After two years, thousands of Webinars, hundreds of eBooks, buying dozens for guaranteed-to-work-for-you systems and attending at least 30 workshops or conferences I climbed out of the rabbit hole and shook myself off. The hole was branching and growing faster than I could keep up with the bright shiny things. I knew a lot, but I didn’t know enough about any one system to really make it work.

Introspection time: After some serious thought, I decided I needed three things

1.  A Mentor – someone who had been there, done that and thrown away dozens of t-shirts.
2.  A program with a step-by-step training curriculum that would teach me all I needed to know about ONE system.
3.  A mastermind group of people going through the same things I was that I could brainstorm with.

It took a while, but I found Ann Sieg and the Renegade Team (it morphed into the Daily Marketing Coach). What she has met all three of my criteria.

Over the last couple of days I’ve had light bulb turn on that I hadn’t even known was there.

The Mastermind Group – One of My Three “Must Haves”

Many training program ignore this critical element or give it a lick and a promise.  They don’t understand how critical this element is to the success of the people going through the training.

I expected the mastermind group to be a professional mutual assistance group. I’ll share mine and we brainstorm it and you share yours and we’ll brainstorm yours.

I’ve treated the group that way for years – with more than a touch of humor thrown in along the way.What I hadn’t thought about and hence hadn’t expected was that just like the Attraction Marketing Model teaches us, “like attracts like” and sub-groups formed. The masterminding continues, but it is no longer a strictly professional to professional mutual assistance pact. It has morphed into groups of friends who help each other. They know much my personal life and I know much of theirs. We share the personal highs. lows, doubts and Yeehaws! They understand my professional situation in the context of my personal situation. Our insights are deeper and the benefits we gain from the association is multiplied many times over. Our different strengths is another multiplier. Traveling the road with friends by your side is a lot more productive and a lot more fun that solo-entrepreneurs going through the ups and downs alone without a knowledgeable safety net. We have a fantastic mentor, but she can not be there for us 24/7. There is one of her and hundreds of us. My new spotlight flicked on and I found pestiferous friends I can share the journey with! As MasterCard would say: “Priceless!” My personal take: Oh Hale Yes!

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