As you may know one of my biggest challenges for this project, and maybe in life, is and was work in a team, work as a team, or work in or with a Master Mind as Napoleon Hill calls it. But looking back at the last year, at how this project came into being and where it is now I can only say that I made big progress and yes, can consider myself quite or even very successful. And yes, at the back of my mind is continuously something like ‘money’, or actually lack of money, but I am starting to see and believe that life is not about money as it often seems to be for many of us. And that indeed success is not only measured in terms of money as i always thought it was. And yes, I still want money, lots of it, as I always wanted. But not so much anymore for the sake of money, but more for the sake of doing the things I want to do and even giving the things i want to give, like visiting friends or family. And for the freedom I think it can give me, give you. But actually I don’t want to talk about that now.
What I was and am planning to talk about was the team, my team challenge, and while writing this I realize the thing i wanted to talk about is somehow also related to money. So let’s see where this goes.
My main issue here is that I do believe, according to the Principles of Success, that i should stick with decisions that have been made, especially if they are supported by the whole team. So i let go of my original sample goal, or at least the date. So I kind of settled with the intermediate goal of the team to acquire one hundred dollars on or before October 22, 2013 (and not one million dollar on a similar time scale as I originally stated) for ‘teams sake’. And don’t get me wrong, this is not a negative as I am starting to see how much more indeed a team, a Master Mind is.
You may want to know that the team, even though in my opinion did not contribute so much in actual work for e.g. the site, already contributed so much in additional ideas and thoughts and, indeed, reality checks, that I indeed see the value and how much more you can achieve with team effort than you can alone, even though often I feel ‘held back’. But I know that in the end my patience will pay off as I can see and feel now that when the team is synchronized and focused on the goal or the goals the speed and impact will be enormous, indeed much, much, much more that I can and could have ever imagined.
However, somehow now I need to convince the team that mindset is indeed everything and that if you don’t believe that you can make one hundred dollars on or before October 22, 2013, it quite sure will not happen. And that if you do believe it that it is quite likely to happen, probably even much sooner. I mean, what is one hundred dollars to be acquired by four people in a period of six weeks? I earned more than that amount more than ten years ago in one hour being a consultant at KPMG. So why couldn’t I, supported by three people, not even earn that now in six weeks time, let alone why can’t four people earn that in six weeks time, if we would want to get it by ‘earning’? And I’m quite sure I can get it in five minutes from my mam. And I’m quite sure my team members also know people who would easily be willing to give one hundred dollars for a good cause if they would just be asked. You may call this type of ‘asking’ cheating related to the goal, but my point is here that somehow we as the team have limited ourselves in ‘earning’, acquiring money. And I have known that for a long time, but some of my team members apparently not.
Anyhow, going back to team I am experiencing two issues here:
- One of the team members doesn’t believe anymore that we can make one hundred US dollars on or before October 22, 2013.
- One of the team members thinks one million dollars on or before October 19, 2013 is ‘not realistic’.
And to me the first issue is the most important as there are several things conflicting with the principles of success here and the most important is to come back on a decision that has already been made. And over the last year I indeed learned about the powers of making decisions and sticking to them. And no, I didn’t stick to all my decisions but I did stick to my major decisions and it paid off and I am also starting to see or just seeing why.
But the team doesn’t have my experience, so somehow I need to pass that on or just be patient or let them experience themselves or…
But that was my biggest challenge.