Daily (Express), Goals & Masterminding

Since I appeared on the BBC I have had several interesting calls from the Press. One I did say yes to was a reporter from The Daily Express, who called and said they wanted to interview us following the BBC Programme (Money – Who Wants To Be  A Millionaire, BBC2).  So this week one of their reporters came in – a very nice lady – and she asked some great questions, took lots of photos of Mudrika and I and left.  She is attending our trading event this Saturday to see what it is all about and might even attend our stock workshop in February. I’ll let you know when the piece is due out.

We had an amazing graduate day last Sunday 15th January. People travelled from all over to join us. I really urge you to make the time to spend the afternoon with us (the next date is Sunday March 18th).  I want to share with you our learnings…

Write Your Goals Every day – here’s the reason why

It was Brian Tracy (picture) who told me in an interview that the key to getting where you want to go the fastest was to write our your goals on a daily basis. Quite frankly, my heart sank. It sounded like too much of a chore. But this year I started doing it and I have not looked back.
Talk about keeping you on track. Talk about results. Talk about focus. And it takes just 10 minutes every morning. And the most important aspect is that by writing them out every day you start to focus on what is REALLY important. In other words, the version I have now is nothing like the version I started with.

So everyone who writes out their goals just that once a year are stuck with them whereas these ones are living and breathing. It reminds me of Avi, who uses indicators that update daily, based on the price movement yesterday, which means that he is always trading with the latest information. No wonder he is doing so well.  (We’ve got a Forex Day coming up soon in February,  I will tell you about it next week).

Let me give you an example of what I have been doing.  One of my goals was to do more reading in the evening, so I wrote: “I start reading latest 10pm” 3 weeks later and my goal is now: “I read in the morning for 30 minutes and I read 30 minutes in the evening BEFORE watching a movie.” Might sound small but it is awesome to the overall result I am looking to achieve. The point is that the goal has changed because I am adapting to it real time and focusing more on what I need to do on a daily basis to ensure my vision comes true.

Next we had Mac Attram train us about the most effective process of Masterminding. It is a simple concept – getting people you respect working on a challenge or project that you have to get to the end result faster and more efficiently. And it makes so much sense. Why do everything yourself when a team of people could be working at it with you. That is really the basis of Mark Victor Hanson’s book, “The one minute Millionaire”. Mark calls this concept, your Dream Team. Nice.
So at the meeting we did a masterminding session in groups and it was great. Getting feedback on a challenge from people who each have their own view and experiences helped me tweak one of my goals which will make a huge difference over time. Awesome session and it was great fun too.

In the stocks trading session,  we looked at Commodity cycles and noted how over the last 10 year the commodity which did the worst last year tended to do well the next year. It does make sense since as prices fall there will be more demand.

Equally interesting was the fact that there are some real permanent bullish commodities out there – Oil, Gold and Silver being the most obvious ones, which over the long term should be a good choice for an ISA or a SIPP Pension.

Also a big congratulations to our graduates on their trading success. One shining star, Morgan, made 5% a month over the last few months and Judy made 50% on her portfolio last month, tax free. Great results and let’s keep them coming.

It was so great to see many of you are at the meeting and we look forward to seeing our graduates again at the next meeting which is Sunday 18th March, when we will be addressing health, energy levels and peak performance. Look out on the forums for the details of the speakers and the dates for 2012.