Summary: Not long ago I flew into San Francisco to mastermind with some heavy hitters. <br> <br> <br> <br> The group consisted of John Lee Dumas from Entrepreneur on Fire, <br> <br> Greg Hickman from Mobile Mixed, <br> <br> And Rick Mulready from the Art of Paid Traffic (and our Facebook Ads guru) <br> <br> We rented a beautiful, modern, SanFran house next to some famous park (whose name I can't remember for the life of me) for a few days and got right to masterminding.<br> <br> Each person would get a turn presenting a problem we were having in our businesses and everyone else would talk about all the different solutions they could think up to fix the problem. <br> <br> Then, each person would share tips, secret resources, and big breakthroughs so we could all benefit from them.<br> <br> This went on all of the first day and then the evening was time to 'party' mastermind with a bunch of internet business people who live in San Francisco. <br> <br> There are a lot...<br> <br> The late, great Scott Dinsmore of Live Your Legend and Andrew Warner of Mixergy and a handful of other well-known influencers joined us at a crazy bar/mini-golf/burger joint.<br> <br> The second day was filled with insights and big breakthroughs, and we had a special guest in the afternoon. <br> <br> He lived only a few blocks from our secret mastermind lair.<br> <br> I didn't know Tim Ferriss was supposed to be joining us, but there was a knock at the door and he strolled in.<br> <br> Tims the author of Tools of titans and all the 4-hour books, like four our chef and four our body.<br> <br> I hadn't seen Tim in person since I first met him back in 2007 when he asked to be on my podcast to pitch a little ol' book called, The Four Hour Work Week. <br> <br> (I said no cause we already had a productivity guy, the book became huge, and of course I changed my mind. He did our show a couple months later from his bathroom while he was having a large birthday party at his house, but that's another story...)<br> <br> We spent the entire afternoon getting in-depth and personal with Tim, his business, and some of the investment opportunities he was currently looking into. <br> <br> This continued on throughout the night and into the next morning as Tim showed us around the thriving food and bar scene.<br> <br> The specifics of what is said in a mastermind is confidential and if you share them with others you'll never be invited again, but I can tell you one mindset shift I had from what Tim shared.<br> <br> He was playing at such a high level and had so many possibilities when it came to business that he had a very specific rule when it came to analyzing new ventures. <br> <br> Keep in mind, Tim is very public about being one of the first round of investors in Uber, so he is playing a different level than the rest of us.<br> <br> His rule was that the new venture had to make at least 10 million dollars a year for him to take the time to consider it. <br> <br> No joke, he had so many offers at that level, he wouldn't consider anything not in that realm.<br> <br> I was amazed to hear that, to say the least.<br> <br> What it made me do is shift my mindset to 10x everything I was considering. <br> <br> I had a goal to help 10,000 entrepreneurs get their freedom business started, which I hit, and I decided to 10x that to 100,000! <br> <br> I hadn't decided to do the Freedom Club yet, but it came from my commitment to take all my goals to 10x.<br> <br> That's what masterminds can do for you. <br> <br> Open your mind. <br> <br> Get fantastic advice. <br> <br> Know you're not alone. <br> <br> Help you solve a problem by having other like minds solve it with you. <br> <br> Mastermind groups are awesome.<br> <br> The Freedom Club wouldn't exist if I hadn't been pushed...
