Having just been a guest to a David Sanders webinar today, which happened to be for financial planners, I came away with some very good insight as to what value these webinars have for men and women of this profession.
It has to do with blasting through limits and fixed concepts, and oh yes, having someone in your court, someone watching your back, and someone who isn’t staring at the same things you are who can give you some space to think thoughts through.
It also has to do with setting your sites on something better and sticking to your plans, all of which can be tricky when there is constant dispersal and distraction. This is the dual solution of the mentor and the mastermind group and what it means to benefit from being part of a team.
A mentor is a teammate. A professional with a mentor, no matter how able the professional might be, is immediately on a team the minute that he finds a mentor. And the best mentors (including David Sanders) subscribe to Napoleon Hill’s “mastermind” approach. In fact, it is possible that these two things are more responsible than the universities from coast to coast for powering ultimate success for the entrepreneurial business venturer.
Why is it so important to have a mentor and hook up with a mastermind group? Well, it is the launching pad for rocket expansion for one thing. For those who are content to plod and procrastinate, it’s probably not going to appeal. But for anyone who has envisioned his goals and is intent on achieving them, these are your best weapons against distraction and dispersal that can utterly wipe out your gains.
Of course, you have to plan this out and select carefully if you are going to trust in someone to be your guide (another way to look at a mentor). In the case of David Sanders at Creative Business Strategies, he has a bag of tricks which are each and every one based on scientificially proven fundamentals of business, that takes even the most reluctant manager and marketer and puts him or her at the top of their game.
As I mentioned, the webinar David did today was for financial planners. You might be curious as to why David has zeroed in on this profession so strongly. It bears mentioning, because there are literally 100,000s of financial planners who are able to direct us into patterns of good investment, which makes it sadly obvious that not enough people have been getting good financial planning advice.
Back to my point about mentors and masterminds. There are very real reasons that people are not able to get their engines really revved up so that they power through the barriers that they run into. One of the most easily fixed of those reasons is to just stop trying to go it alone. Get yourself on a team that thinks like you do and believes in what you believe in. Even if you are on the company board with other people, you are faced with opposition in most cases. What you need is agreement that what you want to do is good and laudable and should be done, even if it takes more work. What you need is someone who can broaden the scope of what tools you have at your disposal. When you get the right mentor and find a likeminded mastermind group where all the folk in it are working on the same page, fast progress is inevitable. Life can get an awful lot more fun when you find you are at the controls of your destiny.
