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7 Reasons to join a mastermind group

Are you ready to reach your potential?

Mastermind groups are relatively new to most people, even though Napoleon Hill created the concept around 75 years ago with his book, Think and Grow Rich. A mastermind group is designed to help you navigate through challenges using the collective intelligence of others.
How does a mastermind work? A group of like-minded people meet regularly to tackle challenges and problems together. They lean on each other, give advice, share connections and do business with each other when appropriate. It’s very much peer-to-peer mentoring and if you are lucky enough to get invited to one, you will most likely see a marked change in yourself and your business.

Here are 7 reasons why a mastermind might be right for you:
1. You’ll be part of an exclusive community. Joining a mastermind typically involves you being invited by the members or going through an application process. The other members need you just as much as you need them, so quality of experience and knowledge is crucial to all involved.
2. Advisement. Once you are involved in a mastermind, that feeling of “being alone” while running your business or achieving a life-long dream or goal is gone. The other members of the group turn into business advisors of sorts and vice versa.
3. Collaboration is the name of the game. You may find someone in the group that is a perfect fit to work on a project with you. Or, you may be the perfect person to help another member as well. The group works together collaboratively, to achieve more together.
4. Extend your network. Joining a mastermind expands your network exponentially and rapidly. If you are in business, you know how important your network is. By joining a mastermind, you instantly add to your network and typically gain the networks of those in the group with you.
5. New learning. Everyone in the mastermind is unique in skill, experience and connections. By interacting and sharing your challenges, it’s almost certain that someone in your mastermind will have a solution for you and you may also be able to offer a solution, connection or tactic to help another in the group.
6. Cross-promotion. When you join a mastermind, you will most likely find ways to help each other by utilizing cross promotion. Finding ways to help each other through promoting to your respective networks.
7. Think BIGGER. Being in a mastermind will truly give you a Master Mind! You can’t help but think bigger and stretch beyond your boundaries when surrounded by amazing people doing amazing things.
Masterminds are incredible and can do wonders for your business as well as for you, personally. Growing in a group is not only more effective, it’s quite a bit more fun!

Are you ready to get started?
Join me April 30th for a 5-week virtual mastermind study where we will be exploring The 15 Invaluable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. John C. Maxwell says in order to reach your potential; you must be intentional about your personal growth.  In this group, you will hear directly from John Maxwell on how you can apply the time-tested and proven Laws of Growth to unleash your abilities and realize your dreams! I’m limiting the size of this group to only 15 people. You can sign up by registering below.
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This training curriculum will help you understand how personal growth really works, and how you can develop yourself to become a more effective and fulfilled individual. You will learn how to build up your sense of purpose and become more successful in every area of your life. Come alongside John in your growth journey to become the person you are destined to be!

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Focus….What do you see?

Take a good look at the world…what amazing and great things do you desire to create for yourself? What do you want your life to look like, 1, 3, 5 years from now? What do you look like? How do you dress? Where do you live? What’s your schedule look like?   Maybe it’s an ideal relationship, a beautiful home, a meaningful career or business, a healthy family, to travel the world…whatever it may be, you must be able first begin to close the gap on the idea that you are separate from those things. You must see them within you. You must see that you hold all of the potential and resources necessary to create them within you. Do you see all the determination, focus, persistence, patience, and courage within you to create what you want to be, do, and have in your life? It’s all there… call them out.

“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself” – Jacob Bigelow

Vision is a wonderful thing. You can often recognize your personal vision because it creates moments where it pulls you forward towards your goal and makes all the work worthwhile. It can be said that nothing happens until there is vision. But it equally true that a vision with no underlying sense of purpose, no calling, is just a good idea – all “sound and fury” signifying nothing”.

Peter Senge, one of my favorite authors on this topic, writes “vision is multifaceted. There are material facets of our visions, such as where we want to live and how much money we want to have in the bank. There are personal facets, such as health, freedom, and being true to ourselves. There are service facets, such as helping others or contributing to the state of knowledge in a field. All are part of what we truly want.”

People often struggle talking about their vision because they are acutely aware of the gap between their vision and their current reality. But think a about it, shouldn’t there be a gap? Gaps are not necessarily a bad thing because of the energy it can produce. Senge writes there is a creative source of energy that can be found in this gap. Because if there was no gap, there would be no need for any action to take place.

The Law of the Rubber Band

Imagine a rubber band, stretched between your vision and your current reality. When stretched, the rubber band creates tension, representing the tension between vision and current reality. What does tension seek? Resolution or release. There are only two possible ways for the tension to resolve itself: pull reality toward the vision or pull the vision toward reality. Which occurs will depend on whether we hold steady to the vision.

My mentor and author, John C. Maxwell wrote the Law of the Rubber Band in the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. He writes, “Growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you could be”.

So where are you? And how much tension are you holding between your current reality and the vision you hold for the different facets in your life?

This is an important step to make whether its individual growth and organizational growth. If you’re not sure where you’re at or you’re unsure of your vision, contact me. I would love to help you grow further.

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The Law of Diminishing Intent – just do it

I’m not ready or it’s not the right time. Have you said something like this to yourself? Or have you ever convinced yourself you couldn’t do something but deep down you knew you could. Today’s lesson discusses the Law of Diminishing Intent. This law comes out of John C. Maxwell’s 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. This mindset is a gap that can hold you back from accomplishing something you know you can do.

American politician Frank Clark once said, “What great accomplishments we’d have in the world if everybody had done what they intended to do.” Most people don’t act as quickly as they should on things. They find themselves subject to the Law of Diminishing Intent, which says,

“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”

The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready. If you’re not already intentionally growing, you need to get started today. If you don’t, you may reach some goals, which you can celebrate, but you will eventually plateau. Once you start growing intentionally, you can keep growing and keep asking “What’s next?”

If this video series has been helpful to you and you would like a free 30-minute coaching session, please contact me here. Or if you are looking for a speaker for your next event, please contact me.

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The Law of Intentionality and Awareness

I just started a virtual mastermind group with a very ambitious group. When you have a group of hungry and intentional people who want to grow and invest in themselves, it really makes my job a lot of fun. This is a summary of tonight’s call as we discussed the laws of intentionality and awareness.

The Law of intentionality teaches that growth doesn’t just happen. Growth requires taking an intentional step by taking action. It will be the best one you’ve ever taken.

There are countless questions leaders can ask themselves to gauge their growth. For example: How can I improve? How can I gain wisdom? How can I improve relationships with those around me?

Each of these questions offers great insight into progress and growth. However, in order to move forward, leaders must apply the insight and be intentional in bridging the gap between plans to grow and actually growing.

“If you have dreams, goals, or aspirations, you need to grow to achieve them. But if you’re like I was – and if you are like most people – you have one or more mistaken beliefs that create a gap that keeps you from growing and reaching your potential” (Maxwell, pg. 2)

Each of us has the opportunity to bridge that gap and bring our current realities closer to our vision. But we must make that a goal and follow through. Join me as I dissect a few traps we often get stuck in that can hinder our personal growth:

The Assumption Gap

I assume that I will grow automatically” – No one improves by accident – (Maxwell, pg. 3)

Personal growth does not come naturally to us. Leaders must take ownership of their own growth, and take individual steps to figure out a plan for growth. Bruce Springsteen said “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be”.

The Knowledge Gap – “I don’t know how to grow”.

“I was hoping that someone had figured [a growth process] out, and I could simply learn from him. Not one person said yes. Nobody in my world had a plan for growing and improving. I didn’t know how to grow and neither did they.” (Maxwell, pg 4)

Decide where you need to grow and intentionally plan how you are going to learn lessons to get there. Being disciplined in your growth process is imperative to help you not get stuck in the lie of “I don’t know how to grow.”

The Mistake Gap – “I’m afraid of making mistakes”.

“Growing can be a messy business. It means admitting you don’t have the answers. It requires making mistakes. It can make you look foolish. Most people don’t enjoy that. But that is the price of admission if you want to improve.” (Maxwell pg. 6)

Getting over the fear of making mistakes is hard. However, all leaders must overcome that fear if they want to grow. Expect to make mistakes every day. With each mistake, we learn and fail forward. Welcome mistakes as a sign that you are moving in the right direction.

The Inspiration Gap

“When Curt suggested I needed to be intentional about growing, I had thousands of reasons not to do it. I didn’t have the time, the money, the experience, and so on. I had only one reason to do it. I believed I should do it because I hoped it would make a difference.” (Maxwell, pg. 7)

Intentionality with growth does make a difference. A little bit of growth each day lends to a lot of growth after 12 months. At the end of the year, you will be able to look back and see how far you’ve come.

The Law of Awareness teaches that you must KNOW yourself to GROW yourself. You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. To reach your full potential, you MUST know where you are, and where you want to be. But you have to grow in order to know who you are. This is where we need to be really honest with ourselves. Do you know the direction you’re going in? Growing into your potential is a process, but as well as knowing yourself, you must take intentional steps in order to initiate that growth process.

Overall, growth can be hard but there are others out there just like wanting to grow and have these discussions. Joining a mastermind group can allow you a safe and fun environment as you explore and learn how to grow. Valuing personal growth is a crucial part of being a successful and influential leader. Take the steps to grow today and see your leadership transform over time.
Growth begins with a small step in the right direction. If you’re ready to be intentional with your growth and would like to join in on our discussions, I encourage you to join my next mastermind group by here. Make sure you sign up and join my mailing list to stay informed of my start dates.

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Do you take time to Reflect?

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Do you carve out time in your week to pause and reflect. This Labor Day weekend, I did something different. I went on a hike by myself to get away and have a quiet time to take some time to think about what I’ve been thinking about.

In the 15 Laws of Growth, John C. Maxwell teaches the Law of Reflection – learning to pause allows growth to catch up with you.

Peter F. Drucker said, ” Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quite reflection will come even more effective action”.

There are many different ways of growing and an infinite number of lessons to be learned in life. But there are some kinds of growth that come to us only if we are willing to stop, pause, and allow the lesson to catch up with us.

The Power of Pausing

Through the power of pausing, Maxwell teaches how four reasons why taking some to reflect can help you grow.

1. Reflection turns experience into insight.

2. Everyone needs a time and a place to pause.

3. Pausing with intention expands and enriches thinking.

4. When you take time to pause, use your I’s.

Investigation – Pausing means more than just slowing down to smell the roses. It means stopping and really figuring them out.
Incubation – taking an experience of life and putting it into the slow cooker of your mind to simmer for a while.
Illumination – “at the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you” – Jim Rohn.
Illustration – the process of putting flesh to your ideas.