This of IS the most common definition of this term which has in recent years as it has become an accepted asset that every business needs.

Today, let’s look at two kinds of “Mastermind Teams”. The key function that a Mastermind Team has on your life and your success (or failure) is their INFLUENCE.

Let’s stop and consider some key questions:

What does a true Mastermind Team actually do for you? (At least SHOULD do for you).

• They encourage you. (Their words influence you positively).
• They believe in you. (Their faith in you influences you to believe in yourself).
• They believe in what you are doing and are enthusiastic about it. (Their enthusiasm influences you and empowers you to keep moving forward).
• They expect you to succeed. (Their belief in you and your dreams lays a sense of accountability on you. Now, not only can you not fail yourself but you don’t want to fail them either).
• They help you to decide on what may work best for you and your business (or project).

To sum up these 5 functions:

This is your Positive Mastermind Team.
You leave their presence feeling encouraged, fired up and ready to go to the next level.

This is the Mastermind Team that you need to surround yourself with in order to achieve your goals and dreams.

(This is affirmation # 137 of the 210 Day Affirmation Challenge I recently did and continue to blog about.)

Now, let’s stop and consider another kind of “Mastermind Team” that may be surrounding you every day.

This is a Negative Mastermind Team. What? How can I have a negative Mastermind Team, you might be thinking? Well actually you can’t if you want to succeed, and that’s the key.

Here are some more key questions to ask yourself:

Do the people who surround me every day -

• Encourage me to pursue my dreams or do they scoff at my dreams?
• Believe in me or are they constantly putting me down?
• Expect me to succeed or are they waiting for me to fail so they can say “I told you so”
• Help me to decide on what may work for me or are they constantly insinuating that my dreams are just fantasies and I need to “get real”?

Now if you have people around you every day who fit this negative bill, then they have actually become your “Negative Mastermind”.

How so? Because the influence that they have in your life and on your dreams is a negative one.

Do you see how important it is to surround yourself with positive, like-minded people who can encourage you, challenge you and believe in you and your dreams?

Today’s Challenge:
Take some time to stop and seriously ask yourself the questions outlined in this article.

Now ask yourself this key question concerning each person who is influencing your life:

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club

It is not too late to get involved with this challenge. Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Blog Click on the menu at the top that says “Affirmation Challenge” to get involved. It will be the best decision you make today!

You may be asking: If I was born a champion, how come I am not winning? Why do I not even feel like a champion? That’s a very good question. If you have read John Di Lemme’s little powerful book Champions Are Born, Losers Are Made you will know the answer to this question.

The Top Three Facts About Your Life And Destiny

1. You WERE born a champion.
The fact that you are here on this earth, speaking means that you won your first race against millions of sperms. You were born to be a winner! This is a biological fact!

2. You grew up in a very negative world.
You may have great parents and a loving family, or perhaps you grew up in an environment where there was only one parent or none at all.

Whichever of these describes your life so far, there is one thing we can be sure of. You grew up surrounded by a HUGE percentage of negative words, attitudes and events. This world is full of it.

• Turn on the television and what do you hear? Negative news, negative programs and a few positive ones right?
• Go to work and listen to the conversations of some of your co-workers and what do you hear? Complaints, gossip, negative comments and a few positive conversations right?
• Go to the store and you will likely overhear (whether you want to or not) a conversation between a parent (or guardian) and a child that is positive? No, more than likely it will be a very negative conversation with lots of emotion included.

All of these negative influences may well have compounded in your life to stifle, crush or even put out that positive spark with which you were born.

Am I saying that this world is 100% negative? No, there IS still a positive influence in this world. And guess what? This brings me to fact number 3.

3. You were born to make a POSITIVE difference in this world.
Yes, you were born to live in the positive realm of life, and to be a positive influence in this world.

• You were born to demonstrate to this world by your life, that positive living IS possible.
• You were born to develop as a champion with a vision to succeed, and an ability to achieve all that you find in your heart to do.
• You were born to live in abundance.

Getting back on track
Step 1: Ok, you may or may not consider this first step, but here is my secret: Step 1 is to return to your Creator, through His Son Jesus Christ. His purpose for your life is that you live life in abundance! (John 10:10).

I know of no other way, than to live in a relationship with Him. (I am not talking about religion – I AM talking about relationship).

Step 2: Retrain your mind to think in the positive realm. The apostle Paul called this exercise “renewing your mind” (See Romans 12:2).

You do this by:

• Creating and following a habit of reading positive inspirational teachings every day (including the Bible),
• Listening to positive inspirational teaching and
• Training your mind to meditate on you are reading and listening to instead of all of the negative things you hear and see during the course of your day.

Step 3 Apply and share what you are learning.
As you take time daily to read and listen to good inspirational material, write down what stands out to you in your journal.

Look for ways to apply and to share what you are learning during your daily activities. You are beginning to make a difference in the lives of those around you as you share the positive lessons you are learning.

This is the beginning of an adventure of living in the positive realm, and of your journey of discovering and reaching your destiny.

Always remember:

Resources:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club

I recently read this book, and highly recommend it: Personal Development God’s Way

If you have been reading this series of articles found under the topic “Affirmation Challenge” you will already know this. You will also know that you will not reach your full potential automatically.

Yes you were born a champion, but you were born into a very negative world.
This world is full of negative influences that are all around of you. All of these influences are fighting to pull you down.

This creates a challenge for you.

• You can choose to allow these influences to suffocate the potential inside of you.
• You can choose to rise up, fight and overcome the negative influences and develop the potential that is inside of you and so fulfill your destiny and life purpose.

Champions rise to challenges:
Today we are looking at affirmation #128 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I recently completed and continue to blog about.

Affirmation #129 is a great champion declaration and challenge or you.

Today’s Challenge:

• Ask yourself, what one thing can I do today that will take me one step closer to being the best that I can be?
• Just choose one thing today and focus on it. When you are focused on improving one area of your life at a time, you will see better results.

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club

It is not too late to get involved with this challenge. Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Blog Click on the menu at the top that says “Affirmation Challenge” to get involved. It will be the best decision you make today!

I am sure that if you have been reading this series of articles that follow 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about, you are now fully aware that you were born for a purpose.

This purpose is also often known as your WHY.

There is nothing in this life that can compare with the satisfaction and fulfillment of achieving your WHY.

You might be asking: why then do more people not dedicate their lives to this purpose. Why is it that so many people seem to be wandering through this life aimlessly?

These are good questions. The answers to both of these questions is that there IS an enemy in this world who’s task it is to stop you from making a positive difference. Obviously this enemy is the total opposite of good and all that is positive. His tactics include fear and distractions. Achieving your why does not happen automatically.

Today we are looking at affirmation #108 in the series of affirmations mentioned above.

I am presently reading an excellent book by Orison S. Marden, entitled “Pushing To The Front” and I came across a very interesting fact.

If we go into a factory where the mariner’s compass is made we can see the needles before they are magnitized. They will point in any direction.

But when they have been applied to the magnet and received its peculiar power, from that moment they point to the north, and are true to the pole ever after.

So man never points steadily in any direction until he has been polarized by a great master purpose.

This is an outstanding illustration. Your life will point in any direction UNTIL you have been polarized by a great master purpose.

This purpose is already in your heart. You need to find it (Find Your Why Now), decide to pay the price and follow it. This will include eliminating all distractions as you point your life in the one direction.

The illustration in the slide (shown above) I used for this affirmation also shows the need for steady focus. Any distractions as you take aim at a bullseye will inevitable cause you to miss the mark!

Today’s Challenge:

• Ask yourself: have I been distracted from my purpose in life?
• Answer yourself honestly. Discover any distractions and make a decision to eliminate them.
• Renew your focus on your life purpose (your WHY), and move on with determination and focus.

Always remember:

And make sure that you are spending your days training and living like the champion that you are!

Today I read these words:

People are more likely to believe in someone with a fixed purpose.

This is from: the Pushing To The Front by Orwin Swett Marden. I highly recommend you read this book, Pushing to The Front by Orwin Sweet Marden. It is one of those books that has words of wisdom on every page.

Today we are looking at affirmation #107 of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

The word relentless is defined with words such as “constant”, “inflexible” and “intense”.

These words can only describe someone who KNOWS where they are going. They cannot describe anyone who is doubtful, fearful or in the least bit unsure of where they are going and what they want, right?

Constant:
There are all too many people who say: Speaking affirmations does not work. Well, they are right – at least in their lives. Why? Because they were not contant!

Speaking an affirmation once in a while, or for a few days or even for a few weeks will not do it. You need to be constant – relentless!

Speaking affirmations gives your mind the direction. You have the direction, now GO there!

Inflexible:
You can only be inflexible when you KNOW where you are going and what you want. A person who is not sure of what they want and where they are going will be forever changing their focus.

This person is not inflexible and certainly cannot be relentless in their pursuit of their life purpose. Why? Because, in their mind, it changes on a regular basis.

Intense:
Extreme earnest or serious is one definition the dictionary gives of the word “intense”.

Here is a question for you today:
How SERIOUS are you about achieving your life purpose (your WHY)?

This is an excellent question to ask yourself in these days as we approach the end of 2010 and the beginning of another year.

Let’s go into this New Year with a new determination to make 2011 the best year of our lives. Are you ready?

Start with:

Then add:

But you have to KNOW where you are going in order to apply the right words and the right actions!

Make sure you have a copy of the CD Find Your Why NOW. Order it today if you don’t, and listen to it over and over. It will help you to KNOW where you are going in life!

Resource:
Get involved with this 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge TODAY:Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.