Money Gym Magic

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Every so often, magical things happen in the Money Gym.

This week, one of our clients – let’s call her S – was having an issue with one of her buy to let properties – her new tenants, via the management agent, was giving her grief about a shower that was having an identity crisis.  The tenants felt it should be a power shower, the managing agents has billed it as such, verbally, but S had never called it anything but a mixer shower head.  The shower wasn’t commenting.

S was worried about her legal obligations, and she had been given some outrageous quotes from the management agent’s crony plumbers, as to the cost of fitting a power shower should she go down that route.

The agents were further complicating the situation with lots of hearsay, psuedo legalese and some other comments that sounded vaguely threatening.

Not a pleasant situation and one that was giving S some sleepless nights.

She posted her dilemma on the Money Gym Mastermind Google Group, and one of our other clients, G, jumped straight in with some support.  G is a builder with many years experience of rental places both public and private, and knowledge of contracts.  Now G comes to lots of our workshops and we had got to know him well, lovely man, but even I didn’t know all this about him!  I watched amazed as he swung into action…

He gave S the beneift of his experience, not to mention loads of emotional support and down to earth common sense advice about handling the tenants and the agent.

One of our other clients M, who is a successful and no-nonsense business woman, also offered to visit the offices of the management agent with S, as her “professional advisor” should she want to set up a meeting with the agent and tenants together to sort things out.

One of our other clients, K, in watching the email discussion flying backward and forward, then had a bit of a breakthrough, and realised that one of the biggest reasons she hadn’t started investing yet, in spite of the bargains she keeps finding, and having got the cash ready, was because she was terrified of dealing with builders, if any refurbishment was required.  She said how great it was to be able to call on G for advice, via the Money Gym.

As the whole conversation unfolded, G, who had been struggling to find his wealth creation niche to date, realised that he had something to offer here – a service that might get him out from the “dark side” as Judith and I call working for a living.

“Thanks everyone. You witnessed my breakthrough today. Again, it’s like Brett (McFall) said, if you give you get it back in droves. I’ve lived and worked with the knowledge for so long now that it’s become second nature to me. Intellectual familiarity breeding contempt I suppose, and I forgot the value of the information to someone who lacked the same experience, but was committed with a property portfolio anyway”.

G had realised that he could mentor buy to let landlords, on his area of expertise;  namely his years of building experience, contracts in the building trade, dealing with builders, not to mention being an emotional rock to lean on when dealing with difficult people in general.

He talked to the group about his new idea, and how he could get started with setting up a mentoring service like that, and asked what his first steps should be?  Get coach training?

“You don’t need that, you won’t be that kind of coach” and “Start blogging about it”, was the universal response.  Luckily one of the other things G loves to do is write – so blogging won’t be an issue.

The techie bits of setting up a blog might have been an issue though….

I immediately sent him over a link to some Camtasia videos we had created for our Membership Bootcamp people, showing him how to buy a domain name, hosting and an email account, and how to set up a blog.

The idea is that he should start talking about the experiences he’s had over the years, to start to attract traffic and a pool of people who know who he is, and what he can do for them.  Then we can mentor him through how to offer his service, what and how to charge, and how to set it all up.

What fun!  and how marvellous that he started giving freely of his time and knowledge and the universe has given him back an idea finally that he can work on and develop as his own.

I can see a blog, an ebook, a membership site for landlords, his mentoring / coaching service….

We are eagerly waiting the next instalment in the story.  I have no doubt that G will take action – that’s what he does.

And if he falters, there is a whole gang of people to help, advise, support him, in the same way he helped, advised and supported S.

Do you think his chances of success are better or worse for having this community around him?  Better, of course.

So what’s the hidden meaning in all this for you?

Perhaps you are struggling to work out what you could offer, to a hungry market, that could get you out from the “dark side”?

Perhaps you are wrestling with wealth creation issues on your own, having taken a few steps along one of the Lanes of the Wealth Highway, but got a bit scared or stuck?

Would being part of a supportive, creative community like this help you move forward?

Would some well chosen questions from an experienced wealth coach dispel some negative or limiting beliefs about money, your own value or your fears around exchanging money for that value, perhaps?

Would having over 200 great new well-connected contacts open up some doors for you in your existing business?  Not to mention my links with Ecademy Blackstar …..

There are many hidden benefits of joining The Money Gym and I call the community aspect – particularly the Google Mastermind group – our “hidden jewel in the crown”.

If you are thinking you love the sound of all this, you need to take some action now.

We are counting down to Christmas and the 3rd of January – the 12 hour Wealth-A-Thon which is the last day for signing up for Money Gym Gold at 2008 membership fee levels.  You can save £1200 if you take action now for a January start.

AND…….

If you want to be one of the 20 people that will enjoy the special bonus, the “Membership Site Bootcamp” product, worth £1750 and not available to the general public yet (going……..going……….nearly gone!) then you need to take action now.

This is what you need to do:

1.  Visit http://www.themoneygym.com/gold and read the page carefully
2.  Scroll down to the “join now” button and click it to pay your deposit.
3.  Email Judith to set up your first call, where you will decide with Judith, which coach is right for you
4.  Enjoy Christmas knowing you are all set to make 2009 your best financial year yet.

That’s it.  Hope you enjoyed the story!

Cheers
Nicola

Audio Article – The Shower That Wasn’t

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Today I’m delighted to share an article about something rather wonderful that happened in the Money Gym google Mastermind Group recently to S, one of our buy-to-let investors.

Time to listen 6:44 or read the written version here >>>

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