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Top Ten Ways to Get and Give the Most from and to Your MasterMind Team

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Top Ten Ways to Get and Give the Most from and to Your MasterMind Team

1. Pose Questions. Ask your team what they would do in your particular situation. Questions make you and the others think.

2. Be Specific. Our minds and the minds of our mastermind partners work best with specific information. The more specific you are, the more specific (and helpful) the ideas will be.

3. Encourage and Acknowledge. Part of the value of your mastermind is to give and receive encouragement and acknowledgement. Make sure you do your part.

4. Complete Your Intentions and Commitment Form. And submit to your team before your meeting (preferably the day before). In doing so, you clarify your own thinking while making your goals, projects, intentions and progress readily available to your teammates. You may access this form below.

5. Focus on the Main Thing. You don’t have to review every detail with your team because they already have your Intentions and Commitment Form. Instead, focus on the key areas on which you would like help.

6. Share Your Work. If you’re working on a project, creating a website or writing a proposal, send your plans to your team and ask for their feedback. Don’t overdo it, but getting the input of the rest of the team can be invaluable.

7. Don’t Be Embarrassed. Tell the truth. If you haven’t done what you committed to doing, say so. And then recommit. This is not a competition.

8. Share Your Pain. We all struggle from time to time. The intention is not to dwell on it, but to acknowledge it and look for ways through it or around it. What does our pain have to teach us? How are we creating it? What are we resisting? Explore, learn and make some changes when warranted.

9. Challenge Them and Yourself. The intention is not only to achieve your goals but to grow in the process. Make commitments that are challenging. Stretch yourself by going for something bigger and better. In Diamond Club we practice “Carefrontation”.

10. Share Your Decisions. In any given week, we’re called upon to make many choices. What are the choices you’re wrestling with? Share the bigger ones and benefit from the perspective, experience and wisdom of your mastermind team.

Resources:

Intentions and Commitments Form

http://successnet.org/cms/productivity-organization/increase-your-success-rate-with-intentions-and-commitments

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Diamond Club

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Inner Circle

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The New MasterMind (eBook by Phil Humbert)

http://YourMasterMindTeam.com/

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1. Pose Questions. Ask your team what they would do in your particular situation. Questions make you and the others think.

2. Be Specific. Our minds and the minds of our mastermind partners work best with specific information. The more specific you are, the more specific (and helpful) the ideas will be.

3. Encourage and Acknowledge. Part of the value of your mastermind is to give and receive encouragement and acknowledgement. Make sure you do your part.

4. Complete Your Intentions and Commitments. And submit to your team before your meeting (preferably the day before). In doing so, you clarify your own thinking while making your goals, projects, intentions and progress readily available to your teammates. You may access this form below.

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Yes, It’s Your Job to Feel Good

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Yes, It’s Your Job to Feel Good

One of the popular slogans of the 1960’s was, “If it feels good, do it.” It epitomized the do-your-own-thing, pleasure-above-all-else thinking of the era.

I’m not suggesting we be irresponsible, do things that only serve ourselves or focus only on pleasure for the moment.

BUT, feeling good IS important. And it’s not selfish.

In order to do our best, we need to FEEL our best. If we want to make a difference in the world, it is incumbent upon us to find ways to feel good.

This runs contrary to many religious doctrines that seem to encourage suffering, penance and guilt. As a result, many people feel guilty being happy. The message (or at least the response) is that feeling good just isn’t something a good person should feel—especially if others are suffering.

But whether you’re an athlete, a doctor, a business owner or a parent, you do your best work when you feel good. You’re more confident. You’re physically healthier, more creative and have more stamina. You simply operate at a higher level of performance.

Think about it. Would you want a doctor doing open heart surgery on you when he or she isn’t feeling their best? Do you want the people you work with to be feeling bad? Of course you don’t.

We hear lots of ideas and advice as to how to be in better physical health, but not anywhere near as much about our emotional health. And most of that is directed toward poor emotional health. The focus is usually on getting to normal, but not much about creating exceptional emotional health—about feeling good.

I don’t know about you, but just being normal isn’t very inspiring to me. Average is like being the best of the worst and the worst of the best. It’s boring.

If we do our best when we feel good, shouldn’t we be actively engaged in finding ways to feel better and then doing those things on a regular basis?

I’m willing to bet that you will get blank stares from at least 9 out of every 10 people you ask, “What do you do to feel good?”

We don’t have control over all the things that happen to us. But we do have control over our REACTION to what happens to us. We can choose to feel bad or we can choose to feel good.

It’s easier said than done, for sure. But unless we are proactive in our intention to feel good and to feel happy, we will be at the effect of our emotions.

We all want to be happy. So why not intentionally work at feeling good and being happy? Far too many people postpone happiness until some time in the future when they have certain things or have achieved certain goals. But that doesn’t work.

No matter what your circumstance, you can choose to feel good rather than bad. You can actively change your state and train your mind to feel better.

What will you do today to make yourself feel good?

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Helping our Diamond Club teams to feel good is one of the many benefits of Diamond Club. If you don’t have a mastermind team that will help you get clear, stay focused and consistently make progress on the things that are important to you, I encourage you to join us.

The result will be added confidence and greater clarity. You will experience more fun and fulfillment.

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It is your job to feel good One of the popular slogans of the 1960’s was, “If it feels good, do it.” It epitomized the do-your-own-thing, pleasure-above-all-else thinking of the era.

I’m not suggesting we be irresponsible, do things that only serve ourselves or focus only on pleasure for the moment.

BUT, feeling good IS important. And it’s not selfish.

In order to do our best, we need to FEEL our best. If we want to make a difference in the world, it is incumbent upon us to find ways to feel good.

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Is Goal Planning Overrated?

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Many people think you don’t need to figure out how you will achieve a goal. All you have to do is write it down and “attract” it.

I think that works some of the time. I’ve written things down that I wanted, put no effort into accomplishing them and sometimes never even thought about them again—until they happened.

So yes, I think there is power in just being clear on what you want and expecting it.

But for important goals, I think your confidence and your expectation of achieving them go up dramatically when you have done the proper planning.

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