Two years ago this Saturday I boarded a plane at snowy Gatwick bound for Greece, not entirely sure if I’d be coming back to the UK, to live permanently at least. 

I had just sold the entire contents of my big house on Shoreham Beach, sent my teens to live with their dad for a while, moved a few boxes of my most treasured possessions into my ex-husbands garage (well, you can’t sell the Christmas decorations!) and just two suitcases into my sister’s little cottage in Shoreham town.  Even my beloved old red Mercedes had died that week and been sent  to the garage for disposal.

I know that because it’s my friend Steve’s birthday on Saturday, and when I boarded that plane, it was his birthday.

Since then, the last two years have been a rollercoaster and this picture, which has been circulating on Facebook recently, just about sums up what it’s been like.

I’ve been round about the houses over the last two years with thinking about what I wanted to do next, as any follower of this blog will know, till I eventually came to a knowledge of my new vision and mission.   

But even while I still wasn’t really see it clearly, I carried on taking action because I know that even before the Law Of Attraction comes The Law Of Taking Action !  So I just kept “doin’ stuff” trusting that I’d get there in the end.  This stuff included recording my progress on the blog, journaling and talking regularly to my mentors.

Ironically considering the dates, just this last week a very successful multi-millionaire entrepreneur of my acquaintance rang me up and said “Nic, you know that deal I was putting together with X?  It’s come off but I’ve realised I need help with it.  Do you fancy going into business with me on it?” and lo and behold….. 

It’s my new vision, made real, but improved a LOT by my going into business with someone I like and respect a lot, who I’ll learn immense amounts from.

This in the very same month that one of my ex-clients (and now friend) rang me up and offered me the use of her Mercedes sports convertible to get around in, while she’s in the USA. 

Now that is very cool!

So What Action HAVE I Been Taking?

I’ve not had a very productive couple of weeks, by my standards although I have been going to the Gym, and enjoying it, which is a miracle!

The second streaming head cold in one month knocked me back a bit and my blogging mojo seems to have dried up a bit with no new inspiration striking.  I have been stalking my favourite bloggers and sharing the best of what I’ve found, tweeting and even power-tweeting to my Twylah page which feels like marketing activity but surely isn’t as effective for the search engines as a good meaty original blog post would be?

I’ve written before about what to do when blogging inspiration dries up but I made an appointment to go and see one of my mentors last Friday.  The morning catching up on the Internet Marketers Cruise among other things, was lovely, but it did send me down a bit of a false path for a few days, making me feel like I need to create and launch a new product, when I actually just want to stick to my goal of attracting 103 mentoring members as soon as possible. 

Hey, I’ve just realised that due to adjusting my membership fees on my mentors advice, as he strongly felt I was under-valuing the 3 x live weekly webinar support element of my offer, I only need 50 members now!  Bring it on!

As part of my ongoing effort to bring maximum value I have had a tidy up in my members area (sounds a bit vaguely rude, that!) after some feedback from my clients that they didn’t really know the true depth of what’s in there and I created a video welcome that I now have to re-do as I’ve made some changes.

Making video and audio is sometimes a tiny bit tedious due to the many processes involved but the good news is that it only has to be done once, if you remember to keep it evergreen.

A good example is my “3 Secrets Of Business Success” series of 6 videos that I made last year.  They sit on my site, and in the follow up emails to my free offers, and I deliberately made them evergreen, so that I can add whichever offer I am making at the time, to pop up automatically under the video.

 I ‘ve currently got a stonking offer under Video 6, that is not available anywhere else, but you have to get through them all to see it.  It’s a reward, see?!  The thing is, that I know that anyone who watches and enjoys all six videos will be a perfect client for my mentoring programme.  Not only will they know how I work but they will have been fully primed on the kind of thing we can cover together.

Peer To Peer Mentoring

As well as my US mentor, a group of UK friends who informally mentor me, I’ve just joined the Worthing & Adur Chamber “Peer To Peer” Mentoring group.  We start next Thursday for a year.

For me, it’s not so much about getting their advice as to how to run my business, as getting direct feedback from my target market about either Cairncross Media, or even possibly this new venture.

I really enjoyed the taster day and apparently the take up has been very strong.some spaces leftif you are in the area and you want to check it out?

I’ll let you know how I get on.