WHO'S ON YOUR TEAM!

Got Support? Who’s On Your Team?
When it comes to achieving your goals and/or growing your business, who do you count on for support?

I hope you have a supportive spouse and family. I hope your friends encourage you to go for your highest and best. Unfortunately, many people don’t have that kind of support. And even those who do, recognize that their loved ones have their own things to deal with and simply can’t always be there for them.

In your quest for success, it’s a good idea to take a close look at your support system—the tools, resources, environment and the people who are in your corner. Who can you really count on? Are they there only for the good times or are they there through the thick and the thin? The more you can shore up your support team, the easier it’s going to be to achieve your important goals.

It might sound good to say you did it by yourself. Or like Frank Sinatra, “I did it my way.” But the truth is, if you can accomplish your goal all by yourself, your goal probably isn’t big enough. I think you should go for something that’s bigger than yourself—something worthy of not only your best, but also the support and contribution of others.

Where do you get this kind of support? Well, you have to create it. Because it’s very rare that it happens by itself. You have to be responsible for creating your team—whether paid or unpaid.

Napoleon Hill, in his classic book Think and Grow Rich, explained the importance of having a mastermind team. He gave example after example of how successful people he studied used the mastermind principle—sometimes unconsciously, but mostly with intention. He went so far as to say, “When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.”

That might seem a bit out there to you, but I can attest to what Hill wrote. It’s that powerful.

At the very least you need a coach. Professional athletes do. Why not you? Aren’t your goals and your life as important as an athlete’s career?

And there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a MasterMind team.