Use Your Mastermind Group To Identify Top Priorities

Most entrepreneurs are starters. They like to get new projects off the ground and hate finishing them and maintaining them. It is too easy to see many opportunities on the horizon and jump on to a new project because it is exciting than to stick out the details of finishing off your existing ones.

I came across a recent post by Mompreneur Elizabeth Weinstein that highlighting this typical behavior:

I'm such a typical Entrepreneur personality - decisive, open to calculated risks ... and easily distracted by bright shiny objects. :) A new information product, seminar, book, promotion campaign, marketing idea, or business venture comes along - and I run towards the new project, leaving tons of current projects either 95% finished, or finished and not yet promoted. That's where my Mastermind group comes into save the day.

If you are prone to starting but not finishing projects, bring the issue up with your Mastermind Group. Have them help you identify what the top priorities should be in your business and stay focused on those key initiatives.

In the three Mastermind Groups that I run for Toronto entrepreneurs, each member has to come up with a year end goal that they are working towards. It has to be measurable and tangible. Every month when we meet, the year end goals are given out with the agenda and the members hold each other accountable for reaching them. Will this new project help you reach your goal or are you being distracted from your existing business?

Use your Mastermind Group to keep you on track, discuss new opportunities, and make sure that you follow through on the goals you laid out for yourself instead of getting half way and starting the next project.