"The 'Master Mind' can 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." --Napoleon Hill
Within Napoleon Hill's classic masterpiece, Think And Grow Rich, the power of the MasterMind Group is evident throughout each chapter. Almost every great fortune earned and every event of great historic significance has been accomplished by harnessing the collective power of brilliant men and women's minds. Imagine the opportunity to learn how to take your business to the next level, learning step-by-step with other business owners how to increase your profits and improve your bottom line.
This power can be used to dramatically grow and expand your business and we are offering this power to a limited number of qualified participants. Each month a group, consisting of no more than 10 business owners (from non-competing industries), will meet every other week for three packed hours to learn new marketing techniques, how to implement those techniques into your business, and how to draw from the enormous amount of power and synergy that emanates from 10 minds all focused on one definite, specific goal... optimization of your business.
Participation is based upon meeting certain criteria. Not just any business owner will be allowed, but only those who are qualified and willing to do the following:
* You must be committed to the group. The MasterMind Group will meet two times a month for four months. If you miss 2 consecutive meetings, you will be asked to leave the group. Again, you must be committed to the group for it to be effective.
* You must be willing to be a vocal participant. If you wish to participate in the MasterMind group, you must actively participate in the group discussions, reporting on assignments and developing alliances. You must also be willing to share your own industry experience with the group in your own industry. If you want to just sit and watch, do not join this group. Being pro-active is a major part of the MasterMind group.
* You must be willing to learn and implement the assignments for your business. Implementation creates action and there is nothing more frustrating to the synergy of a group than to learn and create brilliant strategies and then not see them acted upon. This is not to say that you must implement every idea but you will be expected to fulfill each assignment and then report your results to the group so that everyone will benefit from this experience.
The MasterMind Group creates it's own success by the efforts of all the participants, meaning success is determined by what you put into the group. It's almost impossible for you to complete the course without seeing dramatic growth in your business. Through your participation your will see and experience the following:
* Increases In Business Performance and Financial Gain
* Personalized Coaching
* Business Networking
* Joint Ventures & Alliances
* Proven Marketing Systems
What is a Mastermind Group and How Can it Help You Succeed?
What is a mastermind group? No, we’re not talking about a secret cabal of evildoers out to take over the world. A mastermind group is simply an alliance of two or more individuals dedicating themselves to a specific goal.
Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, first defined the mastermind as a “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”
Hill’s concept of the “Master Mind” was inspired by Andrew Carnegie, wealthy steel magnate. According to Hill:
“Mr. Carnegie’s Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately fifty men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the DEFINITE PURPOSE of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the POWER he accumulated through this ‘Master Mind.’”
Since the publication of Think and Grow Rich in the 1937, the idea of mastermind groups has grown and evolved to become a staple tool of successful individuals.
The benefits of having a supportive mastermind group are plenty:
1.You have a group of people available to help you succeed.
2.You get the benefit of differing perspectives, input and feedback.
3.Your mastermind team can bring resources and connections to the table you might not have had on your own.
4.You receive accountability and inspiration from the group, thus enabling you to maintain focus in achieving your goals.
Napoleon Hill even went so far as to say there was a mystical quality created when a mastermind group was formed. He said: “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”
In other words, your ability to create things in the world is increased by having that invisible “third mind” of the mastermind group.
Creating a mastermind group does not necessarily require 50 men, as Carnegie used. Your mastermind group can be as small as two people and as big as your ability to coordinate it.
There are two basic types of mastermind groups: One which is focused on the success and vision of one individual, and one that is focused on helping everyone in the group.
The mastermind group Carnegie had was solely directed at his personal vision. The 50 men in the group were not all there to discuss their own projects. They were all focused on one main goal: the building of a steel empire.
This is actually the classical definition of a mastermind group, and creating one isn’t as hard as you might think.
To create a mastermind group that is dedicated to helping you achieve your personal goals, you can simply reach out to people in your network and explain to them that you are seeking their help as an advisor and part of your mastermind team. Consider this your own personal board of directors.
You’d be surprised at how willing many people are to help when asked, since it is an honor to be asked for an advice or an opinion. You don’t necessarily need to meet with your entire team in person in a formal setting. You might chat with each individually on the phone, or set up an email discussion list.
Thomas Leonard, considered by many to be the founder of modern day personal coaching, used to set up what he called “R&D teams” for his projects (R&D stands for “research and development). These R&D teams he created consisted entirely of email lists where he would throw out ideas and projects for group feedback. Through this process, he was able to create a thriving coaching community at Coachville.com.
No-one was paid to be a part of Leonard’s R&D teams, but they were quite popular because they gave the members a sense of contribution and ownership in the projects.
The second type of mastermind group is one where all members of the group are meeting to support one another in achieving a goal. These types of groups are everywhere, but aren’t always named mastermind groups. An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is a form of a mastermind group, where the members get together to support each other in their sobriety.
More often, when someone mentions that a mastermind group is forming, they mean a group dedicated to success and achievement. You can create a group that is led by a facilitator (sometimes paid), or a group that is run by members. These groups can meet in person, over a telephone conference line, or even in online chat rooms.
Finally, don’t forget that your friends and family can become a mastermind support system for you. (Unfortunately, the reverse is also true - negative friends and family can equally drag you down, so be careful.) If you don’t have the time to start or join a formal mastermind group, you might be lucky enough to find a good friend to share your successes with. Such a friend is one who unconditionally supports you and isn’t covertly blocking your progress through their own jealousies and insecurities.
Such friends are hard to find sometimes, but if you can get one, consider yourself quite lucky.
However you create a mastermind support system for yourself, consider it an essential part of your success plan. As Napoleon Hill said:
“Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that they have either consciously, or unconsciously employed the ‘Master Mind’ principle.”
Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, first defined the mastermind as a “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”
Hill’s concept of the “Master Mind” was inspired by Andrew Carnegie, wealthy steel magnate. According to Hill:
“Mr. Carnegie’s Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately fifty men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the DEFINITE PURPOSE of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the POWER he accumulated through this ‘Master Mind.’”
Since the publication of Think and Grow Rich in the 1937, the idea of mastermind groups has grown and evolved to become a staple tool of successful individuals.
The benefits of having a supportive mastermind group are plenty:
1.You have a group of people available to help you succeed.
2.You get the benefit of differing perspectives, input and feedback.
3.Your mastermind team can bring resources and connections to the table you might not have had on your own.
4.You receive accountability and inspiration from the group, thus enabling you to maintain focus in achieving your goals.
Napoleon Hill even went so far as to say there was a mystical quality created when a mastermind group was formed. He said: “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”
In other words, your ability to create things in the world is increased by having that invisible “third mind” of the mastermind group.
Creating a mastermind group does not necessarily require 50 men, as Carnegie used. Your mastermind group can be as small as two people and as big as your ability to coordinate it.
There are two basic types of mastermind groups: One which is focused on the success and vision of one individual, and one that is focused on helping everyone in the group.
The mastermind group Carnegie had was solely directed at his personal vision. The 50 men in the group were not all there to discuss their own projects. They were all focused on one main goal: the building of a steel empire.
This is actually the classical definition of a mastermind group, and creating one isn’t as hard as you might think.
To create a mastermind group that is dedicated to helping you achieve your personal goals, you can simply reach out to people in your network and explain to them that you are seeking their help as an advisor and part of your mastermind team. Consider this your own personal board of directors.
You’d be surprised at how willing many people are to help when asked, since it is an honor to be asked for an advice or an opinion. You don’t necessarily need to meet with your entire team in person in a formal setting. You might chat with each individually on the phone, or set up an email discussion list.
Thomas Leonard, considered by many to be the founder of modern day personal coaching, used to set up what he called “R&D teams” for his projects (R&D stands for “research and development). These R&D teams he created consisted entirely of email lists where he would throw out ideas and projects for group feedback. Through this process, he was able to create a thriving coaching community at Coachville.com.
No-one was paid to be a part of Leonard’s R&D teams, but they were quite popular because they gave the members a sense of contribution and ownership in the projects.
The second type of mastermind group is one where all members of the group are meeting to support one another in achieving a goal. These types of groups are everywhere, but aren’t always named mastermind groups. An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is a form of a mastermind group, where the members get together to support each other in their sobriety.
More often, when someone mentions that a mastermind group is forming, they mean a group dedicated to success and achievement. You can create a group that is led by a facilitator (sometimes paid), or a group that is run by members. These groups can meet in person, over a telephone conference line, or even in online chat rooms.
Finally, don’t forget that your friends and family can become a mastermind support system for you. (Unfortunately, the reverse is also true - negative friends and family can equally drag you down, so be careful.) If you don’t have the time to start or join a formal mastermind group, you might be lucky enough to find a good friend to share your successes with. Such a friend is one who unconditionally supports you and isn’t covertly blocking your progress through their own jealousies and insecurities.
Such friends are hard to find sometimes, but if you can get one, consider yourself quite lucky.
However you create a mastermind support system for yourself, consider it an essential part of your success plan. As Napoleon Hill said:
“Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that they have either consciously, or unconsciously employed the ‘Master Mind’ principle.”
The Power of the Mastermind
No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third - a third invisible, intangible force that may be likened to a third mind. You may have noticed many times that by discussing something with another person you suddenly get good ideas as a result of the discussion, ideas you would not have gotten without this association. Well, the same thing happens to the other person. A lot of good ideas have been born in individual minds as a result of having met in committee.
Associating with your mastermind alliance is not meant as a means of letting others do your thinking for you, far from it. It is meant to stimulate your own thinking through the association with other minds. No one knows everything. The more sympathetic minds you get together - that is, minds working for a common purpose - the more related information is going to be available. Great ideas are a combination of related information.
Pick the members of your mastermind group with care. Make sure they're people you respect and who are hard working and conscientious. You'll have a lot of fun, and you'll reach your goals just that much sooner.
Associating with your mastermind alliance is not meant as a means of letting others do your thinking for you, far from it. It is meant to stimulate your own thinking through the association with other minds. No one knows everything. The more sympathetic minds you get together - that is, minds working for a common purpose - the more related information is going to be available. Great ideas are a combination of related information.
Pick the members of your mastermind group with care. Make sure they're people you respect and who are hard working and conscientious. You'll have a lot of fun, and you'll reach your goals just that much sooner.
Build Your Own List!!!
Every Successful Marketer is telling you that you need to Build Your Own List!!! However, as you have probably already discovered, building a list can be one of the most confusing and difficult things to figure out how to do, particularly if you are new to Internet Marketing.
There have been many innovative changes over the years that help to build lists, (peel-away ads, hover ads, fly-in ads, splash and squeeze pages, auto-responders, video and audio etc...). None of them have been incorporated into anything like what we have developed for you here at TrafficLeads2Income.com!
There have been many innovative changes over the years that help to build lists, (peel-away ads, hover ads, fly-in ads, splash and squeeze pages, auto-responders, video and audio etc...). None of them have been incorporated into anything like what we have developed for you here at TrafficLeads2Income.com!
How to Sell Your Way Through Life
Napoleon Hill, author of the mega-bestseller Think and Grow Rich, pioneered the idea that successful individuals share certain qualities, and that examining and emulating these qualities can guide you to extraordinary achievements.
Written in the depths of the Great Depression, How to Sell Your Way Through Life explores a crucial component of Achievement: your ability to make the sale. Ringing eerily true in today's uncertain times, Hill's work takes a practical look at how, regardless of our occupation, we must all be salespeople at key points in our lives. Hill breaks down concrete instances of how the Master Salesman seizes advantages and opportunities, giving you tools you can use to effectively sell yourself and your ideas. Featuring a new Foreword from leadership legend Ken Blanchard, this book is a classic that gives you one beautifully simple principle and the proven tools to make it work for you.
How to Sell Your Way Through Life is now available in a current edition-just published by John Wiley & Sons. You can purchase this new edition at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Booksamillion and 800CEOREAD.
What Are The Benefits of a Mastermind Group?
- Mutual support. I like to form groups around a specific activity, but even with differing goals you’ll be able to lean on each other for support. Many times when my progress has slowed on a specific goal, the members of my mastermind are the only people who really understand what has been going on behind the scenes, and give me support in spite of my failed efforts.
- Differing perspectives. Hearing the different views my fellow mastermind participants have allows me to see issues I wouldn’t otherwise become aware of – in my life, and in my approach to my goals. Whether I agree with their assessment or not, it always gives me a better understanding of how I can better improve my approach.
- Resources. Everyone in your group will have access to a different skillset and network of people. I’ve often found that when I ask for help in my mastermind groups, these resources help me make progress in ways I never could by myself.
- Accountability. My fellow group members hold me accountable to goals I set. In addition, just knowing that I have a regularly scheduled meeting internally drives me to make progress – because I don’t want to be the only person reporting back that I haven’t made an effort to move my projects forward.
How To Make Business A Success
Making business a success is more about the qualities and attributes of the business leader than it is about the business itself. There are many factors that can determine how successful a business leader might be in their chosen industry, but there are a set of steps that a business leader can follow that will ensure that they will have success in their business.
These steps contain all the information that is needed to gain a better appreciation of what the business leader qualities and attributes are and the steps will guide you in how to implement them in your business life.
In the first instance, what is necessary is to get a good understanding of the qualities and attributes that a business leader will need in order for them to be successful, then it is about putting those same qualities and attributes into practice within your own business environment.
There are 20 steps, for you as a business leader, to make a part of your daily business life, as you progress through the steps you will notice a marked increase in the success that your business is achieving.
Whether you are just starting out as a business leader or you have been performing a business leader role for a few years, you will definitely find considerable benefit from understanding and then putting into practice the 20 Steps of How To Make Business A Success.
These set of steps have been utilized by many thousands of successful business leaders throughout the world and have been found to move the business leader and their business, faster and higher up their ladder of success.
Some business leaders may need all twenty steps, some may need just fifteen, or ten, or maybe only five, but whatever the number of steps you use, afterwards you and your business will be more successful.
The series of steps are a comprehensive set of insights into the plans of action that have been taken by business leaders who have succeeded in making their businesses a success.
Each complete step will be published by us in a new post every week.
There will be a total of twenty one (21) posts in the series, starting with this title post which contains the list of the following twenty (20) posts.
It would be a good idea to print this title post and use it for reference.
If you are not already subscribed to Business Leader Success Advice, then it would also be a good idea to subscribe now, its free and you will then receive regular quality content updates as they are released.
The following series of posts will be published each Wednesday for the next twenty (20) weeks. Starting on Wednesday, 8 October 2008.
Step 1 - Identity Don’t try to be somebody else.
Step 2 - Belief If you don’t who will?
Step 3 - Vision See your business in the future.
Steps 4 - Tenacity Never ever give up.
Step 5 - Patience Rome was not built in a day.
Step 6 - Positive Thinking Optimism brings you higher success.
Step 7 - Integrity Don’t try and cut corners.
Step 8 - Motivation Others are looking up to you.
Step 9 - Inspiration It is your ideas that will inspire others.
Step 10 - Innovation Think outside of the box.
Step 11 - Decision Making Action moves a business forward.
Step 12 - Tolerance Learn from others mistakes, don’t blame.
Step 13 - Trust Once you have delegated, let it go.
Step 14 - Commitment Do what you say you are going to do.
Step 15 - Determination You will climb the ladder of success.
Step 16 - Self Awareness The one you know, not who others see.
Step 17 - Purpose Personal endeavour makes it happen.
Step 18 - Courage Only as good as the chances you take.
Steps 19 - Challenges Mental strength, don’t let them stop you.
Step 20 - Confidence You will be a great business leader.
These are the 20 Steps on How To Make Business A Success. Focus on Step 7 and the other steps will then be much easier for you to achieve. Good luck, your business is depending on you to succeed.
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