The Key Secret Of Business Success | A Business Mentor

It took me a monstrous 28 years to realise that I needed a business mentor, or I would probably never achieve any business success at all.  I’d been entrepreneurial since a child, but I was growing up in a family with no money and no business people in it, much less successful business people. My early business ventures were, although I didn’t know it, pretty much doomed to failure!

From flat finding to waistcoat production, from renting my paperback books at the age of 8 to being a freelance fashion designer suppling designer shops like Hunter in Brighton, or Duffer Of St George in London at the age of 26.

From helping my husband start his own dance music compilations record label, Esoteric Records, to working with many start up entrepreneurs as their PA, I always knew I wanted to build a successful, profitable business, for me, but in spite of reading many many books and attending many government sponsored courses, success STILL eluded me.

Things improved a bit at the age of 38 when I saw the light, took responsibility for my own success and results and started my wealth creation journey and my quest for financial freedom.

I have told the story many times of how I met my first wealth creation mentor, Gill Fielding, and if you haven’t read it you can enjoy that story here >>> .  However, Gill had loads of  experience of creating wealth through property investing, and investing in the stockmarket, and we all know that she is an utterly brilliant speaker, but having come from the corporate world herself, she didn’t know how to start and grow a small, startup business from scratch, on a shoestring.   We started The Wealth Company together, and after 6 months amicably agreed to go our seperate ways, Gill wanting to reach more people to “light the spark of financial possibility” as she called it, and me wanting to work more one-to-one.  Gill bought me out and in the process, giving me the first inkling that a business idea, put into action, might have an asset value and be actually be worth something.  None of my other start up business ever had been.

When I bought my run-down hotel The Acacia, no money down, gutted it and started to market it online, I quizzed my accountant Mark Nicolson from Spofforths in Worthing and my bank manager Mike Murray from Nat West, about what made the businesses they saw every day successful, and what seperated those that succeeded from those that failed, and I got some very interesting answers.

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My Book, His Book & VIP Bookings

Last weekend I went to London to speak for Neil Asher’s clients – over 120 people in the Millenium Sloane St who were bright, interactive and well up for learning new things.  Neil had a good solid lineup of speakers and I was delighted to find Money Gym coach Philly Fuggle there as Paul was speaking about Total Business Cart the next day.

My talk went well and we attracted two new clients to Membership Club Magic.  Two other nice surprises were two people in the audience – Geoff who I hadn’t seen since the Coachville conference in Las Vegas and a lady (Carole? So sorry, I was on a post talk adrenaline high and I don’t think you gave me a card!) who had coached me back in the very early days at one of Bob Griffith’s hot seat coaching days in London – you were trying to encourage me to raise my rates from £279.50 a month to over £300 and I was very resistant apparently.

Well I’ve so got over that and she was very pleased to hear it.  I think the difference is that I know the value of what I deliver.  And of course, I don’t need personal coaching clients as my main income is via the Money Gym, but I choose to work with a few people at a time, purely on internet related stuff, because I enjoy it.

Then I stayed up for dinner – a great Indian with a crowd of Neil’s closest clients and friends, and then up early to go to Heathrow for a rather disappointing event, where they were expecting 400 but only 90 showed for the first day,and only about 45 for the Sunday.  Added to that, a couple of unfortunatel incidents made my talk popular but not very successful in terms of attracting new clients, but I enjoyed seeing Michael Young, meeting Yvonne from the African & Caribbean Business Network and it’s always a joy to hear Andy Harrington speak – he was particularly good this time!

The big news this week is that I’ve not only started to re-write my Money Gym book, but that process started me mindmapping / planning the next one.  Then, all of a sudden, it started to pour out of me!  I just couldn’t help myself!

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Money Gym Success | Debbie Bissett

Debbie Bissett, dynamic business woman and Money Gym Gold client, shares some of the secrets of her success and how we “coached” her into starting to make money for herself, rather than always for other people.   This video is a 10 minute clip from the Money Gym Business Surgery workshop, which we filmed for our Gold clients in India, Switzerland and Australia.

Internet Marketing | Zero To Hero Online | Matt’s Progress

As the discussions rumble on about whether internet marketing is the “Emperor’s New Clothes” ex-Navy man Matt Jones has taken up the baton, and is quietly working his way through the Money Gym Membership Club Magic tuition videos, with a bit of coaching from me.
Read the first post here >>>	Read the second post here >>>
Read the third post here >>>	Read the fourth post here >>>
He’s agreed to post his progress in becoming a newbie internet zero, to internet marketing here in the comments here – so, over to you Matt!

Effective Goal Setting – Or Setting Yourself Up For Disappointment?

Nicola says:  When I was just getting started in personal development and wealth creation, I diligently worked through every exercise in books like Colin Turner’s “Swimming With Pirahna’s Makes You Hungry” and Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits Of Highly Effective People” and I ended up setting goals for myself.

I had never set goals before in my life….. oh, sure! I had some vague “wants” but I’d never set goals and when I think about it, there were two main reasons why.

1. I had no idea HOW I was going to achieve those goals – for heaven’s sake, I didn’t even know what the word strategy meant!
2. I was scared to write down a goal, fully expecting to NOT achieve it and then be disappointed with myself when I found the piece of paper later, in a drawer somewhere.

Essentially, I had no idea that you can set a goal, then make a plan to make it happen.  How funny that seems now….although I am now a great believer in setting goals with no idea of how to make them happen at first!

Judith thinks I’m a bit barking when I talk like this, because she’s set goals and achieved them, barring a few unforeseen exocets, all her life.

So all this said, when we launched our Money Gym Silver Elite programme this week as a pilot for the main launch in September, one of our main aims was to encourage the Silver Elite participants to create some goals for themselves, for the programme, and to encourage them to create a strategy (plan) for how they were going to achieve them – specifically how they were going to achieve them within the 90 days of the programme.

We hosted the first webinar and discussed the subject thoroughly (albeit with a frustrated Judith listening in, unable to contribute as much as she would have liked, due to techie issues) and we came up with the following goal setting process which I wanted to share with you.

Marian’s (Shorter Version) Goal Setting Format:

• Set your goal(s)
• Work out your compelling ‘why’
• How will you achieve your goal?  (Think, brainstorm, strategise…)
• What are the obstacles, turn ‘em around and make them challenges and blast through them
• What time will you commit to the goal (& is it more time than you spend watching TV or sitting in pub!)

Nicola’s (Longer Version) Goal Setting Format:

1. Think of between one and three goals you would like to achieve in 90 days
2. Run them through the SMART process – Judith, could you elaborate on that one?
3. Tell us WHY you want to achieve them – what difference will it make in your life?
4. Work out where you will need to be with each of them, to be a third of the way there in 30 days, two thirds of the way there in 60 days.
5. How much time per week do you have to work on your 90 day goals
6. When are you going to work on them?  Saturdays? Sunday mornings?  Tuesday evenings?
7. What steps do you think you need to take to move into action?
8. What is going to stop you?  What are your perceived obstacles?
9. What would be the outcome, if you turned those obstacles around into outcomes?
10. What are you going to do first?  This week? Before the next call (commitment in public via the Google Group to at least one action step please)

Judith’s (SMART) Goal Setting Process

A SMART goal, for what it’s worth, and it won’t suit all, is

Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timed/timelined

Thus a goal like S posted yesterday “To attract 1000 Twitter followers within 30 days” is all of the above – if she has a plan to achieve it.

The point about this SMART process is… you know whether you’ve done it or not.

So tell me via the comments box here, do YOU set goals?  How do you do it?  What are your challenges around goal setting?

Love to hear what you think!

Internet Marketing | Emperor’s New Clothes | Part 3

Read Part 1 Here >>>

Read Part 2 Here >>>

Wow!  This debate about whether it’s possible to create a real live passive income online – defined as enough to live on without having to actually do anything, once set up – has really hit a nerve on both the blog and our private Google Group!  Several success stories, many tales of woe.

I’m going to be posting up a selection of comments from the google group later but in the meantime I wanted to let you know that I’ve decided to run two experiments.

1.  Taking an internet newbie from zero to hero with one of our products

There’s a new guy just signed up to our Membership Club Magic group – name of Matt.  Matt will tell his own story soon, but basically he’s a bright guy, who has just been made redundant, wife, two kids including a brand new baby. He’s been looking for another job and has some potential offers on the table but in the meantime, he’s come across internet marketing and specifically me and our Membership Club Magic product, and for the next two months, he’s able to work on his internet project every week day, for at least 3 hours.

I figure, being ex-Navy, Matt can “follow the bloody instructions” as Frank Kern calls it.  He’s got the desire, he’s got the time and hopefully he can focus.

I’ve offered Matt a once a week coaching call, daily focus emails as well as office-hour skype backup coaching & support  in return for his giving me a weekly update on how he’s doing, what his challenges are, how he feels about it all and anything else he wants to share.

He’s got a great idea for a specialist niche membership site, with plenty of scope for extra revenue streams above and beyond the membership fees themselves, and it’s got the potential to be licensed nationwide, if not globally, if he can get the business model right.

So, we will follow Matt’s story with interest.

2.  Taking an experienced internet marketer (me) and following a step by step system meant for newbies

Tried this  recently with the InfoMillionaire system and sorry, Trey and Frank, while your content is great and I’m going to carry on subscribing as I’m learning stuff all the time from you, your system is NOT for newbies to internet marketing.  There’s not enough support when you need it – a forum would have been good – and even I kept getting stuck.  Also, even though I’ve been using them since 2003, I managed to blow £200 accidentally on Google Adwords when I took my eye off the ball for a couple of days, because one day nothing was happening as my budget was too low, the next day your suggestions kicked in and it went ballistic.  £200 over 2 days and no sales from a site that converts at 0.6% normally, so I was doing something wrong and I dont’ know what.

So my next experiment is going to be following a system highly recommended by Martin Avis, who I like, respect and trust.  He recommended this step by step product  in 2008 and is still recommending it and describes it thusly:

“  …..‘My Online Income System’ from a lady by the name of Kimberley Hoffman.  I’d never heard of it and don’t normally buy random products ‘to order’ but was sufficiently intrigued by the sales message to stump up for it.   What I found was that Kimberley had pretty much created what I was planning to write – a beginners’ guide to making regular money from Clickbank.  It is step-by-step, very clearly written and it covers all the important stuff you need to know.  I love that lady – she has saved me a whole lot of work!  If you are experienced in Internet marketing then this is probably not for you (unless you are experienced in knowledge but are still not making any money). But if you want to learn how you can make a regular income as an affiliate marketer and eventually look forward to sizable checks arriving each week, then this course is highly recommended” Martin Avis

Well, I’m experinced all right, but I’ve never managed to crack Clickbank, either as an affiliate or as a publisher (our Money Gym book is on there) so it sounds perfect.

Actually, it’s funny how the universe throws things at you, as just this week I noticed on our Google Analytics an upsurge in traffic to our Clickbank sales page from one particular Clickbank affiliate, and we have sold one ebook per week from this traffic, so I was thinking I should turn my attention to it sometime soon.

£33 later, I’m now working through Day 1 and I’ll let you know how I get on.  It’s very step by step, day by day, so that’s working for me so far.

Hey, I might email Martin Avis and ask him if I can interview him on how he managed to “make it” in passive income online and what he thinks it takes!

Internet Marketing | Emperor’s New Clothes | Part 2

Read Part 1 Here >>> To continue the story….

Example #2 – The Money Gym Internet Marketing Home Study System.

Between Christmas and New Year 2006, I laid out the 12 Simple Steps To Creating An Online Business as followed by me when creating the Money Gym.  It’s a bit dated in terms of the delivery methods, it’s video but not lovely Camtasia Theatre video, but the content is very relevant and the principles outlined in the Home Study System are still relevant three years later.

I never got around to finishing the final module, but do you know what?

Nobody to date has ever noticed (in spite of paying over £1500 for it) because nobody “just following the bloody instructions” and worked through the system step by step.

Now, we are paying someone to recreate it in Camtasia Theatre style, because it is still a great step by step system and we want to carry on including it in Money Gym Gold and Silver and need it to be upgraded.

Aha!!

Example #3 – Guy Thompson

I forgot to point out to Judith in our meeeting that, albeit not in 90 days, one of our Money Gym clients, Guy Thompson, a really lovely man and great contributor to the Money Gym community, is “just following the bloody instructions” and is getting there on the making money online front.

(I must ask Guy how it’s going and report back to you, actually I have an idea that could help Guy and help my argument and help you too! )

Guy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1988, but even so he spent the next fifteen years as legal adviser to online information businesses headquartered in New York.

In spite of having a demanding “day job”, Guy has written an ebook on the topic of Multiple Sclerosis , got his first sales page up for that ebook, he’s finished the first of his “Guy’s Guides” to making money online (ideal for people with Multiple Sclerosis)  and he is an active Twitterer and has even become an Ezine Articles Expert Author on Multiple Sclerosis.

Phew!  Put’s the rest of us to shame doesn’t he?  Imagine what Guy could achieve if he was working full time on this!  He’s pretty focused in the time that he has got to advance his internet business, isn’t he?

I am so determined to prove that “internet marketing” works, that I’m going to bloody well make it work for The Money Gym.  In fact, if asked what I will be doing when rich as Croesus and just about to pop my clogs, in between playing poker in Los Vegas, I’ll be working on my internet marketing projects.

By which I mean that I want to make a meaningful stream of ongoing passive income – by which I mean PROFIT – from our ebook and other passive income products.

How it works at the moment is that we get a stream of organic traffic – 4000 to 7000 unique visitors – to our website at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com from my various online marketing activities, from articles to videos, to Twitter and Hubpages, Facebook and links in from other sites.

However, I regard all our information products as front end marketing materials, rather than profitable products in their own right, because we don’t make enough from sales of said products to keep Steve, Judith and I in the style to which we would like to become accustomed, if we never wanted to work again.

So they are “marketing that pays for itself” which is great and actually the holy grail of most traditional business models….

But a true passive income business – selling totally passive products profitably – cannot depend on organic traffic alone, because any moment, the search engines could change the way they index websites and your traffic could disappear overnight.  It’s happened, to Brad Fallon with his “wedding favors” site – famous story in the world of internet marketing.

Nicola’s Definition Of A Successful Internet Marketing Business

A true passive income business depends on dependable “paid for traffic” from various sources such as Google Adwords, arriving at a website which converts that traffic at predictable levels, to subscribers and/or sales and which makes a profit for the owner, over and above what they pay for the traffic.

(Or one that drives “paid for” traffic to the sales page of an affiliate product, which converts to sales of that affiliate product, but for the purposes of this series of articles, I’m going to focus on you selling your own product)

And I’m going to set a goal now to make Internet Marketing work with the Money Gym products and also share the stories of some of our Money Gym clients – like Guy – who are “just following the bloody instructions”.

Oh my God!  I feel the “Money Gym Online” book coming on.  Written in instalments on the blog with interaction from our readers and subscribers.  Cool.

So keeping it really simple (another challenge online and for me particularly) what do I consider you need to create a successful passive income generating internet business?

1.    Successful Internet Marketing For Beginners

• A Domain name – either one with key words in (if working in a niche) or a generic one like www.ABCEnterprises.com
• Hosting – we use FunkyDomainNames.com to register our domains and provide hosting – they have a 24 telephone helpline which you WILL use at some point!
• An ebook to sell – write your own, pick one at Clickbank.com or buy one  with resale rights.
• A sales page to sell it from – if you have a resale rights ebook make sure it comes with a sales page.  If selling your own ebook, use Sales Letter Generator by Armand Morin, which breaks it down into simple parts/tasks and takes away the overwhelm.
• A shopping cart – we love TotalBusinessCart.com – to integrate with your PayPal account so you can take money, follow up with prospects in an automated yet personal fashion, manage your database of contacts, products, mailing list, broadcast facility, affilate scheme and much more!
• A blog to generate organic traffic.  We recommend Wordpress which installs on your own domain with one click via your hosting control panel (Cpanel) at FunkyDomainNames.com.
• A Twitter account to generate organic traffic – mine is second only to Google organic for traffic generation to our website.

Tomorrow I’ll cover what you will need for more intermediate and advanced actions but you could look at your internet business right now and compare it to this list.  Remember, it’s not what you do, but what you are NOT doing that’s making the difference.

In the meantime, I would love to hear what you think about Internet Marketing and hear your stories.  Use the comments box here to share your thoughts.

Resources mentioned in this article:

“31 Days To Millionaire Marketing Miracles” by Tracy Repchuk
Free membership and excellent free report

Guy Thompson’s Multiple Sclerosis Guide
http://www.multiplesclerosisguide.com/,

“Guy’s Guides” to making money online (ideal for people with Multiple Sclerosis)
http://www.guysguidesonline.com/

Guy Thompson On Twitter https://twitter.com/Guy_Thompson

Articles on Multiple Sclerosis
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Guy_Thompson

Domain Names & Hosting (with one-click blog install)
FunkyDomainNames.com

Armand Morin’s Sales Letter Generator (preview feature works better with Internet Explorer than Firefox btw)

TotalBusinessCart.com – everything you will ever need to run your online business under one affordable roof

Twitter – http://www.twitter.com

Clickbank – to find products to sell or to sell your own products

Internet Marketing | Emperor’s New Clothes | Part 1

There are  some virtual storm clouds brewing at the Money Gym.  Judith and I came the closest we have ever been to a row the other day at our board meeting while talking about me re-writing my book for 2009 and beyond, and the topic was the same old recurring theme of Internet Marketing – Is It The Emperor’s New Clothes?

This topic has also been rumbling around our Money Gym Mastermind Google Group as Marion Ryan (one of our Money Gym coaches and no slouch at making money online herself with her Rockin’ Blogging service) asked “Is anyone out there making any real money with affiliate marketing?”

Just to clarify, when we are talking about Internet Marketing, we are not talking about “Marketing Your Business Online” which all of us at The Money Gym totally love, do effortlessly and succeed in all day every day, but “Internet Marketing” as defined as the ability to create automated flows of passive income from selling information products (your own or someone else’s) online without having to deliver a service, workshops, coaching, all those things that involve you actually doing something and turning up for work in the real world.

Judith says ”Internet Marketing simply isn’t viable and perhaps all the gurus are selling a dream, albeit one that we all want. We cannot point to any single success story within the Money Gym community, including ourselves as principals of the business, and that that simply isn’t good enough for our clients, they deserve better.   We are not in authenticity and even worse, we could be misleading our clients”.

Although Tim Ferris’ “4 Hour Work Week” book is one of her all time favourites, and leans heavily on his passive income made online by selling a product, Judith feels very strongly that when I re-write OUR book I should not imply that you can make millions online very easily.  That I should be more realistic and not hang out the internet dream in the book as, in her opinion, there is no real evidence in our circle that it works.   She considers that we might even remove it as a separate Lane Of The Wealth Highway in our teachings in the Money Gym coaching programme , including it instead only as part of our business module.

I passionately believe the opposite and I say it does work because I know a LOT of people – met at many seminars over the years – who make their living like that.  And a very good living – defined by me as more than £5000 or $10,000 per month upwards to the “millions a year” merchants.

I believe they earn that because of the lifestyles they lead,  the fact that they are able to afford to go to all the seminars, cruises, the Maverick Adventures all around the world, the houses they live in, the cars they drive and that they never seem short of cash.

Judith’s logic asks: “well, if it works, how come specifically none of our Money Gym clients while able to become wealthy, even millionaires, through the other lanes of the Wealth Highway, have ever yet managed to become an internet millionaire or even make any meaningful recurring passive sums of money working online?   If you yourself, Nicola, have been – to use your own words – diddling about online since before God was a lad, how come you are not one of the internet millionaires living the life you describe above?”

I say, because none of us ever do it right.  We never keep it simple and “just follow the bloody instructions” to quote Frank Kern.

Actually it’s very rare that any of  us simply just do it.

Example #1

Last year, we hosted a 90-day Money Gym Internet Challenge, where our clients were supposed to define their internet goals and then, with our support, achieve them in 90 days.

Some set goals to finish their ebook, some set goals to make their first $10 online, some set goals like “get my first 100 subscribers to my ezine list” and I really did my best to help them keep it real, set realistic goals and then work out how they were going to achieve them.

We were supposed to post up our goals for each day, actions taken and achievements to a special Focus Day google group we set up.

So, did anyone do that?

Some, for a while.

Did even one person finish the challenge or achieve their goals set?

No.

What went wrong?  Well, I always say that the difference between success or failure is more about what you don’t do, than what you do do.

They didn’t get focused, didn’t take consistent action, they got discouraged, they just gave up.  Sometimes life just got in the way.

Just think for a moment about one of your goals, one that you constantly fail in achieving.  Think about the one single thing, that if you did it, would absolutely guarantee success.  Now think about why you don’t do and why you don’t do that thing.

But I’m getting distracted here…one of my issues with my own internet marketing success by the way.

Tracy Repchuk talks about the fact that 92% of people who go to internet marketing seminars will NEVER succeed and it’s true.  They will buy more and more stuff, hoping for the magic wand, the secret key….hang on, this is sounding just like the people who go to property investment seminars, business building seminars, stockmarket trading seminars.   It’s sounding like wealth creation in general.

Tracy also talks about the importance of getting focused in her excellent best selling book “31 Days To Millionaire Marketing Miracles” which, incidentally, was written in days and took just 58 days to become an Amazon best seller. Focus works and she’s demonstrated that.   But Tracy Repchuk was a successful business person before she discovered internet marketing and lots of the gurus were too.   Judith would say this just proves her point; “Tracy is selling more information on how to do it rather than just selling something online like Tim Ferris for example!”

So is it possible for ordinary people to create a passive income online?  Or are they wasting their time, chasing a dream?

The Money Gym Internet Challenge wasn’t a total waste of all our time because, a year later, some are just getting to the point of finishing their ebooks, have websites up online and have mailing lists and some even have membership sites.

But hardly anyone is “just following the bloody instructions” and getting on with it, step by step.

Read Part 2 Here >>>

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #3

Day Three in my series about my favourite 37 Reasons why you might come to our Money Gym Property Extravaganza in London on 21st March in aid of the Big Issue. The Incentives. The Bribes. And what whoppers they are!

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

In no particular order of importance – you must rate that for yourself:

1. Prizes totalling £42,500 and rising – from a holiday in one of the overseas investment properties, to portfolio places worth £10,000, to mentoring, books, Wembley tickets, coaching sessions, Belgian chocolates, audio CDs, days out, lunches, Money Gym memberships and products, a blog makeover or creation session worth £1200 – the abundance just keeps on rolling.  And because the number of raffle tickets is only one per delegate, the chances of you winning a big prize are 1 in 200. I hope you are visualising the one you want? Can you feel it?

2. Discounts – at least two of the speakers have created special discounted versions of their products and services specially for attendees, available uniquely on the day.

3. Free Money Gym Silver memberships for 90 days – a special promotion we have just launched. If you have booked your ticket and can persuade someone else to come too – via Twitter, your blog, word of mouth or email invitation and they quote your name in their booking, both of you qualify for free Silver membership of the Money Gym for 90 days.

4. Goody bags containing millions of pounds, credit cards, coins, magic pencils and that all important raffle ticket (see 1).

5. A free personalised follow-up phone consultation with me for all delegates. This is to help you to evaluate the investment opportunities we shall showcase that day, or provide you with the support you need to put either your first step on the property ladder or the next step.

Can you be bribed? Yes, me too! If the price is right…

http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property

I hope it’s YOUR number I pull from the champagne bucket.

Judith

PS I’m contemplating setting up a special accountability group for all those new SilverMembers we shall create that day… watch this space.

Kilts, Coaching Your Coach & Kicking 2009 Into Touch

So we missed the great “recession busting” OrangeBeetle party at the castle in Scotland, but we don’t have to miss out on Alan’s stirring speech for business owners in 2009 which was captured for YouTube of course.

I hope I can persuade him to make sure the next one doesn’t clash with the Internet Marketers Cruise next year, as I love a bit of tartan and scottish country dancing (well, I did go to school in Scotland for a while…).

It’s weird how things work out isn’t it?

While I was on the cruise I decided to put it “out there” that I wanted to speak more on stage, particularly at big multi-speaker events, selling Money Gym products and raising the awareness of The Money Gym.  When it was my turn on the mic, I thought I would use the opportunity to ask the event organisers in the room, what info they would want me to send them, to get a chance at a gig.  That resulted in two offers, while on the cruise, Jennie Armato’s event in April in London, and Robert Puddy’s event with Paulie Sabol and Donna Fox in September.

But the very act of saying it out loud, in public, resulted in ole TUT stirring himself and I got back to an email from someone who I knew of, but didn’t know very well, offering me a trial speaking gig.

Last week I spoke for Darren Winters at his “Build Your Wealth” event in London, and he’s asked me back for London on 14th / 15th February and Manchester on 21st / 22nd February.  Why not come along

And then I got an email from Brett, asking if I’m coming to his Next Level event on the Gold Coast of Australia, also in April.  He also thinks he could fill a room of people interested in membership sites…..and Oh, and by the way, did I want to speak at his “Make Money While You Sleep”event in Sydney too?  How EXCITING is that??

So I’m on a Money Gym Silver & Gold Webinar and we are talking about goal setting and planning for success, and about how the biggest obstacles to achieving your goals are sometimes what Mark Forster calls your “anti-goals”.

For example, I really want to speak more and travel the world doing that, but I’ve realised while thinking about the possibly Australia trip, that one of my “anti-goals” around that are “but I don’t want to be away from home too much”.

I’m imagining that Steve would mind, and the kids would even notice I was gone!  I got coached myself fairly robustly by Judith and the clients and realised that I was probably hallucinating it all, so I spoke to both and they all said “go” it’s a brilliant opportunity!”  You can listen again here >

Duh!  Of course it is.  And of course I will.

While i was actually ON that call, I got a message from Mr OrangeBeetle himself, and Alan’s asked me to speak at an event he’s organising in March.

And THEN, when I finished the webinar and put the phone down to Alan, I get another call and it’s Darren again, booking me for the two other gigs he’s running in February.

Very, very odd.  But great!

All of this makes me realise that I really do have to go back on a diet again, with all these speaking gigs coming up.  The weight’s been creeping back on over the last two years or so – I’m not as big as I was when we all went to New York for T.Herv Ecker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive, but it’s going that way.  Unfortunately I just love good food and wine, the social aspect that comes with all that, and Steve’s good food is better than most.

But I must find a way to resist his spatch-cock’d chicken, his potato dauphinoise and particularly his molton chocolate pudding.  God help me!

The cruise wasnt’t great for that either – the food was so good and the constant partying…oh my goodness.

But you can’t have everything can you?  And I’m getting to the age when, according to popular folklore, you have to choose between your face and your bum, look after one and the other goes haywire apparently.  Thin bum, you get wrinkles.  No wrinkles, you get a fat bum.

Whatever you are dreaming of for 2009, have a good think about the possible anti-goals or reasons why you might NOT want to achieve them.  Get them out in the open, throw some light on them and ask yourself “are they real or just hallucinations?”

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Have fun
We always do!
Nicola

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