Can a Mastermind Evolve?

Guest Contributor: Kelly Smith
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My mastermind group situation has evolved. Can that happen? Sure.

When I first started out years ago, Brad and I were in our first mastermind group, which was an incredible experience for us and shaped who we are today. We met our first mentor who had led the group and took us under his wing. We met many others just like us who were truly at the beginning of their journey. The goal of the mastermind was to teach people how to "fly" so to speak on our own. Well, once we did, we searched for another mastermind that would once again match where we were in our lives both professionally and personally.

It wasn't an easy journey to discover that magic we had in the first mastermind that had such an impact on our lives. Mastermind groups came and went, but just didn't fit the bill for us, as the people didn't follow the same beliefs which we felt were critical.

Then we recently came together with a group of people we had wanted to work with in the past in a joint venture and we were invited to be part of their mastermind group. I have to say I was a little gun shy at first after being so disappointed by others in the past, but I am happy to say we have once again found that certain something that can really make a mastermind work.

A mastermind group reflects your life just as those who surround you do. They say to be successful and happy in your life is to surround yourself by positive people who have the same outlook as you. That doesn't necessarily mean they are in the same business or even same industry as you. What's important at least to us for a mastermind group is a respectful atmosphere that influences growth.

It doesn't necessarily mean that one mastermind group is worse than another. As you evolve as a person in your business, you tend to be drawn to different people as they are drawn to you. It's definitely a Law of Attraction thing. As life changes, mastermind groups come and go within your life and one day you notice, you are surrounded by a group of people who grow with you and that is why I love mastermind groups.