Attain Self-Mastery, Interdependence and Reflective Leadership

Develop Self-Mastery. Self-Mastery is the first and deepest laid foundational building block for your business success. It is taking complete responsibility for your own behavior and deciding to control your own reactions to outside pressures. This means that you will not blame others for your past mistakes and your present circumstances. You will use your own self-awareness, self-knowledge, imagination, conscience and will-power to be self-determining and proactive. Self-Mastery says, “My success depends on me.”

Seek Interdependence. Interdependence is the second layer of foundational building block after obtaining Self-Mastery. Interdependence teaches you to develop strategic relationships with key people and to understand that you need them to help you create successful business outcomes. Once you have achieved Self-Mastery, you will realize that you cannot attain maximum effectiveness by your own thinking and behaving alone. You learn that by working in concert with others while being personally responsible for your own actions, a team mentality develops. The team mentality allows you and every member of the team to contribute to the effort at maximum levels and to experience maximum satisfaction from the process of working together.

Use Reflective Leadership to maximize business outcomes. Reflective Leadership is the “beyond myself, my family, my community and my organization” third course of foundational building block that requires interdependent organizational strategic partners to function as a “think-tank.” The goal of this Reflection is to think and plan together in new ways, using new approaches to create new products, services and solutions that meet needs and effectively address common problems. At this foundational level, there is a collective focus on working together to leverage the strengths of each group involved to maximize their collective profitability in their particular sphere of influence.

Everything you desire in life begins with your attainment of Self-Mastery. Once you have gained Self-Mastery, you will come to realize that you cannot become your highest and best self all by yourself. This will lead you to seek out principled people—or to be sought out by principled people—with whom you will develop strategic alliances. When you and those with whom you are strategically allied have gone as far as you can go, you will realize that your circle and sphere of influence must be larger and wider. It is at this point that—through your intention and action—the way will be opened to collaborate with partners who believe in the power of the Master Mind, and together, you will create new systems, products, services and applications that can be implemented to impact, empower and energize multitudes of people for their good and the welfare of millions of people around the world.

Heed the call to GO BIG, or go home!

The Law of Concentration

The Law of Concentration makes you use your ability to imagine a situation, circumstance or reality that you have never experienced in the past. It is your gift for seeing the future, as well as your capacity to create what you have seen in your mind into a visible manifestation that others can see. Your endowments of imagination and creativity are proof that you have God’s DNA within you. It is also evidence that the Law of Concentration is immutable—it cannot change or be changed.

The Law of Concentration teaches you to focus the attention of your imagination in order to create your own future. Your destiny is determined by disciplining your thought life. Thus, disciplining your mind to concentrate on the definite goal or object that you wish to achieve is an urgent matter.

The Law of Concentration teaches that you must focus your mind on whatever your goal or object is until the circumstances that will manifest that goal or object are firmly in place and your goal or object has been realized. This means that you must place your desired goal or object into your unconscious by repeatedly holding the image of your goal or object in your mind, waking and sleeping. In addition, it means moving beyond just thinking about your goal or object and actually feeling what it would feel like to have already obtained your desired goal or object—i.e., you must emotionalize your goal or object to such an extent that you experience enjoying the feeling of having achieved your goal or object in the present moment.

Placing your desired goal or object into your unconscious mind and forming the habit of practicing this thought-life habitually are the two pillars upon which the Law of Concentration stands.

Your subconscious mind stores whatever you repeatedly think and practice. Then it acts silently and relentlessly to bring about the realization, in concrete form, of the object of your imagination. Thus, concentration is the habit of fixing in your mind the thoughts, desires and creations of your imagination and insisting on their reality. You can do this because of the DNA of God that is within you and because of the unchanging nature of the universal Law of Concentration.

You must believe that what you concentrate on will happen for you. This principle of calling things not yet in being as though they now already exist is content-neutral. It doesn’t matter what the object of your concentration is. For example, if you believe and keep concentrating on the idea that you are sick or inept or clumsy, then you will eventually get sick, be inept and become clumsy. If you believe and keep concentrating on the idea that you will fail in business, then you will fail in business. On the other hand, if you believe and concentrate on the idea that you are well, strong and able to succeed in business, then you will ultimately be well, strong, and you will succeed in business.

Know, Accept, Believe in and Love Yourself

Each person who has ever become extremely successful in business and in life has had one important and unmistakable trait in common: each knew, accepted, believed in and loved themselves. Knowing, understanding and loving one’s self is the bedrock upon which true wealth, prosperity and personal success are built. But, knowing, understanding and loving one’s self can be extremely difficult because there are so many distractions around that most people don’t take the time to figure themselves out until much later in their lives. The busyness of life—earning a living, raising a family, coping with the stresses and strains in life—often overwhelms people, so that when they get the chance to assess themselves, they’re too physically tired or mentally exhausted to do so.

Because you’re on the path to becoming a successful entrepreneur, you must take the time to get to know, understand, accept and love who you really are. You need to make a list of all your strengths—1) those things you do really well; 2) those skills and abilities that you bring to the table; 3) those qualities that showcase your greatest character traits; 4) those qualities that show off your best people skills; and 5) those situations that allow you to do what you enjoy most. Then make a brief mental note about your weaknesses—1) those things you don’t do well; 2) those skills and abilities that you can’t bring to the table; 3) those qualities that showcase your greatest character flaws; 4) those qualities that expose your worst people skills; and 5) those situations that make you do what you hate. Although you should write down and keep a copy of all your strengths, you should NEVER write down your weaknesses—if you do, they will become worse! Just make a quick mental note of them so that you can avoid situations where they may come into play. (Feed your strengths and starve your weaknesses. Be sure that you NEVER divulge your weaknesses to others—they will always hold them against you!)

Build who you are now on the foundation of your strengths. Just as you are no longer a baby in diapers, a 7-year-old playing ball on the sand lot, or a teenager rebelling against your parents, you are not who you used to be! You are ever-changing, ever-evolving, and always getting better, smarter, wiser and surer of yourself and the gift that you are to the human race. Learn to encourage yourself, accept yourself and love yourself so that you can encourage, accept and love others. Love must start with you—know yourself so that you can love yourself and the people with whom you will do business.    

On Harmony and Order

Harmony is undisturbed peace, trust and good will between and among two or more people who are either living together, doing business together or working together on a social or community project. Harmony is third on the list of the top 12 conditions that are required for gaining wealth. This is so because acquiring wealth is not an individual sport, but a group activity.

Without the concerted and harmonious efforts of a dedicated group, wealth is impossible to amass in the U.S. in the 21^st century. What this means is that wealth is acquired these days by groups of people who work together and share in the profits from their labor as owners of a collective enterprise.

Andrew Carnegie, Charles Schwab, Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan—and the list goes on—all got wealthy together because they each assisted the other to amass wealth. They succeeded because they cooperated together in harmony. Each chose an industry to thrive in that did not compete with the others’ business interests. Because there was no competition between their Master Mind group, they could whole-heartedly help each other in an unselfish way.

As you move into owning your own business, find out what other businesses are compatible with yours and make strong friendships with owners of those businesses. As you cooperate in harmony with owners of businesses that are not in competition with you, you are creating a Master Mind that will provide the catalyst for the quickest and most honorable way to wealth.

Order is the evidence that you lead a disciplined lifestyle that refuses to tolerate clutter, distraction and dysfunction. It is the ground upon which the virtuous entrepreneur builds her business. Order is the house in which your creativity and innovation live. Order is important because without it chaos reigns. Chaos is the enemy of order and the author of confusion. Order is not just the absence of chaos, but the sign and signal that mark you as a person who lives with intention.

Order and intention immediately evoke the mental picture of a progression that proceeds in one-step-at-a-time fashion. Such a progression is a definite plan of action. Without a plan, your intention has no definite object upon which to focus. If you have no definite object upon which to focus, the Law of Attraction will bring you more of the same—confusion, chaos and failure.

If you want to be successful, you must concentrate on a definite goal and give yourself entirely to its accomplishment by making a definite plan to achieve that goal. Order in your life is the clear space in which you are able to do the planning you need to do in order to succeed in life and in business.

Harmony and Order are inseparable Siamese twins: one can’t live without the other.