“Take A Look At Yourself And Make a ….. Change” by Judith Morgan

Every day on our Money Gym forums clients report successes.   They can be tiny. They can be huge. They can be both tiny and huge at the same time.   When we see a client who has worked from November 2008 until July 2009, “following the bloody instructions” as Nicola would say, finally report her first ebook sale worth precisely $17.97, a huge virtual cheer goes up in our Money Gym community.   Why’s that?  

Because Jodie has inspired us all and proved it can be done and, more than that, we are cheering her fortitude, her ability to stick with something for nine months before seeing a result.   Jodie said “I had a squeeze page sign up, and then 10 minutes later my new prospect bought my book!” but we all knew it wasn’t really just 10 minutes, we knew it was ten minutes at the end of nine months’ application.

And Jodie’s not the only one.   We’ve got clients bravely going into Estate Agents and learning to love them, introducing them to the principles of Rent2Own.   We’ve got clients getting their books up on Amazon, a journey of some 2-3 years, we have clients reporting successes with Google Adwords resulting in more income for their businesses, doing property deals even in this climate, raising money from each other to do bigger deals and joint ventures, advising and supporting one other, launching websites, thinking laterally, sharing resources, and getting into forex and foreign investments.   Nowadays, there’s so much of this going on, we almost take it for granted.

Until that is we rub up against someone who puts a pin in our balloon.   Someone who says it can’t be done, the naysayers, complainers, non-believers, slaggers, those who ask for refunds and say our programme is rubbish when I know it ain’t because I’ve been through it myself and it has made the world of difference to my own finances.   I now have properties and businesses and investments which will lead to my eventual financial freedom.  

Now I know how and when I am going to achieve that and am already planning my early retirement to my much-fabled sunshiny tax-free haven.   Just working out now the best way and place to blog the last bit of the journey.   And that’s all down to what I learned from Nicola and what we now teach together in the Money Gym with the help of our wonderful coaches, Steve Watson and our community of past and present clients.

It’s taken me six years and counting.   And I’ve been working at it one way or the other for most of that time and it ain’t over yet.   So what would I say to the faint-hearted, the down-hearted, those who slag Nicola and I off in public forums and in private?

I would say look at our clients, too many to list by name here, but if you are in our forums you already know who they are.  Look at the video of Debbie Bissett on YouTube, look at how much better, more joyous and free Debbie’s life is.   Look how well and happy she looks on it, and she’s one of our most steadfast supporters for the same reason I am – she’s been through the programme, she knows it works and more importantly she’s put the work in.

I always say to those clients joining us at Gold level that this year will be the foundation stone of the rest of your financial life.   I tell them truthfully that I am still building on that foundation six years later.   One very kind client, Kate, told me recently that she thought I had really rocketed in my own journey in the last year and that’s true, but it’s the compounding effect of the work which has gone on in the last six years.   Gold clients are entitled to rock up to most of what we do for free or cost forever.  

Do they?   Some do… well done, you lot!   A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, often at Silver level of The Money Gym Club.   It takes guts to return to the fold and say I messed up first time, or the time wasn’t right for me, or this is going to make me longer than I thought.   But we love and welcome you to do that.   It’s included in what you bought because we know how long this journey can be for some, for most.

We have discovered recently through our new Silver Elite programme that clients appreciate weekly accountability, a deadline and a kick up the bum along with a degree of hand-holding.   But in the end, it’s all down to you.   There really is only so much we can do for you.  

The Money Gym programme works, but only if you make it important, only if you stick at it like Karen, Claire, Stephanie, Debbie, me, Dawn, Matthew, Yvonne and others too many to count but you know who you are and so do we.   Because you continue to show up and do the work and contribute back to our community and we love and appreciate you for that.

To paraphrase Michael Jackson, and that seems timely, “if you wanna make your financial world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that …….change”.  

And let me know how we, at The Money Gym, can help.

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Susan Boyle Move Over – Here Comes Shaheen!

While news of Susan Boyle’s talent swept around the globe last week, this week’s Britain’s Got Talent unearthed an even bigger singing sensation!

Shaheen  Jafargholi blew everyone away with his voice as he started to sing Valerie by Amy Winehouse, and then Simon Cowell shocked everyone by stopping Shaheen and asking him if he knew any other songs.  “Who’s Loving Loving You” by Michael Jackson was the second choice and from the very first note we knew we were watching the potential winner. Ok, so Shaheen blows my theory about it taking 10 years for any overnight success to “make it” as he’s only 12, but he’s an exception, a force of nature, dare I say it….a God / Universe given talent.

OK, so the whole changing song thing was rigged but man! did it make for GREAT television! And what a blues voice at 12 years old!

Other highlights included Julian Smith is the first saxophonist music teacher to ever grace the Britain’s Got Talent stage and he is brilliant – I would link to the show’s main page so you can see him but they have done two things that have really annoyed me this week. They have taken away the ability to embed the shows videos on one’s own blog, but worse, they have enforced the watching of ads before each video. Bad enough on the TV but I won’t watch ads on my computer too!