Forming a MasterMind group

I’m in the midst of forming a MasterMind group. This is a new venture for me. I’ve never been in a MasterMind group and had never heard of it until someone in my Toastmasters group gave a speech on Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich . The speaker said the book, written in the early 1900s, had helped him focus on his goals as a lawyer. These were not just career goals, but personal, spiritual, and relationship goals.

Mr. Hill mentioned the importance of meeting with people around you who are in a similar mind-set with their lives. He calls these MasterMind groups. They have certain directions they want to head in and things they want to do in their lives. Getting together with people like that on a regular basis to share dreams and work towards them together, offering encouragement and advice, should help your goals be reached, according to Mr. Hill. Plus, the group will hold us to be accountable to striving toward our goals.

So I checked the book out of the library and am currently reading it. But because that may take a while, due to writing assignments, and since it is the beginning of a new year and everyone is talking about goal-setting, I figured it would be good to get a MasterMind group going, even before I had finished reading the book.

A couple of people from a writer’s workshop I started attending last year have agreed to be in a MasterMind group with me. We’ve already begun to meet. It is a challenge finding a time to meet, but at least the mild winter weather is not a problem.

We’re meeting about once a week for a few weeks to share notes and information we’ve found about goal-setting, then we’ll settle into a monthly meeting.

I’m excited about the possibilities with this MasterMind group. Already we’ve contacted a couple of other people to join. The ideal size is 4-8 people. More than that can cause people to stagnate, I’ve read.

What about you? What plans have you set in motion to reach toward some goals in 2007? You can read Think and Grow Rich online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/nth/tgr/index.htm.

It’s never too late to start reaching for your goals. What are you waiting for?

Here’s a gracious promise from God to help us on our way:
Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Take care.