I was privileged to share the same stage as Robert and Kim and came up to speak after them on both occasions to some 2000 – 3000 people. I was inspired to hear from both Robert and Kim, and many of the other speakers how they went through their own Turning Points and made dramatic changes to their lives on a personal, professional and financial level.

I have recorded a short audio covering some of the KEY points Robert and Kim Kiyosaki shared and how you can make your own turning point too.

CLICK HERE to listen to what Robert and Kim Shared in Singapore and Malaysia

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In 2011 I did a series of lectures and presentations warning that we would ultimately go into a double dip. History tells us that this is virtually inevitable! Taking that as a basis for moving forward, facing up to it and accepting it, then it is simply how you and I manage these economic changes that will define how we are living in 2 – 5 years time.

So lets start with property investors – however, if you have read this far then I would like to say that I will have additional tools that I believe would be massively useful for you (and your partner if you have one) on a financial and professional level at my next Creating Your Turning Point One-Day Workshop coming up very shortly.

Double Dip Tips For Investors

There are different approaches to this depending on whether you currently own or not. For now lets discuss those who own property. If you don’t then, read this anyway but also watch this space.

1. Claim all allowable expenses – the Inland Revenue have a set of allowable expenses that most amateur investors are unaware of in detail. I have taught thousands of investors over the years and many who have portfolios are paying unnecessary taxes because they have the wrong accountant or are not aware of what can be claimed.
2. Consider using Interest only mortgages – you will need to seek advice from an IFA, I am not a financial advisor,  however, as an investor and the same goes for my close friends who invest;  we have found that utilising interest only mortgages enables properties to cashflow on a higher level than if on capital and interest. Again, I meet many who do not do this and struggle with cashflow on many of their properties. One can review the financing further down the line as the market changes.
3. Review rents – check market rents and consider increasing them. You may also consider doing a light refurbishment on the property or cosmetic uplift which can also justify an increase in the rent.
4. Find tenant buyers – Purchase Options have become very popular through Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the recession (remember we are NOT out of it by a long shot). By offering future buyers a chance to enter the property now you can benefit from long term tenants and also put in place an exit strategy on the property. This is a highly diverse strategy in itself.
5. Convert to HMO - as more people enter the country on short and long term visa, divorce rates increase (which they typically do in a recession) and less first time buyers can afford to buy – then room-lets become more and more in demand. Houses of multiple occupation (HMO’s) can create more income for you from a standard house which may normally only cashflow a small amount.
6. Run cashflow forecast model – are you clear on your cashflow for the next 12 months? If not then put this in place now. Anticipate possible challenges and get your financial systems to handle this in place.
7. Establish complimentary income/wealth strategies - now is the time to reviewing all your vehicles. I will be discussing this on our next One-Day Turning Point Workshop. You have to be clear on where you are, what you want and what vehicles are the right ones for you.
8. Tighten up you spending and borrowing levels – in this respect I am simply saying that I find it helpful to review any borrowing and check in to see if it can be reduced or moved to lower interest rates. Too many people sit on high rates when there are some clever things that can be done to “relocate” the money to a much lower rate option.

The Double Dip is a real phenomena, it has show itself again and again in history – it is what I would call a Turning Point on literally all fronts of a personal life. It will in some way affect you on a personal and professional level. What defines us in these times is how we are prepared, what we do now in the moment that propels us or drowns us. Doing NOTHING is not an option.

For this reason I would encourage you and anyone you know that truly wants to prepare for financial, personal and professional turning points to come join me at our up and coming one-day Creating Your Turning Point Workshop. It will be worth every ounce of your energy and time spent there. If it means rearranging a commitment to be there then all I can say is “do it”. You won’t regret it. We, you and I face a Turning Point in history and we have a chance to make an impact if we have the right tools. That is where the Turning Point Seminars will help you…

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During the filming of the BBC Money Documentary there were really five phases:

1)   Preparation with Rhys and Sarah which was not really filmed but is essential when getting ready to meet estate agents and potential clients for the first time.

2)   Meeting and interviewing the estate agent.

3)   Viewing the properties – we looked at a few properties with Rhys and Sarah, covering different strategies for that area of London.

4)   Post-viewing property analysis to determine whether they fit our criteria, what else could be done with them and the strategies for exit (profit).

5)   Review of what Sarah and Rhys learnt from the experience.

Viewing the Property & Staying Humble

So, a lesson that really came out of one of our viewings with the estate agent was a deep insight that Sarah observed. Imagine yourself being 17 – 18 years of age, walking around with an estate agent who is 15 – 20 years older than you. For most young people the natural instinct is to try to impress the agent and to give a strong impression that “I know what I am talking about”. Actually, this does not just apply to young investors – generally, when any of us start out in something new, it is human nature not to want to look stupid or to appear that we don’t know what we are talking about. This is understandable, but it can often lead to a closed communication where we don’t learn anything from the other person and where a rapport is not built!

Raj and I learnt this very early in our property investing days. We were enthusiastic and passionate about the whole world of investing; having been mentored and been through various property seminars, we were buzzing. The problem is – if you overflow with what you know to people such as agents – they may not open up to you as much as if you were to simply relax, remain humble and at times almost ignorant of the area and the property market.

It is a fine line between establishing credibility and leaving space for the other person to show you what they know!

Sarah’s insight was in her observation of how Raj and I interacted with the agent. She found herself initially wanting to show what she knew – but then she noticed that Raj and I were asking simple questions about the property and the area; to many of which we already knew the answers. However, our goal was to create FLOW. In other words: use questions that you know will encourage the agent to open up and give you more detailed information. This is not about your ego – this is about gathering information and establishing whether this is a person you can work with, now and in the future.

So we were asking simple questions relating to the condition of the property; how much work the agent thought needed doing to get it into rentable condition; if he were to buy the property, what strategy he would implement. As we continued, what Sarah observed and fed back to us later, was the vast amount of information that the agent then opened up with, once we got the flow going. This also leads to the agent realising exactly what you are looking for. They may then say “actually I know of a few other properties that are not yet posted but I think they are perfect for you”.

What I love about Sarah’s learning is her realisation that it does not detract from you if you give the other person space to show you what they know; in fact, it creates a rapport that then, later, will allow you to ask deeper and cheekier questions than you would otherwise have been able to ask. This also includes asking favours that other investors may not be in a position to ask.

In a nutshell – develop a set of key questions: simple questions that help you to develop rapport and find out about the property too. Then practise!

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For many people that I teach, the question they ask is “How can I establish credibility when I don’t have any properties at the moment?” Their main concern is that they will not be taken seriously; especially if they also feel they do not have the money to buy a portfolio. This latter concern comes down to what the main strategies are that the investor is actually applying. There are opportunities in the property market to make money without physically having to buy properties initially. This was the suggested route that Sarah and Rhys were taking.

In their case, the message we explained during the filming was, that as a young couple, they can initially focus on sourcing property deals as well as developing a pot of cash and experience in the property market before they start buying properties.  For anybody starting out in property there are double benefits to this process. Firstly, you will be going out and researching specific markets, running your calculations and identifying clearly which properties do, and do not work.  In doing this, you will develop contacts and confidence in the market place in which you have chosen to specialise. Over time this will lead to many deals coming your way. The second benefit in this process is that you will be able to pass specific deals on to investors who have the money and the ability to complete quickly. With each deal you source, you will build credibility with the estate agents and your contacts because you are able to move deals through quickly and, at the same time, you will also increase your pot of cash directly from your finder’s fee.

Credibility Tips

Here are three great ways to establish your credibility quickly:

1)   Develop Impactful Communication – great communicators are treated differently to average communicators. Learn to use your words precisely and with a good physical posture. Studies show that most impact comes from how you carry yourself (body language and physiology) and also the tonality in your voice. Avoid slang words and engage the other person directly in the eye with confidence. How you carry yourself – will carry you a long way on first meetings!

2)   If you are not buying for YOU – then let the agent or the person you are dealing with know very quickly that you “represent” several large investors who are looking to develop a portfolio of multiple properties in this area. If you know the number, state it. Let the agent (contact you are dealing with) know that you have a set of criteria that you are working to and it is your role to view, analyse and filter the deals for your clients.

3)   If you are buying for yourself and you are new at it. Explain that you are a property investor; you have spent some time analysing different parts of the country and have identified, through your research, that “this area” meets your current requirements for investment. Say that you are looking to develop long-term relationships in the area with good contacts and people who can help you source deals that fit your specific strategy. Then ask if they would like you to expand further on what specifically you are looking for.

Practise with your own scripts; keep practising until it feels natural. The more you go through these types of approach, the easier it will be to approach people and the more natural you will come across.

One thing that I had hoped would come across in the BBC Money Documentary is that it takes time to develop these skills and that it does require an investment of your time and money to make it work – but hey – so does any business that you are committed to!

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I laughed naturally and my response was “Yes, we did cover several other things, including things Sarah & Rhys needed to specifically work on in order to help them to assess properties for investment, to find grant money in the local council and how to source properties for clients.” With only an hour for the BBC Money documentary, much of what is filmed in any interview has to be cut out – plus the producer has their own image of what they want to present to the public. My friend asked “How long did they film you for?”

The answer to that is about half a day or so, and yes, there was a lot of great material and insights that we shared; including the journey that Sarah and Rhys had gone through to get to that point and the immense amount of personal growth they had gone through to be able to do what they were doing at their age.

Then I had an exchange of emails with Sarah and Rhys who were featured heavily throughout the BBC Money documentary. They felt the same way and were keen to let the newspapers and others know how much they have progressed since the filming. They were surprised that there had been some negative comments on some web-forums based on the interpretation some people made from the documentary. So they wanted to get a positive message out there.

I am going to share some essential elements of what was not shown, so that you can learn and also be assured that each of us has a specific path of learning to follow. Wealth Education is an essential part of anyone’s journey if they wish to break the old patterns of conformity and move into a “new profession”- which is essentially what has to happen. In the same way, there is an institutional system that educates young people into the world of “jobs”; there is also a fantastic system of wealth and entrepreneurial education emerging to help people who want to be different and to pursue an alternative path to that of a regular job – people who believe that there is more security in actively taking control over their financial choices.

So, let’s look at some of the elements of what we shared with Rhys and Sarah during that experience. There will be four key points that I would like to bring out in these BLOGs. The first is Building Credibility & Asking the Right Questions

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This BLOG is a call to arms – please read and “digest it” – then I encourage you to share it with all those people who you care about and want to help live a healthier and more energised life. Your health is in your hands – not in the contents of a bottle of pills you have been prescribed. The choice is yours.

Too many people come to me when a family member or friend has cancer, heart attacks, severe illnesses, diabetes, constant sickness, depression and many other similar issues and ask for help. Often they are hoping for a quick solution – illness and degeneration is a result of self-abuse. Putting toxins into the body on a regular basis from coffee to cigarettes, from white bread to junk food. We have all done it to some degree. The question is whether you want to keep doing it to your body?

People Are Killing Themselves

Many who come to me, already know what I teach and practice but they only act when the PAIN too great and they know something has to change. The time to act is now – prevention and purity rule in this new millennium.

So let’s focus on health for this blog. If you are not aware of this, in the past century the Western world as it is currently defined, has moved from a contagious disease culture to a degenerative disease culture. What I mean by that is that we are literally killing ourselves by the way that we live our lives. Having witnessed the death of my father in his mid-40s through a sequence of strokes and heart attacks, my mother coming through cancer and my stepfather also experiencing both heart attacks and musculoskeletal issues, I can comfortably talk on such subjects from personal experience. Plus the countless people I have met who have experience illness or loss through health related issues.

My mission together with my good friend Rob Slinger is to radically re-educate people in this country and abroad on ways to increase their lifespan, radically enhance their level of health and dramatically raise their energy and vitality in a natural and bio-mechanical way. We start this process in my TURING POINT book and with intensity at Turning Point Seminars and then catapult our clients into a new way of living.

Some Facts

So let’s look at some facts:

• Over 12 million people a year are diagnosed with cancer worldwide
• Around 1.5 million heart attacks occur per year in the USA
• Over 200,000 heart attacks occur in the UK
• Over 40% of the UK Population report back pain
• 30 Million working days per year are lost due to work related illness
• Stress related illness costs UK employers around $4b – £7billion per year
• Obesity is regarded as a serious threat to approx. 22% of men and 23% of women
• Coronary Heart Disease costs the UK economy around £8billion per year

And we are just scratching the surface there. According to the World Health Organisation (2002 report)

“Physical inactivity, Poor Diet and Stress are associated with Coronary heart disease , Stroke, Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Hypertension, Colorectal cancer, Anxiety, Osteoporosis , Osteoarthritis and Back pain”

I have personally observed and worked with people across the globe and meet so many who experience:

• apathy
• feeling drained
• waking up tired
• losing their sex drive
• feeling fuzzy in the head
• regular headaches
• food hangovers
• joint and muscle pain
• poor posture
• lack of vitality and endurance
• loss of concentration
• relationship arguments
• financial apathy

And many many more – all of which can be addressed radically with a change of health, diet and specific types of body movement and tools to connect you with nature again.

Create a Turning Point In Your Health

I am going to give you some KEY pointers here to enable to start your Health and Vitality Turning Point. I am also going to encourage you to order my book and read CHAPTER 10 and also to join me at my next Turning Point Seminar (email: enquiries@rohanlive.com to ask about tickets) so that we can work with you to help you make a massive transformation in their and many other areas of your life. Here are essential considerations for your transformation:

Complete review of you current dietary intake (food and drink)

1. Complete review of you current dietary intake (food and drink)
2. Assessment of level of acid food you take in
3. Daily bio-mechanical movements
4. Sugar based food/drink review
5. Stress Levels
6. Environmental factors
7. EMF assessment (home & work)
8. Parasite elimination
9. Blood assessment
10. Percentage of Live food intake
11. Internal cleansing
12. Health belief and values assessment
13. Peer assessment
14. Routine Lymphatic system stimulation
15. Life Systems to ensure success

There is more – but all these are part of the process of correction. You can do some, parts or all of it. AND IT WORKS – it is TRANSFORMATIONAL.  It can take most people years to put this into place. Fortunately after almost a decade of personal experience and research together with putting in place an amazing team we are able to fast track this for people who are ready to make the change.

Start with a simple change. Eat less sugary food, increase your water intake and reduce your intake of tea and coffee & alcohol. Do this for a month and you will notice a shift. Expect a reaction and toxins to exit the body – headaches and other things. That is your body celebrating!!

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I have in the past  weeks witnessed a friends lose a parent, another experience a life-threatening operation, another recover from a life threatening attack, another give birth to a beautiful baby boy, business partnerships split, riots in the heart of a beautiful nation  and I have personally parted company with two business partners after a five year relationship and that is just a tip of the iceberg…

I can only smile as I write these words with the sound of Heather Small (“Proud”) playing in my headset and say thank you to the universe because this is truly a reflection of LIFE – nothing less and nothing more. In every breath we take – even in our last breath – there are a million other lives experiencing ecstasy and pain in that very same moment. To be without these experience would simply be without any life…

The question I am faced with as I review my notes for Day 2 of the Turning Point is whether most people are ready to or have the desire to change. I meet so many people who seem to want to change their life for the better – but just wanting it is not enough. Life happens to us and around us all the time – good and bad can be experienced inside of a minute…. a phone call to tell you that you have just lost your job and then you’re brother calls to tell you in that same minute that he and his wife have just had a baby boy.

So here is my thought for you. If you are currently feeling any measure of frustration, even the slightest imbalance in your body about your relationship, your health, your finances, career, business, love life, family – ANYTHING and it sits inside you in such a way that you know you have to do something about it  – then HOW BADLY do you want to make that change? Do you have the desire to change? Really – how badly? And if you really want it then I reach out my hand to you and invite you to step into my arena – come join me and I promise you life will never be the same again.

I heard a speaker once say “are you desperate enough to listen?” – I would change that in this context to say “are you desperate enough to change?”

At a physical level – you have one run on the track – one run – 40 years, 60 years, 80 years – one run. Don’t hesitate – don’t make excuses for putting off change – live with passion and live with a desire to grow and IF you do this you will start to see a new dimension evolve around you.

Get out of your head if you are someone who “thinks too much about it” – FEEL – go with your HEART – and don’t be afraid to do what is right for YOU even if it means NOT pleasing others. The universe honours those who honour their true voice and purpose.

Now is the time for change – the world is crying out for LEADERS – we have civil unrest – financial enrest – family values being challenged by so many factors and our young generation needs to see COURAGE not fear – they need to see modern day Warriors of the heart not people who shy from stepping up and who make excuses for why they cannot make change a habit. We have to be ambassodors – for love, for passion, for courage and for what is right.  We can only lead from the front… which means being different, have the courage to stand out and to love unconditionally through difficult times – in business, intimate relationships – in any area of life. If you do that – then I know you will do what is good for you, for your family and the greater good of the world.

I am excited because I feel my voice flowing as I prepare for the weekend – and for those who have said they have “other things going” this weekend – it is not to late to step-up – to be true to your purpose, to allow yourself to be guided through a complete transformation and to join me and a group of amazing people on an unforgettable journey. Parties can be had another time, birthdays can be celebrated another weekend, house moves can be moved, weekend breaks can be changed and jobs – well you know my view on Jobs – do you own your life or do they? This is Your life.  You just have to focusing on  YOU first and that is exactly what we will be doing this weekend…. FOCUSSING ON YOU ONLY!! If you work on you – then you will overflow to those around you and create a chain reaction of inspiration and change…

I passionately look forward to seeing many of you in London and get ready to fly !!!!

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Watch this short Video and have a listen to my message

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Many have asked for the play list. My plan is to get this up as a seperate page on the site but for now, here is the list of inspiring music that really helped anchor the experience and thank you to Greg Ellis for taking my list and working it so elegantly into the experiences of the weekend. It in large format so that you can read it so it may spread over the rest of the blog page.

If you have not booked onto August 19 – 21st event I would highly recommend doing it soon as I have just agreed the LIMIT on the numbers for the event at Heathrow and we are already over a third booked without any promotion. Book NOW.

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