Dublin, Direct Mail, Decimating Snails & Debbie Bissett

I missed writing the ezine last weekend as I was having a very hectic couple of weeks!  A week ago last Thursday was the Money Gym cashflow game, followed the next day by the Money Gym Business Surgery.

This was a lively event featuring “Gold For Life” successful business woman, Debbie Bissett and as well as recording the whole event, I’ve uploaded 10 minutes of Debbie’s slot to YouTube and you can view it here.

Back home to play some poker with the boys on Friday night, I won the first game and covered my entire costs for the evening which was nice!  I do like a hobby that pays for itself, don’t you?  Bit like when I built and rented out 18 apartments in Second Life to pay for my virtual shopping habit.  Must pop in and see how old Hermione is doing, and where on earth I left her last!!

** Now before you get all worried about a wealth coach getting sucked into the sleazy world of gambling, apart from the odd game at someone’s house, I play in a local league, we play for points, and the whole evening costs £12 for two games and your dinner.  Utter bargain and a great night out!  **

Saturday, lunch in Shoreham with sister Sarah (her video blog’s coming on nicely at http://www.Rawrrr.com) and back to the ranch to watch Britain’s Got Talent, where we found Liam from Faces Of Disco, who I met at the Brighton Property Event last month, going through to the next round.

Sunday, bit of gardening (the snails are decimating my red pepper plants but ignoring my tomatoes!) then off to Dublin, for Pampers Village Parenting Panel launch in Ireland, at the Four Seasons Hotel.  I stayed at the hotel over the road which was clean but a bit grim to be honest, next time I’ll pay to upgrade!  I met a lovely taxi driver called Malachy, who was a property investor and had shares in a petro-chemical company on a tip, so we had a great conversation!  I also had dinner in the “oldest pub in Ireland” the Brazen Head founded in 1198 – opened before licensing laws even came in!  I had a delicious steak and guiness stew and a half of guiness to wash it down.  They have a great website at with some cool music and history on it.

AFter the Pampers Parenting Panel launch, I was interviewed by Sybil of TV3’s “The Morning Show”, about what to do if you are made redundant, including a fantastic interview with David, the author of “Oh No! I’ve Lost My Job” a book he wrote in the first two weeks after being made redundant.  Watch the feature here

Back to Blighty late Monday afternoon, having very nearly missed the plane due to a VERY long walk from the terminal building to Gate 75 – endless and took about 30 minutes!!  Monday, a night in, then off to play poker on Tuesday at the new Tuesday venue in Brighton, The Royal Sovereign, self-styled as Brighton’s Funkiest Freehouse.  Nice pub, lively crowd, great music.  Pubs are so much nicer now people can’t smoke in them – I had pretty much given up going to them before the ban.

This was also the day that Steve’s laptop died on the train to visit Judith.  He can get it fixed, as it’s still under warrenty, but once lappies start doing that, it’s only a matter of time.  A new one is on the cards which means the joy of installing everything he uses – dull, dull, dull.  He’s off to watch the golf at Wentworth today, to take his mind off it.

I’ve just booked our next board meeting venue, for our meeting in June, where we are going to review our plans for 2010 and firm up our Money Gym activities.  We favour the Alexander Hotels, and this time we are going to the very lovely Elizabethan style Langshott Manor.  I do love a nice hotel and these are beautiful and very handy for Gatwick.

The Silver Elite group coaching programme pilot is going well although we had some techie challenges this week.  Turns out you can’t play streaming video while hosting a GoToWebinar webinar – the participants can see it alright but they can’t hear it.  Frustrating!  That’s me trying to push the boundaries of new technology again.

I went to London on Friday, for Martin Avis’ London Lunch, where about 50 UK internet marketers get together to talk techie, and a jolly good day out it was.  Then onto Heathrow, where Mark Anastasi and Pat Adams present their Break Free Seminar.  Sarah is coming along for company and we are particularly keen because Pat is a direct mail specialist who will be sharing some tips on using newspaper advertising to generate leads.  Mark interviewed me on the topic of Twitter and I look forward to a surge of traffic when he mails that one out – he has a very large mailing list!

Out with Kim tonight, my oldest mate, who is neither into wealth creation or internet marketing – although interested in property investing, but she doesn’t even have an email address!  What on earth will we talk about?  The usual old stuff I expect!  We have been friends for nearly 35 years and haven’t run out of conversation yet.

Cor, reading that back, I’m feeling quite worn out!

Have fun, we always do!

Nicola