 wanted to share with you the immense value that you can get from doing mastermind meetings and of course from finding a mastermind partner or partners to do those mastermind meetings with. So I personally have been doing weekly mastermind meetings with my girlfriend my current relationship for quite a while and the way we conduct it is once per week we set up a date where we sit down for between 90 minutes to two hours and we can basically bring up anything that we want and talk about it and the cool thing is that this in this meeting we don't get to use our phones and you know open Facebook and it's not like just kind of talking and then oh I want to talk about something you know just during the day. It's time that is booked specifically for raising stuff that we want to talk about meaning that there are no distractions there's no thing nowhere else to do, nothing else to do, nowhere else to go. This is basically like an official meeting and it's treated as such so for example before the meeting we're not allowed to start raising subjects until we again sit down and officially start the meeting we always show up on time basically we treat it like a super serious business meeting. Okay now what are the benefits? So what I do is I look at my life and I look at my relationship my business my goals my fitness friendships anything that currently either I don't feel good about or something that I potentially want to improve. This can start with small things like you know in my relationship like you there's this thing that I wanted to bring up something that you know she did that I do that I want to talk about maybe it's about being honest maybe it's about something that bothers me or it could be something like look I haven't been working out enough we need to talk about it and find a way to fix it or again this is bothering me or even I want to talk about this and why it's really good. So I bring up a lot of subjects and the the meeting is the time when we sit down and deeply discuss them. Now you have many benefits to this first of all most people I'd say like 98% of all people do not have a fixed time where they actually sit down once per week and think about their life from a practical perspective of fixing things. So I do daily reports every day because they're daily and ask myself various questions like how did I do today where was I excellent where was I not so good what are my goals for today what values do I want to embody what can get in the way of having a good day tomorrow so that's like day-to-day optimizing but what you can do with mastermind meetings is long-term optimizing like actually creates strategies together with your partner or with you can say your mastermind partner or a partner's and really solve problems so instead of being in a relationship and having something that bothers you and then not discussing it or maybe you know you only discuss it when you're mad about it like for example there's something she does that makes you angry and then you only raise it when you're actually angry because she did it again you're not rational you're not going to solve the problem because you're just coming from a place of anger so you can actually talk about it ahead of time and again in an environment where you both chose to sit down and focus so you can find a really good friend to this with again needs to be somebody who's actually with the very you know you someone you respect someone who developed themselves someone who can give you a good second opinion on things that you raise so just again just to give an example for things that I raise in my mastermind meeting so one problem that I have is that I have a very tough time with long-term vision so I'm really good in short term like okay I want to do this achievement or said I said this goal and I think a week ahead you know maybe two weeks maybe a month ahead and I set up a goal I create a some sort of a deadline and a really strong incentive where if I don't complete the goal something bad will happen and I usually accomplish these goals very well almost a hundred percent success rate but where I dismally fail is in setting up long-term goals and thinking about future vision so I'm really bad at looking like a year from now or five years or ten years from now and actually saying okay this is what I want to be and let's think backwards from the end to you know let's break it down and create a plan to get there so I like to keep my options open to a fault and this is a problem so this is something that really came up to my mind in the last few days so I wrote it down and now it's a topic for my next mastermind meeting with my partner which means that we're gonna sit down talk about it solve it well most people spend their lives carrying unsolved issues that only grow so if I did not have that mastermind meeting that that place where I can fix it what would most likely happen is I would carry it for years until hopefully I would be forced to improve it but most likely I would never fix it and even again even if I sit down alone even if you sit with yourself and think about it without having that second person to provide a contrast to you to basically contrast against your biases your emotions to help you stay grounded in strategic thinking to challenge you you're not you're just not going to do it like it's not gonna happen because again you're only rational and strategic up to the point where it starts to get personal and emotions are involved okay so again this is why it's so amazing this is and I've told my girlfriend many times I think this is the most important part of our relationship I think that this is this is one of the key fun foundations of our relationship because this is the time where we talk about things that we want to change fix solve improve again I'm not I'm not trying to say like okay this is our complaint meeting no not at all this is the time where you sit down and honestly share things that we want to to say to change to improve and know that the other person is there a hundred percent and he's there just like us to create practical solutions to problems and also listening in a very deep way that you don't usually get during the day where people are busy and there's distractions and God knows what so find yourself mastermind partner this could be your best friends could be a business partner that you get along with this could be just random person you know not even your best friend not even a friend somebody you just met online but you guys are have really good shared values and good chemistry and set up like a weekly Skype call or do it with your family member who again you get along really well with or with basically anyone you can think again as long as you really get along with that person or people and you respect them and you know that they will challenge you properly and that they do actually have your kind of the same vision or the same direction in mind like if you're gonna do a mastermind meeting with your mom who's highly conservative in terms of taking risks and she doesn't want you to you know be an entrepreneur and stuff even though you respect her and you love her again it's not gonna work because you you sit down with her and you say okay I want to accomplish this and this you know I want to talk about creating a plan to for example execute something that's really important for me and she's gonna be like oh you know it sounds nice but she's gonna try to change the course to fit her agenda of being careful so find someone who is actually on the same line which again this is why someone who's a partner who's actually like a relationship partner is the best because ideally and you know if you pick the right partner your boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or husband or you know you're all heading the same direction because you're living together and trying to build a life together and also you probably have shared values and also they have a vested interest in your success because let's say again they help you make a lot of money that means they make a lot of money and also because you see them every day that means they can much more easily make sure that you actually follow through on what you say which is one final key point about mastermind meetings it doesn't just end in the meeting it needs to be something where you can set up systems where you can set up accountability for each other so for example you say I want to start working out every day and then your partner helps you set up a routine where you do it for 15 20 minutes every day and you again sit down on how can this go wrong and what could we do about it and how do you make sure that you do it how do you create a commitment maybe even create like a game or a risk or if you miss more than two three days a week you have to pay that person like $200 or something of course something where they don't have the incentive to make you fuck up but but I just you build it like that and then the partner actually outside of the mastermind meeting also makes sure to keep track of you and you keep track of them and you basically grow together amazingly and what I found is that the more you do these meetings and also the more you know you get used to to raising things and you can see gradually that everything that you raise like any issues anything you want to improve you raise it and then you find a strategy together and you solve it and you basically don't finish the meeting until you solved it so you gain increasing confidence in that person and your ability together to conceptualize things and actually execute them in real life and and what's cool about that is that the more you do that the the the more trust you have and the more trust you have the more confidence you'll have and the more confidence you'll have the deeper the questions and and and things you're bringing up and willing to ponder will be so for example at the beginning of our relationship when we just started doing the mastermind meetings we would raise you know very simple topics like you know when you do that behavior it's kind of annoying so let's find a solution where you know you don't have to change too much and maybe I'll change a bit and then we're both happy you know the things like that or hey I want to do this habit so you know maybe help me make sure it happens and again at this point I'm basically coming to her to this to our meeting and being bringing up stuff like like hey I have this deep childhood trauma or insecurity that I want to share with you and work together with you on or again like what I want to do with her actually tomorrow in the mastermind meeting which is actually like hey look I'm frustrated because I don't have a future vision so we need to actually sit down and literally you need to help me paint an entire vision of my future and and actually sit down with me patiently and do it which is something that to be honest I've never really done so it's really really cool the benefits are incredible it's just like an hour or two a week you know two hours a week are I think ideal you know for the meeting and well I feel sorry for you if you don't have it I mean this is simply one of the greatest tools you can have to make sure you're progressing in life you know you're now fucking up you're living up to your expectations you're actually fulfilling your commitments again it gives you a amazing sense of contribution of growth you're seeing yourself develop with another person you're building incredible trust and chemistry with someone else and you're simply co-creating life you're basically sitting down with someone envisioning a future envisioning something that could be different better about tomorrow and actually sitting down talking about it thinking of a plan executing it it gives you so much confidence in the ability of human beings to to manifest reality to basically you know create what they want to create you know if you have the the desire of the patients and the right strategy to follow through on it so again something I'm really passionate about so as you can see it's as you can hear it's a really cool topic and if you need help with it just again send me a message 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