I will be giving you some more tips on how to achieve a higher level of success in all areas of your life.

Today I want to talk about one of the most powerful and yet under-utilised tools in creating success. A tool that people like Thomas Eddison, Henry Ford, Anthony Robbins and Jack Canfield have used. I want to talk about Mastermind Groups.

The mastermind group concept comes from Napoleon Hill, the author of “Think and Grow Rich”, one of the great teachers in the field of human potential.

In simple terms, a Mastermind Group is a group of two or more people coming together with a common purpose and the desire to support each other with ideas, encouragement, insights and resources in a non-competitive environment.

People create or join Mastermind Groups for all sort of different reasons; business growth, personal growth, working on a specific project, emotional support or a sense of community and they are often surprised to find a lot more than they expected.

The old adage “two heads are better than one” comes into play and successful people choose not to make it all on their own.

A Mastermind Group is based on the personal intention to contribute and help the other members of your group, as well as to receive support from them. I am a member of several mastermind groups; some international and some in the UK, but the most effective one I ever had, is with another coach from the North East. This may seem counterintuitive and paradoxical to some, given that on a business level we are competitors. However, we also have the skills and knowledge to help each other on a personal and professional level and build our companies to their highest potential. We can guide each other in order to grow our businesses into a higher level of success, given that there are many organisations and people in the world that could use the skills and knowledge that we have.

There is a special kind of magic, a powerful group synergy that emerges when people work together to support each other.  The results can be truly mind-blowing..

Masterminding is also about getting clear and taking ACTION. Members of Mastermind Groups focus on their goals and what the most effective steps are in order to achieve them.

When you have a group of people with the conscious, positive intention of supporting themselves and each other, who are willing and able to share and enrich their knowledge, masterminding can be deeply rewarding for everyone involved. Being in a room or on a call with like-minded, ambitious people who you trust, makes it a lot more fun to challenge yourself and go after bigger goals.

I invite you all to start or join a Mastermind Group today, together with people you would like help, people you would take pleasure in sharing ideas with and enjoy the benefits for yourself.

Are you ready to create the success in your life you deserve? Are you willing to support other people in achieving their dreams?

Have a great month and I wish you all the greatest success!

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I would like to share with you the necessary tools to help you improve your professional and personal success.  I invite you to try on these techniques, which have been proven time and   time again to help individuals create success in their lives, for yourself.

I’m always amazed with the power and the enjoyment that my clients derive from this experience when they’re visualising.

How does it work and why? When thoughts are felt deeply and clearly enough, they have the power to influence our subconscious, which in turn affects our mindset, habits and actions. As a result, it helps to attract new people, situations and circumstances in our lives, to fit our mind set.

There is a part of the brain known as the RAS (Reticular Activating System), which plays a vital part in our ability to achieve goals using your subconscious mind.  This is where the power of attraction stems from. It is the job of the RAS to highlight people or situations that will help in achieving our goals.

So how can we use this internal mechanism in our favour? Well, we have all experienced busy days in our lives where just for one moment we stopped and thought about what it would be like if we where in a lovely location, looking out across a lovely, serene, turquoise sea, feeling the warmth of the sun and watching the lovely blue sky…

Perhaps you are sitting with you feet in the cool water, with a cocktail in your hand, becoming aware of the smell of sun cream or the sound of a light breeze rustling though the palm trees…

Just by allowing your brain to form these pictures in your head as you read these few lines, you may notice that you have become more relaxed or possibly more excited for you next holiday. Feels good, doesn’t it?

The process you just went through is visualisation, although to get the full effect and benefit of this technique it would be useful to see in your minds eye in as much detail as possible this lovely beach image. Not everyone can actually see a HD quality image in their head however. Some people have other dominant sensors; maybe it is sound. To some it may be touch, for others it is a feeling felt in their gut that everything is well. What matters is that when you use visualization you activate this sensation, be it visual, auditory, or kinaesthetic. The more you practice with it the better you will become and the quicker you will be able to tap into the positive feelings generated by the dynamic of the technique.

Sports professionals use the power of visualisation widely. Jack Nicklaus, the American professional golfer with the most victories in major championships, has said “I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there; its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.”

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming we use a technique called future pacing, which allows us to experience an event before it has actually happened and thus monitor and determine our behaviour internally. If you apply this example in your life, say for an important meeting, an interview or something else that requires your attention, and you visualise yourself going through that event and emerging calm, focused and successful, when the actual real event comes around your RAS will help you see the success and positivity rather than the failure and negativity.

I always believe that we, ourselves, are the best judges of all techniques and tools in our lives. I invite you then, to practice with this and don’t forget to have fun in the process! Remember that the only limits are the ones we impose on ourselves and let me know if you need any help!

Email: Geoff@geoffnicholson.co.uk

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I want to share with you another very powerful and useful success tip: the power of goal achieving.

Andrew Carnegie once said “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes”

Experts on the science of success know the brain is a goal-seeking organism.  Whatever goal you set, your subconscious mind will work night and day to achieve it.  It has also been said that you are more likely to achieve your goals if you put them on paper because it makes them more real to you.

To make sure a goal unleashes the power of your subconscious mind, it must meet two criteria:  It must be stated in a measurable way.  The statement “I will loose weight” in not as clear as “I will loose 10 pounds”, which in turn is not as powerful as “I will weight 135lbs by 5pm on the 30^th June”.  The third is clearer, because anybody can show up at 5pm on 30^th June and look at the scales.  It will either be 135lbs or less or not.  Notice the two criteria are how much (some measurable quantity) and by when (specific time & date).

Be as specific as possible with all aspects of your goals – include the make, model, year and features ….. the size, weight, shape and form … and any other details.  Remember, vague goals produce vague results.

When there are no criteria for measurement and your goal is simply something you want, a wish, a preference, or a good idea you can help engage your subconscious mind and get clarity by writing down your goals in detail.

There are a couple of models that you can use to help make goal setting easier. I found the SMART Model the simplest.  SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time specific.  The goal stated before about the weight loss fits these criteria. I personally also think that it is important to stretch your self when setting goals because it is that stretch that takes you to the next level of your personal development.

So I would like to invite you to challenge yourself and write down 3 goals that you would like to achieve in the next week, 6 months and 1 year.  Remember to use the smart model, if you have any questions about this then please email me at geoff@geoffnicholson.co.uk and I will be more that happy to support you.  I wish you an amazing month ahead and a lot of goal setting and achieving.

Geoff Nicholson Coaching loves to share information to help increase your success in life