THINK ABOUT CHANGE

The first step is to adopt a Definite Purpose as an objective to be attained by the alliance, choosing individual members whose education, experience and influence are such as to make them of the greatest value in achieving that purpose.

♦ There isn't any use in forming a Master Mind Alliance just to have someone to chat with.  It will soon play out if you don't have a strong motive behind it, and it's up to you to plant that motive in the minds of the group members.

♦ Your allies for this group should be chosen for their ability to help you get to where you are going.  Do not choose people simply because you know them and like them.  I have found out by experience that merely because you like a person is no reason whatsoever to have him as a member of your economic Master Mind Alliance.  It is all right to have such a person in your social or purely personal alliance, where his contribution may simply be this very friendship you appreciate.

♦ You should make a careful analysis of your purpose and list the items you will need for its attainment and then systematically go about supplying the links with which to forge the chain.  Each member of the alliance should make some definite, distinctive, unique contribution to the over all picture.

♦ In making your selection of allies for this economic group, you may have to be a little "cold blooded" at first.  It is no easy job to select the right members. You may have to choose and eliminate until you get the right ones.  This is costly in time and money.  You should be guided in your choice by the things you need which you do not already have.  If it is money you need to finance the deal, you must find a person who has the money to invest.  No matter what nice people you know who would like to work with you, if they don't have any money they cannot really make the particular contribution to the alliance you need.  No-you must find a person with the money and cultivate his willingness to cooperate, by showing him the opportunities to make a profit from the investment.

♦ Of course, you don't take the first person who answers the major requirement, unless he also possesses the other necessary attributes.  The qualifications of membership in a Master Mind Alliance are very exacting.  Consider each candidate for membership in the light of his ability, his personality, and his willingness to cooperate with you.  I cannot overemphasize the necessity for harmony, if it is going to be a successful organization.

PETER FELISTER