The Mastermind Principle: Success is a team effort

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.

- Henry Ford

The journey to success is not to be a lonely sojourn, for in order to achieve success, we must have at least one other  companion.  This is the Mastermind Principle of success.  It consists of two or more people who work in perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose.

                The Mastermind is actually a team, a combination of the thoughts, efforts, experiences of two or more people who are  attuned to each other and to the object  or subject of their success, their burning desire.

                It is the tool  by which your  may use the experience, influence and perhaps the capital of other people in carrying out your own plans in life and by  which  you can accomplish in one year, more than you can accomplish in a lifetime if you were dependent only on your own efforts

The most famous  application of the mastermind existed between Jesus of Nazareth and his 12 disciples.  Centuries later and up to the present, the influence of their mastermind alliance still reverberate throughout the whole Christian world.

When you  form a true mastermind alliance with others, and work with them in a spirit of harmony, you control freely upon the spiritual forces within you in carrying out your plans and desires.

                Mastermind principles can give you absolute protection against failure provided the purpose you use for is beneficial to all whom you influence. 

                Many artists and athletes have increased their income by dramatic leaps and bounds after they made a mastermind alliance with the right manager and coach.

Businessmen who are able to attract the right people around them make a mastermind alliance.  And people who  work for salary or wages,  have the opportunity for higher income or position if they make a mastermind alliance .

Learn to control your mental attitude and make yourself friendly and agreeable to everyone with whom  you are closely associated if you expect friendly cooperation in return. Indifference cannot create a mastermind alliance for you.

A negative mental attitude can bring you nothing but failure.  Remember always your are where you are and what you are because of your mental attitude with which you relate yourself with other people.

Remember always your mental attitude is the only thing that you have complete control.

Success is something that can be planned, and success is something which can be earned in advance.

There is such thing as luck, but it is something you can create for yourself if you know the rules as it is given here to you.  There is a very thin line between success and failure.

Success is getting what you want in life without violating the rights of others and by helping others to acquire it.  There is a known formula for achieving success, and everyone can apply it and achieve success for themselves.

 Good luck on your journey to success!

A Burning Desire for Success

 “To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
-- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

             Every June 24, at our citytown , we hold a feast in honor of St John the Baptist.  On this day, near the wharf,  is held a fluvial parade where boats are decorated and arrayed as the imagination of the boat owner takes them. 

These little boats seem so helpless in the vast blue sea.   Without an able boatsman, they will be taken by the angry waves, to be smashed against the merciless shores.  An able helmsman, however, can maneuver these boats to wherever destination he decides to go to.

The same goes with our life journey to success. The  beginning of all success is a burning desire for a certain picture of the success that you want, your destination. A burning desire for the   possession of the thing that you long for, or the achievement of a position that you want, or the person that you intent to become.  For to know where your destination is, is the assurance that you  will achieve it.

Our mentor, Mr Napoleon Hill, suggests an activity by which to clarify this destination.  He advises us to procure “a neat little notebook” (in his day, that meant the paper kind).

He goes further to instruct:

1.  Write down a clear description of what you desire in life (your own idea of success, the only limitation is  that which you set upon yourself or permit others to set upon  you).

2.  Precisely what do you intend to give in order to achieve what you desire (and start giving then and there),

3.  Memorize and repeat a dozen times each day (both statements)

Thus, at this point, it should be very clear, that The power to control and to direct your mind to whatever end you desire,  just like an able boatsman and his boat, is the first step in achieving success.

A CENTURY OLD PRAYER: 

 I  ASK NOT FROM  DIVINE PROVIDENCE. NOT FOR MORE RICHES BUT MORE WISDOM WITH WHICH TO ACCEPT AND USE WISELY THE RICHES I RECEIVED AT BIRTH IN THE FORM OF POWER TO CONTROL AND DIRECT MY MIND TO WHATEVER ENDS I DESIRE...

True Riches in Life

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way  of seeing things."  -- Henry Miller

Success could mean different things to different people.  Mostly, being rich  or wealthy is equated with success. 

Which reminds me of three friends: an engineer, a doctor and a lawyer, who attended the funeral of their friend, a priest.
     Engineer:  Goodbye, my good friend Father Josh...in your
                      memory, I will have a chapel constructed....
     Doctor:    Goodbye, my childhood friend Father Josh...in your
                      memory, I will have the new children's  
                      wing at the hospital named after you...
     Lawyer:  Goodbye, my best friend Father Josh... in your
                      memory, I am donating a cheque for a 
                     million pesos  for your favorite charity....
                     here, take it with you,
                     it's in your name! (Dropping the cheque on the grave)

What a laugh!  I don't have anything against lawyers and its just a joke.  All friends in the story are successful, all are professionals, which many would consider successful.  The priest, in his lifetime, would think of success in terms of spirituality. The engineer would of course think of wealth in terms of buildings, the doctor would think in terms of hospitals as befits his profession.  The lawyer here thinks in terms of money.

But, joking aside, what would really constitute true wealth?  Says Napoleon Hill, it is 

1.  A positive mental attitude

2.  Sound physical health

3.  Harmony in human relations

4.  Freedom from fear

5.  Hope of future achievement

6.  Capacity for applied faith

7.  A willingness to share blessings with others

8.  To be engaged in a labor of love of your own choice

9.  An open mind on all  subjects with all people

10.  Complete self-discipline

11.  Wisdom with which to understand people

12.  Financial security

Financial security comes at the end of the list, but together with all other assets which we do not ordinarily associate with wealth.  

So there, my friends, what would you consider true wealth?

Please comment....

Success: The Power to Take Control of Your Own Mind

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there...Billy Corgan

Time and again, I have come to the conclusion that the path to success is a journey in life. Life is not always a smooth road, there are bumpy portions along the way, but that is what makes life delightful.

It's no secret that I lost in the May 2013 elections by 130 votes. Of course, many would consider this a failure, the exact opposite of success. I beg to disagree,for indeed success is like a diamond with so many facets.

According to Napoleon Hill, author of the best selling book Think and Grow Rich, the principles of success can be reduced to a science, hence the Science of Success.

 The first principle is the power to take control of your mind and direct it to whatever ends you might desire.The power over your mind is a gift of the Creator,and whatever your mind feeds upon, your mind attracts to you. All success starts with a definiteness of purpose.

Said Andrew Carnegie, who at one time was the world's richest man and a leading industrialist: “Everyone comes to the earth plain blessed with the privilege of controlling his mind power and directing it to whatever ends he might choose, but everyone brings with him at birth the equivalent of two sealed envelopes: RICHES you may enjoy if you take possession of your own mind and direct it to ends of your own choice, and PENALTIES you must endure if you fail to take possession of your own mind and direct it.

The contents of the envelopes: As for RICHES, these are sound health, peace of mind, labor of love of your own choice, freedom from fear and worry, a positive mental attitude, and material riches of your own choice and quantity. As for the PRICE you pay for neglect, these are ill-health, fear and worry, indecision and doubt, frustration and discouragement throughout life, poverty and want, a whole flock of evil: envy, greed, jealousy, anger, superstition.

Which one do you choose? I choose the first one. Life is a matter of choice and I will let no temporary failures block my lifejourney to success.

Come with me, my friends. Let's move forward on the journey to success.

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