Re-Charging Your Master Mind-Batteries (Part 2)

Guest Contributor: Michelle Rumney
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This week marked a major milestone in our family; our youngest son, Theo, who's three, started school, joining his older brother in an expanding world of new people and new experiences. Despite having no friends yet, he took it all in his stride and the only thing that upset him was the fact that he'd dropped his 'Treasure' (a smooth piece of green glass found on the beach) on the classroom floor and broken it in two.

This week also marked an important almost diametrically opposite milestone for me; my first trip back home to familiarity in four months, and my first physical chance to re-connect with the members of my first Mastermind group. In my own expanding world of new people and new experiences, set in motion by a recent career decision, there is still very much time and room for these cornerstone relationships built on trust and alignment.

So I've just spent the most wonderful weekend catching up with all their news and finding out how our various summers panned out. A common theme seemed to be coping with changing family dynamics - for instance, one parent working away to support the rest of the family, an elder child starting senior school far from home, a new baby arriving, or the whole family re-locating to a different country. All weekend we've listened and empathised and listened and talked and shared picnics and barbeques and generally just hung out with each other and each others' families. My overwhelming feeling is that we're all going through these challenges somehow together. For me, this shared weekend touching base was fantastic, re-energising and so positive - real food for the soul. And from the conversations with the others at the school gates this morning, I know the feeling is mutual.

On the plane back to the current focus of my ever-expanding world, I was reading 'Think and Grow Rich' in preparation for a new Mastermind Group I'm starting in my new workplace later this week. Of course, I found some relevant words from Napoleon Hill:
'A group of brains coordinated (or connected) in a spirit of harmony will provide more thought-energy than a single brain, just as a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery'... when a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance is available to every individual brain in the group.'

With this concept in mind, I'm excited to see how this next Mastermind group will work. My new group is totally different in terms of people's backgrounds, present situations, experience, goals and outlook. Will the energy created be more? less? different? Will we be able, as colleagues but essentially as strangers, to achieve the level of harmony and coordination that Hill is referring to? If it's anywhere close to the Mastermind Battery effect I've experienced within my home MM group, something I never expected when I started the group, then shouldn't we all be starting groups wherever there's an appropriate opportunity and generating more energy for everyone all round? And if we taught Mastermind concepts and practice to our kids and in their schools, think how powerful this would be - a real tool for growing, learning and contributing?

Which reminds me, don't worry - Theo's green Treasure has since been fixed by his doting grandfather, ready to brave another tomorrow with him in his strange new world. That is, until he makes some new friends...