Master Mind Mis-Understandings

MasterMind Mis-Understandings
(by Susan James)

Many of the great personal development books, in order to be
extremely successful,  suggest that one of the things that we need to
do is to form a master mind group. And it's a very good idea, of
course. However, and this does not apply to everyone, but there is a
common mis-understanding as to what a mastermind group is and
how to form one.

I'm going to use the example of our buddy Donald J. Trump. Trump
has a mastermind group. He probably doesn't call it a master mind
group, but he has one, and has had one for a very long time. It's a
major key to his success.

YOU don't ask Donald Trump to be in your master mind group. If
you are to be in his MMG, he would ask you.

What he doesn't do. He doesn't and didn't in his beginnings of
forming his mastermind group, run around asking others to be in his
group of people who wanted to be rich and wealthy.

That is not a mastermind group, and is not how to form one.

Quoting the still famous book, "Think and Grow Rich" (Napoleon
Hill): On Andrew Carnegie; Surrounded himself with a staff of 50
men for the definite purpose of manufacturing and marketing steel.
(end quote)

To be more specific, The above stated purpose was Carnegie's
purpose, 'his' purpose, manufacturing and marketing steel. It was not
necessarily the definite purpose of the other 50 staffers. They may
have had their own individual purposes, but Carnegie had the master
vision and was smart enough as is Mr. Trump to surround himself
with the best people to help him manifest his defined and definite
purpose.

Since I seem to enjoy using cookie batter as examples and analogies,
here's one: When the definite purpose is to make and eat chocolate
chip cookies, then we surround the mixing bowl with all of the
ingredients that will give us our particular and specific chocolate chip
cookies. Our ingredients, won't include things like nails and duck
tape. The Master Mind Cookie Bowl only surrounds itself with the
ingredients to make the intended cookies, the chocolate chip cookies.

There is nothing new about this, no aha moment. Just a reminder that
wanting to pull a group of people together who all want to be
millionaires for the sake of being millionaires, is not the definition of
Master Mind Group in its pureness.

A Master Mind Group is formed by one individual who leads the
vision for what HE wants to accomplish. The rest of the individuals
fill in the white space of that. They may all not become rich and
wealthy within the confines of the primary vison maker, but simply in
association with the same level of energy, may very well hit their own
stride in an entirely different area.

Bottom line: If we intend on accomplishing something of great value
to ourselves and others, we all need help in doing so. It's that help,
which then becomes the members of our master mind group, merely
by definition.

Do you have a master mind group? Or are you more a member of
someone else's? Do you first have a definite purpose for which you
intend to manifest? It is then, with our purpose clearly and specifically
defined in our own minds, that we then seek and attract our Master
Mind Group. Choosing to Be part of someone else's vision, and or
developing one on our own.

Can we do both? Well of course we can!
Susan James (Copyright 2008 http://www.susanjames.org )

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