The Mastermind Principle - 8/17/2008

When I began exploring success, way back when, one of the first books I ever read was Napoleon Hill’s all-time classic, “Think and Grow Rich.”  It was a book that literally changed my life forever (still available on Amazon.com), for in it Napoleon Hill elaborated on “The Mastermind Principle,” a subject that I worked on understanding for many, many years. 

In fact, in answer to the age-old question, “What did you do to become so successful?” I promptly answer that I became expert in the “Mastermind Principle of Success” and that over the years I made a concerted effort to surround myself with a small synergistic group of the most positive, most focused, most energetic, best thinkers I could find.

For 10 years, I participated in a Mastermind Alliance with seven other men and women. We met, come hell or high water, every other Monday evening for 3 to 4 hours. 

Later, in the Markson Management Services and Masters Circle days, I brainstormed with the officers or partners every single week. We set goals, held ourselves accountable, reviewed what had happened, what was currently going on and talked about the future.  We added, subtracted, deleted – we laughed, we cried, we agreed and we disagreed, but collectively we dreamed and planned – and we moved forward!

Being aligned with a Mastermind Group, Club or Alliance is, in my opinion, an essential tool of success.  A Mastermind with the right kind of like-minded people can be priceless, and it can open doors far beyond anything you can even imagine. 

The mastermind experience itself is an exhilarating, stimulating, provocative and continuous collaboration that allows you to forge new strategies, uncover shortcuts, make seemingly insurmountable problems disappear and help you create new opportunities to enlarge your concepts and visions.

That’s why I was part of creating the Winners Circle in the first place.  It was for a long while, in my opinion at least, the quintessential Chiropractic Mastermind Alliance in the country.

Masterminds rekindles passion and purpose, reignites internal fires and reanimates spirit…and if all of the above isn’t enough, it gives WC you an opportunity to break bread with, and get to know others up close and personal.

Recently, I received an email from Jay Abraham, nationwide marketing and success guru.  In it Jay, without knowing it, sums up my thinking perfectly.

He says, “Unless and until you surround yourself with like-minded people who will generously and collaboratively hold each other to a higher standard…with a seasoned coach/leader to nurture and support you and hold you accountable, as well as, to provide direction…you will never be working at the highest levels of your performance capability.  You will plateau, atrophy, regress and worse…you will be settling for far less that you can have, be or do in life and in practice.”

Wow, how can I say that better? 

Well, that’s easy.  It is to remind you to work on joining or create a Mastermind Alliance of your own. All you need is a burning desire to grow yourself and your practice/business and to hang out with the best of the best.  The effort will be worth it, I promise.

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