Risk

Those who risk nothing
Do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing
They may avoid suffering and sorrow
But they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live
Chained by their uncertainties, they are slaves
They have forfeited their freedom
Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep
To gain that which he can never lose -
Is truly free!’

The Rich Dad books are well worth taking the time to read especially if you want to learn sound financial principles and not work for someone else for the rest of your life.  This book teaches you how
to build an ark, as Robert Kiyosaki calls it, for the coming financial storm.

What I am going to talk about had a massive impact on me because it really contains a powerful lesson about what makes the difference between staying poor or getting wealthy.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

That’s what he asked of a group of students at a real estate seminar.

But despite what you might think this is not a re-run of the pep talk
from your parents, or the careers advisor just before you left school,
what is actually being asked here is not about what profession you
want to follow but:

• Do you want to grow up to be more or less honest?
• More or less reliable?
• Have more or less integrity?

These students are asked these questions because they have all been
making excuses as to why they wouldn’t be able to follow the advice
being given at the seminar. What comes out of the discussions that
follow is:

• Are honesty, reliability and integrity important to you?

• Assuming yes, consider this…

• Excuses are lies you tell yourself

Read that again

OK let me explain

Do you say:

• I don’t have time?
• I don’t have the money?
• My credit rating is bad?

Thought so….so do !

The book advises to turn that around into a more truthful statement:

If I say I don’t have time, then if I’m honest with myself I’m saying
‘I am not willing to make the time’

It goes on to say:

Don’t make the facts of your lives excuses for your lives

Pow that hit me!

Raise the standards on yourself, if you don’t your life stays the same

Pow again!

Excuses (lies) hold us back, no one else

The book goes on to advise:

Lies (excuses) – come from the loser in me

Honesty – comes from the winner in me

Let the winner take over, ask instead ‘How can I make the time?’

So, how can you and I make more time?

Can we learn something on audio whilst driving?

Can we get up an hour earlier?

Can we read something whilst the dinner is cooking?

Can we miss that TV programme and spend an hour building our business instead?

Or do we want our lives to stay the same as they are now?

It’s our choice

Rewind to October 2007, actually it was a bit earlier than that…so I’ll try and start at the beginning.  I say ‘try’ because don’t you often find that when you are looking for the exact time that something came into your life, especially online, that it is quite difficult to establish which or indeed whose email led you to a certain place?

It might indeed have been an email from the great lady herself – Nicola Cairncross founder of the Money Gym.  I was invited to a ten video webcast series of her book also called The Money Gym (Wealth Building Workout).

I was very impressed with the webcasts and also the Silver membership of The Money Gym that was included in the price.  These webcasts first introduced me to the real methods of getting passive income.  Real as opposed to the Fools Gold type opportunities that are oh so prevalent on the Internet and in my experience all they do is make you poorer.

What made (and indeed makes) this passive wealth stuff all so believable is that Nicola herself is still on the journey, but she is a lot further along the road and she started from a place I am sure most of us can relate to (its all in her book, see below).

Anyhow, from there I went to a Money Gym Women Talk Money day in London in October 2007.  In my post Network Marketing enlightened days (lol!) I resist travelling to seminars at all costs, preferring to stay at home and keep my money where it belongs – in my purse or my bank account!  However, combine my gut instinct – always trust your gut instinct – and Nicola’s email marketing campaign in the run up to the event where I was introduced to ordinary women doing extraordinary things,

thanks to the Money Gym, and for once I couldn’t wait to get on that early morning train (hmmm) and get down to London.

What an eye-opening day that was I can tell you.  No hype, honest
ways of making passive income and meeting real women either like me
wanting to know how to do it, or women already on the journey plus some
real special women who have completely changed their lives and all
thanks to the Money Gym.

Fast-forward a few months…

A couple of things have happened that I wouldn’t have thought possible:
1.
  Pete (hubby) and me have bought our first property together – wow!
At a price and in a location that was just a dream back in October.  In
fact I remember being one of only three women out of about 30 who
didn’t have their own property – and you should hear about what people
are doing who have property – and how totally fed up I felt about it.
2.
  I have started building a business on the internet based on what I
know about (there’s a clue there dear reader) and therefore can teach
others.  Read more about that elsewhere on this blog

What I suspected about the Money Gym was right. 

I’ll continue to tell you about my experiences with the Money Gym -
in the meantime why not join as a free member and get some of the great
stuff that Nicola gives away.

The Money Gym