Thursday Lesson: The Magic of Mastermind Groups with Expert Aaron Walker
Quote of the Day: “‘Can’t’ couldn’t do it, and ‘could’ did it all.” –Aaron’s mother
“Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.”
Guest of the Day: Aaron Walker is a veteran entrepreneur from Nashville, Tennessee. He started his first business at the age of eighteen and sold it to a Fortune 500 company just a short nine years later. Since, he has continued on to buy and sell eight successful companies over the past 36 years, and today, Aaron spends the majority of his time helping men grow in “success and significance.” He does this through his role of president and founder of View from the Top – a premier life and business coaching resource.
Passion: Helping ordinary men become extraordinary.
The Skill: Mastermind Groups
Importance of Skill: The collective minds of experts solving problems together by devising a general consensus.
The Lesson: Maximizing Mastermind Groups
Become Part of an Existing Mastermind Group:
- Expose strengths and weaknesses, peaks and valleys
- Earn each other’s trust
- Read books and study skills and techniques that help members design their own lives and “live on purpose”
- Develop a life map/plan
- Have people of like-minds: honest with character who want to excel in the workplace and on the home front – people who want to people significant in life
- Be a giver rather than a taker: give value in order to grow connections and sales
- Accountability Tools – 90-Day Sprints: 4 major goals a year. Develop: a plan, a strategy, map it out, get held accountable by posting it in the private Facebook group for everybody to see. Gauged in ten areas: family, career, faith, children, charity, fitness, etc. Members grade themselves weekly.
- Masterminds are 50% accountability
- Buying-in through paying a fee for a mastermind group encourages additional accountability (Aaron’s groups are $37.00 a month)
To Create Your Own Mastermind Group:
- Get 4-5 other members
- Set a weekly meeting schedule, same time each week, start out reading a book to focus group
- Do weekly themes (example: leadership)
- Challenge each other by doing an accountability tool
- Be transparent; be honest
- DO NOT do mastermind groups with friends, family, or business partners because they have bias and you and they may hold back
Listener Resources:
- MindSet by Carol Dweck
- The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks
To bring a mastermind into your life…
Envision: Envision yourself doing what you were gifted to do: “Let’s figure out what that is. What gives you energy? What gives you power? What would you do each and every day if there were no geographic or financial limitations?” “It’s people helping people” – you can envision a global network of people providing you with the resources you need to be successful. “Your value of your net worth is directly proportionate to your relationships,” so see your net worth increasing. “It’s all about who you know. It’s all about those relationships.”
Explore: Explore your ideals, your identity, your career, your family and faith – explore where you are and where you want to go in all of these areas and more.
Execute: “So listen, go join some mastermind group today. Start looking for those people, start meeting, encouraging each other. And your life will change, I promise you.”
Advice to Listeners: “I choose not complain. I choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice not a trait, right? We gotta learn to be content void of complacency.”
Motivational Go-Do!
Find the right people and start a mastermind group today!
How Motivate Me! Ultimate Support System can rally around Aaron Walker:
Website: www.viewfromthetop.com
Gifts GO TO www.viewfromthetop.com/motivateme TO RECEIVE: 1) “The Personal Assessment” (30 questions), 2) “What do I want?” and 3) “Steps to a Productive Day”
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