1 Hr Mastermind

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

Ben Mack reveals the stepby-step Success Formula

©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved www.1HourMastermindAcademy.com

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

The 1-Hour MASTERMIND is based on the best practices of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the wealthiest man in the world in the 1930ʼs. Most people know of “masterminding from Chapter 10 of Napoleon Hillʼs legendary public domain book Think And Grow Rich. And, those who are intimately familiar with Napoleon Hillʼs depiction of masterminding found few details in that text… “When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of the creative mechanism of each contributing mind.” ~ Napoleon Hill, Think And Grow Rich, Chapter 10 What few people realize is that Napoleon Hill was depicting the success formula of Andrew Carnegie. If we want to learn the step-by-step instructions we needed to study harder to uncover the exacting yet simple methodology of Andrew Carnegie. Letʼs take a look by meeting the man who got the ball rolling… Meet Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world in the 1930ʼs. Andrew Carnegie was one of the biggest philanthropists of the 20th century, and because of some great business deals, he was incredibly wealthy even by todayʼs standards.   Andrew Carnegie made so much money for a number of reasons. Often sited is his industrialist mastery of doing more with less. Andrew Carnegie optimized for efficiencies and effectiveness. ©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

When a calculating industrialist like Andrew Carnegie does something repeatedly it is because he has found an advantage, an advantage the rest of us can often profit from. Andrew Carnegie found it advantageous to begin his in-home mastermind by reading a scripted welcome. The fact that Andrew Carnegie used to read a script to open and close his mastermind is a great win for us because his scripts came into my possession last summer. At first, I was skeptical. Could these words really be what a baron of industry would read in his own home, with his richest business partners? These words appeared to me as fluffy at first. I needed to know this was what Andrew Carnegie actually used in his own voice. Suddenly, it appeared to me that many of my friends were already familiar with these words, with Andrew Carnegieʼs mastermind scripts. HOW COME I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THEM? Why arenʼt they in Napoleon Hillʼs chapter 10 of Think And Grow Rich? Immediately I saw the value of gifting as many people as I possibly could with this discovery, the authentic words the richest man in the world found optimal to us at the beginning of his mastermind. If I hadnʼt stumbled across them, and I was actively collecting notes on best-practices in masterminding, then casual mastermind leaders certainly might not be able to get their hands on this material! On the next page youʼll see verbatim, the exact words Andrew Carnegie used to open his mastermind…

©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

Our 1-Hour Mastermind Leader welcomes their Mastermind and reads: I RELEASE… I release myself to the mastermind because I am strong when I have others to help me. I BELIEVE… I believe the combined intelligence of the mastermind creates a wisdom far beyond my own. I UNDERSTAND… I understand that I will more easily create positive results in my life when I am open to looking at my self, my problems and opportunities from another's point of view. I DECIDE… I decide to release my desire totally in trust to the mastermind and I am open to accepting new possibilities. I FORGIVE… I forgive my self for mistakes I have made. I also forgive others who have hurt me in the past so I can move into the future with a clean slate. I ASK… I ask the mastermind to hear what I really want; my goals, my dreams and my desires, and I hear my mastermind partners supporting me in MY fulfillment. I ACCEPT… I know, relax, and accept, believing that the working power of the mastermind will respond to my every need. I am grateful knowing this is so. Take a moment. Let those words saturate your mind and marinate in body. Read Carnegieʼs welcome a second time if you please. Iʼve read these words of Andrew Carnegieʼs at least once a day since September 2, 2009 the day my mastermind partner Ronda Del Boccio explained to me that she read Carnegieʼs words anytime she sat down to work on a business project. Pow... I saw a new possibility because I knew these words work. Ronda found that by reading these words that her mind found focus, clarity and a new found ability to chunk down projects into bite-size specific measurable actions that she can get done.

©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

Weʼve all heard, “Donʼt focus on what you canʼt fix.” Well, in the past I found myself sometimes having a hard time. Before masterminding I found that there were times I just couldnʼt help myself. Masterminding changed all that for me. What I found was that if I kept doing what I had been doing, then it was not logical of me to expect different results then I had gotten in the past. I wanted more. I decided to try what had worked for others. The number 1 tool of success I found self-made-millionaires using was masterminding. So, I started masterminding. The problem was that every mastermind I joined had different rules and different people. What I found was that most free masterminds were a bigger waste of time then they were a benefit to my business goals. I wanted a better way to mastermind that leveraged all the best practices. I knew I wanted a mastermind that opened and closed with the Carnegie scripts. I knew I wanted a mastermind that I could schedule like a business meeting that started promptly and ended on time. I knew I wanted a mastermind that would help me with focus and not just goal-setting, but best practices in getting the goals done. Thatʼs the not-so-secret benefit of goal-setting is getting the goals done. I knew I didnʼt want a time suck. I knew that I didnʼt want people competing on who could work the hardest. In fact, I wanted the opposite. I wanted a mastermind of partners who could help me find the easiest way to get the things done I need to get done to live a life I absolutely love. To the best of my knowledge, we only go through life once. I want my life to be worth living, to be filled with love, fun and happiness. We all do, if we are honest with ourselves. I think anyways. I donʼt like to argue this. If you have other designs for your life I wish you the success you crave and I hope youʼll respect my wishes to optimize my life for love, fun and happiness.  ©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

When I couldnʼt find an all-in-one mastermind construct that both used the authentic scripts of Andrew Carnegie, plus used the best practices from todayʼs masters of easy productivity, I had to craft my own construct. We call it The 1-Hour Mastermind. The 1-Hour Mastermind is a simple 5-step process that makes masterminding as easy and efficient as possible. Itʼs as simple as this… 1.

Carnegie Welcome Script •

2.

Round of gratitude •

3.

Within each personʼs 7-Minutes 1.

Yes/No on last weekʼs S.M.A.R.T. Goal

2.

Category of question

3.

Ask a specific question

State your S.M.A.R.T. Goal •

5.

Mastermind partners each say 1-thing for which they are grateful

Everyone gets 7-Minutes •

4.

This script is on the previous page

You choose a Specific Measurable Action thatʼs Realistic and Time-bound

The Carnegie Closing Covenant Script •

Our Mastermind Leader thanks our Mastermind Team. Then, our Mastermind Leader reads: “I now have a covenant in which it is agreed that the MasterMind shall supply me with an abundance of all things necessary to live a successfilled and happy life. I dedicate myself to be of maximum service to God and my fellow human beings, to live in a manner that will set the highest example for others to follow and to remain an open channel of Godʼs will. I go forth with a spirit of enthusiasm, excitement and expectancy.”

That IS The 1-Hour Mastermind... and now it is YOURS. ©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved

1-Hour Mastermind Academy

My name is Benjamin G. S. Mack, and I have spent the last four years studying the best practices of entrepreneurial masterminding. Entrepreneurs measure their impact by what they get done. Thatʼs really what masterminding facilitates, the art of getting more done in less time so you can go about doing what you enjoy doing most.

©2009 www.1HourMastermind.com All Rights Reserved