Month: November 2012

Brian Redding - Chicago, Illinois

CHAPTER 10
POWER OF THE MASTERMIND
THE DRIVING FORCE
The Ninth Step toward Riches
Donald Trump, at one time, conceived the idea of building a skyscraper in Chicago.
He might of thought about this when he was a small boy or maybe he read about how Chicago was growing with downtown offices and condos being built everywhere, and he wanted to get a piece of the action.
Initially, he thought of building the largest building on the Chicago skyline but may have been dissuaded because it would be the first target to terrorists thus causing the highest insurance premiums for every square foot of building.
In order to reach his dream, he had to initially gather a number of people who would firstly formulate his plans.
Accountants, bankers, lawyers, architects, engineers had to put together a game plan to get the idea on paper and to acquire the funds to buy all the materials and to pay all the labor required.
I read in the Chicago Tribune newspaper one day that they even had to hire specialists because the foundation beams were “disappearing and getting lost”.
These huge beams, which were many stories high, were being hammered into the ground by huge cranes which would raise and drop a very heavy steel weight on them in order to drive them a foot at a time into the Chicago ground.
They never foresaw that Chicago being built on a large lake had an underground river and the beams were being lost when they reached this river.
They were also constructing the building right along the Chicago River which may be a feeder to the underground river.
These specialists solved the problem by choosing beams twice the size of the beams they originally had chosen so that not only would they go through the many feet of ground above the river. After passing through the river, they can be continued to be hammered into the ground at the bottom of the river.
After the beams were in place, there were hundreds of me working with all the cement which had to be poured in order to construct the foundation and to build all the underground stories for building parking and to prevent the building from toppling over.
It was over a year that passed before they got to the ground level. Then it seemed that they were adding a story to the building weekly. Once a story was completed, the different trade people would come in to add the plumbing, electricity, heating, air conditioning, the partitioning of the floors into condos, restaurants, office space and parking.
Finally when everything was complete, they needed a big strong helicopter to add the communication tower to the top of the building.
As you can see, it took a lot of different people from probably many different nationalities, as Chicago is a very multi-cultured city, with many different labor specialties, to get this creative thought from Trump’s brain to the 85 story Chicago Trump Tower.
Donald Trump could never build this building alone. He needed a mastermind group with many different skills to get his creative idea into reality.
We need this mastermind group of likeminded individuals with many different experiences to all help us to reach the freedom that this great Network Marketing industry can give all of us.
I love this group and am indebted to both Michael and Linda for getting us all together, to form this outstanding mastermind group.
Brian Redding in Chicago

Lesson plan from Brian Redding on chapter 10 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

You can participate in the 30 day mental cleanse at http://www.30daycleanse.com

Download our free eBook at

http://bdrake.successin10steps.com/?mad=52669
ben@ben-drake.com

http://www.ben-drake.com

Call anytime

+61421464549

Willena Flewelling - Alberta Canada

CHAPTER 10: The Power of the Mastermind
This a message of hope, and not despair, but it is with some trepidation that
I write it.
We say: Mentoring For Free is where you are taught HOW to think, not WHAT
to think.
We say: Become a Critical Thinker, not blindly following the network marketing
gurus.
We say: Your lack of success is Not Your Fault... you are Perfect Just the
Way You Are, to do this business.
We say: Understand the Personality Colors and you will be able to talk to
anyone.
I am a Green personality. That means I am organized, I love numbers, and I
don't talk a lot because I want ALL the information on a subject before I form
an opinion on it. I think before I speak. I want all my ducks in a row before
I take action.
But...
What if you are a highly distractible Scattered Green?
What if you say your self talk faithfully, at least 100 times a day, and your
mind is still in turmoil because you aren't like Greens are supposed to be?
What if you focus on the positive emotions, and avoid all negative, and you still
struggle daily to find the sunshine and joy? What if your mind is continuously at
war between the need for organization, and chaos... between the need for
structure, and fragmentation?
This is not negative programming, folks. This is as real as Michael being a Blue
and Ken being a Green. I cannot change my color any more than they can.
I have been participating in the Mental Cleanse for well over three years now,
and I have not missed a lesson plan for almost that long. I hear people say all
the time that my lesson plans show I KNOW the answers. So WHY am I not
experiencing the consistency and maturity that are promised to those who
faithfully participate, and for which I long so desperately?
Am I really such a hypocrite? Am I a fraud??
In a way, yes I am. Because I am still trying to be someone I am not. I am
trying to be more than I am. The past six months have brought changes that
have caused unraveling to an unnerving degree in my life. I've had to re-evaluate
a lot of things, in my journey to find out who I really am. Michael doesn't like me
to say I have ADHD, because that can so easily become a label and an excuse
for not getting anything done. But after three years of struggle and frustration
as I have tried to be the Green that I KNOW I AM, there is no other way to
describe the nightmare I live with day in and day out, despite my very best
efforts to do what my mentors tell me to do. To deny that my mind is wired that
way is to put all the blame squarely on my shoulders for what I have been utterly
unable to change, these three years.
And if it IS my fault and I have NOT changed despite a tremendous effort over
the past three years... it only adds piles on the guilt.
I said at the beginning that this is a story of hope, and not despair. And it is.
I have come face to face with who I really am. I am a Unique Individual, not a
clone. I am a Critical Thinker, not someone who blindly follows the crowd. I am
a Green who has sticky notes and stacks of papers and books scattered all over
her desk, blocking the way to her well-organized bookshelves. I have a home
with a place for everything that is in constant disarray. And there are 24
windows currently open on my desktop as I frantically write my Mental Cleanse
lesson at 2:30 am on Wednesday morning.
And therefore, I can learn from our BLUE mentors as they tell us what they do
to overcome their weaknesses.
Michael tells me he used to say his self talk at least 400 times a day, and he
writes a To Do List every night for the next day. If saying my self talk 100 times
a day is not helping me, it's time to ramp it up. And if I'm not getting much
accomplished each day with what I am doing, it's time to make a To Do List
every night.
It doesn't sound like much to my perfectionist Green mind, but it's a solid starting
point for pulling my fragmented life back together again. Therefore, I commit to
doing those two things every day without fail, and report to my mentor each day.
Willena Flewelling
Alberta Canada
P.S. I can't be the only one here who has struggled in this area. If this is you,
then I would strongly encourage you to learn from others in Mentoring For Free,
no matter what their color is. Learn what you need from whoever has what you
want!
THAT, my friends, is the Power of the Mastermind.

Lesson plan from Willena Flewelling on chapter 10 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

You can participate in the 30 day mental cleanse at http://www.30daycleanse.com

Download our free eBook at

http://bdrake.successin10steps.com/?mad=52669
ben@ben-drake.com

http://www.ben-drake.com

Call anytime

+61421464549

Tuula Rands, British Columbia, Canada

Chapter 10 - The Power of the Mastermind
I have read this chapter many times and each time
my mind has concentrated on the word “Mastermind”.
This time through the word “Power” glared at me like
a bright lit neon sign.
Hill tells us that power is essential for the accumulation
of money and power is what translates our plans
into action.  Hill also defines power as organized and
intelligently directed knowledge.
We can gain this knowledge through infinite intelligence,
accumulated experience, experiment and research.
Before MFF I tried to gain this knowledge by experience,
experiment and research only to find that I had failed
miserably in my efforts to build a Network Marketing Business.
It seemed like I was working on
a trial and error basis.  There was no System, 
no mentoring and no mastermind.
When I began with MFF I was on the calls
listening and learning.  Once I got out of my comfort
zone and began participating and speaking up, the power of
the mastermind began to work in my life.
Building a Network Marketing Business by ourselves
can be a lonely road and maybe it is one of the reasons why so many
give up and quit.
The mastermind we have on the Mental Cleanse is the glue that
keeps us together as we learn and develop the right mindset we
need to attract the kind of people we can build a huge business with.
The activity report is also a part of the power of the mastermind.
The activity report is a powerful connection with the person who
has a personal interest in our success.  Even though this is a
mastermind of only two people it is stabilizing, nurturing and
a piece of the puzzle that keeps us in the business.
We are taught to get rid of the negative and concentrate on the positive.
Our self talk is a positive statement and we each have our own
self talk which we repeat over and over during the day.
Is this also power of the mastermind?
The greatest mastermind is God and Jesus Christ and we  have
access to this mastermind through prayer – the greatest power of a
mastermind available to mankind.
Tuula Rands

Lesson plan from Tuula Rands on chapter 10 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

You can participate in the 30 day mental cleanse at http://www.30daycleanse.com

Download our free eBook at

http://bdrake.successin10steps.com/?mad=52669
ben@ben-drake.com

http://www.ben-drake.com

Call anytime

+61421464549

Bob Richardson, Sunny Southern California

Chapter 10
The Power of the Mastermind
The Driving Force
The Ninth Step towards Riches
This chapter reminds me of the engine in my car. The previous chapters were the parts we put together to build the engine. Now its time to put fuel in the tank, which is the desire, turn the ignition on which  sends fuel to the engine, shift the car into gear, which is my mastermind group which with a good battery gives the engine power. Now I have put the car into motion, which is action.
Mr. Hill says” No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be to a third mind.”
He goes on to say , when the minds of two people are coordinated in a spirit  of harmony, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an affinity, which constitutes the “psychic” phase of the mastermind.
I find this to be so true when building a large, profitable, high retention organization in the network marketing industry. Harmony! Since I have changed my mindset, thanks to the cleansing of my cluttered brain, on WHO I want to join my business, I am finding it easier and more rewarding. I have actually turned down 2 people recently that I was TRYING to recruit. They just were going to be a burden for me. I’m done with that recruiting thing. I’m going to have fun, mentor people that are coachable and want to work in harmony. No egos please …….no agendas. Just a smooth running engine fueled with a burning, high octane desire, powered by a mastermind team following a proven system laid out at Mentoring For Free.
Thank you Michael and Linda for this awesome GPS you have created! And thank you to this awesome Mastermind family that powers my engine day in and day out.
Gratefully,
Bob Richardson

Lesson plan from Bob Richardson on chapter 10 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

You can participate in the 30 day mental cleanse at http://www.30daycleanse.com

Download our free eBook at

http://bdrake.successin10steps.com/?mad=52669
ben@ben-drake.com

http://www.ben-drake.com

Call anytime

+61421464549