“Reprinted with permission from The National NetWorker“
Published June 2007
I would like to introduce you to my good friend Michael Hepworth, author, teacher and visionary.
My fascination with success was triggered by Michael through a few sentences in one of his seminars. Michael was discussing Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”.
While sometimes it seems I was the only entrepreneur person in Toronto who had not read this book, I do know it’s not true. For those of you yet to discover the wonder of the Napoleon Hill, the book was written in 1937 is the standard for all success based books.
The concepts presented by The Secret, Anthony Robbins, and many of the other great success writers can all be found in works of Napoleon Hill. And Napoleon Hill credits all of his ideas to Andrew Carnegie. This is important because Andrew Carnegie has become one of my personal heroes. Andrew Carnegie effectively founded of the American Public Library system and the well known institutions of Carnegie Hall and Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie’s wealth came by creating the greatest steel companies in the world His wealth was greater his time than Bill Gates is in our time. In fact, just one of the charitable foundations he founded still has over 2 Billion dollars in assets 90 years after his death.
Napoleon Hill stated one of the most important keys to success was the creation of a MasterMind group. A MasterMind is a group of individuals formed around a single concept working for the success of the group. These people may or may not be friends. In fact they may not even like each other, but they are working together for a common purpose. A MasterMind group is intensively personal, each person is responsible for their own Mastermind group. While you may be part of mine and I may be part of yours and we may have many members in common, each mastermind is separate and distinct.
Now let’s chat about Michael. Michael has written a book, produces a bi-weekly newsletter of marketing tips, and lectures publicly for trade organizations. However, the core of his business is the Rapid Growth Mentoring Program. The program is multi-year training program designed to help entrepreneurs to grow their revenues. The training starts with a free morning marketing training seminar. Once accepted into the Rapid Growth Mentoring Program, the entrepreneur attends intensive full day training session, monthly mentoring calls, and a mastermind group that has a full support mechanism. The program is so powerful, Michael guarantees that members who do all the work will increase their revenues by five times the cost of the program or he fully refunds the entire program cost.
Networking opportunities occur during the public seminars and are ratcheted up during the quarterly sessions. There is nothing better to grow relationships than shared learning. And everyone of Michael’s sessions are an intense learning experience which I expect will create life long relationships.
Each Mastermind group is organized by Michael based on some combination of business experience, type of business, personality and physical location. The group works together as a team to grow each member’s business using the concepts taught in the program. Because the members all share the same training, their language and understanding is consistent which means the result is greater than the sum of the parts. Each MasterMind group meets regularly to track the progress of each of the members and the members become accountable to each other’s business growth.
For those of you who are looking to expand your business and want to attend one of Michael’s free seminars you can do it here. For those of you who don’t want to attend a lecture but want to receive a free regular marketing newsletter can sign up here. And for those of you have not read the Napoleon Hill’s book – you can find it here.
Connect up with Michael here.
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