While I was coaching one of my clients last week, I realized that his dissatisfaction with his current life situation was a direct result of his choice in "teammates". He asked me "John, how can I just leave my friends?" My answer was "subtraction is just as important as addition in life". You will become a product of your associates! So ask yourself, "Am I around the right people in order to achieve my WHY in life?"
I wrote the following article over one year ago, and since choosing the right "teammates" is such a crucial step to you being successful in life I decided to have you read it again!
Your mastermind team consists of the first three people that you speak to when you begin your day. During the first seven minutes of your day, you should read your WHY card and know exactly why you climbed out of bed and what you will be doing throughout your day. After reading your WHY card and setting your goals, you should then begin to make contact with your mastermind team.
When developing your mastermind team, take the following factors into consideration:
* Who do I know that motivates me throughout my day? * Who do I know that empowers me to reach my WHY? * Who do I know that gets me excited about life? * Who do I know that will continue to encourage me to through rough times?
Take a look at a two VERY POWERFUL SCRIPTURES about the need for a mastermind team;
Ecclesiastes 4:9,10 "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, or he has no one to help him up."
Proverbs 11:14 "Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety".
Each person on your mastermind team should be excited about his life and consider each day a gift. Just think about those times during the year such as your birthday and Christmas in which you receive gifts. Would you ever say, "No thanks" and push those gifts away? Of course you wouldn't. You would be excited and grateful that someone thought enough of you to provide you with such nice things. That's the same reason that we refer to today as the "present," because each day is a gift from God for us to be grateful for and to be excited about! Your mastermind team should encourage you to reap the benefits of every day by empowering you to achieve your WHY in life.
Now, reflect back over the last three days and think about the first three people that you spoke to each morning. Ask yourself the above-mentioned questions and determine if those people are mastermind team material. If the answer is no, some changes need to be made. You may run into obstacles and find yourself somewhat confused about whom to make part of your mastermind team. If this happens, then just feel comfortable knowing that I will be on your team and help you to determine who else in your life will help you to achieve your WHY.
Once again, I challenge you! Get to work on developing your mastermind Team!
Until next week,
Find Your WHY and FLY!
In The Game Of Life
If you can fully grasp this concept, then implement it, you will never lack for material abundance.
Do you need a striking example?
How about the richest man in the world, Bill Gates? Chances are good that you are using some Microsoft products right now. Why? It is because you need them. In fact, so many people needed what he provided that he became the richest man in the world. True, there are other products out there that could do the same or even better, and you may regard Bill Gates more as a ruthless capitalist than a humanitarian, but the point remains'he provided the software industry what it needed in its fledgling days and he never let up on the momentum.
Similarly, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Rockefeller became extremely rich because of the same principle. Again, it doesn't really matter whether you like these people or not?that is not the point. The point is that they provided an essential service when people needed that service.
They helped people get what they wanted and prospered enormously.
You can do the same.
In any company, in any entrepreneurial venture, it is the service provider who takes home the money. The slackers, the cynics, and the rebels watch the prizes fly past their noses.
Although this principle is clear, few people do it. They are too preoccupied with slandering those who implement it and too bitter and angry about their own struggles to credit the principle. Sometimes, in fact, they are so jaded that they don't even see the principle in action.
When you can provide more quality of service, more quantity of service, and more eagerness to provide the service, the world will beat a path to your door. And, of course, you can choose what service you provide. It has to be something that you love to do. The words ?over-deliver? and ?extra-mile? are used to describe this principle. You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Sometimes people are reluctant to give others what they want because they feel that they will have less for themselves. Sometimes they simply believe that they are compromising themselves when they do this and becoming either sycophants or ruthless. These attitudes are both completely wrong. When you do what you love, you express your own nobility by giving more of what you love to others. There is no question about diminishing yourself in any way. In fact, it is just the opposite?you expand yourself! And instead of being a taker, you become a giver?thus, your virtue, too, is improved.
Please note that it is not important whether or not you are the best. This comes through experience.
A major block has to do with believing that you are not able to do this simple thing. Why? It is because you lack confidence in yourself. This is a major stumbling block?not only in making more money, but in living a fulfilling life. If you lack confidence, it is because you have had painful experiences in the past that have created a distorted sense of self-worth.
The wrap up. If you want more money, you have to provide more people what they want. If you provide service in something you love, you expand your power to give, and rather than diminishing your value, it expands it. Finally, you must have total self-confidence to implement this strategy?because it takes a sense of unswerving self-worth to stay the course.
In the game of life, it is the team players who make winning possible.
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