The Importance of Masterminding


Top 10 Benefits of Participating in Mastermind

Masterminding occurs when two or more individuals get together in the
spirit of cooperative harmony to accomplish some goal, activity or result.
Almost all of the great accomplishments and miraculous achievements of
history were brought about through the power of this principle.

Jesus used masterminding. He personally selected twelve men and told them,
"Follow me." They did, and the world has never been the same. Orville and
Wilbur Wright did what was said to be impossible by building and flying
the first airplane. Andrew Carnegie aggregated a team around him and built
the world's biggest steel manufacturing company. Carnegie went on to
become the first great philanthropist - funding over three thousand public
libraries throughout the world. Likewise, Bill Gates and Paul Allen
started Microsoft and became two of the richest men of all time and are
now becoming two of the world's greatest living philanthropists.

Thomas Edison, the world's greatest inventor, had many mastermind
partners. Edison's most famous mastermind partner was Henry Ford. When Mr.
Edison's New Jersey laboratory burnt to the ground, Mr. Ford arrived the
next morning and handed Edison a check for $750,000 USD and encouraged him
to "Start building again." Ford would not accept interest on his loan; he
just wanted his best friend to get back to work.

Great success is only achieved as the result of great teamwork. Team is an
acronym that means Together Everyone Achieves More. Can you think of other
great teams? Walt Disney and his brother Roy. Michael Jordan and Phil
Jackson. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor
Hansen combined, activated and accentuated each others' talent to create
the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series which has
sold more than 100 million books worldwide with 29 best selling licensed
products including calendars, greeting cards and games.

Your greatness lies in your ability to attract to yourself a great team.
Begin your team now - whether you are ready or not. Start with people you
know. Search out a mastermind associate who you trust, respect and admire
- someone who wants to work with you to accomplish great things and who
has core competencies that are strong where you are weak, and vice versa.
As you grow and develop, add more team members and/or form new teams.

Something magic happens when two or more people combine their single dream
to form a dream team. List the names of the people you would like on your
dream team below:

My Dream Team

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Masterminding Your Way to Millions

Masterminding is based on the ancient principle that states: When two or
more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and help each other work
toward a definite objective or purpose they absorb and magnify each others
creative power and results.



Masterminding their way into history


During the early 1900`s 6 men in Chicago formed a Mastermind Group. These
men put Chicago on the map. When these 6 started their Mastermind, which
later became known as the CHICAGO6, none of them had any money. They met
every Saturday at a local restaurant over dinner, and after a very few
years each one was worth several millions of dollars (at a time when that
was a lot of money!).

One was Charles Wrigley, who created the Wrigley`s Chewing Gum empire.
Another was William Hertz, who built the Yellow Cab Company. Their
businesses were started and succeeded with the great help of their
Mastermind Alliance.



Top 10 Benefits of Participating in Mastermind

1. You will be listened to in safe and non-judgmental environment.

2. You will have the support and encouragement of a network of successful
people to move your business or project forward.

3. You dramatically increase your chances of reaching your goals, as a
group of people will assist you brainstorming solutions and action steps.

4. By sharing your goals and results you are motivated by accountability.

5. You will have more fun while others cheer you on to greater results.

6. Get helpful feedback & bounce ideas off of the group before you
implement action, saving yourself time energy and money.

7. Find solutions to problems from proactive, objective people who want
you to succeed.

8. Gain increased self-mastery and leadership skills as you support and
coach other group members.

9. Be a part of something special...

10. Develop meaningful relationships with others.

The CHICAGO 6 started out their Mastermind by each one discussing his
objectives for his business with the group because all of them were
starting out different businesses. This is a good way to start your
Mastermind as well. The Mastermind can be directed toward any objective,
with one single purpose or each member having different goals.
Masterminding is how you make more happen in one day than is
"realistically possible," because you've got people who have agreed, in
the spirit of harmony and good will, to putting focus and energy into the
cause.



Mastermind groups hold the promise of:

Helping us to deliver on our own commitments to our self.

Putting a positive charge in your teams Harness an unlimited source of
energy and group synergism.

Lighting a fire under your career

Building supportive and competent relationships

Go beyond goal setting to goal GETTING.

Turn stumbling blocks into stepping-stones for success.

Tapping the true source of Group Mind Power.

Create strong, healthy self-image that never lets you down.

Develop an unflappable belief in yourself and your abilities.



Suggested Guidelines

1. Invite the 'givers'. In other words, create good company and be in good
company.

2. Coordinate in the spirit of harmony. Complaining or whining, arguing
with or negating anyone else's ideas is not productive. Gently remind
people to express positive solutions.

3. Plan a mastermind session bi-weekly or once per month, and make them
fun. Try lunches, dinners before or after the weekly conference calls when
the energy of the group is naturally high.

4. Start each session with a time "Good News", Success Stories, or Joke of
the day, from the group or even Chicken Soup Books. This generates
incredible synergy for the group.

5. Encourage team members to determine their "Top Challenges." One person
can facilitate and lists the challenges out on a board, overhead, or
shared electronic media.

6. Let the group prioritize and take a vote on each of the challenges
listed by asking the question: "How many of us would like to focus on this
one first and work on it until it's resolved?" And then take a vote. Do
that for every challenge down the list.

7. The facilitator can then asks the group, "Who has any experience that
can help with this challenge?" Then, brainstorm all of the solutions on
the overhead/board/media.


When two or more minds come together in harmony and agreement, the result
is always greater than the sum of it's parts.

There was a study conducted years ago, in which the pulling power of oxen
was measured. They put the yoke on the first ox and measured the amount of
weight he could pull, and then they did the same with the second ox.
Finally, they yoked the two oxen together, and they found that together,
they could pull much more than the sum of what each could pull alone

You see, there are several initial reasons why people don't achieve their
dreams, and it's all rather simple really. I think that you would agree
with me that we all have the power to be, do and have all that our hearts
desire. And while this is true, you've probably noticed how maybe you or
others you know are not making consistent, measurable progress toward the
specific intentions and dreams they say they want. Maybe you've noticed
how difficult it is for you and the others to sustain a high level of
focus, motivation and commitment toward those long term goals, dreams and
relationship preferences?

For starters, 1) we are trying to make ourselves do it the hard way, the
way that we may even hate, but, because we've been told so, we believe
that it is the only route to a desired end result, and 2) we are trying to
do it all alone.

So here's the greatest part about MasterMinding, you can stop forcing
yourself to go against your inner 'knowing and desiring' system, and you
simply don't have to do it all alone ever again. And that's just for
starters!

In forming a MasterMind group and in utilizing the methods and doing the
work  you will immediately begin to experience the battery principle —the
more minds we have linked together, the greater the power we can harness
and the more resistance we can overcome.

Opportunities will present themselves to you. Things that hadn't come to
you before will suddenly show up. You'll be in the zone - the flow of life
- that magical, miraculous place where everything seems to work in your
favor without any effort on your part.

THE CONNECTION TO SOURCE ENERGY

The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "coordination of knowledge and
effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people for the
attainment of a definite purpose."

So that you may better understand the intangible potentialities of the
power available to you through a properly chosen MasterMind group, I want
to offer a brief explanation here regarding two specific characteristics
of the MasterMind Principle.

According to the research of the wealthiest men of this century conducted
by Napoleon Hill for his book, Think & Grow Rich, he explains the
"connection" by saying that one feature of MasterMinding is economic in
nature and the other is psychic.

The economic feature is obvious. Economic advantages may be created by any
person who surrounds himself with the advice, counsel and personal
co-operation of a group of people who are willing to lend him wholehearted
aid in a spirit of perfect harmony. Harmony and wholeheartedness being the
key to this last statement. This form of cooperative alliance has been the
basis of nearly every great fortune and rich life ever made and being made
today.

Hill goes on to explain that the psychic phase of the MasterMind
"Connection" happens because: "No two minds ever come together without,
thereby, creating a third invisible, intangible force which may be likened
to a third mind."

He states, "the human mind is a form of energy, a part of it being
spiritual in nature. When the minds of two people are coordinated in a
spirit of harmony, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an
affinity, which constitutes the 'psychic' phase of the MasterMind."

Hill goes on to explain that the "MasterMind" is in play:

When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward
a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in position,
through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse
of Infinite Intelligence.



Through his findings, he reports that no individual may have great power
without availing himself of the "Master Mind." Hill goes on to say that as
you define your monetary - and allow me to add, personal - goals and carry
them out with persistence and intelligence, and use discrimination in the
selection of your MasterMind group, your objective will have been halfway
reached even before you begin to recognize it.

Andrew Carnegie drew the attention of Napoleon Hill while he was
researching Think and Grow Rich, more than fifty years ago. Andrew
Carnegie, the richest self-made man on earth in his time, told Hill that
his wealth and success was due entirely to the MasterMind process.

Andrew Carnegie began as an ordinary laborer in the steel mills, but
managed, despite his humble beginning, to make these principles of
MasterMinding yield him a massive fortune. Mr. Carnegie's MasterMind group
consisted of a staff of approximately fifty men, with whom he surrounded
himself for the purpose of manufacturing and marketing steel. He
attributed his entire fortune to the power he accumulated through this
"MasterMind" group.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

MasterMinding will work phenomenally for you, if you work it. Your success
with MasterMinding is totally and completely dependent on your willingness
to do the work and to powerfully partner with people who are ready and
willing to do the same. I said this was not about working harder at what
has not worked in the past, but there is work to be done, in a new way.

If you initially attract someone in to your MasterMind group who isn't
ready or is not really interested in fulfilling similar intentions,
desires, dreams you are interested in, fine - move on - because, and trust
me on this: someone out there is interested! The right and perfect
partners are waiting for you to call them in, who want what you want and
are ready, willing and able to be powerful partners with you.

The work that you will be doing will be with your thinking, believing and
connecting to your inner voice and inner source energy. You will learn how
to go where you've never gone before. To have a profound and powerful
MasterMind experience on a consistent basis, you simply must be willing to
do this, for you have the capacity within you to go to infinity and beyond
with your stated intentions, desires and dreams ... if you choose.

You currently have a frame of reference for everything you now think is
possible and what is not possible. This will need to change if you are to
experience your life more abundantly than you are today. If you want
things in your life: money, success, love, health, weight, etc. - to get
easier, you must start thinking in those terms, and you must start
rejecting anything that is unlike what you are setting as your intentions
and your requests. That's the work I'm talking about.

LET ME BE CRYSTAL CLEAR WITH YOU...

Your work is to stop doing what is not working! MasterMinding is NOT about
continuing to try harder at what already is NOT working. It seriously does
not, will not, matter how many people you currently know of who have been
successful at what is NOT working for you.

In MasterMinding we call that a CLUE. If what you’ve been doing is not
working, if you can't sustain the activity easily and consistently with a
REASONABLE amount of elbow grease, then it's not the best way for you to
continue to decide upon and pursue goals. How you are wired neurologically
is unique to you, and how you are wired is specific to what will work best
for you.

Through the power of each MasterMind session, you WILL find a way that
works powerfully for you by setting an intention to have it reveal itself
to you: creatively!

FACT:

A person who makes $10,000 a year and a person who makes $100,000 a year
and a person who makes $1,000,000 a year all have one thing in common:
They all have 24 hours a day.

Think about it. Seriously. What does a person who makes a million dollars
a year "think" in terms of how they will use their minds, time and energy
- each and every day.

Ahh, therein lies the rub.

And it's the exact rub you are going to learn to work with repeatedly, as
you acclimate to the mental equivalent of the financial, relationship and
health intentions you have determined to establish as your experience.

You are about to find out that, in the MasterMind process, limited
thinking and exhaustive behavioral tendencies will begin to be replaced
with new electric thoughts to ponder.

You will only take action on those things that feel life-enhancing and
that are energy-producing.

Let's say you are in sales, and you hate making sales calls. Well, either
you need to find a new profession, or you need to find a new creative way
that fills you with the love of the call. You can use your MasterMinding
session to set an intention and request that a new creative way to do this
business reveals itself to you.

When you MasterMind and join your mind in agreement with another
individual, a third invisible mind is present. You will feel it, and your
thoughts will begin to lead you in new directions. What you really want is
to love what you do and to be able to do it with some ease and fun. So,
you can MasterMind for a way, other than picking up the phone, to be
revealed to your through your creative consciousness and the MasterMind
energy force.

You can MasterMind for anything you want!

If you still have a lot of resistance to what you're doing after you've
given this your best shot in several MasterMinding sessions, and the door
still remains closed to you. Then you can MasterMinding simply for right
livelihood. You need to find what you love and get to it.

Whatever you decide for, is what you MasterMind for.

You are about to find out that when you start asking different questions,
you start getting new, creative solutions.

You are about to find that you are going to shift from old redundant
thinking that may sound like, "How can I make myself do more than I am
already doing" to:

What is the easiest, simplest, most enjoyable, time efficient way for me
to accomplish my intention of _______________.

If you are apart of this Mastermind group  to learn how to attract
promotion or more business and more money or to get people you are working
with to do the same, or to do their part, understand this: you can
inundate yourself with tons of work that is endless and which will add to
current levels of stress, relationships, health and weight issues.

In other words, you can build a highly lucrative empire that owns you, or,
you can begin right here, right now thinking in terms of the best use of
your mind, your time, your resources / people and your energy.

How would a person who makes a million dollars a year approach this?