Mastermind Groups are a great way to meet creative, innovational, and thought provoking people. You bounce ideas off of each other and collaborate and elaborate on each of the ideas. Some of the best discussions have come from seemingly “ridiculous†ideas, but once you start going through the process and discussing the idea, it actually creates a positive and energizing dialog.
What happens after you’ve been in the same group, with the same people month after month? It starts to get boring!
There are a couple of things you can do to prevent this problem.
The first is to make sure your mastermind group is constantly introducing new people each month. With these new people coming in, there are constant streams of new thoughts and ideas. In larger groups like this, there are people from every industry that can bring in fresh perspectives.
I belong in one group that has only five people, and it will always only have five people. Once a month, we invite someone to come join us for a meeting. This type of meeting is just to let the guest come in and inject us with new ideas and playing devils advocate. This allows our group members to think in new and different ways, keeping us sharp and focused throughout the year.
I’ve been involved with another small group like this (that didn’t want to grow its membership) and it failed. It failed because after some time, we couldn’t come up with more creative ideas to bounce off of each other. We had all come to “think alike†and in any mastermind group, this is not good.
Whichever type of Mastermind Group you join, you must make sure that they have a process of introducing fresh ideas. Hopefully these two tips will help you achieve just that.
