The Mastermind

For several years, I participated in a high-level Mastermind call. Built on the Carnegie model, the original mastermind I was in eventually disbanded.

Next, I took over a secondary effort, a strictly “Metaphysical Mastermind,” which was, originally, a “Metaphysical Marketing Mastermind,” and that’s given way to its current iteration, a loose group of a few hardy souls, we were meeting on a phone line once a week.

The Mastermind

It’s about problems, goals, shared insights, and what’s up with what’s up. Sometimes, looking at an obstacle for. A shared perspective offers insights and solutions.

Interwoven in my extant material, there’s some of the guidelines and nuggets I’ve gleaned from those original masterminds.

One of them is about goal-setting. The way it was spelled out to me, the goals we would each state, each week, at the end of the call, the goals were easy to measure, a simple metric for success, easy to obtain, and easy to reach. Realistic goals.

Part of what I’ve learned, in the simple goal-setting practice, is to make targets that are possible to reach. Typically, I’ve got a one-week time-frame to accomplish that goal. One time it was to set up a web page, easy enough, as that takes, maybe, 20 minutes, if I’m focused.

The Mars Minute, The Retrograde Venus, and a Drawer for Wishes.

The Mastermind

Having particpated in enough “talking cures,” over the years, I’m pretty conversant with the conversation process, and how all this works. The very first time, I rattled too much. After that, though, I learned to listen and implement ideas.

The Mars Minute, The Retrograde Venus, and a Drawer for Wishes.

The Carnegie model mastermind, with a timer, just a phone call, it works well. It’s a spin on group therapy and various other organized talking therapies, and what’s been fun with my Metaphysical Mastermind, is pulling out the too much like a business bone.

Opens the topics up to a little more universal nature, and makes it more interesting to me. After all, that’s what’s most important, to keep it interesting to me.

The Mars Minute, The Retrograde Venus, and a Drawer for Wishes.

Not every implementation has worked. It’s not about always being successful, but it is about always getting back up for another run at it, maybe from a different angle.