Power of the Mastermind
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If you're going to Mastermind, you've got to get people that are in harmony. And when you come together, it's like you're bringing all this energy together.
Plans are innard and useless without sufficient power to translate them into action. The Mastermind may be defined as coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose. Andrew Carnegie pointed out that the accumulation of great fortunes calls for power.
And power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge. He also said, the person who accumulates the fortune doesn't have to have the knowledge. Well, Napoleon Hill found that if you analyze the record of anyone who had accumulated great fortune or many who have accumulated modest fortunes, they've either consciously or unconsciously employed the Mastermind formula.
He said Great power can be acquired through no other principle. Now think about that for a moment. Mastermind it's the coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony between two or more people to the attainment of a definite purpose.
But if you're going to Mastermind, you've got to get people that are in harmony and they've all got to be focused on that one purpose. This is vitally important. This isn't a brainstorming group, this isn't a brainstorming idea.
This is a group of people who have all come together to work towards one specific end. Now Carnegie said he knew nothing about the manufacturing or marketing of steel, and he said he had no desire to learn anything about it. And yet that's where he earned his fortune.
But he earned his fortune because he got people who understood what he didn't understand. He got people that had the knowledge that he needed to accomplish the end he wanted to accomplish. He did not have to have the knowledge that's required for the accumulation of the fortune.
He could get that through the aid of his Mastermind group. Now Masterminding is a very important part of all Hill's work and it's something that's used by a few people today, but it's not generally used. Now I have been using Masterminding for a long, long time, and I have two or three Mastermind groups that I work with.
Some of them are smaller, some of them are larger, and I don't meet them all the time. Now he recommends that if you have your Mastermind group, you should meet a couple of times a week. That's not convenient for everybody, but you do want to meet on some kind of a regular basis.
And when you come together, it's like you're bringing all this energy together. It's like bringing a group of batteries together. Each battery has power, but you put them all together, it's got a lot more power.
People open the trunk of their car and they have these jumper cables and they hook up one battery to another and bang, the car is going. They get the energy from someone else to get their car started. Well, you know, in a Mastermind group, you get the energy from other people.
You can get the energy from a group to really surge ahead with an idea, to move on to a much higher frequency, to bring in a lot better ideas and bigger ideas. Now, Hill recommended that when you start a Mastermind meeting, there are certain principles that are followed. Let me share these principles with you.
These are mastermind principles. You begin every Mastermind meeting by reading these Mastermind principles. Each person reads these out loud, one at a time.
Each one has meaning. They start by I release, I release myself to the Mastermind because I am strong when I have others to help me. Now, what do we mean by that? You've got to release your mind to the Mastermind.
You quit being an individual and you become one of the group. You're in harmony with that group. You become one with the group.
So you release yourself to the Mastermind. I believe, I believe the combined intelligence of the Mastermind creates a wisdom far beyond my own. Well, just a shallow awareness would help you really understand that you get a group of people together that are all in harmony and they're all focused on the same thing.
You're going to have a lot of power that you wouldn't have as an individual. So don't try and go alone. Get a group of people together that are really interested in helping you get to where you want to go, and you're helping them get to where they want to go.
Says, I understand. I understand. I will more easily create positive results in my life when I am open to looking at things at myself, my problems, my opportunities from another's point of view.
Well, you know, perception is a great thing. Perception is one of our hair faculties. And when we help other people and they help us, what we're doing is we're shifting our perception.
We're looking at things from a totally different perspective. And when we do that, we see things that we may never see had we not done that. So the perspective that you're going to gain in a Mastermind goes so far beyond what you can gain on your own.
I decide, I decide to release my desire totally in trust to the Mastermind and I am open to accepting new possibilities. In other words, the protectionist idea goes out the window. You're not competing, you're creating.
And you're making a decision here to turn your idea over to the Mastermind. You're going to expose this beautiful idea. You've got this great idea, this idea that's going to take you to where you want to go.
You're going to share it. You're going to lay it right out there for everybody to see. And you're trusting these people.
That's why you're doing that. I forgive, I forgive myself for mistakes I have made. I also forgive others who have hurt me in the past so I can move into the future with a clean slate.
Now, you might have had words with somebody in the Mastermind group last week, maybe last month. They may have heard words with you. You've got to let all that go.
You cannot take any of that energy into the Mastermind Group because that will just spoil everything. There'll be no harmony, there'll be no resonance. You'll be bouncing around on different frequencies.
It'd be like turning on six different radio stations and trying to make sense of them. You can't get any sense. Everybody's got to be on the same station, listening to the same music.
So anything that was done in the past that hurt yourself or hurt the other person, you've got to forgive it. You let it go. That's why this is one of the principles to start out with.
Forgive means to let go of completely abandon, totally let it go. Then I ask I ask the Mastermind to hear what I really want, my goals, my dreams and my desires. And I hear my Mastermind partner supporting me in my fulfillment.
Well, it's like sharing the idea. You open yourself up completely. There's nothing hidden.
You're transparent, they're transparent. This is the way you create the harmony, and this is how you create the power. When you all come together, that's real power.
In fact, Carnegie said that is the only way to create power. There is no other way. He said, the accumulation of great fortunes calls for power.
Power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed, specialized knowledge. That's what the mastermind group is doing. They're bringing this together.
Not one, not two, but the group. When two or more are gathered together, there I am also. You create a third, automatically you create more power.
I accept, I know, relax, accept believing that the working power of the Mastermind will respond to my every need. I am grateful knowing this is so. That's an attitude of confidence.
You know what you're doing, you know what's happening, and you're going in there expecting the best. You've prepared yourself. Everyone's doing the same thing.
Everyone's playing the same game. They're letting go. They're becoming transparent.
They're moving on to the same frequency. It's like you're turning everybody onto the same station. Everybody's listening to the same music, and things start to click.
That's when you create the power and things jam. Then there's a dedication and covenant. I now have a covenant in which it is agreed that the Mastermind shall supply me with an abundance of all things necessary to live a success filled and happy life.
I dedicate myself to be of maximum service to God, to my fellow human beings, to live in a manner that will set the highest example for others to follow, and to remain an open channel of God's will. I go forth with a spirit of enthusiasm, excitement, and expectancy. Now? What is God's will? A lot of people ask that God's will is greater good.
God is always for expansion and fuller expression. Spirit's always for expansion and fuller expression. God's will is greater good.
That's what the mastermind is doing. It's creating greater good. I've created a couple of companies with people through Masterminding and they've been very successful, earned a lot of money.
We've had a lot of fun and we helped a lot of people. But it didn't happen by accident. It happened because a group of us came together with an understanding that Carnegie passed down to everyone.
That was one of Carnegie's basic concepts. In fact, that was the foundation of all of Carnegie's success. And he'd be quick to say that, in fact, he did say that.
He made that very clear to Napoleon Hill. And so Napoleon Hill, he created his mastermind. You'll see pictures of him with Harvey Firestone.
Henry Ford, thomas Edison. There's pictures of him today. You see that they came together.
He did not create this philosophy by accident. He didn't put all this wonderful information together in such an orderly, magnificent manner by accident. It was done through the power of the mastermind.
It was done through hell. They worked together, they all came together. Anything of any consequence that's ever been accomplished has been accomplished through the aid of a mastermind group.
They may not have called it that. It's like he said. Every person who has accumulated great fortune or a modest fortune have either consciously or unconsciously employed the Mastermind principle.
Are you using it now? How do you start? Well, you start one by picking one person. You go and ask that person if they'd like to mastermind with you. You may have to explain what it is.
The person may say yes, they may say no. If they say no, you want to feel very fortunate that they've openly said no. That's not something I want to participate in.
If they say yes, then you get together and their first meeting, you're going to know whether you can get in sync or not. You read those principles, you ask, can we adhere to these? Can we adhere to these while we're in this meeting? And it'll either be a yay or an A. If it's an A, it isn't going to work.
If it's a yay, it's going to work. Now, when you want to add somebody to that mastermind group, you just don't add Hawk Road and ask someone. As a matter of fact, if you and I were in a mastermind, the two of us, and you came to me and you said, you know, I've got this woman or this man that I would really like to invite into our mastermind, you wouldn't ask them until you asked me if you could invite them.
And I wouldn't say yes or no until I got into their company and I asked myself, am I in harmony with their energy, or is their energy antagonistic to mine? Or is mine to them, I may come back and I say, no, I don't think so. I don't have to tell you why, because I may not know why the why would be. We're just not in sync.
We're not on the same frequency where the other person might be. Now, could you be in sync with me, but not with the other person? Yes, you could. It works that way.
Or I might say, yeah, I think they'd be a good member and then we invite them. Now, we may have three members, but the same process goes if any one of us want to invite someone, and we're probably looking for someone because you want to build a nice mastermind, I don't think you should have more than eight. Gets a little unwieldy, but you can do it with two.
But if there's three, the same process would be involved. Someone would come, say to the other two, I've met this man, I think it would be good to be in our mastermind. Well, then the other two would have to get into that person's energy to get into their company and they would come back and they'd say yes or they would say no.
One might say yes. One would say no, then they wouldn't be it. See, there's got to be complete agreement.
There's got to be complete harmony. If there isn't harmony, it isn't going to work. It's like getting on the same frequency.
Everything operates on frequencies. Your body's functioning on a frequency, it'll move in and out of different frequencies, but that's what it is. And when we stop and think of the frequency we're operating on, we describe that by a feeling.
You feel really phenomenal. You're in a very high frequency of thought and you can take yourself there. You can take yourself there at will.
Well, we can do that in the mastermind group and we can do it so successfully. Now, keep in mind, we've pointed out on a number of these principles that nothing is created or destroyed. Nothing.
All the knowledge there ever was or there ever will be is 100% evenly present in all places at the same time. All the power there ever will be or ever hopes to be is evenly present in all places at the same time. Nothing is created or destroyed.
It's such a huge idea to entertain. You and I have the ability to tap into this universal energy until anything we want. Now, when we do it in a mastermind group, in a group of people that have come together in harmony, you've got phenomenal power and that's really what you're doing as a group.
You're diving into this sea of wonder and you're building and you're all in tune, and so you're picking up energy. And when the group of you come together, everybody moves up, not just one of you. You all move ahead, you move on to a much higher frequency.
Now, you've been aware of this happening whether it was an organized Mastermind group or not. When you come together with another person or a small group of people and you're really in sync, you're just in sync and you're really working on something, you start to feel so good. Feeling conscious awareness of vibration.
You're moving on to a higher vibration. That's the purpose of the Mastermind group. So you come in and you expose your idea.
Then you've got this entire group going to universal intelligence saying, give us what we need. And because of the high vibration you're in, the attraction becomes awesome. You're sending that out into the universe.
The universe is sending it all back. Its action reaction is equal and opposite. You put a high energy out, you're going to get high energy back.
That's where creation starts. This is how we become super creative and this is how an ordinary individual can achieve extraordinary results. Why did a guy like myself, with no formal education, two months high school, a bad work record, not only broke in debt, a year later, I was earning $15,000 a month.
I had a goal. You see, when I was first given these principles of earning $25,000 and because I kept focused on it, I was never do anything on it, didn't matter what it was. Somebody said, there's good money cleaning floors.
So I got myself a bucket and a mop and a floor machine and I got an office to clean. Then I got another one, and then another one. I didn't run those by myself.
I didn't build those by myself. It was a group of us. It was a mastermind group.
We were all in sync. We were all excited about this. We didn't realize that's what we were doing.
We were using this principle. But he said, anyone who creates a fortune, a great one or a modest one has unconsciously or consciously, we did it unconsciously. It doesn't matter whether you're conscious of doing it or unconscious.
If you're doing it, you're going to win. Many of the most successful people are doing this. They don't even understand what they're doing.
But when they gain an understanding, then they're conscious competence. Prior to that, their unconscious competence. When a person becomes a conscious competent, they become many times more powerful because they're consciously aware of what they're doing.
So they deliberately start to do the right thing. I want you to become a conscious, competent insofar as Masterminding is concerned, if a poor kid with no formal education and a bad work record can earn a million dollars in washing floors in seven different cities, in three different countries, I'm quite certain you can accomplish anything you can think of. It's the understanding of the Mastermind and the application of the Masterminding that gives you the power.
And he told you, you need the power. You don't need the knowledge, you need the power. That's the beautiful part.
Other members in the group can have the knowledge. Remember what I quoted. The accumulation of great fortunes calls for power.
Power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed, specialized knowledge. But that knowledge doesn't have to be in the possession of the person who accumulates the fortune. Get the Mastermind group, brilliant group of them all come together.
Expose your idea to people that are in harmony. Ask for help. Don't be afraid to ask.
Don't be afraid to give. Willingly give, graciously receive. They're basic tenets in the Mastermind.
You willingly give, you graciously receive. You get everybody focused on that star. You get everybody together.
They join together. It's like hooking the batteries up and then away you go. Dive right into universal intelligence with your questions and the answers.
Know that sound on your computer? The email goes out. That's the way it comes in. And it just flies into you.
Is there a law of attraction? There sure is. It's a secondary law. The primary law is the Law of vibration.
So you're getting yourself into such a beautiful vibration on such a magnificent frequency that that's all you can attract. And you do it through the formation of a Mastermind group. Study this, dig into it, really understand it, but apply it.
Reading it isn't going to do it. Talking about it isn't going to do it. You got to get in there.
You got to follow these principles and make certain everybody reads everyone out loud. You may discuss each one prior to reading them. What does this really mean? Am I prepared to do this? And you go through it with each member.
When they say, yes, everyone, you've got power. You get power on your side. You've all come together, and there's something there that you can create no other way.
Now, they were brilliant people. He'll studied this his entire adult life, from the time he was in his early 20s until he died in 1970. He was well up in years.
All his life he studied this. And he's sharing with us the best, thinking of some of the best thinkers. I think it'd be wise for us to make certain.
We do form a mastermind. We do follow the rules, we create the power, and we go where we really want to go. But you see, like, with persistence, like desire, like all these other principles, it's got to be for something you really want.
You've got to really want it. Want to sit quietly and say, what do I really want? What do I love doing? You see, I think it's important that we wake up in the morning and we know we're going to spend our day doing what we absolutely love to do. You're not going to put everything into something you don't love.
And when it comes to your mind of what you really want, you won't know how to do it. But when you understand these principles, you know the way is here, and you know if you ask, you will receive. Seek and you'll find it's good advice.
And when you do it with the Mastermind, it's not only good advice, it's powerful advice. Because there's no other way of creating great power. Now, when Carnegie said that, he meant it.
When he'll pass that on, he meant it. He didn't just go by Carnegie's word. He went by the word of the 500 super successful people that he studied.
And they all agreed on that one point. They might have disagreed and everything else, but they did agree. If you want power and you're going to need it, that's how you get it.
Mastermind anyone can wish for riches, and most people do. But only a few know that a definite plan plus a burning desire are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth. Part of that plan must include a mastermind group.
Get out your notebook. Write how of the Mastermind in caption at the top of the page. And then I'm going to use this principle in the following way.
And then finish that sentence in your notebook. Don't overthink it. Just tune into your own powerful intuition and record on paper what comes to you.