Credit crunch mentality

As I touched on last month, one of the strongest principles of Masterminding is the sharing of ideas – that more heads put together are better than one. When I first joined a group, I thought of this from my own point of view, in so far as that one of the benefits of joining would be hearing other people’s points of view and creative ideas on whatever we were discussing.

I’d like now to turn that idea on it’s head and advocate Paul Martinelli’s advice, that when you start each Mastermind session, ask not what you will get out of it for yourself, but what you can contribute to the group. Reminding everyone of this at the top of a session helps everyone frame the right mindset to really put the most into, and thus get the most out of, masterminding in the true sense of the word.

We live in a free market society, and at the moment ‘crisis’ seems to be the keyword of the moment. Old adages like ‘every man (or woman) for themselves’, ‘it’s a dog-eat-dog world’, and ‘tough call’ spring to mind. This perpetuates a general mindset of scarcity and a win-lose mentality that we could well do without if we are all to get through these challenging times.

Masterminding is about cooperation, exchange and collaboration. This creates a win-win mentality and fosters a mindset of abundance. This is a much more productive tool with which to move forward and create active, thriving businesses, generating creative ideas for new solutions, better services, different products.

So do your bit and defy the credit crunch, all you Masterminds out there! Think abundance, contribute openly, without fear, and know that in doing so you’re one of the true pioneers able to see limitless opportunities in this ever-changing reality…

Thanks for inspiration to Joe Vitale for featuring ‘Killing Sacred Cows’ by Garrett B. Gunderson on his blog – it’s a great book!

First published on www.evancarmichael.com in October 2008.