I love ebooks. I read them on screen, I read them on my Sony Reader, I sometimes even read them on my iPhone. And once in a while, I print them out and read them off the page.

But very rarely do I read an ebook that makes me wish it was available as a real-life, printed and bound old-fashioned BOOK (without the e).

Well I’m in the middle of reading one such book right now. And I can tell you that it is really, really good stuff.

It is called The Money Gym and was originally written in 2005 by Nicola Cairncross.

I’ve known Nicola for a few years now. Our paths cross at various seminars, she is a regular attendee at London Lunches and I even spoke at one of her incredibly popular Money Gym seminars last year.

She is one of those real people you hear about – not some highfaluting guru type, but a down-to-earth single mother who has gone from the rat-race to become one of the top wealth and success coaches around.

And she is a thoroughly nice lady too.

The people she helps worship the ground she walks on – I know because I know quite a few of them and they have nothing but praise for Nicola and her methods.

Well a few days ago, Nicola sent me a review copy of her latest book – a completely revised, 2010 edition of The Money Gym.

My goodness. I can’t put it down. And with 232 pages packed with real information, eye-opening advice and so many ideas, strategies and suggestions to explode your own personal wealth that I know for a fact that you won’t either.

That’s the good news.

The better news is that it is priced so that absolutely everyone can afford it.

Kickstart is about making money – among a lot of other things. It is my dream that every Kickstart reader can learn how easy it is to make money online and to use that knowledge to change his or her life. Or should I have said YOUR life?

Nicola’s book goes way beyond that dream.

The Money Gym isn’t a book about Internet marketing (although it has an entire chapter devoted to it). It is a book about money – how you get it, how you keep it, how you leverage it, what it means to you and how you can master it to become wealthy.

If it was a hardback book on the shelf of a bookstore it would not only cost a great deal more than Nicola is asking for it, but it would also become a runaway bestseller.

And it would have pride of place on my ‘essential keepers’ shelf right beside my desk.

[You can stop blushing now Nicola and buy me a drink at the next London Lunch! ]

You can read more about it on the sales page at http://urlnex.us/moneygym but I wouldn’t bother – just scroll down to the buy button and get your copy without delay.

And if you hurry, Nicola is offering an extra special bonus to a lucky few buyers.

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Dale Carnegie said,

“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?”

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How much are you worth?

I don’t mean how much are the component parts of you
worth – the water and minerals that make up your body
(a bit less than a dollar for the raw materials, a bit
more if you could sell your working parts).

I mean how much does it say on the invisible price tag
that you have hung around your neck.

$10 an hour? $100? $1000?

You are worth exactly as much as you believe you are
worth.

My friend David is a joiner. He makes stuff out of
wood. Recently he was asked to price up a job that he
really didn’t want. Rather than turn it down, he simply
double his normal rates in the hope that the customer
would be put off.

The next day they were on the phone asking him how soon
he could start.

THAT made David rethink how much he was worth!

Another friend (also called David, coincidentally) is a
central heating installer. He told me that he normally
quoted £800 to fit a new boiler, but recently has been
losing jobs to other companies who charge much more.
When he started asking why he’d lost the job, the
customers told him that they figured the more expensive
companies would do a better job.

Dave immediately added £1000 to his standard price and
has been booked solid with work ever since.

Mike is a management consultant. He recently decided to
increase his hourly rate from £200 to £800. He is still
billing exactly the same number of hours but his income
has quadrupled – and he reports that his clients are
now FAR more likely to do as he recommends.

It happens all around us. People everywhere are
undervaluing their worth because they put their own
value on themselves instead of the value that their
clients and customers would put on them.

Take a look at the value that YOU put on yourself.

Look harder.

Now, whatever that value is, increase it. Live with it.
Let that new value sink in to your subconscious.

Then go out into the world and show them what you’re
worth.

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