Sunday, August 30, 2009

Start a Mastermind Alliance

The President of the U.S. has a cabinet and every CEO has a board…you need a mastermind alliance. One important thing a mastermind group will do is cover the blind spots of each member, and to gain unbiased, independent and objective advice. Just find up to seven people who share your goals or have goals similar to yours and recruit them. Find members who have the skills, experience, education and/or contacts that you would find helpful. (Of course, you help your members too.) Look up all the people you have ever known who could help. Have your membership think of other good potential members too.
Get unanimous approval from your membership before you actually invite people to your forum.

After you have found members, go to Yahoo, MSN or MySpace and form a CLOSED Yahoo or MSN or MySpace group. Invite your members to the group and begin work. Keeping records should be extremely easy using any of these group sites. Also, you don’t have to meet at the same time at a physical location or run up phone bills.

Now, what do you do? Decide on your group’s definite major purpose and construct a plan to accomplish it. Give everyone in your group a job. Remember, success is usually cooked in a crock pot, not a microwave. Don’t expect success overnight. Just keep striving towards your common purpose and help each other in a spirit of unity and harmony.

Other things you can do are: review each other’s business plans, resumes, web sites, e-books, share information, brainstorm, send traffic to each others web sites and keep each other motivated. You can put class notes or any relevant data in the files section of the Yahoo or MSN group. The possibilities are unlimited. You can read more about mastermind alliances in Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.

How to Create a Secret Society

Instructions

Step 1:

Realize first that a secret society cannot be an actual secret. To have membersand meetings, the secret society itself must be public knowledge. The secret of a secret society lies behind the closed doors of the meetings.

Step 2:
Choose the secret of your society. Whether you have a religious relic to guard,an ancient site to protect or simply the formula for eternal life, a secret isessential to the purpose of your organization. Get a good secret to help createa buzz about your group.

Step 3:

Create a buzz about your newly formed secret society. In this modern era, thereare several ways to get people talking and curious about your organization.Utilize the Internet, social networking sites and good old-fashioned word of mouth to let people think they know a secret.

Step 4:

Determine your core membership. Every society needs founding members who are privy to more than the rest of the members. Choose carefully among the most loyal and secretive people you know.

Step 5:

Decide on the complexity of your society's initiation rituals and write them down. Creating a rulebook or society manual is essential to uniformity in practice and consistency in membership. Take your time and proofread carefullybefore handing out to members.

Step 6:

Make the location of your meetings secret or keep a guard on the closed door as you meet. Keeping the details of your organization very secret will help raise interest in your club. Making people want to join your secret society is half the fun of having a secret society.

Step 7:Use puzzles, code words and dead-letter drops to add mystery to your society.

How to Create a Secret Society Provided by eHow.com
http://www.answerbag.com/article_create-secret-society_84699288-9a4e-8695-b896-687fd7164482/