Rich Thinking vs Poverty Thinking
by Greg Milner on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 1:37 pm

Property guru Margie Baldock takes Academy members through some of her little-known investment strategies
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few years, you’ll have heard of The Secret, a cult book/video hit that flooded bookstores a while back.
For me, it was all a bit New Age, crystal-swinging, pig-fur-weaving hippie mumbo-jumbo. I’m more of a nuts ‘n bolts kinda guy. Napoleon Hill’s ‘Think and Grow Rich’ shoulda been titled ‘Think, ACT and Grow Rich’. Which is exactly what our first Academy advanced business thinking session was about in Sydney yesterday.
For the long-term (over one year) Inner Circle Premium members who attended the Academy session from all over Australia and New Zealand, it was ‘total immersion’ in an ocean of action-provoking instruction in wealth creation, advanced entrepreneurial thinking and sophisticated direct response marketing strategies.
Uber-motivator and corporate trainer Pat Mesiti – who opens the speaking bill for Sir Richard Branson in Perth next week – had the Academy members in stitches with his frenetic, laser-focused, brutally funny delivery on what stops business people from being successful.
Margie Baldock, the ‘perfumed steamroller’ property developer and business thinker, had a queue of Members wanting to get ‘in’ on her property strategies, and the southern hemisphere’s best direct response copywriter and former “Rebel Without a Clue” Pete Godfrey widened a lot of eyes as he showed how just the tiniest change in an ad or letter can triple response. It was stunning stuff.

Self-made multi-millionaire businessman Justin Herald still has the kind of no-nonsense attitude he encourages all business owners to cultivate
Best-selling business author Justin Herald had the audience enthralled as he told the story of how a broke 25-year-old turned 50 bucks and a bad attitude into a multi-national, multi-million dollar clothing empire. (Turns out Justin and Pat are brothers-in-law, having married identical twin sisters!)
And for those who were there, feel free to give your feedback in the ‘comments’ field under this post. And let us know how we can improve the Academy experience for you!
Next Academy event: Melbourne, Tuesday, May 18.
We’ve lined up another stellar roll-call of business entrepreneurs and trainers for this event, PLUS, for the first time, a
Marketing Brain Challenge
At the Melbourne event, Academy members will be split into teams, with one hour to come up with a sizzling marketing Action Plan for a mythical start-up salon. And there’ll be a cracker of a prize for the winning team!
NOTE TO INNER CIRCLE PREMIUM MEMBERS:
We’ve already had several Inner Circle Premium members who’ve expressed their disappointment at missing out on the Academy. It’s not too late. If you feel you’re ready in your business life for more advanced wealth-creation and entrepreneurial strategies, call the office on 08 9381 6621.
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Jane Mason
Mar 10th, 2010
Had a great thought provoking day with lots of scribbled notes and more than 1 light bulb moment. Just need to harness the enthusiasm i left with, even woke up in the middle of the night and wrote my latest newsletter.
tegan
Mar 16th, 2010
Oh Greg, I LOVE a competition.
It was a great day, lots to listen too and lots to learn about. Would like to get hand outs next time, which will make taking notes a bit easier.
Also I think we need a little bit more mingle time, maybe with each section of the day we need to do musical chairs and move around the room. And maybe also send out an email a few weeks before, get members to write down their struggles and then we can all try and sort out a few of each others issues. 30 heads are better than 1. Also id like to get in contact with a few more of the salon that where there.
Other than that it was a great day. Novotel might have burnt their bridges with WSM (thought you would have posted that on the site already) but their loss.
looking forward to melbourne.