Lucy Parkes Caught On Camera
One of our Money Gym Gold clients, MasterChef TV Producer, Lucy Parkes, has the camera turned on her for a change. Find Lucy and follow her wealth creation progress at her Foodloving Millionaire blog.
One of our Money Gym Gold clients, MasterChef TV Producer, Lucy Parkes, has the camera turned on her for a change. Find Lucy and follow her wealth creation progress at her Foodloving Millionaire blog.
Wealth Creation Is Simple But Not Easy!
I had a great conversation with one of my high-achieving internet mentoring clients today, Susanne Jorgensen, of http://www.thesinglesgym.com/ about the oft-repeated concept of “It’s Simple, But Not Easy” - she is really starting to understand what I mean - and I realised that it was so important that it warrants its own article.
I often say to potential Money Gym clients, when out and about speaking, that Wealth Creation is simple but not easy, and what I mean by that is that making money in each of the Four Lanes of the Wealth Highway is really simple to do, but it’s not at all easy or everyone would be doing it!
So why is it so difficult?
We all know intellectually that we have to get off our “assets” and take action but why is that so incredibly hard to do? Because our self esteem, our deepest emotions, our limiting and negative beliefs, our incorrect assumptions get right in the way!
Firstly, there is our cynicism to get over. We really deep down believe that if wealth creation were as simple as everyone makes out, everyone would be doing it and from that we infer that it can’t be true. It’s a con, it’s a cult, it’s just a scam. I was the worst! I often say that my hair and skin have improved enormously since becoming a wealth coach, because I’m not so cynical about better quality beauty products anymore! In the same way that I invest in knowledge I invest in self-care and I now watch the adverts to see what works!
I never imagined before I got into this wealth creation stuff, that becoming a millionaire were so simple. I can remember the relief I felt when Gill Fielding (one of Channel 4’s Secret Millionaires and my first wealth mentor) told me that! She said there is only three ways to make a million (I’ve discovered a fourth since then…) and I thought, great, I can do three things!
I’ve been too busy to blog much this last week but I’ve been twittering (mini-blogging) which has fed onto my MySpace, Facebook accounts, and onto my blog which has fed onto my Ecademy, MySpace and personal website. Are you getting this yet about Twittering?
Judith’s a brilliant writer and I’m her business partner and didn’t know half of this !! so read with me and enjoy the week of a serial entrepreneur…..
“I’ve been a busy little bee lately, rushing around. How does it happen that your life creeps up on you like that and suddenly its ten days full on? Poor diary management I hear you cry, and much though it pains me to admit it, I fear you may be right, Gentle Reader.
Here’s what I have packed in during the last ten days:
Monday - podcasting Ann Ross on BlogTalkRadio and producing our weekly tapping script on TapToTheTop. Malek returned to fit the curtains and blinds which are toptastic, a DebtBusting call, an EEC client, a referral from coach George who I referred onwards to coach Heather, hired a car for the week from Enterprise and went to an Ecademy networking evening at the Tower Hotel, my first despite having been a member for YONKS and living almost next door for YEARS! What are we like? Didn’t do much networking, enjoyed chums Sarah and Carolyn and the speaker Phil Calvert.
Tuesday - lunch outside in the really hot sunshine in Wimbledon then whiz up to London to meet a coaching colleague at my new, favourite central London meeting place, The Brunswick, juice al fresco. Rush back home to study teleclass with Sandra about Squidoo and Linkedin, keen as I am to get deeper into social networking online. Sandra sends me a copy of her new ebook asking for a testimonial by Thursday and when it arrives it has over 100 pages of closely typed script about Wordpress. I print it off and put it aside to take with me on my travels on Wednesday.
Wednesday begins as it always does with my cleaner, Beverley, at 10 a.m. and me dodging her hoover during The Money Gym weekly wealth creation webinar, then me rushing off to meet a multi-millionaire for lunch at Jamie’s Fifteen - my turn to pay! Whilst sitting outside in my car, I call a friend who has been abroad since selling her business last September. I call her on a hunch only to discover she’s been back in the UK for less than 24 hours and was thinking of me only 30 seconds earlier, while reading a local magazine and gazing at a photo of me in an advert in it. Synchronicity at work there. After lunch I drive to ….
I’m planning a major new report thise week - the working title is “Back To Front Marketing (Killer Wealth Creation Strategies For The 21st Century Business)” but it’s only a working title. I have a better - shorter - one in mind.
As all good ideas do, it came to me in the shower, and luckily my memory cells are sufficient that it lasted past the hairdryer and breakfast and all the way into my new work space, the dining table, which is conveniently close to the sofa, my new convalescent day bed. Handy for naps.
The article grew out of my thinking about several events coming together, as is the way, synchronistically (is that a word? if not it should be!) First of all, a rather intriguing new magazine arrived yesterday from The Entrepreneur Channel and it caught my eye because it’s got an article by Duncan Ballentyne from Dragon’s Den (cor) although the man on the front cover is Andrew Reynolds, whom I have only met briefly but know to be a VERY SERIOUS business person.
I first came across Andrew when he pretty much singlehandedly put 1200 bums on seats for the World Internet Summit UK (the year after I spoke for them sadly!).
He’s a quiet man, but knows how to enjoy his wealth - he recently had a lot of fun at his 50th birthday party, including having Elton John playing for the guests live!
Then I met him briefly at the secret filming for Alan Forrest Smith’s product for Entrepreneur TV, and we discussed the possibility of my working with them, but nothing has come of it (yet).
His dad and grand-dad were aspiring business men, but as Andrew recounts in this magazine, they were always working to a flawed business model so never made any money. He talks very eloquently about the look of “despair and rage” that he regularly saw on his father’s face, and this still drives him today. Andrew grew up in very poor circumstances indeed - one pair of trousers and shoes at a time, always cold in winter- and so he worked very hard in corporate life, albeit miserably, until he came across an business opportunity that resonated with him, offered by someone who he already knew of, liked and trusted, so he jumped in with both feet.
Two interesting points there. No matter how entrepreneurial you are, and how hard you work, if you have a flawed business model, you are never going to make money, let alone become rich, via the business lane of the Wealth Highway. It’s one of the two main Lanes most multi-millionaires use to become seriously wealthy but it’s a minefield if you don’t know what you are doing.
How can you know if a business model is flawed? Well, you won’t unless you have learned by bitter experience or you have a mentor. Some business people discover a successful model by trial and error but many, many more give up before they find one.
This is my own experience. I must have started about 40 business since I was eight years old, but it was only after meeting my wealth mentors that I realised that there is a blueprint for business success, especially business success that leaves you free to enjoy your life, but that hardly anyone - unless they have been successful themselves - can tell you what that blueprint is.
The real hidden danger in business, the sargasso sea of this lane, is actually ….
Wealth Expert & founder of The Money Gym, Nicola Cairncross shares the sixth and final instalment of the video series on how to become a millionaire via building a business, investing in property, making money online and the stockmarket.
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