“The more tran­quil a man becomes, the greater is his suc­cess, his influ­ence, his power for good. Calm­ness of mind is one of the beau­ti­ful jew­els of wis­dom.“
– James Allen (1864–1912)

This par­a­digm shift in time man­age­ment has led me to the under­stand­ing that goals by them­selves are sim­ply no good. If you ask me, they’re all a bunch of caca. The con­cept of goal achieve­ment today is so clouded in mis­con­cep­tion and uses up so much mis­guided energy that it lit­er­ally takes peo­ple away from their true success.

If you focus on the future or dwell on the past, you can become dis­tracted from what’s gen­uinely impor­tant in your life right now. Most goals are set because peo­ple have cer­tain needs or wants. How­ever, once those lacks have been filled, more often than not oth­ers were cre­ated or over­looked in the process.

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If you’ve ever been a fol­lower of Napoleon Hill’s “Think And Grow Rich,” then you’ve cer­tainly heard of the con­cept of the Mas­ter­mind Group.

The con­cept is quite sim­ple: find peo­ple you want to asso­ciate with, and try to meet with them reg­u­larly. Peo­ple who you admire and trust, who are sup­port­ive, and whose opin­ions you value.

But there’s a big dif­fer­ence between what Napoleon Hill teaches, and the way most groups today are formed. (And in that cat­e­gory I include blogs and forums, too.)

In fact, par­tic­i­pat­ing in one may hurt you. And per­haps do so with­out you even know­ing it.

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