If I lived there, I would come to the mastermind group, because I've already been to a great mastermind group in another town. Each week for 10 weeks, we reviewed business basics, read from a text, and talked about building our businesses. I made friendships, and am constantly reminded of the importance of the basics, which help me manage my time, plan priorities, communicate, etc.
I'd recommend getting advice from the Chamber and from SCORE about your business. The experience that you have with them will give you the experience that people in your town expect to have with Business Success Unlimited. I think that has to be the first step, if you haven't already. Then the question is: what does a different experience, the one that you are confident can happen (but people there don't yet know can exist in their town), what does that look like? what actually happens? what are the results? what does it feel like? How do people in town describe an experience similar to what you will do, in their own words? And then the challenge is finding some people (likely in one or two industries only will attract more people total) who will do that with you. Who will pay you (either immediately or later on) and especially who will tell their friends to have the exact same experience with you. To rephrase: the experience you want to create, people will only believe after it happens to them, or after they make it happen somehow. So the way to make happen it is to do it somehow, with the resources you already have, the people and places you already know. To make your vision real, you will need to do it by educating and being educated, skill-sharing and having skills shared with you (you are already doing that by posting to this group), resource-sharing and having resources shared with you, collaborating on your own projects and other people's projects, and identifying the ways (and making those visible to the people around you) that you already have a self- sufficient prosperous life, and identifying the ways that the people around you already have a self-sufficient prosperous life: and sharing those ways so that they appreciate the prosperity they already have, themselves. Then there is no need for anything, there is a growing appreciation of what and who already exists, and then people can breathe to appreciate and participate in and grow your vision along with their own. Alex -- Alex Linsker, "Collective Agency" Coordinating Council member (503) 517-6900 landline (503) 517-6901 fax (503) 369-9174 mobile 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon 97209 http://CollectiveAgency.co On Feb 17, 1:14 pm, Niki <na...@thessbi.com> wrote: > Alex, good questions. My vision statement is my dreams come to reality. > > Within the next five years,Business Success Unlimited will have helped > create a energetic, productive community filled with entrepreneurs and > small businesses acquiring the education,skills and resources necessary, > along with a place to work, a group to share and collaborate with and > programs to help build self-sufficient prosperous lives. Along with this > success of others, BSU will also see success through at least $100,000 a > year from rentals, meeting memberships and admin support work. > > When I ask people to come to meetings (i.e., a twice a month mastermind > program) they say, wow sounds great. I'm too busy. Can't come. Or -- they > simply ignore the invitations. I have had people say, you're no different > than the Chamber or SCORE -- they didn't help me, why should I think you > will? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
