Carmen, Casares and Camping Out

While taking delivery of a Marks & Spencers online clothes shop, I was reminded how sometimes tiny little things can make you feel happy, grateful and wealthy.  These are just a few of the things that have made me feel good this week.

1. A pile of 10 x soft new M&S t-shirts to wear (piles of new socks are great too!)
2. Being able to pay to book in immediately for emergency physio/acupuncture to relieve your cricked neck pain
3. Wearing your favourite perfume all day, every day
4. Getting a book recommendation from Michael at Triumphant Events, and buying that immediately, plus a Michael Masterson you want to read
5. Buying a whole new set of GOLD and pearl beaded bed bed linen on a whim, plus a bedside table – room truly looking fit for a princess now!  I know, I’m giving away my inner chav here but it was 15% off all bed linen at Dunelm Mills (love that place!).

On the speaking / live appearances front, Ambar Hamid’s Wealth Thing seminar was been moved to the weekend I’m in Paris with Sister Sarah, visiting Sister Heather who is rehearsing for Carmen at the Paris Opera House (Bastille) – she’s posting great “behind the scenes” pics from the set.

I got a Tweet from one of my Ecademy Blackstar maties to say his wife is on the same production and did I want to meet up for a coffee, as he’s out there on baby patrol?  Twitter really is great!

It’s our Money Gym Let’s Talk Money day this weekend which is sold out and which I’m looking forward to a lot.

I’m having dinner with my old friends from Spain, Rona & Adrian, the night before the workshop.  You may remember I talk about them in my book a lot, and we are swapping a three week stay in their beautiful house in Casares for a website to help them promote it for rental, now they are back in England.

You can see where me, Sarah & the kids are going to be spending August at http://www.HolidayRentalCasaresSpain.com.  When I dreamed of becoming financially free, it was travel I wanted most a la Tim Ferris’s “4 Hour Work Week” and I’m doing a fair old job of it the next couple of months.  Paris, Greece then Spain – lovely!

I’m still working on the website for Casares, but it’s coming along nicely.  Wait till I add little videos of the place and surrounding areas – those bluey-green weeks won’t stay unbooked for long!

We have firmed up the dates for the September start of the next Silver Elite programme

The current pilot of the programme is getting rave reviews and if I just had a bit more time I could get them on the bloomin’ page! The main thrust seems to be that you can join Silver and get all the information, but in order to actually take action, you need to feel accountable and that only happens in a group or 1:2:1 coaching environment.  If you like the sound of that for September, you can secure your place at a £500 discount if you are already a Silver member.

Our vision for The Money Gym has never been clearer and we are planning all sorts of exciting developments for 2010.  For 2009, We are racing against time to get all our projects finished so that I can start on renewing my current book then writing the next one.  It’s fun, it’s fast and it’s furious but the good news is, as ever, that we do the work once and the products are there for the foreseeable future.

It’s the main Beach Dreams weekend coming up, with two days of live bands, organic food, cider in the tent and lots of enjoyment all round.  Phoebe has SOMEHOW talked me into letting her put up a 12-man tent in the garden and cramming a load of teenagers into it for the night.  Well, I would rather they were here and safe, than hanging about the tent / beach on Saturday night.  It does mean a bit of a dash from London after our workshop but hey, it’ll be a laugh!

In the meantime, I’m reading “How To Get Rich” by Felix Dennis and it’s jolly good!  One of Britain’s wealthiest self made entrepreneurs, it’s described by the Independent On Sunday as “startlingly frank and very funny” and so it is.

Have fun, we always do (bad neck notwithstanding!)

Nicola