The Millionaire Mind Support Network

Secrets of The Millionaire Mind

One of the many things I admire about Harv Eker is his approach to life-long education and his ready acknowledgement of the many other sources of professional and personal prosperity consciousness inspiration. He often refers to his eighteen month sabbatical, in which he read and listened to every single source concerning prosperity consciousness he could find, as the genesis of his Millionaire Mind work.

In his audio courses and his training seminars Eker encourages his students to develop a self-directed continuing education program. Since my Millionaire Mind Intensive I have actively sought those tools and processes that help me integrate the Secrets of the Millionaire Mind into my daily practices. In his book and during our Millionaire Mind Intensive training, the need to recognize and change our money blueprint is repeatedly stressed. Our thoughts and our feelings about money are the foundation of every action we take in daily life.

We are now six and a half months away from our Millionaire Mind Intensive experience.

• So how are you and your new and improved blueprint doing?

• Have you slipped back into old patterns of thinking and actions?

• How is your ego treating the millionaire minded you…felt and really stressful thoughts recently? Me too.

When you tell your ego, “Thank you for sharing.”
Does it really acquiesce and encourage fearless change? Mine either.

Many of the participants in our mastermind group expressed the need to really examine our basic prosperity belief system. We came to that conclusion as many of us are experiencing “sophomore slump”
We all left our Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend ready to take on the world. We instituted changes in our personal and professional lives. We started business ventures and drew up plans for the expansion of existing enterprises. We examined ways to add passive and residual income streams to our businesses.

Six months into enlightened millionaire mindedness, some of us had slipped back into old patterns.

Remember what our trainer Doug said,
“Your ego’s job is to protect you, not to keep you happy.
Ego will keep you miserable and alive rather than risk, change and death.”

With that in mind, our mastermind group decided to go back to square one— the foundation, our individual money blueprints — our ROOTS. We all agreed that without carefully tending the roots of our money trees, all the external activity to initiate and grow multiple streams of income would not bear the fruit we anticipated.

Each member of the mastermind group contributed those tools and processes we had examined since the Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend, including T. Harv’s 90-day Wealth Conditioning Workbook. Many of us brought information from the various “Secret” trainers and teachers. Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret’, focused on “the feeling-level” as the basis of the Law of Attraction. In her many interviews since The Secret debuted as a multi-media phenomena, Byrne stresses the synchronicity of various processes and approaches to the Law of Attraction. That is why she featured so many individual teachers. They each expressed the same “truth”, simply in an individualized voice or approach. She also stated that there are scores of other teachers and trainers expressing the same truth that had not been filmed for the first ‘Secret’.

The Millionaire Mind Support Network™ Blog will spend the next few weeks looking at these various tools and approaches. Jonathan McMahon, introduced Byron Katie’s THE WORK to our Mastermind group. We all thought her four question approach to getting at and changing an unhelpful core belief was really effective.

The October 1st Blog will introduceThe Work with Byron Katie.

Katie says she has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever.

Until the Monday Oct 1st. blog entry, please check out this YouTUBE clip as an introduction to THE Work of Bryron Katie.

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Gamesmanship —
the art of winning games by gaining psychological advantage.

Mastermind Groups…A Winning Strategy

In the Millionaire Mind Support Network™ September 7th Blog entry, Business Strategies: Be Part of a Master Mind Group, Chris Sherrod, our very own Prosperity Guy, shared how much his master mind groups had helped with his very popular Prosperity Game Book and his other business adventures. Chris strongly suggested anyone who is serious about growing creative projects into real business ventures find or start a Master Mind group.

Modeling Success

Following Chris’ advice, I stated my purpose for the Master Mind Group, and my intention of finding people who can give and receive support. I wrote my intentions in my workbook and read them during my meditation practice.

Next on my “Find or form a Mastermind Group” list included attending seminars and workshops in my field of interest, speaking to the other attendees to determine if the person has a compatible energy level and an interest in personal and professional development through a Master Mind Group.

While pursuing that process, I found a terrific resource I’d like to share with you called Meet Up: http://www.meetup.com. The site is great for those of us who are new to the area, or for home-based business owners who would like to expand their personal and professional network.
In the Austin area, there are literally hundreds of “Meet-ups” scheduled every week serving a wide range of business and personal areas of interest. If you can’t find one that suites you, it is amazingly easy to start your own meet up. There are easy to follow instructions on the Meet Up site. This is a wonderful tool to expand your sphere of business influence. Please take some time and explore the site.

When I reviewed the Meet-ups in process, I found a Law of Attraction Group meeting at the Unity of the Hills on Tuesday nights. Universal Synchronicity was working in its perfect way. In addition to spending time with a group of like-minded folks, several were Millionaire Mind Intensive grads; I was fortunate enough to meet Jonathan McMahon.
Jon was in the process of forming the type of mastermind group I had described in my intentions.

“…a Master Mind group where people with many different goals come together to support each other in the achievement of their goals. Although the people in this kind of group are not totally focused on your project all the time, they help you brainstorm and strategize and introduce you to other people and resources that might help you do the same for them.”

It really was the Law of Attraction in action. Jon, placed a Meet-up notification that very week and the perfect group of individuals, with like-intention, came together. We each have different Business goals and are committed to helping each other reach these goals. Additionally we have a common goal…upgrading our financial blueprint.

Jon is an excellent group moderator who knows that joyful play gives us the edge in our Inner Game of Wealth. In the supportive environment of this mastermind group I’m using our shared tools and techniques to “Hack” my personal financial blueprint programming, working on an intimate level rewrite my financial blueprint and installing code changes to my personal operating system.

Chris was right about how energizing active participation in this type of Master Mind Group can be — asking questions and sharing opinions, helps each of us gain the insight and new ways to approach common issues.

We have designed our Master Mind Group to express our joy and facilitate the support each of us needs to move to the next level of our abundance. Napoleon Hill stated that genuine, measurable financial progress is made by people who participate as part group, moving toward a common goal, because working as individual, it’s so easy to fall back into old, dysfunctional patterns. Our old financial blue print aided ably by our ego is not going to give up without a fight.

Our Master Mind is focusing on changing the way we think and express energy about our finances. The group supports members as they share authentic experiences with finances as well as solutions to problems. Feeling the energy that money issues generate has been — interesting. Even after completing the 90-day Wealth Conditioning Workbook, it is still amazing what comes up. Working weekly with others, making and celebrating positive changes in our financial energy signature are really helpful. We consciously created a peer group in which it has become the norm to increase our income and manage that income proactively. It’s great to share and celebrate each other’s successes.

So once again, Thanks to our Prosperity Guy, Chris. Your suggestions were great and your encouragement to just get out there and find or form a Master Mind was really, really, appreciated.

If a Master Mind Group sounds like something you would be interested in finding or forming, read Chris’s suggestions in the September 7th Blog entry and check out www.meetup.com.

I’ll continue to share observation, insights and tools from our Master Mind Group. If you have experiences and observations about your Master Mind Group, please share them in the Millionaire Mind Support Network™ Blog and Forum.

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All writings here are copyrighted. You may not use them without written permission but you may link to the posts or give out a link to the posts. And remember, You Have a Millionaire Mind!

Practice Uncommon Appreciation

by Jack Canfield

If asked, could you name the five wealthiest people in the world, or five people who have one the Nobel Prize, or the last five Academy Award winners for best actor and actress? The point is, none of us remembers the headliners of yesterday. When the applause dies, the awards tarnish, and achievements are forgotten, no one cares about who won which award.

But if I asked you to list five teachers or mentors who believed in you and encouraged you, five friends who have helped you through a difficult time, five people who have taught you something worthwhile, or five people who have made you feel appreciated and special – that’s much easier to do, isn’t it?

That’s because the people who make a difference in your life aren’t the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They’re the ones who care. If you want to be remembered for being important to someone else’s life, make them feel appreciated.

Appreciation as a Secret of Success

Another important reason for being in a state of appreciation as often as possible is that when you are in such a state, you are in one of the highest emotional states possible.

When you are in a state of appreciation and gratitude, you are in a state of abundance. You are appreciating what you do in stead of focusing on, and complaining about, what you don’t have. Your focus is on what you have received… and you always get more of what you focus on. And because the law of attraction states that like attracts like, the more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract to be grateful for. It becomes an upward-spiraling process of ever-increasing abundance that just keeps getting better and better.

Think about it. The more grateful people are for the gifts we give them, the more inclined we are to give them more gifts. Their gratitude and appreciation reinforces our giving. The same principle holds true on a universal and spiritual level as it does on an interpersonal level.

Keeping Score

When I first learned about the power of appreciation, it made total sense to me. However, it was still something that I forgot to do. I hadn’t yet turned it into a habit. A valuable technique that I employed to help me lock in this new habit was to carry a 3″ x 5″ card in my pocket all day, and every time I acknowledged and appreciated someone, I would place a check mark on the card. I would not allow myself to go to bed until I had appreciated 10 people. If it was late in the evening and I didn’t have 10 check marks, I would appreciate my wife and children, I would send an e-mail to several staff, or I would write a letter to my mother or stepfather.

I did whatever it took until it became an unconscious habit.

I challenge you to discover ways to immediately appreciate someone in your life, starting today!

For more on this topic, read Chapter 53 in The Success Principles. It will give you great suggestions and ideas on how you, too, can find ways to appreciate those in your life.

© 2007 Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, America’s Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and a leading authority on Peak Performance. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

The Power of Delegating

It is quite liberating once you really do let go and put your trust in other people. The key here is to identify good people, enlist them in your cause or business, give them the ball, and then allow them to run with it. Only you will determine if the ball gets dropped. You must manage and oversee the game on a consistent basis. You must give the right ball to the best possible player.

For example, you would not hire a person with an associate’s degree in accounting to do the job of a CPA. Likewise, a CPA needs certain facts to achieve the task of budgeting and forecasting cash flow for your business. You need to supply him with the necessary information to get the job done. You must understand the process and know what you need the outcome to be. You must also communicate these objectives clearly and monitor the progress. Set meeting times for updates and a time line for completion. Review the process and progress frequently. The same applies to the newsletter example mentioned above. As with everything, there are risks associated with delegating.

Do not over-delegate.

Excessive delegating can lead to disaster. Overburdening others and excessively monitoring others progress are habits of an excessive delegator. A complete hands off approach will not do, either. Not being a CPA is no excuse for not understanding the budget of your company. You must understand how the budget works and why and be accountable for it. You must also be able to communicate this information to your board of directors, shareholders, creditors, and depending on your business, even your customers. Most important, you must understand how the critical pieces of your business fit together to form the whole so you can make sound and effective business decisions. Should you not understand these processes, you run the risk of losing control. Losing control has a domino effect. When the quality of goods and services becomes compromised, customer satisfaction quickly falls.

One last note:

It is nice to want to do all the work yourself. For one thing, on the surface, it appears that it will save you money. However, time is also money and your time is valuable. If you can not pay cash, try to negotiate a fee or a share of future profits … or my own personal favorite, barter. Just do not try to do it all alone!

Source: Used With Permission, Business Wealth, © 2004 BusinessWealth

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Becoming an Expert

Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. The old adage holds a lot of weight in today’s entrepreneurial environment. No one can possibly run a small business alone. I know this because I have tried. Know what you do and do it the best you can.

I recently started a small business. I could never have gotten it off the ground without the help of a CPA, lawyer, graphic designer, and administrative assistant. My expertise lies in the areas of people skills, marketing, and fund raising. I realized from the start that if I attempted to be anything but those things to my business, the long term success of the business was doomed. I set out immediately to find the experts I needed.

It is important to surround yourself with competent individuals who have complimentary areas of expertise. Choose carefully and wisely and be ready to compensate these individuals for a job well done. In some cases, I was able to defer payment until the business took off. In other cases, I made long term promises such as potential employment if and when the business was viable. When I was really lucky, I bartered. In fact, in most cases I bartered.

Payment need not always come in the form of dollars. Remember your area of expertise and be ready to trade it for what you need.

When bartering you need to follow a few simple rules: Be nice and respectful, send thank you notes, and recognize those individuals who have helped you both publicly and privately. In doing so, you will gain respect and be known as someone who gets the job done.

When you are an expert, people will come to you in need of your talent. Be prepared to use it. Be proud of your skill and share it.

Source: Used With Permission, Business Wealth, © 2004 BusinessWealth

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Millionaire Minds Know How To Delegate

There is not a single management skill more critical to your personal and professional success as an entrepreneur than learning to delegate. There is much more to delegating than meets the eye. It does not mean to simply hand out assignments. It is a science and an exercise in understanding one’s self.

Some of us have been lucky enough to find our strengths and at the same time recognize areas traditionally referred to as weaknesses. It takes mammoth strength to let go and say “OK this is not my area of expertise and here is where I need help. This is how I will get this help.” Often, there are things we wish we were good at but somehow can not seem to grasp ( not for lack of intellectual ability, but for lack of experience/exposure). We must learn to accept this fact.

In this fast paced world we live in, we must choose what it is we wish to conquer and what we need to let go of. An artful business person learns what she does best and does that to the best of her ability. She lives it, breathes it, and sleeps it. It is a passion. The rest can be left to someone else.

Unfortunately, that someone else does not just appear from thin air. Networking or “relationship building” is the initial key component of delegating.

You need to determine how your time would best be spent. For example, as a fundraiser, I know that in a given month, I can raise ‘X-dollars’ with uninterrupted, focused time. At the same time, I also want to publish a newsletter and send it out to my budding clientele. I have no experience creating a newsletter. While all of the software is at my fingertips, the question is do I really have time to learn it? I ask myself: “Should I learn the newsletter software and design my own newsletter or should I spend $X and hire a designer who already knows the software and just supply the content?” Better yet, I could ask a local graphic designer to barter their services. But how do I find the local skilled person to barter with? You can find this person through networking and relationship building.

The key is to determine what you need to know, want to know, must know, and already know. Keep lists with these headings to remind you of these things. It is a great feeling to cross things off your list.

Source: Used With Permission, Business Wealth, © 2004 BusinessWealth

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Wealth Principle:

How you anything is how you do everything

I admire how T. Harv Eker approaches the “business” of mentorship. In his writings, his seminars, classes and workshops he states, “personal and professional integrity is the foundation of all lasting success.”

During our Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend Doug, our trainer, lead us through dozens of exercises that helped us honestly examine our personal financial blueprint. Doug and the volunteer support staff set an environment of total trust and acceptance. The structure of those exercises allowed us to candidly examine how we REALLY feel about ourselves, money, success and personal and professional relationships.

Insight can be judgmental or accepting, painful or joyful, threatening or loving or just “be”. The critical aspect of the exercises was to objectively examining what we believe and why. Throughout the weekend Doug stressed that millionaire minds are knowledgeable and honest about what drives us and what blocks us. We can’t move forward unless we acknowledge and release what is holding us back.

“The way you are in one are is usually the way you are in all areas. If you’ve been blocking yourself from receiving money, chances are you’ve been blocking yourself from receiving everything else that’s good in life. The mind doesn’t usually delineate specifically where you are a poor receiver. If fact, it’s just the opposite: the mind has a habit of over generalizing and says, “The way it is, is the way it is, everywhere and always”

If you are a poor receiver, you’re a poor receiver in all areas.
The good news is that when you become an excellent receiver, you’ll be an excellent receiver everywhere and open to receiving all that the universe has to offer in all areas of your life.”

— T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

My personal insights had a profound effect on how I now approach my personal and business life. Like most of us (please tell me I’m not the only one) I have been, out of class long enough to experience some backslide. The good news is, as Doug would say, “There is a fix for that!”

During this next week Notice your judgments and beliefs as they filter up through your day.
Notice how you are feeling about a situation or a relationship and remind yourself “How you do anything is how you do everything.”

How you feel or react to anything is how you will feel or react to everything.

Become aware.

When most of us think about Integrity we think about it as it relates to how we deal with the people and situations in our life. T. Harv reminds us that Integrity starts at home.

We must deal with our beliefs, drivers and blocks with integrity…and so within as without. Everything starts with and ends with our beliefs.

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
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Do you have a question for any of the Millionaire Minds Team?

Drop me a line at sbatik@mymillionairemind.org and you may see your question answered in an upcoming blog or featured in our Millionaire Minds Forum.

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All writings here are copyrighted. You may not use them without written permission but you may link to the posts or give out a link to the posts. And remember, You Have a Millionaire Mind!

9/11

Just saying, reading or hearing 9/11 triggers a maelstrom of emotion

— unbearable sadness, grief, loss, fierce anger, betrayal, bewilderment, pride, patriotism, and for some, acceptance, forgiveness and peace.

This year as I feel the memory of 9/11 in my body, I have some new insight that is helping me to experience 9/11 differently.

“Ho’oponopono is a profound gift that allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask in each moment, our error in thought, word, deed or action to be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.”

— Morrnah Nalamaku Simeon, Ho’oponopono Master Teacher

To find and eventually share the gift of peace, we must train ourselves to look within rather than judge without.

“Wouldn’t it be great if the world would just change?”
“What If people would become more compassionate and generous?”
“Why can’t they stop all this political double speak and conflict?”
“I just don’t know why they can’t just accept each other’s differences without blowing each other to kingdom come.”
The world would be at peace, if they would just work with each other and be more tolerant.”

The truth is we have no control over what “they” do. But we do have total control over how we behave in our world. It is not what happens to us that determines our peace of mind — it’s how we respond to life’s challenges.

We are our own peacemakers. Peacemakers live by the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” We create peace within our families by supporting one another, giving and seeking support, as it is needed. We give and receive unconditional love. We all give and receive these gifts right where we are, in our homes, offices, our neighborhoods and our communities through the way we live our lives and make decisions.

We can make a difference in the world though the gifts we give and receive.

The Gift Of Love

“Peace Begins with You: Creating Peace Within Ourselves and In Our World.”
This gift is the conscious choice to reveal the best in people, other living creatures and any part of nature. By helping us perceive the beauty that surrounds us, it relieves our self-consciousness and helps us uplift others and ourselves.

How to use the gift of love: Look for the good in other people. Watch them closely, and listen to them carefully to discover what will bring out the joy in them. Then remind them of the unique talents, experience or character qualities they already have that ensure they can have what they want. Give them vivid accounts of instances when they used those traits. Watch the light go on in their eyes.

The Gift Of Dreams

This gift enables us to focus on whatever inspires or uplifts us, letting us play a part in the creation of a better world as we form good intentions and carry them out.

Access your dreams: Ask…

What would make me happy?

Why would it make me happy, and why is it important to me?

How will it benefit other people… and how will I act toward others when I have it?

When do I want it to happen?

Where will my dream take me when it comes true?

The Gift Of Courage

This gift involves taking concrete action to help us achieve the object of our love and dreams. Answering the question, “What am I willing to try?” makes change exciting, rather than frightening. It takes an act of courage to completely release an old hurt and forgive and let go. It is a step into the unknown. The reward of courage is freedom.

The Gift Of Unity

This gift joins us with other like-minded spirits to achieve a shared vision. It asks, “Who can I help?” “Who can help me?” “What can we accomplish together.”

The Gift Of Joy

This gift lets us take pleasure in what we have created, showing us that we are not here just to survive but to satisfy our souls and inspire others to do the same. Start a journal in which you can unleash your joy for a few minutes every day. Answer the questions…

What is going right at this moment?

Why does it make me happy?

How can I best respond to it?

Smile, just because it feels good!

The Gift Of Trust

This gift is the internal radar system that aligns our thoughts and actions to help us grow and makes us feel bad whenever we think, say or do anything that could be harmful.

When you feel stressed, call on your sense of trust. Stop whatever you are doing. Close your eyes… ask yourself what you should do now… take several deep breaths … and listen to your intuition before you take action.

The Gift Of Character

This gift understands who we are now and who we want to be. It reminds us of our authentic self and unique role in the universe.

How to become what you want to be: List all the traits you do not want… then, line by line, make a second list with exactly the opposite traits. Destroy the first list, rewrite the second list, and for each good trait think of at least one person you know who possesses it. Ask yourself, “Which trait would serve me best now?” and picture how your role model would act. After a while, your new traits will become natural.

The Gift Of Thanks

This gift lets us bless what we have achieved with our other gifts. By saying “This is good,” we enjoy a feeling of contentment that also lets us pour positive energy into others, helping them to use their own gifts.

The Gift Of Intention

This gift is the ability to choose a new direction or return to an old one, regardless of current circumstances. It asks the questions, “What now?” and “What next?” When we remind ourselves that “It ain’t over until it’s over,” we can decide to leave the past behind or trade something good for something even better.

In the year ahead, until we reach our next 9/11, resolve to be the kind of person you wish the rest of the world would be. It’s the greatest gift you can give yourself, our world and those we remember on this day.

This Blog was inspired by the sermons of Rev. Margee Grounds, Rev. Diane Brandenburg, Dr. Joe Vitale and the work of Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona

Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Changing our world for the better begins with us, right now, today.

In Love and Gratitude,
Sandi

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This morning I contemplated the role Gratitude plays
in abundance and personal peace.

During the Millionaire Mind Intensive and in the follow-up 90-day Wealth Conditioning program, T. Harv Eker stressed the importance of acknowledging and recording what we have to be grateful for in our success logs. Many of ‘The Secret’ teachers stressed the very powerful the energy attached to thankfulness and its role in manifestation. In our creative visualizations we are encouraged to feel the blessing of attaining our life’s passion. These daily meditations are exercises of universal gratitude. Many of us express thanks daily, in the form of ‘Grace” before our meals.

We say thank you many times during our day as an automatic response. My personal quest this week is to be aware and meaningful when I say thank you. I want to feel my thanks, not just say thank you as a conversational habit. To understand and express gratitude is one of the ways we can nurture our ‘inner-game roots.’ The fruit of gratitude is very sweet. As you go through your week, smile, say and feel thank you as often as possible.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

~ Melody Beattie, Unity Chaplin

“The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come. If it is a new thought to you that Gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

“The good things you already have come to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.”

~The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

This during this next week our thoughts will turn to gratitude and peace many times.

WEEKLY GRATITUDE ASSIGNMENT

Keep a journal of gratitude or peace. Gratitude is a steppingstone to inner peace. It
Is nearly impossible to feel upset and grateful or peaceful at the same time.
Count your blessings by keeping a gratitude journal, as recommended by Sarah
Ban Breathnach in Simple Abundance. Write down, either daily or weekly, everything for which you feel thankful. Record both the little and big things in your life and keep the journal up to date.

You may also choose to keep a peace journal. Write down the times you have felt
at peace during the day or week.

According to Wikipedia, the world’s favorite free encyclopedia.

“Gratitude is the substance of a heart ready to show appreciation, or thankfulness; it is not simply an emotion, which involves a pleasant feeling that can occur when we receive a favor or benefit from another person but rather the combination of a state of being and an emotion; often accompanied by a desire to thank them, or to reciprocate for a favor they have done for you.”

What does Gratitude mean to you?

How do you express gratitude in your daily life?

Do you have a practice or meditation that helps you anchor the feeling pf gratitude in your heart?

If so, please share it with the rest of the Millionaire Mind Support Network™ members.

Millionaire Minds Have Grateful Hearts!

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All writings here are copyrighted. You may not use them without written permission but you may link to the posts or give out a link to the posts. And remember, You Have a Millionaire Mind!

Master Mind Groups

I had the opportunity to spend some time with Chris Sherrod, our very own Prosperity Guy, a few months ago. When I asked him how he maintained his creative productivity while successfully managing several business ventures, he credited the support he receives from the members of his Master Mind groups. He belongs to several. Chris strongly suggested anyone who is serious about growing creative projects into real business ventures find or start a Master Mind group.

Chris has joined existing Master Mind Groups and has founded a few. Chris is very clear about how much his mastermind groups had helped with his very popular Prosperity Game Book.

When I asked Chris how to find participants for a Master Mind group he had several suggestions.
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1) State your purpose for the Master Mind Group, and your intention of finding people who can give and receive support. Writing these intentions and reading them regularly can help to focus your energy around that intention.
2) Attend conferences, seminars and workshops in your field of interest. Make a point of speaking to the other attendees. In these conversations you can determine if the person has a compatible energy level and an interest in personal and professional development through a Master Mind Group.
3) If you don’t have the time to really talk to each other during the seminar, exchange cards and set a date for a coffee meeting. Expanding your businesses means expanding your personal and professional networks, so even if the person turns out not to be interested in the Mastermind Group, adding another like-minded person to your network is always worth while.
4) Don’t be limited by location. One of Chris’ Master Mind groups has members from all over the country. They meet by phone once a month and stay in touch via email.

Chris strongly recommended Joe Vitale’s book, Meet and Grow Rich, as a guide to optimize the Master Mind dynamic, and of course, Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. He suggested reading both before either starting or joining a Master Mind group.

In Meet and Grow Rich, Chapter: 15, The Truth About Master Minds; Joe Vitale quotes Napoleon Hill’s definition of a MasterMind group: “…an alliance of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite objective.”

Joe does so, to illustrate the two types of MasterMind groups. The type Hill described, is a MasterMind group in which all the members are focused on the attainment of the same objective. The industrial giants featured in Think and Grow Rich had such groups, consisting of their management teams, and experts with specialized knowledge they needed.

“In this type of Master Mind group, the originator of the group, the driving force behind the goal, gathers together a group of people who have the knowledge, expertise and connections he or she lacks. A Master Mind group is a practical way for you to appropriate and use the experience, training, education, specialized knowledge, and native intelligence of other people, as completely as if it were your own.”

“The second kind of MasterMind group is where people with many different goals come together to support each other in the achievement of their goals. Although the people in this kind of group are not totally focused on your project all the time, they help you brainstorm and strategize and introduce you to other people and resources that might help you do the same for them.”

If you are serious about using the power of a Mastermind group, read Meet and Grow Rich. For sheer inspiration read Think and Grow Rich… again and again.

Chris had one last word of advice about finding Mastermind partners, “Ask!”
“Never assume that someone is too successful to spare you the hour or two a month. Never under estimate your value and what you can contribute to another.”

Did we mention that Chris Sherrod has a Millionaire Mind!

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