The Mastermind Vacation Guide: How I organized a Mastermind Vacation on a Low Budget

By Tobias Leißner

A MasterMind group is a place for sharing, learning, and growing. The collective brain of the group opens up to brand-new ideas and insights for your personal development. But there's more. Through reading this book, you'll learn how to organize a MasterMind schedule within a vacation's setting. That's right. What's better than a relaxed and easy-going mood for talking with an open heart? As I'll tell you about my personal experience, I'll share tips and tricks to enjoy a hassle free and meaningful vacation with your people. I'll start from a step as little as looking for your group's members, then I'll go all the way up through the planning, ending with a note for future MasterMind experiences. Join a community. Everyone around you holds something precious for you to learn.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emphaloz Publishing House
• Release date: Jun 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393594246

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tobias Leißner was born in 1983 in Germany. He started his professional career in 2003 in the IT industry, taking an abrupt change in 2008 when he turned into SAP (Systems Applications and Products) development and consulting. In 2015, he was already well-established on an international level as a successful project manager in SAP projects.

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During his professional career, Tobias got to be well-known for his forward thinking and ability to find new and viable solutions. He possesses an analytical, strategical tendency that is necessary to identify the key elements of the current situation in any professional scenario. Thanks to the considerable general knowledge Tobias has built over the course of the years, he is now able to find a solution for the work environment no one else was able to imagine in the first place.

Tobias is a partner to companies all around the globe, as he has invested in different countries and supported start-up companies in their bootstrapping process. On top of that, Tobias is a frequently asked person when it comes to advising on tax-avoiding strategies and international company structures.

If you wish to get in touch with Tobias, you can find him on different social network platforms, including LinkedIn and XING. You can also visit his dedicated Facebook page or the Instagram profile ( @viability_specialist ).

INTRODUCTION

What is a MasterMind group?

Since the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka first introduced it in 1935, the saying that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts has greatly affected our way of thinking in the western world. Most people cite the phrase incorrectly, replacing the words something else with greater. But the point is, shortly put, that we can’t comprehend the contribution of the whole as a simple addition of its parts. That is also the heart of what makes a MasterMind group: a small number of people, who gather to give and take advice on each one’s private and business lives. The solutions a MasterMind brain will enlighten are an all different matter than those a single man’s brain can.

If you stumbled on this book, chances are you’d like to evolve your own mind, to grow big with a project of yours or just improve your everyday life through different and new ways of thinking. If you take a look at the past, you’ll find that most history famous people joined in their own MasterMind groups. These gatherings have been around for hundreds of years, under different names. To name one, the 17th, 18th centuries French Salons, where the intellectuals of the time gathered to debate on the daily news and issues.

Today, a MasterMind group is most likely composed of 6 to 8 people, who regularly meet in person or via online means, to help each other solving their problems. In turn, they discuss their own personal issues and let the other members of the group propose their solutions. A popular standard of conducting a MasterMind group gives the person who is talking about themselves the so-called role of the hot seat. The hot seat moves from one member to another every time the group gathers. Thus, if you participate in a MasterMind group, you will be in the hot seat every 6 or 8 meetings, depending on the group size.

That’s the traditional definition of a MasterMind group that you’ll find when surfing the web. Although, there are different forms such a group might take. Reading through this book, you’ll get to know my own original twist to it. Indeed, I didn’t want to go through entire weeks of meetings with the brand-new group I created. Instead, I wished to create an all different context, far away from the problems of everyday life, where everybody could feel free to talk about their issues in a more relaxed way. That is something you can’t easily obtain with a regular MasterMind meeting schedule. Thus, I planned for the setting of a group vacation where we could also apply the Mastermind format rules.

This book might help you create a MasterMind group in a general way, but it will be heavily focused on how to arrange it in a vacation setting.

Why should you join a MasterMind group?

The main reason for joining a MasterMind group is the wish for personal growth. Indeed, that’s a perfect setting for challenging ourselves and our way of thinking, bringing in brand new ideas and different twist to our lifestyle. However, there can be other reasons you might want to join a MasterMind group. For