Maui Lesson Four: Use Your Mastermind Group to Hold You Accountable

Maui Mastermind participants have learned to leverage the power of their mastermind group by mutually holding each member accountable for their commitments.

Here are a few tangible tips to help you do the same:

Use your mastermind group as a source of accountability for your actions.
• Have each member make concrete commitments for action steps they will take.
• Check in first thing the following meeting to see if they were done.
• Consider removing any mastermind member who consistently fails to meet their commitments. You cannot afford the luxury of catching their character.

I hope that the ideas I’ve shared so far in this special report have encouraged you to do whatever it takes to align yourself with the right group of fellow investors to help you reach your financial dreams faster and easier.

It’s made such a huge impact in my life. Early on the biggest benefit I got from my mastermind group was the faith to go after my dreams in business. Later my mastermind group helped give me the candid feedback I needed to fine-tune my action plans.

Nowadays my mastermind group creates new ideas for me and infuses me with positive energy.

What Maui Meant for David…

David shared with me his breakthrough moment where he finally “got” what it meant to create wealth and abundance. Here’s what he told me, in his own words:

“I was walking along on the cliffs overlooking an area of San Diego called La Jolla. It was in the early afternoon and since it was mid-week, very few people were nearby.

It was during that moment that I had a blinding insight about what it really took to make money.

There I was, walking along the beach, looking up at the multi-million dollar homes along the stunning coastline and I suddenly knew what it took to make money. And I also knew that I would never again have to “worry” about money.

At this point I was already a self-made millionaire. But now for the first time ever I realized what I had REALLY done to make all that money—and why money would always be easy for me to make in the future.

Here is the key insight:

Money is an idea that can be created at will out of the power of your mind.

I can already hear you saying, “Are you nuts David? It can’t be that easy!” Or, “You’ve spent too much time living in California and you’ve gone off the deep end!”

But I know that it’s true. You literally make yourself a money magnet by creating beliefs that are so irresistible that money flows to them.

So that brings us to the $64 billion dollar question:

How Can You Create the Beliefs You Need to Earn the Money You Want?

That my friend, is one heck of a powerful question.

And the answer to that question, when you really “get it”, will allow you to literally explode your earning potential.

Can you imagine what it would feel like to never worry about money again? To be in a place in your life that you KNOW, beyond any shadow of doubt, that you can create as much money in your life as you want or need to live a full, secure, and free life.

The answer is so simple, yet so powerful.

The fastest, easiest way to program yourself for great wealth is to immerse yourself in a mastermind relationship with other successful people. People who are earning more, living more, and enjoying more… then you fight like heck to deserve to be a part of that group.

Your PEER GROUP is the number one factor, more than anything else, that determines your financial success, your happiness, and your fulfillment in life.

Going back to the story of my insight walking along the beach, the thing is, like many powerful moments, the intensity and trust in that moment faded over time.

Have you ever experienced something so powerful that it fundamentally shifted your thinking pattern, or your value system, or your spiritual self, only to have that intense direct experience fade over time?

For me this meant that while I could recapture that feeling of wealth as a mental state of mind, during much of my day-to-day life it wasn’t fully present inside me as a way of being in the world. It was there, but not as strong or as directly experienced as my earlier breakthrough moment.

And being like any other person, the further that “knowing” got from my consciousness, the more small doubts and fears would sneak into my mind.

“How much does that cost?” And, “I can’t afford that.” And, “Can I really give that much?” These types of questions and doubts played at the periphery of my daily experience.

When I was at my most resourceful state of being it was easy for me to scoff at these thoughts and send them on their way. But there were other times where I had to struggle my way through getting them to leave.

So what does all this have to do with what Maui meant to me? It ties back into one aspect of the event—the sharing of a large chunk of the profits from the event with different charities.

While it’s been an important part of my life to “seed and tithe”, I found the fourth day of Maui when the participants chose how to give away thousands of dollars of the money raised by the event to charity really brought an important lesson home for me. It felt so moving to be part of a special group of people who ALL felt so called to share as a necessary component to creating true wealth.

Later that afternoon (the only afternoon we had off from the intense five day schedule), I was swimming out in the ocean with Jeff, one of the participants from Northern California, when this little voice slithered into my mind whispering doubt and fear and lack. “You gave away how much money?… What are you crazy?…. Why couldn’t you have given away only half that much…?”

I floated there in the bay looking back toward shore about 400 yards back and just noticed the feelings of fear and lack that had surfaced. Here I was floating up and down on the swells looking back at the luxury resort where we held the event and the contrast between that abundance I saw and was experiencing in my life clashed with the small voice of my past fears rising.

I didn’t fight these feelings, I just honored them by NOTICING them and acknowledging they existed. And soon, about 10 minutes later they floated away, like words written on sand that the tide erases in its passing.

I turned back and played in the warm ocean and bathed in the tremendous wealth and abundance of that moment.

I share this with you to make sure you understand that it is natural to have times where fear and lack creep back into your mind. Money, like relationships, is a highly emotionalized topic in our society. It brings with it a host of associations that have nothing to do with wealth, and everything to do with wealth.

Here I was, part of an event that helped raise so much money to do good in the world (over $110,000 by the time we were done), but that triggered part of me that was scared. Where in your life had you had experiences where some event triggers a money fear for you? Has it been when you bought your last car or house? Or when you last wrote out a check for a charity? Or when a family member turned to you for financial help?

When these moments occur I hope you remember this powerful pattern for dealing with fear—just notice and observe the way you are feeling.

Think of it like a rip current in the ocean. Rather than fight it with brute force heading straight back to shore (which would sound like, “Why are you worried? You have plenty of money. Giving money is a wonderful thing”) instead flank your fear by merely noting it’s presence. (“I notice I’m scared right now. My heart is beating so fast and I’m breathing fast and shallow from my upper chest. I hear my dad’s voice saying that we can’t afford it over and over in my head. Isn’t this all so interesting.”)

By noticing our fear rather than arguing with it we can quickly put it into perspective as just a physical reaction to some imagined story and meaning we’ve made up about money in our heads.

Think of it like comforting a small child. Until you let that child feel heard for all his or her fears they will resist any comfort you try to give them. Instead help that part of you articulate what it’s feeling BEFORE you move on to comfort it.

For me this sounded like, “I notice that a part of me really feels scared right now. My upper chest is tight and I’m breathing very rapidly. How interesting, I’m feeling fear. What is it that I’m afraid of here? Oh, I’m afraid that maybe there be some unknown expense from the event and we’ll lose money. Or what if it all disappears tomorrow and I may look back at all the money I gave away and realize that I should have held on to it. Isn’t it amazing how giving away all that money can spark all this for me? What would it feel like if I took a few slow deep breaths right now? That feels much better. My thoughts are much calmer now. I observe that now my chest has relaxed and that I also feel warm and proud about giving away all that money, after all that’s the only reason to make it in the first place—to do great things with it in the world…” You get the idea here.

Did you notice how I first took the time to notice how I felt and why before I tried to soothe or salve my feelings. In my experiences this is critically important to growing comfortable dealing with fear and wealth.

There was a time that this pattern would take place over a few weeks, but now it takes just five to ten minutes for me to process through it.”

Thank you for that story David and for sharing what Maui meant to you.

This brings us to the next Maui Lesson…