Mastermind Your Life

Bill Blalock

Description

Build successful careers, develop leadership abilities, thrive professionally and get more enjoyment out of life with the wisdom and guidance in this comprehensive resource guide.
MASTERMIND YOUR LIFE is a wealth of information and resources that will help you as you define your success and discover the skills that are required to be successful. Leadership development is clearly defined with an eye for the future with opportunities surfacing through innovation and new technologies. You will have insight into the emerging careers of the future, build successful teams and overcome roadblocks to your success track.
WHAT ARE YOUR WAITING FOR?

Sujets

• Mindfulness
• Careers
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Mindfulness (Buddhism)
• Mentorship
• Career
• Future
• Economics
• Success
• Business
• Leadership
• Mentor
• Contrat à terme
• Mastermind
• Carrière
• Carrière & Mobilité

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 07 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665733502
• Langue: English

Extrait

MASTERMIND YOUR LIFE
 
How to Achieve Ultimate Success In Your Life Today and In The Future
 
 
 
BILL BLALOCK
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2022 Bill Blalock.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6657-3351-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3349-6 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3350-2 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022921133
 
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 12/06/2022
 
 
 
 
If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow’s will –
It’s all in the state of MIND.
If you think you’re outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise, You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles, don’t always go to the stronger or faster man
But soon or later the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!
—Napoleon Hill
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1   Success
Success Defined
The Art of Being Focused
Personal and Professional Interconnection
Chapter 2   Building the Foundation
Your Foundation
The Feeling
The Faith Fitness Factor
Chapter 3   Developing Your Career
Your Career Review
The Interview
Chapter 4   Going through the Process
The Process
Success Skills
Soft Skills
Hard Skills
Attitude and Culture
Motivation—The Approach
Your Belief System
Your Relationships
The Mastermind Impact
The Mentor Impact
The Emotional Intelligence Impact
The Impact of Mindfulness
Chapter 5   Delivering on Leadership
Leadership Traits
The Future of Leadership
Chapter 6   Sustaining Transformational Leadership
Sustaining Leadership
Self-Discipline
Critical Thinking
Groupthink Bias—Herd Mentality
Extreme Ownership
Being an Advocate
Team Building
Decisiveness
Overcoming Roadblocks
Avoid Burnout
Successful Selling—Your Brand
Chapter 7   A Winning Methodology
Chapter 8   The Future
The Future—Your Future
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Machine Learning (ML)
Quantum Computing
The Meta Universe
Virtual Reality (VR)
IQ + EQ + DQ
FINAL THOUGHTS
Personalize the Experience
Seek Balance in Your Life
PREFACE
There will always be a future. Work environments, roles, and responsibilities will change, corporate structures will be altered, and a new way of looking at life will evolve over time. Advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, advanced communication mediums, and the migration of persons and companies to other locations within the United States and the world will occur. Work settings will be in person, virtual, and hybrid, and four-day work weeks will evolve. There waits to be seen what the future will bring, but there will always be a place for people to excel and be successful.
Research will provide the development of new drugs, vaccines, and medical advances that will lengthen our life spans and improve the quality of our lives. The challenge of finding a cure for cancer, Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, and various viruses and psychotic conditions will be on the forefront. And yet we will discover new debilitating diseases and conditions that will require specialized expertise and research to find solutions. Again, this demands leadership! As a part of the scientific method, there will be trial and error, but the goal is a successful solution, led by professionals who see ultimate success for their efforts.
Sales and marketing strategies will continue to be refined and recreated with the advent of technology, but there will always be a need for competent and successful sales and innovative and creative marketing professionals to make it happen and get the desired results. Corporations and businesses of all sizes will require highly educated and motivated leadership.
Now is the time to mastermind your life and make your desire a reality. This is your success story. There is no defined timeline for achieving the level of success you want. It is different for everyone, so do not get discouraged. But there must be a beginning! You may be on your journey already, but you need some additional knowledge, resources, and encouragement to continue. That is the purpose of this book.
There are some basic categories the book is divided into, for a reason. Here they are; success defined, building a foundation, developing your career, going through the process, delivering on leadership, sustaining transformational leadership, a winning methodology, and finally, the future. As you can see, it starts with understanding what success is and ends with the future.
Change is always challenging for individuals and cultures, yet over time, we adjust. We acculturate to new surroundings and consider different points of view. This will happen. But the basic desire of all of us is to have a meaningful and productive life we call successful. We all just want to be successful and happy in life. That is the goal and the real purpose and motivation behind this book.
INTRODUCTION
This book is your journey!
You are the only person who can chart a path for ultimate success!
Mastermind Your Life is designed for you to gain insight and surface new thought patterns in your life. It will not be a step-by-step process where, if you follow all the assignments, you will achieve success or reach your goal. Everyone has a different take on what success means, and every goal is specific to your personal life choices. So, what is the source of achieving ultimate success?
The answer is using your greatest asset—your mind!
Do you need to change the way you think? The principles and concepts are the same when you are going through your life, but how we approach life matters! One lesson that has really helped me is listening to other people more with a purpose. To understand who they are, where they are coming from, and what is important to them. In that process, I ask them open-ended questions to gain further insight and understanding. Concurrently, I make a practice now to listen more to myself—my thoughts and reasoning, why I say and do what I do. How I feel. It is a cognitive approach to understanding myself and others.
Herein lies the importance of integrating mindfulness and reflective thought into our lives and careers.
This book is for you to ask yourself, how am I thinking and reasoning the decisions I make? What are the trigger points that work for and against me? What are the key elements for personal and professional success? What systems, resources, and methodologies work for my benefit? Do I have a plan? How do I go from success to significance and have balance in my life? Am I a transformational leader?
When you change your thinking, you will change your behavior, and you will get different results. It always starts with the mind. So where are you at this point in your life?
Join me in a journey to discover a new frontier for personal growth and achievement.
It is time for you to mastermind your life and write your own success!
Let us begin.

1
SUCCESS
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be succes sful.
—Albert Schweitzer
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things ha ppen.
—Jim Lovell
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner p eace.
—Mike Ditka
Success Def ined
So how do we define success? It could be building a successful business, spending more time with family and friends, excelling in your career, or becoming independently wealthy. We each define success differently. But we all want to be successful! You will discover that personal and professional success are not mutually exclusive.
Can you recall when, as a young child, you were asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Depending on your age, you may have desired to do what your dad or mom’s career choices were. On the other hand, you may have wanted to be a firefighter, police officer, military officer, doctor, dancer, actor, astronaut, or have your own