What Are You Feeding Your Mind?
What a great Easter weekend! It was a little cold, but I was thrilled to have all of my kids home for the holiday. Since our girls started college last fall, our house has been awfully quiet. If you’re an empty nester, you’ll know what I’m talking about. After having four kids in the house for a bunch of years, this is a whole new experience.
For one thing, a quart of milk now lasts a week, where we used to go through a gallon a day! Another big change is that since the house is so quiet, and we’re not driving to or attending hundreds of extracurricular school events, I have substantially increased the number of books I read.
I thought I would depart from the topic of newsletters to share some of what’s in my library. In no particular order, here are seven titles that have helped me grow both personally and professionally…here is what I am feeding my mind!
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren
- No BS Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy
- Success Is an Inside Job by Lee Milteer
- Raise the Bar by Mike Vance and Diane Deacon
- Today Matters by John Maxwell
- First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Since I’m a little off topic today I also want to share with you something that has had perhaps the greatest impact on my business — joining a mastermind group. What is a mastermind group? It can best be described as one part board of directors and one part peer-advisory group. A mastermind group is a group of like-minded individuals who come together to contribute to each others’ success in a spirit of harmony and partnership. The POWER of the mastermind experience is that it can lift your mind and vision to enable you to see things that you otherwise could not, most likely because you are too close to your business. Here’s the real secret — great minds don’t always think alike! That’s why the best leaders turn to mastermind groups. Just imagine sitting around a table with successful people from many different fields and walks of life, and having them freely, openly, and confidentially share what they would do to grow your business. My mastermind group is responsible for me starting my third business, which I will tell you about in the near future. So what are you feeding your mind? Drop me a note and let me know; I’d appreciate your recommendations.
PS. A few postings ago I mentioned that I was interviewed on a Teleseminar about newsletters and the newsletter business. I have posted the interview and you can either listen to it from your computer or download an MP3 file. The links are on the right just under my Web site URLs. Enjoy!
