explore them and move forward.

And it can bring fun and friendship, increased self-esteem and personal growth. So, what are you waiting for?

Are you smart enough to realise you don’t have all the answers? Be kind to yourself and write that letter to Santa. You’ll be glad you did!

Choose wisely

Who should be your mentor is such a potentially life and business enhancing decision it’s worth taking time and care in selecting this special person. It might be important for you to:

• Share the same values
• Feel a good rapport
• Trust enough to listen even if it is to something you might not wish to hear
• Establish the potential your mentor sees in youFeel they will take a personal interest
• Ensure they have the time to devote to the relationship
• Envisage where you see your career going
• Identify a mentor successful in the field you wish to develop
• Select a mentor with good social and networking skills
• Look for someone highly motivated and who is held in high esteem
• Think strategically about what you want from a mentor
• Establish what you want to achieve together
• Choose someone with a different work style to your own

Phew! That shopping list should soon have your business running on all cylinders quickly.

Take that first important step and you’ll gain a real asset for your business. Your mentor will help you tap into your inner strengths, review where you are, where you’re headed and the best way to get there in a fraction of the time you thought it might take. Remember, they’ve already established the quickest way from A – D without calling at B and C!

Your mentor will guide you towards life-enhancing changes and goals. Allow them to expand your knowledge, stir your imagination and perhaps change your perceptions and don’t feel defensive – they’re on your side!

7 Tips Guaranteed To Oil Those Mentoring Wheels

1. Express your gratitude – your mentor may be giving much more than you in the early stages.
2. Establish goals for the relationship through discussion and review to make sure they’re working. If not, adjust and refocus.
3. Talk through how you will communicate with each other – email, meetings or the telephone?
4. Respect your mentor’s time and other commitments – don’t bombard them with every little problem!
5. Make sure you reach appointments on time.
6. Respect the special access you have to your mentor’s influential network by always following through on leads and contacts given to you.
7. Be positive when your current views and attitudes are challenged – be open to new ideas.

Why not follow in the slipstream of Plato, whose mentor achieved and paid forward greatness – here’s what the great man had to say:

“PICTURE A DREAM. WHILE THE DREAM IS BEING BIRTHED, THE MENTOR STANDS OVER HIS PROTEGEÉ AND HELPS HIM RELAX AND ENDURE THE PAIN. THE MENTOR HOLDS THE DREAM UP BY THE HEELS AND SPANKS IT TO LIFE. THEN THE MENTOR PLACES THE-DREAM-TURNED-REALITY INTO THE ARMS OF THE PROTEGE AND WALKS AWAY TO ASSIST ANOTHER.”

SOCRATES

Now it’s time you brought your brand new, freshly born dream to reality! See it, feel it, sense it – the life you want is already there.

Take courage in both hands and step into your future – NOW! You know you want to…
Article By Janet Swift – http://www.swiftlysorted.com

Money Gym Joins Success University!

I’m about to dip my toe (well, more like dive right in!) to a network marketing opportunity for the first time in years. Oooooooo, I can just hear the squeals of horror now!

I’ve long been aware that we, at the Money Gym, rather neglect this highly regarded but much  misunderstood part of the business lane of the wealth highway which Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump both say they would start with, if they had to start from scratch and make all their money again.

Judith has been getting well ensconced in the Cartel opportunity, which resonated with her because it helps folks get out of debt and recover a small bit from the financial institutions, and she’s loving that and building a great team underneath her.

I played with Hello World video mail a couple of years ago, but they screwed up when they made their site impenetrable and when I kept getting complaints that folks couldn’t view my emails.

But I have chosen one now – Success University

For the next year, I will only be working on this one opportunity alongside the Money Gym and the Next Level Programme with Brett.

To help me get off to a flying start and keep up the momentum, I’ve created a Money Gym Network Marketing Google group.

If you are a Silver or Gold Money Gym member you are welcome to join that Google Group for free (of course) to discuss your NM journey – whichever company you are with – your wins, your challenges, your opportunity even (but no “cut and paste” promotion though!)

To work with me in Success University, I’m also looking for 9-12 front line people who have

Particularly if your site/list is aimed at women or those interested in improving themselves, making money online and working from home.

Anyone who signs up under me will benefit from “spillover” from the Money Gym mailing list signups, as I won’t be able to place everyone directly under me, Steve and Judith, so will be placing extra people under those who sign up under me. Success University pays commissions on unlimited levels.

This would make a great first affiliate product for anyone with a website, particularly our new Membership Site Bootcamp people so I would welcome you guys with open arms.

$2 to get started and gain access to the materials, then $49 a month after that, and you can start earning. Then just put a banner on your blog / site sidebar and/or add a link to your email signature. Then you can go from there if you want to.

Check it out at

http://moneygym.successuniversity.com/specialoffer

I’m going along to meet the founder Matt Morris on Saturday if you want to join me for the day in London.

Membership Bootcamp Delegates!

We hosted our Money Gym Membership Bootcamp day in London on Friday. Everyone came with some niche ideas and went away with one (haven’t you!!) and a clear plan on how to monetise (monetize?) that niche, and 10 ways on how they were going to market that niche, depending on whether they were visually skilled, writers, or techies. Here’s the attendees and Mike the lovely cameraman, who was filming the day for us.

Hoxton Hotel Rocks Again!

I’m hanging out at the fabulous Hoxton Hotel, in London, EC1 after our Money Gym Membership Bootcamp “Fast Start” day, which is rapidly becoming my London home from home.

I can’t tell you how good (and how incredibly reasonable) this hotel is. I keep meeting people of all ages and nationalities in the lift who are grinning ear to ear and saying “this is a great hotel isn’t it?”.

I love a nice boutique hotel, don’t you?

It actually feels like a little unique village in the City – you really never feel like you need to leave, once you wheel your wearie lappie through the welcoming lobby.  The buzz of conversation of the trendy crowd of all ages (from teens to 70’s), mini shop, the amazing welcome from the reception staff, the real fires, the paper eagles, the amazing music…love it.

Up to the great rooms – perfectly formed with everything you need including spare pillows and towels, proper coffee bags, waiter’s friend bottle opener, self-proclaimed “Boring Sign No #5″, the little fridge with proper milk, mirrors where you need them, a glass shower with drencher and alternative shower if you don’t want to get your hair wet

“Well, it would be rude NOT to!!” said my 13 year old Pheobe said on first glance at the drencher, heading right in there……

And free wireless internet throughout the hotel, anyone?.

The Hoxton has the most comfy beds – soft but firm – and gorgeous bed linen which feels somehow feels more divine than any other, plus the brilliant and funky restaurant ruled with a rod of iron by Richard Moul (more about him later), to the live DJ in the bar who plays old rare groove on Fridays, funky disco house on Saturdays and jazz and all that laid back hip hop groove on Sundays.

What’s the significance of the Paper, Stone, Scissors pillows then?

And I’m loving the cashpoint machine and Evening Standard dispenser (free natch!).

They even do “stay for £1″ offers on the internet (see below for the website details).

Around the corner from Jamies “Fifteen” and the apparently amazing “Hoxton Apprentice” – where not just the chefs, but the whole staff are ex-homeless people.

What can I say about the Hoxton Hotel staff?

O man, the staff………..they are just SO GOOD.

(Even better than the Mediterranean Risotto (with feta, sun dried tomatoes and olives) I had tonight and the Pan Fried Sea Bass with Sweetcorn Chowder & rocket and parmesan salad, last night….pheweee)

The warm welcome at reception, the brilliant front of house people in the restaurant, the really hot but friendly bar staff through to my personal favourite, the Italian head waiter Mauro, who is so good he inspires his staff to try and beat him in terms of excellent service….they are all having such fun and it’s just awesome to watch.  They are “on stage” and they know it, and they perform like its the first night every night.

We have only been there three times since June, and when Mauro spotted me in the bar, he headed over from his busy restaurant and gave me a big hug…..how can he have remembered me when you think how many people they see a week?

The bigger question is…….How can a place get it so right?

I needed to know because I was blown away on our first visit, and I’m endlessly fascinated about why businesses survive, thrive or fail…….so I did some digging….and I didn’t have to dig far.

I’ve discovered the secret weapon of The Hoxton Bar & Grille……and his name is Richard Moul.

He looks about 12 (and I’m not kidding!), he is everwhere at once, his eyes are everywhere he is not, and he not only nutures that bar and restaurant like it is the love of his life, but he delivers food to the table too, when they are pushed, with joy and grace and an amazing smile.

I asked Richard about his staff hiring policy, and training schedule.

“I hire for personality and attitude and then train them up”.

Simple but devastatingly effective.

And very E-Myth.

I have to interview this man for my podcast as he’s got the most incredible story.  And he’s a whisky expert too.

The Hoxton Hotel – you rock. Again. And I’ll be back – very soon!

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