The Millionaire Mind Support Network™

So what are you doing with your “Give” jar?

During our Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend, Doug asked us to think about our BIG Dreams. What would our Financial Freedom really mean to us. What would we do with our time, treasure and talent. It was interesting to note that most of the participants had a dream of helping others in our world.

When Michael Skye stood up, he had an Action Plan. If you have met Michael you know that he is an agent for change. His company, VisonForce is dedicated to training visionary leaders, entrepreneurs and those who will change the world instead of talking about it.

VisonForce has taken the lead on organizing a truly remarkable event — Prosperity For All 2008. Michael and a group of VisonForce alumni have made some scholarships available to the Prosperity For All 2008 event.

Scholarships

Scholarships to the upcoming Prosperity For All 2008 event are being offered through the One Million Visionaries campaign. The scholarships make it possible inspiring individuals to attend VisionForce’s iStand Experiences, including the iStand for Prosperity For All 2008, at a reduced price. These scholarships are provided by iStand alumni, who have purchased a scholarship for a rising visionary or a visionary activist, and are standing for them as their sponsor.

Rising Visionary Award – A scholarship for visionary change agents currently lacking in financial resources Visionary Activist Award – A scholarship for visionary activists, who give much of their time in service without pay.

Honoring the Dreamer Scholarship – A scholarship for facilitators of the Awakening The Dreamer Symposium

To apply for one of these scholarships, you must first submit your completed application. Download your application here.

To learn more about the scholarships, read below.

Rising Visionary Award Rising Visionary Awards cover full tuition to an iStand Experience, less room and board, which means the recipient only needs to pay for room and board. For the upcoming 2008 iStand Experiences, full tuition is $2,495, of which $695 is the room and board fee. This makes the value of this scholarship $1,800.
A rising visionary is typically, but not always, an inspired young visionary who has been standing for a better world even in the face of having little financial resources. An example is Clovis Ategeka, a 25-year-old entrepreneur in Kampala, Uganda, who built an internet café, where he teaches entrepreneurship and VisionForce tools to others. Another example might be a young visionary musician, who is barely getting by financially, but whose music is inspiring the world to take a stand. The only limitation on the number of these scholarships given out is the quantity of scholarships purchased by iStand alumni (or others).

Visionary Activist Award Visionary Activist Awards covers $1,200 tuition to an iStand Experience, which means the recipient only needs to pay $1,295 to attend one of the upcoming 2008 iStand Experiences, priced at $2,495, including room and board. The value of this scholarship is $1,200. Recipients of this award are inspired individuals, who standing for humanity through activist efforts, contributing time, effort and energy—often with little or no financial compensation. The only limitation on the number of these scholarships given out is the quantity of scholarships purchased by iStand alumni (or others).

Honoring The Dreamer This special scholarship program was started by Michael Skye, after his participation in the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. A limited number of Honoring the Dreamer scholarships are awarded per year.

Have you been inspired by the idea of the Prosperity for All 2008 event, but don’t feel you can participate at this time. Michael and his iStand alumni are doing their best to get as many scholarships funded as possible. Is this a cause that speaks to you? Maybe after reading about the event, listing to the podcasts and videos at a heart level you might feel, “this is a “Give” jar worthy cause. If so why don’t you contact Michael Skye and ask how you can support the Prosperity for All 2008 scholarship fund.

Millionaire Minds Take Action!

ALL success begins with a definite purpose

In ‘Think and Grow Rich’, Napoleon Hill states that ALL success begins with a definite purpose — a clearly defined picture in your mind of precisely what you want in life.

But, what if our purpose, our passion, is so far out of our personal Comfort Zone, that we hardly dare voice it, even to ourselves.

That is when we tell our mind, “Thank you for sharing.”
That is when we use the many creative visualization techniques and processes we learned during our Millionaire Mind Intensive, to see, feel and experience our successes as part of the manifestation process.

When discussing how to expand our Comfort Zone, Doug asked us to practice being aware and advised listing to our hearts. He said, “ Our mind asks all the questions, but our hearts have all the answers.”

Since the Millionaire Mind Intensive, I’ll ask my self a question, be still and just notice how that question “feels” in my body.

If I get some resistance or discomfort, I’ll ask myself, ”Why?”

I keep working with the ‘FIVE-WHY’ process until I can identify which files, in my personal financial blueprint, are holding me hostage in my existing Comfort Zone.

As I take steps to move beyond my self-set, Comfort Zone boundaries, I continue the processes and exercises in my 90-day Wealth conditioning handbook. Each day I recommit to another stretch goal.

In the past three weeks, I have spent a lot of time out of my comfort zone. The good news is that I’m having more success than ever…so it’s working.

Doug said, “The BIGGER our WHAT, the EASIER our HOW.”

I found a video featuring Napoleon Hill — He agrees with Doug. We each have the power to take our own mind and direct it to whatever ends we desire.

Napoleon Hill talks about his meeting with Andrew Carnegie

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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!

Strong Structure Makes for Winning Partnerships

Partnering creates a climate for success by building a cooperative management team dedicated supporting each other reach mutually stated goals. Members of the partnership must undergo a change in mindset and discover how it is in their best interest to cooperate.

There are three basic steps involved in establishing the Partnership relationship.

Nurture the new relationship through personal contact

Since Partnering is an attitude change aimed at building a new relationship, it is important as a first step to establish the new relationship through personal contact. Success in a Partnering arrangement depends on the personal commitment of the management team. This commitment is built through personal relationships that must be formed early and reinforced throughout the partnership.

A joint statement of goals and establishing common objectives

The second step in Partnering is crafting a joint statement of goals and establishing common objectives in specific detail for reaching the goals. Achieving these intermediate objectives will lead to success for both members of the business alliance.

Identify and establish specific communication processes

Finally, successful partnering identifies specific processes to avoid miscommunication problems, mediate disputes, evaluate performance, promote cooperation and encourage celebration.

Although these basic steps create the essential partnering relationship, teamwork is crucial to instill the Winning Partnering Sprit. Establishing cooperative processes for evaluating opportunities and solving problems is an other feature of successful partnering. Evaluation mechanisms should be specific in measuring the achievement of the objectives that will make the project a success. A system for problem solving, which will provide for expedited decisions, should be established.

Another essential feature of Winning Partnership is committed people. Successful partnershio needs champions throughout the organization who are willing to take risks, use professional judgement, and make management decisions in a new cooperative environment. Partnering is for people who believe in cooperation, rather than confrontation, as the most effective and efficient way to achieve their goals.

How Do We Know If Partnering is Working?

When Partnering is successful, old competitive patterns change and a new spirit pervades the working relationship.

This new spirit has many indicators:

• Sharing — The Partners share a common set of goals.
• Clear Expectations— Each partner’s expectations are clearly stated, up-front, and provide the basis for working together.
• Trust and Confidence— Partners actions are consistent and predictable. Trust is earned when one’s actions are consistent with one’s words. We must ALL “walk the talk”
• Commitment— Each partner must be willing to make a real commitment to participate in the partnership.
• Responsibility— Responsibility is recognizing and accepting the consequences of our choices. Partners are accountable to each other and should agree up front on measures for mutual accountability.
• Courage — Partners have the courage to forthrightly confront and resolve conflict.
• Understanding and Respect— Partners understand and respect each others responsibilities, authorities, expectations and boundaries, as well as any honest differences between them.
• Synergy — The partnership is more than the sum of the individual partners. The relationship is more powerful than any of the partners working alone because it is based on the collective resources of the partners.
• Excellence — Partners expect excellence from each other and give excellence in return.

These are the positive indicators of a successful partnering effort. If you look closely at the list again, it is clear that most of these indicators are based on the ability of the partners to communicate and solve problems.

Successful partnerships and business alliances need to create a blueprint for their new relationship, which can be summed up in a charter. The Partnering Charter defines the long-term goals and objectives for the business project or objective. This is a win-win charter. It is a collaborative effort written by all participants and therefore includes the overlapping goals of the project team. Common goals are: a quality project carried out in a timely and cost effective manner. To achieve these goals, the team must transform them into concrete objectives and action items which can be measured at follow-up sessions. If all the goals and objectives are achieved, both parties will win.

The Partnering Charter should include objectives that will provide measurable milestones for success on the project. These objectives should be specific and should be the framework for a Partnering implementation plan.

The implementation plan fills out these objectives by including measurable details. For example, the implementation plan can call for a target dollar amount of savings, or a specified cost growth percentage. These are just a few examples of how specifics can be added to the objectives to make them part of a viable plan for ensuring project success.

Minimum Standard Requirements to play the Winning Partnership Game

Do You Have Tracking Systems in Place for These Major Functions?

• Costs
• Quality Assurance
• Materials and Services
• Information Sharing and Lessons Learned
• Product and Service Procurement Requirements
• Performance
• Do Your Process Controls Coordinate with Those of Your Primary Customers
• Have You Planned for Modernization and Innovation?
• Are You Making the Best Use of Computers and Automation?
• Do You Support Working in Teams?
• How Do You Evaluate and Address Training and Safety Needs?
• How Do You Acknowledge Employees for Quality Performance?
• How Do You Document Your Efforts for Measurable Results?
• How Do You Marketing Your Successes
• Using Your Quality Partnership as a Marketing Tool
• Using Your Champion to Position You as a High Potential Quality Supplier
• Using Productivity Gains to Fund Innovation
• Using Your Expertise and Your Innovative Successes to Market Yourself as a Value-Added Partner
• Using Your Successes to Expand Your Client Base in Other Industries

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This Blog is extrapolated from, “The Quality Partnership™ Facilitating New, Effective, More Profitable Relationships, © 1993, H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik — presented at the 1993 EPA HUB Procurement Conference. 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!

How Can I Help You, Help Me — Help You?

We graduates, who have just returned from the recent Millionaire Mind Intensive, found ourselves in a partnership-rich environment. Our eyes were opened to new opportunities that involve other folks — ‘Partnerships’ of some type or another. These strategic alliances could involve vendor relationships, sub-contracting opportunities, network marketing opportunities, joint ventures, and all permeations in between.

The current economic climate encourages building a core group of long-term businesses relationships. The ability to build and maintain successful partnerships, gives our business ventures a competitive edge, and enables us to pull away from the pack and reach financial freedom more quickly.

Well-structured, professional alliances offer new approaches to doing business. Those familiar with the ‘Master Mind’ principles shared in Napoleon Hill’s, ‘Think and Grow Rich’, might call it the tried and true, “smart way of doing business. A successful partnership can actually form a ‘third mind’ to enhance the management of both ventures. This extended, management team shares information in an environment of trust to reach mutually beneficial business solutions. Winning partnerships are designed to create a positive atmosphere, improved communication and foster a problem-solving attitude among a group of individuals who will support each other’s success.

The benefits of successful partnerships go beyond preventing disputes, to improved communication, increased quality and efficiency, on-time performance, a fair profit and prompt payment for contracted work. ‘Win-Win Partnerships’ seek to create a positive, cooperative attitude that leads to long-term relationships based on quality and service.

To create this attitude, each party must seek to understand the goals, objectives, and needs of the others — their win situation— and seek ways that these objectives can overlap.

Components of a Winning Partnership

• Sharing common goals and information to meet the needs.
• Clear expectations on booth sides for a better working relationship.
• Trust and dependability.
• Commitment to Continuous Process Improvement.
• Agreeing to be accountable for the choices made.
• Courage to openly approach and resolve difficulties.
• Respect for and understanding of each other’s requirements and boundaries.

The Synergy of a Winning Partnership is more than the sum of its parts.

The environment created by adopting the components of a Winning Partnership is one of trust, mutual understanding and open communication, that leads to profitable ways to exploit opportunities. The US economy is in a general down turn. That does not mean the current business climate will affect us negatively. Great fortunes have been built in pervious down turns There is always an opening for those who know how to spot and capitalize on less than obvious opportunities.

Government agencies, prime contractors and other Fortune 500 companies are being faced with budget cuts, staff cuts and generally having to make do with less. The use ‘winning partnerships’ can ensure the best use of existing resources, reduce waste and make the best use of staff. The wise use of partnerships can help any organization manage risk and target which areas will allow the highest improvement and the sharpest competitive edge.

The Law of Attraction and Winning Partnerships

Focus your attention on giving your strategic partners and your customers the highest level of quality support and be willing and open to receive that same level of support from your partners and customers. Add value to every level of your personal and professional relationships.

WEALTH PRINCIPLE:

The Law of Income: You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you deliver according to the marketplace

Mark Victor Hansen at T. Harv Eker’s Seminar

In our next Millionaire Mind Support Network™ Blog we’ll continue to discuss structuring Winning Partnerships.

Copyright © Millionaire Minds, LLC 2008
This Blog is extrapolated from, “The Quality Partnership™ Facilitating New, Effective, More Profitable Relationships, © 1993, H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik — presented at the 1993 EPA HUB Procurement Conference. 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!