A long time ago, I was once a lone wolf entrepreneur without community.

To be honest, I’ve got so used to having masterminds online and business coaches, it’s hard to remember what life was like back then. The longer I do this, the more I feel like it’s “always been this way,” even though that’s not the truth.

I’m writing because I thought you could do with one more reminder: isolation is the enemy of excellence. If you’ve thought about starting an online mastermind group, “now” is always the right time.

This year’s given us its own fear-based reasons to hold our fire. The ground keeps twitching under our feet, telling us it isn’t the right time. We don’t know what the future holds … so we think we’ll survive by hunkering down and playing Lone Ranger?!

That’s not going to fly. I can understand your hesitation to open a brick-and-mortar business in...

Back in the early Eighties, the Walt Disney Company was in decline. They’d had some magical years when I was growing up, but there’s no question that by 1983, they were stalled.

The next year, their board of directors made a wise decision and hired Michael Eisner as the new CEO. One reason this worked out well was Eisner understood an important growth principle, which business coach Alan Miltz calls “The Power of One.” I’m going to show you how it helps you build and grow your online mastermind group.

 When Eisner took the reins of Disney, the first thing he did was raise admission prices at their theme parks in California and Florida. It turns out, Disney had not raised their prices for many years, and they weren’t growing fast enough to outpace expenses.

LEVERAGING THE LAWS

Now if you read last week’s blog, you might recall another law of economics they don’t teach you: Parkinson’s Law....