SuperCoach, Supporter Profiles & The Paul Daniels

This week has flown by, kicking off with an early start to London on Monday, to speak for the “Supporter Profiles” among the Wealth Dynamics crowd at the end of one of their weekends.  Missing my Monday night poker game, tut, tut.  I thought I would get there early, check in to the Millenium Gloucester, chill out, get changed and wander over to the conference center, but in spite of having prebooked a double, they gave me a twin and miles from the lift!  Not happy.

Back down to reception, where I was told that, because it was before 2pm, that was all they had ready – come back later!  The receptionist was bordering on offhand/rude but when I explained that I was a speaker, about to go on stage and hoping to change, she thawed a bit.

I went over to the conference center (very nice) and with the help of a pleasant, helpful, cleaner, found a large disabled loo where I was able to change in comfort.  Then off to find Daniel Priestley who had booked me to speak. Also there was the marvellous Rohan Weerasinghe, who I haven’t seen for ages, and who spoke at both our Wealth Conferences, so it was nice to catch up.

Great idea, to spend the weekend with people helping them establish and then find out about their profile, and what it all means, then to spend the day with everyone divided into two rooms, Supporters, Stars, Creators & Dealmakers in my room, and to bring in a range of speakers specifically hand picked to show each profile ways for them to create wealth in their flow!

My talk on Membership Club Magic, membership sites to enable Supporter Profiles to monetise their networks, went very well, great lively crowd with lots of positive feedback.  Daniel seemed pleased and one lovely man offered me a cheese bun afterwards.  How kind.

I saw Wealth Dynamics creator (and Creator Profile himself) Roger Hamilton speak for the first time – isn’t he unfeasibly tall and good looking?  Speaks at nineteen to the dozen and overflowing with “creator” energy and enthusiasm.  Quite blew my mind with his extensive plans for the XL Nation.

And Judith “Birthday Girl” Morgan is hosting a webinar where she will be interviewing Money Gym members from each area of the Wealth Dynamics profile and she says “we are still looking for an MG Trader and an MG Accumulator by the way for our teleclass on Tuesday at 4.00pm” so if you fit the bill, email Judith [at] TheMoneyGym.com.

Back to the hotel, where the reception staff had totally redeemed themselves by upgrading me to a mini-suite without my asking – thanks guys!

Drinks and dinner with some fellow speakers and delegates and then an early night after watching Ashes To Ashes (set in the 1980’s – hilarious!) and I treated myself to breakfast in bed, as normally I have to get up at the crack of dawn for our events.  Tempted by the Japanese breakfast but couldn’t quite bring myself to drink miso soup at 8am.  Cool alternative though.

Then off to the London Book Fair to spend the day with Debbie Jenkins, my publisher, and a fun day it was too.  I also hung out a bit with fellow author Rintu Basu from TheNLPCompany.com.  He was fun and I met an amazing bunch of authors who were all in their 60’s and 70’s but busy writing their first or second books!  Secured some signed copies for myself too!  Got a sniff of a USA distributor for my book for Debbie and dragged her over to meet them – just can’t help myself.  She had whiplash and her neck in a brace, poor thing!

The highlight of the day though, was realising that Paul Daniels (@thepauldaniels)was on the next stand, re-launching his kids books series Wizbits.  I introduced myself as a follower of his on Twitter and got a big hug!  I never normally do this stuff but thought I have to ask for a photo with him, and here it is!  He was a lovely, down to earth, fun man, who entertained the crowds in the quieter moments with magic tricks.

On the train I was really enjoying “Supercoach” by Michael Neill, recommended by Judith, and which is one of those simple to read, yet very profound books.  Highlighter out and many corners turned down for easy reference – and there is no higher praise than that for a book.  Well done Michael and he’s coming ot London soon too.

Then home for a couple of days before back off to Canary Wharf on Friday, to broadcast live on Ustream, our private client presentation to those of our folks who can’t make it there themselves.  Mike Crowe is also recording it for us to make available after the event.  We are so high-tech nowadays!

Next week I’m speaking for over 60 property investors on how to use the internet to create extra cashflow at Hotel Du Vin in Brighton and you can book your seat here

Have fun on the wealth creation journey, we always do.

Nicola

Goals -v- Projects: Three Important Business Questions

Michael Neill is described by Paul McKenna as being “the finest success coach in the world today”. I remember being ambivalent about the word “success” when I first started in coaching but Michael has always written about it eloquently. In fact, Michael was my own success coach in 2006 and we worked together for a whole year – A WHOLE YEAR – on getting me out of my day job. Why did that take so long? In a word, duty. In two words, misplaced duty. It’s a long story for another day.

Recently Michael wrote to me and sent me a free review copy of his new book, SuperCoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone’s Life and he asked me to read it, review it and recommend it to all my clients as a way of helping him sell lots of copies. Fair enough, the man had changed my life, it was the least I could do!

The book duly arrived about ten days go and I read the first 80 pages that night. This is quite unusual for me, I love to read and frequently have several books on the go at once (typical Scanner/Creator), but I just as frequently don’t finish books mainly due to shortage of time in my life right now. But despite the fact that I had an agenda here, the reason I was making such excellent progress through Michael’s book is that it is firstly his best, secondly very relevant to my own life circumstances right now, and thirdly pertinent to the work I am doing with colleagues and clients too. Oh, and its well written, pithy, short and to the point, bossy and directive. In short, I LOVE it. How fortunate is that, imagine it had been b*****s, what would I have done then?

What wonderful timing, what synchronicity!

And so I took it to the Money Gym board meeting a couple of weeks ago and we worked with Michael’s three important (business) questions on page 86 and we talked about them in this week’s Money Gym Wealth Surgery and Nicola asked if I would write an article for this week’s ezine on this topic. Delighted. So now you have the run up to this.

These three important questions come in long-ish Chapter Three which is about far more than just these questions; its about The Problem with Goals. Those of us who have been coaching for a while now have come across the problem with goals before. Some of my closer colleagues and I are moving towards working with intentions instead of goals and Michael suggests we might choose projects instead of goals.

What’s the difference? Here’s what SuperCoach Michael says:

• Goals are always reached in the future; projects are worked on in the present
• Goals are things you work towards; projects are things you work on
• With a goal, your focus is on the desired result; with a project, your focus is on the daily action
• With a goal, you’re a failure until the moment you succeed; with a project you’re successful until the moment you fail.

I like that last one best, actually.

So here’s “all you need to do” according to Michael:

Go through the list of creative possibilities for your life and, for each item on your list, ask yourself a simple question: “regardless of whether or not I think I can actually have this, do I really want it?” If your answers is an unquestionable yes, you may take it forward to a new “yes” goals list which you then divide into two – a fairy godmother list and a project list.

“A fairy godmother list is made up of those things that you would love to be, do or have in your life but you aren’t really sure if you’re up for creating. However, if they fell into your lap, came to you out of a clear blue sky or your fairy godmother showed up, waved her magic wand and “hey, presto!” they were yours, you’d be all for them.

This is a powerful list to have because it keeps you in touch with your fondest dreams and warmest desires, even if the circumstances for their creation don’t seem to be slanted in your favour right now. Not only will you find that energy of desire a useful guide,but you’ll also notice that items on this list have a habit of showing up when you least expect them to.

You project list is made up of those things that you want to take responsibility for and make at least a part of your life about creating. Whether or not these projects actually come off as planned, you’ll feel good about having invested the time and energy into making them happen. This list will give you a way or organizing your efforts so you can get maximum reward for every action taken.

For each item on your “yes” list, ask yourself these questions:

• Do I want to make part of my life over the next year about actively creating this?
• Do I want to invest my time and energy into making this happen?
• If this didn’t lead to the result I wanted, would I still be glad I took the time to work on it?

If your answer is anything but an unquestionable yes to all three questions, put it on your fairy godmother list; otherwise it can go on your project list.”

Work on your project list. End of.

If you want more of this stonkingly good, common-sense compelling writing from Michael you can, of course, buy his book in all good bookshops, from Hay House or from Amazon.

If you want lots of wonderful extra resources for free, there’s a special link you can use – click here.

We will, no doubt, be including more of Michael’s wisdom at our Money Gym Business Surgery workshop in London on 15th May 2009.

You can see more of Michael in London here in the first couple of weeks of May with Change Your Life, Coaching Mastery and Effortless Success – cor, that’s a bit of a week for MN!

AND you can see Michael at Hay House’s wonderful I Can Do It in London in September – I’m going, so see you there.

I will be writing more about SuperCoach in the coming days and weeks as I re-visit its wisdom with my clients and use it to work on myself too.