Your path towards success doesn’t need to be lonely even though you might work as a self-employed.
Working as a self-employed brings many advantages besides a lot more challenges due to having to run everything, at least in the beginning.
It is very challenging at times, especially when you need to make decisions in areas, with which you aren’t so familiar yet.
There is always the option of the internet or good books to get inspiration, good ideas or the right know-how for our challenges. But only dealing with yourself with your job and the internet and books can make your work-life quite lonely at times, depending where you work when you are self-employed.
A lot of self-employed choose besides other advantages the social context of working in a Coworking.
In Coworkings you can do your stuff, but also in your breaks meet other self-employed who might have similar jobs, issues or challenges.
Working in a Coworking costs a certain amount per month depending on the individual Coworking, some of them offer also daily tickets or the possibility to rent a working space for certain hours a month or for a week.
But this post here is not about fighting the working-loneliness which can come with being self-employed, but rather not being lonely on your way towards success, which in many cases, passes failures on its way.
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Master Mind Groups are about bringing several brain capacities and different experiences and depending on their participant’s different fields of expertise together.
They consist of at least two people, (which is not yet a group, I know,) ideally a view more, who individually present their biggest problem, concern, issue, challenge or opportunity for a usually fixed amount of minutes in which the other participants listen carefully and think about ideas which can serve as inspirations or solutions or help to the presenters topic. Usually, every other person has around 5 minutes, to present his or her view to the topic of the one who presented it.
This has the huge advantage of receiving insights and golden ideas or even solutions immediately. It can massively speed up one’s projects and by this one’s career.
You can hold a meeting of a Master Mind Group once a week, every two weeks or once a month to give you an inspiration here. Obviously you can totally decide it also more spontaneously with the members of your group. The important thing is to make it regularly in some form. Not only when there is a problem.
Like this, you aren’t lonely on your journey towards success, but you have others who are up to date of your journey and can help you speed it up and most likely enjoy celebrating your progress and achievements with theirs.
It also serves you to have a group to which you have chosen yourself to be accountable for what you say you are going to do.
What you do with job and career is obviously your business, but having a group which you keep up to date with your next steps of certain projects in your business or your career in general, helps you with this little “pressure” to actually do what you plan, which is is another strong advantage of Master Mind Groups. It not only keeps you rolling but helps you to easier rock in your career.
Ideally, a Master Mind Group helps each member to make the achievement of one’s short-term, intermediate and long-term goals a habit.
Another advantage of a Master Mind Group is the inspiration and energy you can seek out of the other members.
Because in case you are very ambitious and like to work on changing your personal status quo to the realization of your dearest goals and dreams in life, it can be more difficult when you don’t have friends or like-minded people around, who are similarly ambitious as you are.
If you want to spend a big amount of your free time to work on yourself, your knowledge and skills and your career, but all your friends just want to party or have fun in their free time, it can get tricky.
First, there is always the seduction of your friends trying to talk you into quitting self-development but join them on partying or hanging out and secondly, you have fewer role models for achieving your ambitious goals in your personal circle.
In terms of energy, it is said that the more you surround yourself with “lazy and just fun-seeking energies”, the more your own energy adjusts to these other energies.
Enjoying these energies every once in a while for joy and recharging your batteries is more than fine.
But if you’re surrounded most of your days by people who aren’t as ambitious as you are, it can negatively affect your own personal drive in a subtle manner in the beginning. Until the moment where you realized that you could have got done a lot more things than you actually did.
- Master Mind Groups multiply your ideas for solutions and valuable ideas.
- Speed up your personal process.
- Potentially contain the expertise and services of another person for you.
- Go with you through tough times but also celebrate your progress, achievements, and successes.
- Can turn into a group of friends.
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- Most importantly they not only keep you rolling but help you to rock your career by giving you and surrounding you regularly with some more ambitious and positive energy.
After a nice and effective session of common brainstorming and solution finding, a meeting can terminate with cooking together or going out to have a nice meal together.
In case you are the type of lonely wolf self-employed but know that you could actually do better or simply feel that some more ambitious people around you wouldn’t hurt your journey, you give a Master Mind Group a try by finding another person or even a friend who you know has some plans for him or herself and start with this person a Master Mind Group.
When you know more people, who could be interested and who got some goals they work for, you can offer and invite them to join the next meeting.
For the lonely wolf type of self-employed, a Master Mind Group is perfect by providing a like-minded and ambitious tribe to hunt successes together, but also have the time and space he or she needs to be in his or her element.
Enjoy the hunting of your successes.
Lonely or with a little tribe.
