Key Success Secrets – Part 1 | Introduction

In the early days of my wealth coaching career, I was always very focused on the practical, the down to earth, the “how-to” of becoming wealthy.  I’d read all the books out there on the market on the principles of wealth creation, becoming rich, the power of belief and focus, attraction principles and I was angry and frustrated!

Because none of them told you how to make money!  None of them laid out a step by step plan of  HOW TO ACTUALLY DO IT!

So my first book The Money Gym – which started as an email programme, I was not arrogant enough to think I had a book in me – was written out of that frustration;  I wanted to give you a step by step, logical plan for how to make money and even become rich.

I wrote it as I wanted it, simple, easy to understand, with pictures.  I tried to include (and credit) the best bits of all I had read or heard, from Robert Kiyosaki to Napoleon Hill, from Steven Covey to Mary Hunt, from Gill Fielding to Robert G. Allen, especially where it was helping me and making a positive difference to the way I thought and particularly to the way I acted.

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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.

Anyone Can Do It – Property Investing That Is!

What am I most looking forward to on Saturday apart from catching up with 200 of my favourite people?   What are my anticipated highlights?

Just one woman’s view but it might be useful if you are still sitting on the fence and are a last minute purchaser, still undecided?

Anyone Can Do It, opening inspiration from my mate Peter Stanley.

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Handing over a HUGE cheque to those worth folks at The Big Issue, about which more tomorrow.   I am just loving the idea of a marriage between The Money Gym and TBI since they are so entrepreneurial in their approach to homelessness.

The Caribbean Dream by Katharine Wooller.   Most of her clients are making their first ever investment in an overseas commercial hotel unit which can create a substantial income from only a tiny deposit.

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A short presentation about SIPPS in which I am anticipating Roger turning us all onto them – and not a moment too soon.

The prizes!   So many gorgeous gifts to give away.

One Networking Minute – my experiment to get 60 delegates on stage telling us about themselves.   Should be chaotic but fun, I have this image of something akin to The Generation Game!

Rick Otton and his Rent2Own/Lease Options strategies.   I ran a teleclass last Friday about this (and if you missed it, please email me and I will sort you out a link to it).  My intention was to give an overview of how you can buy a house for only £1.

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Who would be good at this?   Anyone who can be taught (by me if necessary) to “get” the maths, creatives who love to look for the deal, people for whom this might be their only route into property ownership and good negotiators.   Any one of those, not all of them.

A testimonial flooded in after the call from Heather who is coming on Saturday:

“Thankyou for the recording of Friday’s teleclass. It was of great interest to me. The thing is I can think of at least 3 properties I have looked at in the past month which would be perfect to “control” in this way – properties I know I could rent out and easily cover the mortgage payment and some each month. It means that there is the potential to help people with very little or even no equity in their property which it would not be possible to do with the traditional BMV purchase. I think the most exciting thing is that there is the potential for monthly cashflow if that’s what you need, but also if you want to use this strategy for adding to your own portfolio some deals will be suitable for that as well, but without the need to immediately find a large deposit – perfect! I’m looking forward to learning more on the 21st”

By George, she’s got it! There are so many routes to making money and/or buying property using these techniques which are all in the negotiation. Rick has promised to put up some real worked examples so we can understand even more about this and how to do it.

I really love to see the penny drop and will be looking for that on your faces on Saturday. We also run a Money Gym special interest Google Group for all those involved in Rent2Own and if you decide to take this further, we will look forward to have you join us there. We can help you to get those few important deals under your belt.

Last but absolutely not least, the triple whammy of being able to meet Martin Roberts from TV’s Homes Under The Hammer who opens the presentation for Unique and Henderson. Two sides to the same business sharing one absolutely unique benefit – your capital  investment is guaranteed and underwritten by Lloyds.

Unique offer the chance to buy ten years’ holidays for the price of one average family holiday AND they throw in the capital appreciation of the unit you have bought AND the opportunity to take your holidays in your own unit, others’ units or not at all and take the rental income instead.

Henderson offer the same thing but multiple units with a reinvestment programme for the rental income which means you end up with a lot of overseas real estate and an income pot, all compounding nicely for you with that same capital guarantee underwritten at Lloyds again.

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I haven’t met Kerry Welch yet who was one of the brilliant minds behind this one although I have met the rest of her team and I am much looking forward to seeing their presentation again. I know that this is an innovative opportunity that many will enjoy and take comfort from that guarantee.

Finally an explosive Q & A panel game where I really hope and expect we will grill the speakers so that they finally convince us what we know in our hearts, that now is precisely the right time to be finding a way – multiple ways – to invest in property.

See you there!

Judith

PS   Whilst writing this another handful of tickets sold, total now is 162. So if you ARE intending to come, please book now and bag your seat, your one moment on the stage, and lots of wonderful new ways to make your fortune/pension in property.

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37 Reasons | Actually 53 (Tickets Left That Is….)

With a small posse of Money Gymers I am just off to a Big Issue gigcalled Real Lives Real Achievements, hankies at the ready no doubt.  And I am running again through a ginormous To Do List for Saturday and making up another 20 goody bags.  Steve and I have synchronised our delegate lists and at the last count (Tuesday mid-day) we are agreed on 146 delegates.  And abundant Rebecca Ballard has offered to turn them into badges with me.

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If you are one of those 146 who has booked already or volunteered your help in any way, however small, on behalf of the Big Issue and the Money Gym thank you so much for your abundance and your support for our project.

I am thrilled skinny to notice that out of the 146, all but 60 are known to me personally because they have been to one of our events before, or are Money Gym Silver, Gold or Platinum clients. Three I met at Rent2Own, three are property chaps, eight are personal clients and their partners, ten I have played Cashflow with, two have been to a Money Gym Let’s Talk Money day, two came to an EFT event, two are my Creative Entrepreneur partners, five are members of the Property Boardroom, three were stand-out members of the Women Talk Money team, one is Brett’s Next Level speaker trainee plus her partner, one is involved in the Money Gym Magic project, two I have met over the phone, there’s a husband, a partner and a sister and someone I once sat next to at an event! Phew.

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But I know them all, that’s my delicious point. All initially cyber friends and colleagues, now they are real people in my peer group who know different stuff from me about property, who want to teach and learn and just be there to meet the rest of you. And I love them for coming along to this, lending their support and looking forward to a cracking day out as we all are now.

Can you see the value of a network? Can you feel the value of creating a Property Network which will support you in your resolve after the Property Extravaganza day? Recently our Money Gym clients have been creating local buddy groups to support their route to Financial Freedom and I was reminded yesterday, yet again, while listening to Think and Grow Rich about the importance of a Mastermind Team. But in order to connect, you have to show up, either offline or online. You have to reach out to others so they know you and how you can help and how they can help you.

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So, let me tell you about my plans on Saturday for One Networking Minute.

We have five 15 minute gaps during the day between speakers and in those slots I want to get 10-12 people on the stage each time and given them one minute to explain to a Money Gym property audience who they are, who they can help and what help they need.

I will get the Money Gym Golds and Platinums to do that near Nicola’s slot so they can help her pull the raffle tickets out of the pot for the Money Gym prizes.

I will get the Property Boardroom chaps to do that all together too so they can help me pull out my own prizes for the audience.

And so on.

So if you have time to rehearse your 60 seconds on stage and want one of those 50-60 slots on a first-come first served basis, then do plan your minute in the spotlight. It will be informally done as during those breaks some will be popping off to the loo, speakers will be being de-mic’d and re-mic’d, some will be following the speakers to the break-out rooms for a follow-up question or two and some of you will be hunting down a cup of cha.

But again, in the spirit of the day, it should be fun.

You have been warned. My Cleaning Biz partner Emma is in charge of marshalling you all onto the stage (and she’s an official yacht racing marshal with stopwatch); more details at the first break and on your schedules.

So, the 60 of you I don’t know yet, I shall look forward to putting faces to the names on Saturday.

Oh, and to meeting the two “famous” folk in the audience  – David Gray and George Bush. Not the real ones methinks, but our real ones – you never know? Presumably GB is looking for a new job!

Best Wishes
Judith

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PS Whilst writing this one more ticket sold, 147!   So if you ARE intending to come, please book now and bag your seat, your one moment on the stage, and lots of wonderful new ways to make your fortune/pension in property.

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #5

Day Five in my series of 37 Reasons why you should attend our Money GymProperty Extravanganza on Saturday 21st March 2009, in Central London, in aid of The Big Issue homeless charity. A little recap first…

Day One – 8 reasons all about inspiration

Day Two – 7 financial reasons

Day Three – 5 incentive reasons (bribes)

Day Four – 10 reasons about opportunity

Total so far 30, so only 7 to go then…

Day Five – 3 Educational Reasons:

1. Find out what a SIPP is, how it’s about one thousand per cent more interesting than it sounds, how it’s not perhaps the easiest of things to understand but how when you discover what it can do for you and the tax breaks lurking inside, how very much you will want one. Meet Roger, the man I have found to teach us about SIPPS and how we can use them to invest in commercial property in the UK and overseas.

Discover how to convert those little bits of funds sitting in old pensions into a meaningful financial instrument you can use to take control of  your finances in invest in something without using your own money. Take the power back from the under-performing City fund manager and have some fun with it – learn to enjoy creating your own pension, often within 10 years or less.

2. Learn something new or be reminded of something you know already but haven’t auctioned yet. And remember what Nicola says (and, I think, Roger Hamilton too) “to know and not yet to do is not yet to know”. Convert your “I know” into “I am”.

3. Stop the rot of any investing errors you have may have made and learn how to survive and thrive. Speaking personally, I am living proof that this is possible and fun! Its never too late to start to implement a new strategy which will turn your negatives into positives.

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Look out for my remaining tiny handful of reasons to be cheerful about property.

Until tomorrow…

Judith

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37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #4

Day Four in my Series 37 Reasons to attend our Money Gym Property event on 21/3/09 in Central London.

Only 80 tickets left, that’s 40 really as most of you are buying x2 to get the 90 day trial of The Money Gym Silver Level for free!

This is generally accepted to be a year of unprecedented buying opportunity in the property markets around the world. Our speakers will demonstrate why that is and why we should be brave now and swim against the tide, although it IS turning…

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Here are Judith’s Top 10 Reasons all about Opportunity.   Are you an Opportunist?

1. Because Warren Buffet says he feels “like a hungry mosquito in a nudist camp” right now and you want a piece of that action too.

2. Because you want to learn how to become a better Property Entrepreneur, negotiator, sales person, referrer or sourcer

3. Because you want to create a Property Business – part-time or full-time

4. Because you want to understand how to evaluate an investment opportunity

5. Because you want your One Networking Minute on our stage that day

6. Because you want to meet Martin Roberts off the telly and Rick Otton and all our experts in the flesh, real people who have done what you are about to do

7. Because you want to play Devil’s Advocate at the end of the day Q & A panel session – go on, you know you want to be the one to ask THE most unanswerable question!

8. Because you want to do just one property deal, or just one more

9. Because it’s a great place to find a hot date with a hot property investor!   The Money Gym’s Clients are 80% women – and none of them are looking to you to be a meal-ticket.

10. Because you just know in your bones that this is the right time to invest, and more importantly because it’s the right time for you.

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Until tomorrow…

Judith

PS   There’s even a prize for the person who comes up with the best reason for NOT being able to get into property

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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!

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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…

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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.

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property Part #2

Judith Morgan says: Here is the second of my pieces walking you through my 37 reasons to come to our Money Gym Property Extravaganza on 21st March. Today? Seven Financial Reasons to get up early on a Saturday morning and exhaust yourself learning all sorts of new stuff and meeting all sorts of weirdos (just some of the resistances we feel to getting out of our comfort zone!). Yummy, the financial reasons, my favourite ones…

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1. Currently, with the bank base rate as low as it’s ever been, there’s never been a better time to buy property. Your savings aren’t earning anything, the value of your own home is still falling, your dismal pension ditto and perhaps your SIPP is non-existent as yet. You can’t leave it to “the professionals” – that much is clear. But we can show you how to take control of your financial resources, get some of it into property and make a significantly better return on your investments, one you CAN bank on. That’s four routes at least – savings, equity, pension, SIPP. I bet you will be showing me more by the end of the day!

2. Whether you have the ability to borrow secured, unsecured or not at all, I can offer you at least one way to become a property owner.

3. Rick Otton will show you how to buy a house for £1.

4. Martin Roberts will show you how to buy ten years’ holidays for the price of one year AND get a property investment thrown in (without resorting to either timeshare or fractional ownership) with Unique.

5. Henderson Capital Management will introduce you to investments in property where your initial capital outlay is guaranteed. I’ve never heard of this before, it’s a real scoop for the Money Gym and our clients.

6. Property is a “real” investment, you can see it, feel it, touch it and live in it – or your tenants can. It’s not going to suddenly disappear overnight. Whatever the ups and downs of the financial markets, people are always going to need homes to live in. There’s a constant demand.

7. And finally, we can show you how property can become your pension in 10 years or less, again with your capital guaranteed. This means if you are worried about how you are going to live when you stop earning, you can put your mind at ease at last. No matter how late you start, you no longer need 40 years at the coalface to save enough to retire on. Property’s your pension, whichever way you do it. Start young, retire young. What if you never want to retire? I don’t! But wouldn’t it be nice to know you were safe and didn’t have to worry about money any more? Financial serenity, close at hand.

Told you these 37 reasons were stonkers!

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Watch out for my next batch coming soon…

Judith

Money Gym Property Investors Hope to Raise £4,500 for The Big Issue!

The Money Gym team is working together to put on a Property Extravaganza on 21st March 2009 in Central London. Tickets cost £25 including VAT and all ex VAT proceeds will be presented to The Big Issue Foundation on the day. One of our speakers, the ever-abundant Peter Stanley, has been wanting to set up a connection between property profits and helping the homeless for a number of years. I am delighted that finally we have been able to bring his vision to fruition. Peter will open the day with his talk demonstrating that Anyone Can Do It. He’s even offering a prize for the best reason on the day why the reverse is true!

At the time of writing, we have sold 111 tickets which means we can write TBI a cheque for £2391, but I want to give them nearly twice that, £4,500! In order to do that, I have to sell the remaining 89 tickets, the venue only holds 200.

So, what’s it all about then? It’s about The Good News about property investing in 2009. We have inspirational speakers, ordinary people who have made lots of money buying property and still continue to do so even in these current market conditions. Those speakers including Martin Roberts of TV’s Homes Under the Hammer and Hasmita Reardon who was Bradford & Bingley’s Property Woman of the Year award 2008 who has a portfolio of 80 properties in Sittingbourne, Kent, which she rents out to tenants nobody else wants. She’s a social entrepreneur in my book. And Rick Otton, Katharine Wooller and Abdul Malik.

The investments are suitable for people who want to put their first foot on the property ladder or their next one. They are for people with no money, no time and no know-how and conversely for the more experienced investor too. It will be a cracking day out which provides excellent networking opportunities in a relatively small group of wealth creators who are upbeat and positive and on the road to taking control of their own finances. There are over £42,000 worth of prizes in a holiday, Wembley tickets, books, memberships, portfolio places, mentoring, coaching and more from the very abundant speakers and colleagues who want to help this great cause.   And Goody Bags!

Will you help us please? Will you blog and Twitter this to get the campaign to go as viral as possible? If you let us know you have linked to this post, we should be able to track back to your post. If you can link it back to the this posting on the Money Gym’s blog, even better for you as this is a high traffic site.   If you can’t be bothered with all that trackback stuff (and who can blame you), do still please pass it on and help us help the homeless to help themselves.

Why not take the day off and come and join us in London’s West End? If you can persuade a friend to book and come too, there’s a special gift for both of you – 90 days Silver Membership of the Money Gym with our compliments!

Please help us to raise our £4,500 target by using all social media methods at your disposal and let’s have some fun with this viral campaign!

Thank you so much for supporting our goal. Click here for full details and booking

37 Reasons | The Good News About Property – Part #1

Can WE do this?   Yes we can!

Here is the first of several pieces walking you through my 37 reasons to come to our Money Gym Property Extravaganza on 21st March.   I will keep each of these bulletins as short as possible so I can send you one every day for the next week or so.   I don’t want to overload you with information but I do want to remind you why you might want to move heaven and earth to be there.   I know, it’s annoying to have to travel to London on a Saturday and move things around in your diary and get up early and so on when we are all so busy, but here are my Eight Inspirational Reasons.   Does one speak to you, %$firstname$%?

1.    The speaker experts have already revealed in their interviews that they were once scared and inexperienced. They are all relatively ordinary people who have gone on to invest in property and become millionaires or even multi-millionaires, thus proving that anyone can do it. They will show us what they did.

2.    Have you checked out the testimonials at the bottom of our information page?   Go to http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property and scroll all the wayto the bottom where you will see two real stories from two real women – Karen buying her first property and Christine buying her next property.   Two more real people demonstrating that anyone can do it.

3.   The day will be all about the Good News.   Without wanting to sound too much like that newsreader who made himself rather unpopular a few years back by asking where all the good news had gone, it is nevertheless my intention to focus on the good stuff only that day. Speaking personally, I am sick and tired of the bad news on endless loop.   You get what you focus on in this life. Let’s focus on some good stuff for a change.

4.   This is an opportunity to connect with a positive community of like-minded peers.   Money Gym clients, colleagues and friends tell us over and over again that this is one of the things they value most about the work we do.   If you are going to make a success of wealth creation generally and property investing specifically, you will need a gang who you can reach out to when the going gets tough.   The gang have been there before you, they have ideas and inspiration and connections to useful can-do brokers, lawyers, surveyors, builders and more. Hook in.   Have a cracking day out – come on down and meet the Money Gym team of clients and coaches, Nicola and me. Help us to stir up the magic and expect to meet someone who will give you a leg up, synchronicity at play all day long.

5.   Listen to Anthony North of the Big issue Foundation and see his films – Real Lives, Real Achievements – and see what a difference our ticket money will make to the homeless of our cities.   Get involved, donate, do some good, become an enlightened investor.

6.   Hasmita Reardon, another ordinary woman doing extraordinary things with money and creating a large portfolio of properties in Sittingbourne in Kent which she rents out to tenants no others will touch.   Not only did Hasmita win Bradford & Bingley Property Woman of the Year 2008, but she is creating a great little business down there in Kent.   Husband Steve and son Kiran will accompany Hasmita on the day.   Steve’s been able to give up the day job and Kiran has already been on TV’s Homes Under the Hammer and invented a website which helps landlords and tenants.   And he’s still a teenager. Blimey, teenagers can do this too!

7.   Take a leaf out of my book.   When I started with the Money Gym in 2003 I had no intention of investing in property. I was running scared from my previous attempt at it; I had lots of debt, no equity to leverage and no savings to invest.   But I went to the property seminar and listened and absorbed the learning.   This is what you can do too.   Not only are there routes to property investing which require very little time, money and know-how but you can get into property for as little as £1.   I know, seems unbelievable, doesn’t it?   However, if the route that interests you costs more than £1, at least you will know how to do it when the time is right and/or the resources become available.   Be inspired when you consider the routes to what might previously have seemed a closed door to you.   And a door WILL open up, of that you can be sure, especially if you keep on wiggling the knobs, just to check.

8.    Nicola is always saying (and she even says it in her book) that you can make money in property without actually buying any, by becoming a sourcer.   All you have to do is learn what makes a good property deal (which perhaps you can’t or don’t want to do yourself) and then sell it on. I used to think “yeah, right” when I heard this, even though I know people who do this now, but I think of them as at least quasi-professional investors.   What about real people?   Well today I was sitting in my car for two hours with Perky Pete, my somewhat slow estate agent. He’s a bit like Paddington, a bear of very little brain. But he’s a love, and dogged.   And he was telling me that’s precisely how he earns most of his living right now.   And yes, you could say he was a professional but honestly… if you met him in the pub… he’s just an ordinary bloke.  The moral of this story?   If Pete can do it, we all can!

Until tomorrow…

Judith

PS   94 seats have been sold already and the venue has a capacity of only 210 and we will be crammed to the rafters then.   I have told Steve to close bookings at 210 but I think I will have to reduce it to 200 because of the entourages of the speakers!   What’s my point?   I am going to write tomorrow to the 94 who have already booked with a stonking special offer to them.   If they book a seat for a friend or refer a friend who buys a ticket at £25, both they and their friend will qualify for 90 days free Silver membership of the Money Gym, worth £82.50 each!   How abundant is that?   So please, if it is your intention to attend, please BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.

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PPS Even as I write this I realise what it may mean… that I may sell the house out before I get to the end of my 37 Reasons… shame!

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