Flying for Beginners

Guest Contributor: Michelle Rumney
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Our little mastermind group (5 of us) down here in a small seaside village on the southern coast of Spain is to me like a fledgling - a new bird learning to fly: a bit wobbly and clumsy, and probably looking quite funny from the outside, but determined to do it all the same and also pre-programmed deep down to know how to, once it can get all its bits working in harmony with each other.

We've grown been reading Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" over the last 9 weeks. Next week we'll be discussing the last part - the Epilogue: 'How To Outwit the 6 Ghosts of Fear'. Our cosy little book club is about to transform itself into something beyond that - into a support group for real action in the real world. Will it fly?

I hope so and I believe so. Through the last 10 weeks, we've been meeting for a couple of hours a week to discuss the concepts chapter by chapter in Hill's fantastic book - with the help and guidance of a great set of notes on TGR written by Paul Martinelli of Life Success Inc.- thank you Paul! In doing so, the group has formed it's own dynamic, which is, of course, greater than the sum of its individual parts and which already seems to be taking on its own momentum.

As initial facilitator of this, the first ever Mastermind group I've been associated with, I had no idea what to expect or what would happen as a result of starting it. My intuition just told me it was a good idea and that even if it was a short-lived one, that only good could come of it. And even now, without 'properly' testing a thing, I know I was right.

I know that as individuals, our patterns of thinking have been changed and will continue to change and become more powerful in directing our lives and our businesses - they already are. At the moment, it's apparent mainly in small things - in details like the words we choose to use when we express things, or the (positive) ideas we'll suggest when people ask for opinions or advice, but these small changes are part of a much bigger picture of change.

I know also that collectively, we have come in a very short space of time to reach an understanding of what we're all meeting for - what the group is meant to do - apparent from the beaming smiles we all have when we arrive at a meeting. Yes, there's work to do, and we're doing it, but it's also fun, much like learning to fly, I imagine.

So if any of you out there are thinking of starting or joining a group. Don't procrastinate, just do it ! With the support of a group, you'll all be learning to fly in no time...