Judith Morgan, Wealth Coach for Entrepreneurs

Judith's Entrepreneurial Property Investment Club

My landlord has put my home on the market, and he wants half a million for it.   I intend to buy it, and I'm a few bob short.   Anyone fancy a piece of the 2012 action?   My flat is in London's Canary Wharf, in the heart of the Olympic zone.  At £500k, it's a bit steep for me alone at this current time, bearing in mind my other current property and business investments.

So I'm looking for some investment partners.   Here's my idea: if you have £5,000 (or more) sitting and underperforming in your deposit account, how would you like to double that over the next 7-10 years by taking a one percent share per £5,000 in my property investment?

Ships That Go By My Window

Here are three photos of ships which sailed by today

The galleon, with ribbons

Lunch with My Accountant

Last Wednesday, I had lunch with my accountant.   Who is The Accountant's Accountant?   Who on earth would want that job?  Well, I had forgotten but he remembered that we met when I advertised for a partner in my accountancy business over 15 years ago, and although we didn't go into business together, we did go into business alongside one another and in fact, he credits me with encouraging him to jump ship from his job and start up on his own!   Thank Heavens for other people with good memories.

He has been suggesting we meet up for some time, but I didnt fancy it.   As I told him, it feels like being called to the Head's study, to account for oneself.   I can remember when my clients used to say "ooh, I'd rather go to the DENTIST, than come to the accountant".   I dont think they meant me (or him) per se, I just think dealing with our accounts can be quite painful for a lot of us, otherwise why would we put this off?

A Gherkin in Every Shot?

Here's my second photo of 2007, not good that is it?   In a year in which I promised to take one photo every day, I got all the way to Friday 19th and only took two!   And here's the rub... I didn't even take this one, it was my camera, but the photographer was Peter Stanley.   He's good, isn't he?

There's a theme developing, have you spotted it?   The Gherkin appears in both my 2007 photos so far!   Don't think I can keep finding innovative ways to have The Gherkin in every shot, but you never know.

Full Moon Resolutions

Ta Da!   There it is in all it's glory - my first capture of the perfect photographic moment, on Thursday 4th, a full moon on the night of 3rd/4th - and this taken at 8.10 a.m. - you should have seen me!   A flurry of activity (in my nightie) while I discovered that I didnt have sufficient battery to take the pic, so charging the battery for a few moments until I could get this shot.   There's a lot more to this photographic lark than meets the eye!

The moon over The Gherkin, at low tide.   And while we are on the topic of full moons, I want to share a couple of thoughts which Marion brought during her Christmas visit because they seem to be very appropriate when we are planning our personal 2007s.

Getting the Green Lights

Yesterday, I did something big and bold and brave and scary.   I have been working up to it for a long time.   When the moment of truth finally came, how did I feel?

Tearful, terrified, abundant, authentic and peaceful.   I drove home in a bit of an anti-climax, because entrepreneurs like the adrenaline of living on the edge and I was feeling - as I say - peaceful, relieved.   Not a very exciting feeling, just a good one.

And here's what I'm thinking today.

Swimming in the Thames

Swimming in the Thames is something which not so long ago would have killed you.   But today a man swam past my window, accompanied by a canoeist and a back-up boat.   I have discovered from the BBC website that his name is Lewis Gordon Pugh and he's swimming the length of the Thames to highlight climate change.   He seems to be supported by the man in the canoe in a WWF vest so these are planet-savers.   Good effort.   Rather him than me.

Anyway its caused me to create a new category on my blog to report on all the things which swim and float past me as I work, coach, write, create and generally go about my business.   There was the sad whale, you remember, who died tragically before they could save him.

The entire contents of the London Eye went by on barges during the year in which they were building it.

Round the world yachtswoman, Ellen Macarthur, regularly goes past (I find her quite inspirational, actually) and I've seen Greenpeace, the Queen on the evening of the Millennium and more.   Yesterday, one of my friends phoned to ask if I was in so that I could come out on my balcony and wave to them as they went by on a ferry to Greenwich.   I deigned to make a celebrity appearance, waving.   Learned that one from the Queen.   I was perhaps more energetic than She.

They say that they pull 50 bodies a year out of the Thames, and as an avid reader of those thrillers about criminal pathologists and so on, I think I am quite keen to see my first body, although after seeing the body of a dog the other day, I am less sure than I was that this would be a good thing to see.   I went away on holiday for a week once, and while I was gone the local paper reported our first Canary Wharf Thames body right outside my gym.   I was right miffed to have missed that one!

Anyway, in conclusion I am reminded of an old Chinese saying: "Wait patiently by the side of the river, and the bodies of your enemies will come floating past".   Oh God, I hope not.   I hope I haven't even got any enemies, let alone that I see them floating past.   I suppose this saying has something to teach me about patience, which is good, rather than about enemies which seems not so good to me.

And on that happy note...