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What Does It Mean To Be A Mastermind?

What is a mastermind you ask? Mr. Hill describes it as “The coordination of knowledge and effort between two or more people who work towards a definite purpose in a spirit of harmony…no two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind”, also known as, the Mastermind.

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How Gritty Are You?

Grit can be defined as: “perseverance and passion for long-term goals.” Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head regarding grit when he said, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” More and more research is showing that intelligence is no longer the greatest predictor of success in school, work, and life.

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Hit A Career Wall? Use This Coaching Technique To Get Unstuck

One of my clients was feeling stuck in his career. He was in his mid 30's and had been working as an employment lawyer for almost 10 years. But for the last four years, he had been dreaming about doing something else. Unfortunately, he had no idea what he wanted to do next and was afraid to make the wrong choice and waste more time in a job he wouldn't love.

When I asked him why he became a lawyer he said he did it because he thought it would be a good career path but admitted he didn't have a burning desire to be a lawyer. When I asked what other career paths he was considering he mentioned a few but immediately gave me reasons why it would be difficult to make a change.

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Are You 'Just' A Lifestyle Entrepreneur? Good.

The implication is that lifestyle businesses are like hobby farmers or house-league ball players—not terribly good at or committed to what they are doing. According to these folks, the opposite of a lifestyle entrepreneur seems to be someone who is growth-oriented, comfortable with capital markets and willing to risk giving up control of their business for a shot at growing something big.

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The Only 3 Things That Matter if You Want to Be an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are born, not made. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, you will know it. It goes right along with confidence as a requirement for success in the startup world.

And, despite what you might hear from other so-called experts, the idea you come up with doesn’t matter. And neither does having a good market. Instead, successful entrepreneurs share three core attributes:

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Let's Go Champ!

Shannon Briggs is no stranger to diversity.  As a child of an institutionalized father and a drug-addict mother, the streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn schooled him in the same hard knocks style that created the likes of Mike Tyson.  Having dealt with the dichotomy of success and failure, Shannon is transparent in his depiction of his highs and lows.  Here's a clip from an interview with personality Joe Rogan about his successes and failures, and how they both contributed to the birth of a champion

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What is a Master Mind?

Success is remarkable in that it resides so closely to failure. The line between the two is so thin that the uninitiated may have trouble differentiating between the two.  Perception serves as either a tool of self-examination, or self-deception.  The mind is a very powerful asset, and establishing a daily routine of mental presence and positive reinforcement is paramount in activating one’s own inner mastermind.

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