Developing A Mastermind Team

Day 237:“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not
see the ones which open for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell.

No creature can look at a closed door longer or spend time trying to revive a dead thing like a woman. Which is why I've made a personal decision in Act 2 of my life where God's promises that my latter days would be better than my former to chose my team.

Tonight I was having a conversation with one of my brother’s who I affectionally call my father’s son. We have the same father and so that makes us half-brother and sister but neither of us has ever referred to each other as such. Well, I guess if I call him my father’s son then I’m calling him my half-brother without saying it…umm. If there was ever two unlike minded people it would describe the two of us.

I explained to him how I was being very deliberate about the people with whom I invited to join my business or be part of my inner circle. Even with this declaration I informed him that I had gone against my better judgment and the voice in my knower screaming, "don't do it" and allowed him on my team. I’ve come to learn of late that you can determine where you’re going in life by looking at your cell phone and analyzing the three people you spend the most time talking with. I was blown away when I heard this and knew at that moment I needed to reorder my day. This meant accessing exactly whom I’m allowing to occupy the majority of my time and my talents. What does your top three say about where you're going?

As I noodled what my mastermind team would look like in business it became very clear that I could no longer settle for who so ever will. I have to be strategic about how I chose partners as I run the most important race of my life. I'm in a race to build a legacy for my children’s, children, children, children. I mean to stamp out poverty in my bloodline by any means necessary. This go round I refuse to dumb down who I am so other folks can fit. That goes for my personal life as well as professional. I issue a challenge to the hundreds of women who read this blog everyday to take stock of your team.

There is to much at stake for us to just hang out with the familiar and mundane and then wonder why our tomorrow keeps looking like our today. You will have the life you create for yourself and what you do today determines what will be your tomorrow carrying to much baggage from yesterday.

If you’re still looking at closed doors then make up in you mind that you want to walk towards some new open doors and start walking. If you are holding on to a dead relationship, business partner or career purpose in your heart to get a plan and move on. Life is for the living and if it’s dead that mean’s you cannot bring it back to life even if you fake it.

What does your Mastermind Team look like?