Mastermind Intensive - an exersize for solutions.

Guest Contributor: Melody Campbell
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Since I've never heard anyone else talk about this or read about it, though I am sure they must have, I gave this exercise my own name, "Mastermind Intensive."

Here's how it goes:

1. The mastermind group chooses a member to focus on.

2. The individual comes to the mastermind group with a single problem that needs a solution to present to the group. It should be a problem that is seemingly impossible.

3. The group spends all or a large portion of the meeting on brainstorming a solution or a list of options to solving the problem.

4. Depending on the nature of the problem, more than one person can be the focus of a Mastermind Intensive during the same meeting.

There is tremendous power in focused energy. When there is a collective of like minds that come together to create a force of focused energy towards the discovery of a solution, there is a blend of background and experience applied, resulting in the most amazing and creative answers.

The one rule is that everyone must participate and none of the discussion of ideas should be on how or why an idea won't work.

If your group meets weekly then conduction an intensive might be a technique that can be used monthly

Mental Conditioning for Master Mind Groups

Guest Contributor: Melody Campbell
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Starting or participating in a Master Mind Group without conditioning your mind is like deciding to run a marathon without conditioning your body.

We were all born to be great, but unfortunately we spend our days from the womb to where ever we find our selves today conditioned to fail miserably. Our cultural information sources are full of messages of defeat, sickness, failure, humiliation - our journalists only report the bad, the sensationally bad news - because bad news captures our attention. Our movies are murder and mayhem, with "out of control, loveless sex." We have legalized abortion and put the elderly in "retirement homes."

Politics and religion aside - the message is very clearly hopeless with diminished value for the amazing creations that we are.

In this day, and in our current culture - not just in America, but globally also, we must absolutely embrace mental conditioning to maximize our experience as we take on the commitment of a Master Mind Group.

In Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich" he defines the Master Mind as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose."

The "coordination of knowledge and effort" is key to the master mind group. Sounds obvious, but let's examine further the concept of knowledge as it relates to the success of the individuals and master mind group. Napoleon Hill's chapter on the Master Mind Group highlights three major sources of knowledge:

1. Infinite Intelligence

2. Accumulated Experience

3. Experiment and Research

Each of these knowledge sources must be formed on sound principles for success or the basic building blocks of the master mind group is undermined. Hill further states that knowledge is converted to power by organizing it - the above listed knowledge sources -- combined from the group into definite plans expressed in action.

As one enters into or participates in a Master Mind group it makes sense to condition the mind with the basic principles of success. Mental conditioning occurs through all that enters through our eyes and ears from outside of ourselves as well as the inner noise that we create with our own thoughts and self talk.

Mental Conditioning must provoke desire and inspire faith cultivated by auto-suggestions or affirmations. This conditioning produces a fruitful imagination brimming with ideas. Clarity results as organized planning is applied to specialized knowledge; decisively acted on persistently, driving ones goals and plans deep into the subconscious mind.

An individual mind that is so conditioned is prepared to substantially contribute to the collective mind of the group.

If you're not getting all you can from your Master Mind Group, infuse the minds of the participating individuals with some strategic mental conditioning.