photo by Santiago Cornejo
Here’s a question that came up yesterday at my speech “Milk It! (How to Get Everything You Can Out of Being in an Artwalk!” at the Beverly Art Alliance.
I mentioned that I’m in a group where we state our goals each month at the end of the meeting. Something we say we’ll get done by the next meeting.
This is helpful because 1. you have to come up with a goal, and 2. you stood up and said you’d do it! You have to go back the next month and either stand up proudly and say you did it, or make an excuse. I’d rather say I did it. Most people would and that’s why it works.
My group and that process is what got me to finally hit the publish button on my Kindle e-book on photographing jewelry.
How do you do it? Either add this goals component to a group you’re already in – if everyone’s into that, or create a new group. Create the community you crave.
Decide what kind of group you want. Make it easy, make it sustainable. Find a location, preferably free. Gather at least one friend, for support.
I suggest using Meetup.com to make it easy for people to find your group. Then hit publish! It’s that easy!
If you want more detail, there’s a affordable online course on Udemy on how to create your own mastermind group.
https://www.udemy.com/how-to-create-your-mastermind-group
and here’s a blog post with more on starting a mastermind group:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-start-and-run-a-mastermind-group.html
