This morning I received an email from a thoroughly nasty young man named Baljinder Singh Johal which simply said ‘fuck you’

The point of this short and sweet post is when you have an unusual and highly identifiable name it’s best not to piss off people who can get your nasty messages straight to the top of Google.

Rachel

Here’s the webinar from July 11 2011 where I was joined by special guest, Marketing Guru Andy Lopata …

Rachel Live with Referral Marketing Guru Andy Lopata from Rachel Elnaugh on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Rachel

Here’s the Virtual Mentoring session from June 2011 where I was joined by special guest Brad Burton at 29 minutes 55 seconds in …

Virtual Mentoring with Special Guest Brad Burton, 22 June 2011 from Rachel Elnaugh on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Rachel

Saturday’s Money Sex Love post inspired me to re-read Napoleon Hill’s 1937 classic ‘Think and Grow Rich’ – which in turn inspired me to follow some of my own advice and look at my own business in a totally new way.

The result is a new page on my site Money Problems

Take a look, I’d love to know what you think!

Regards

Rachel

After Red Letter Days crashed in 2005 I had an ‘emergency visit’ from a feng shui guru who had contacted me in the aftermath of the meltdown to offer her help and advice.

Apparently 2005 had been my ‘Year 1′ in the feng shui astrology cycle – a year of great vulnerability and great loss.

Initially a cynic about these things, when I tracked back my ‘Nine Star Ki’ 9 year cycle it was chillingly accurate. For example, in 2004 (a year before the crash) I had been my ‘Year 9′ – the yang year of great Fame – where everything is to excess and a meltdown/breakdown is sure to follow. In every extreme yang are the seeds of yin…

Of course 2004 was the year I filmed Dragons’ Den and the first series was aired on TV (in January 2005 but still in the 2004 Chinese year).

Did you know that 4 of the 5 Spice Girls were in their ‘Year 9′ when they shot to fame in 1997? Year 9 is THE best year for you to go for fame and publicity.

Thus my interest in Nine Star Ki was born.

As well as a character reading tool, it is also invaluable in calculating where you are in your Nine Year Cycle. For all of us there are years to heal and hibernate, years to hatch new plans, and years to reap the harvest of our labours…

For example it’s interesting that Britney Spears had her post-Las Vegas wedding meltdown in her Year 1 in 2004.

And that in 1983 Michael Jackson was in his year of ‘Take Off’ after the Thriller Album was released. Shame they did not wait until his next ‘take-off’ Year 3 (2010) for his ‘This is It’ Tour to go live.

By pushing it ahead into 2009 (his year 2 of stagnaton and planning) it was just too soon in the cycle – and he could not cope with the pressure.

Finding out where you are in your Nine Year Cycle will be invaluable for you in deciding whether this is the year for you to launch a new business, to hibernate, to stick with your plans or to go for fame.

It’s an essential tool to help you work with your flow of Heaven Luck.

The Nine Star Ki Feng Shui Astrology app is now available in the iPhone App store – itunes.com/apps/ninestarki

Enjoy!

Rachel

As you can imagine I get lots of requests for help from entrepreneurs, many of whom are in dire financial straights and need urgent assistance to get their business back on track.

But the one thing these cash strapped ‘wantrepreneurs’ all seem to have in common is that  THEY DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR HELP.

Logical, you may say!  If they are cash strapped how can they afford it?

But let’s look a little closer at the relationship between not having any cash and always wanting to get things for free…

I’ve been mentoring for five years now (as well as speaking for Business Link events and at various government funded events) and it never ceases to amaze me how little people value advice or assistance which is dished out for free.  ‘Fully booked’ events frequently result in half full audiences and free advice is rarely followed.

I am sure you know that I am passionate about helping entrepreneurs at whatever level – so have developed a range of services where I help businesses, from a £10k consultancy at one end of the spectrum to a £1 trial mentoring at the other.

But I can tell you that the conversion rate from emails asking for my help for free to a payment of £1 to obtain the said help is negligible.

In other words, people want my assistance – but they don’t respect me enough to pay £1 for it!

But something deeper is happening here – and a recent experience at one of my workshops brought it home to me.

A friend of mine is a Transformational Coach and at a time in my life recently when I needed some help I booked a session with her and took along a bundle of crisp £50 notes in payment.

The same coach booked on one of my recent workshops, and brought along an envelope containing an almost identical amount of £50 notes.

So the transaction was actually money neutral – we’d both in reality given the service for free.

YET WE HAD RESPECTED ONE ANOTHER’S VALUE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS THE TRANSACTION IN MONEY

And by doing so had actually (energetically) said ‘I AM PAYING YOU THIS BECAUSE I AM WORTH IT’.

So, next time you try to leverage a freebie, with the same old excuse that you ‘can’t afford it’, consider that putting money energy behind your committment is one of the keys to unlocking your own flow of wealth.

If you don’t respect others’ value enough to pay, why should anyone respect yours?

Even if it is only £1.

Rachel