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That turned into a home-based business selling CNC routers as kits. Which worked well with a secondary goal of his: to revolutionize personal manufacturing, so anyone can build their dream projects right inside their home.

For a while, things worked out pretty well.

The Key to Andrew Carnegie’s Success and Wealth

One particular principle from Think and Grow Rich is what I want to highlight here: the Master Mind group. Here’s how Hill defines it:

Carnegie’s mastermind group consisted of about 50 people, and he credited his wealth to this group. As Hill wrote:

Throughout history, you see example after example of mastermind groups:

These examples vary a lot, but there are some essential features all Master Minds have in common:

In my own life, I’ve gotten amazing benefits from mastermind groups. Right now, I belong to a mastermind called the War Room. I pay $25,000 per year to belong to this group of the best online entrepreneurs in the world. Just recently, I met Sara Blakely, the billionaire founder of Spanx at a War Room meeting:

I got to hear Sara’s story of how her father inspired her to reframe failure as a good thing, because it meant she took action. This view on failure let her take risks, including starting Spanx and growing it to where it is today. Whenever I evaluate a new idea for Asian Efficiency, I can take that idea of failure with me.

At another mastermind, I got to meet Keith Cunningham, an entrepreneur worth over $200 million (and the “rich dad” in the bestselling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad).

Maybe most importantly, at masterminds I’ve learned what NOT to do. A lot of people won’t admit their failures publicly, but at these events and over dinners, they do. I’ve learned from other people’s mistakes, which has stopped me from doing dumb things and losing money.

It’s also stopped me from doing things that might seem like a good idea on the surface, like writing a book. Writing a book has been a goal of mine for a long time, but thanks to talking to several New York Times bestselling authors in masterminds, I now know how much work, sacrifice, and commitment is involved.

I’ll still write a book, but at a better time when I know it fits better in the overall framework of what I want to do.

Insider, In-Person Knowledge

This is the kind of knowledge and expertise you can’t buy or read in a book. You have to be in the same room and have that kind of relationship with people to get this.

I’m always surrounding myself with people further ahead of me so I can learn from them and shortcut the process. Now I have personal connections with people like Verne Harnish (Scaling Up), Jamie Tardy, Perry Marshall, and other successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.

In turn, people I’ve met at masterminds have introduced me to their own inner circles, multiplying the effect of the masterminds by 10.

Nate increased sales 50% over the prior year.

Nate sent me this direct message in Slack telling me how he increased his sales by 50% in less than one year.

What got Nate these incredible results?

I asked Nate, and here’s what he told me. During the mastermind, Nate learned:

Here’s how the day played out to get Nate from Point A to his action plan:

I was so blown away by the results our mastermind attendees got that I decided to host a second mastermind. It took 18 months to find the right time in our calendar to bring together me and all the other Asian Efficiency team members, but we finally found a time this November.

I’m inviting you to benefit from:

The story of how I got here is interesting…

I’m a Dutch / Vietnamese guy who lives in Austin, TX (ask me at the mastermind how that happened). I founded Asian Efficiency 6 years ago when some friends started joking that the reason I was so productive must be because of my “Asian efficiency.” I wasn’t always productive, though. In fact, in college, I struggled to concentrate on anything (other than video games) for very long.

Every day, I beat myself up because I’d been an A student as a kid. I’d worked so hard for my goal of going to college in the U.S., but once I was there…I just couldn’t make it work. I procrastinated, I missed deadlines. I wanted to start a successful business, but I just couldn’t see a way.

Mike is the host of our podcast, the Productivity Show. He helped build it to its current position as a top 50 business podcast on iTunes that has reached people in over 120 countries. Mike is a recognized authority on productivity and technology, and is a keynote speaker at Apple events.

Mike has done all this in a very short time. Just a couple years ago, Mike was CEO of an education company in Wisconsin, where he worked exhausting 60-hour weeks. He dreamed of a job that would let him spend more time with his four kids, and he dreamed of becoming a published author.

And he did it. Mike published Thou Shalt Hustle, a book about how to overcome obstacles in the pursuit of a more meaningful and fulfilling life. Shortly after, he came to Asian Efficiency as Director of Products, through which he’s helped us release 2 major courses in the last year and grow our podcast to over 3 million downloads.

Mike can give laser-targeted advice on running and growing a business, anything productivity related, technology, workflows and systems, business systems, and work-life balance (remember: 4 kids!).

Most people would just go to Best Buy and buy a scanner, but Brooks had to figure out how to go paperless in the most automated and efficient way possible. That led him to starting DocumentSnap to help others do the same, and he’s now the #1 paperless authority in the world.

Brooks has been an accountant, a computer programmer in a small startup, and a client services director in a $13 billion global corporation. This year, he joined the AE team as COO.

Brooks can advise mastermind attendees on going paperless, running and growing a business, technology, workflows and systems, and business systems.

As you can see, Mike, Brooks, and I will bring a broad background of experience to helping you achieve your goals.

Kwanza is a small business owner from the Bahamas. She attended the mastermind because she has a small team and she saw areas where she was the bottleneck in her business for getting things done. Kwanza was especially stuck in areas of process, organization, and some technical areas.

Kwanza’s biggest benefit from the mastermind was getting clear on what her area of focus should be and getting specific action steps onto her calendar.

Another attendee, Nabill, is a life coach, and when he attended our mastermind, he wanted feedback in 3 areas:

How’d it go? Watch what Nabill had to say:

7 months later, Nabill had spoken on a panel, and more and more opportunities were coming his way. He’s even hired an assistant to help with the increasing work coming his way.

You’ve already heard a bit about Nate. Nate wanted to grow his business, but he felt stuck and didn’t know how. He knew he needed help with sales and marketing.

During the mastermind, Nate got “focused feedback above and beyond what you’d expect.” We helped Nate create an action plan, which he said at the end of training was “going to be invaluable.”

Nate implemented the action steps, including website content suggestions, an email marketing plan, pricing adjustments, and getting more of his time back.

Nate increased revenue by 50%, hired 2 people part time and a couple VAs, and outsourced manufacturing (which was like hiring another 3 people).

Like Nate, Nabill, and Kwanza, you too can get an action plan, execute on it, and achieve your goals (faster than ever before).

Today you have the chance to enroll in the same mastermind that got Kwanza, Nabill, and Nate such amazing results.

As I mentioned before, we’re only accepting 8 people, so that we can keep the group small and laser-focused.

When you join us, you’ll get a full day with us and 7 other carefully selected Asian Efficiency customers. We’ll spend the morning and afternoon in downtown Austin at the W Hotel:

For that day, my team members and I will do nothing but focus on you. You’ll bring us your problems, and we’ll solve them. You’ll walk away with a personalized, specific action plan you can implement as soon as you get home.

What will that get you? If you’re like Nate, maybe you’ll increase sales by 50%. If you’re like Nabill, maybe you’ll have your highest-grossing month ever.

Whatever your goal is, we’ll help you create a plan to achieve it.

Remember — only 1.6% of the 483 people we’ve invited will be able to attend. You’re among those 483 (out of all our customers), because we think that you’ll benefit from this mastermind, and that our expertise will benefit you.

To secure your spot, all you need to do is invest $1,999 now.

Your $1,999 investment will get you:

99% of people who want to change don’t get help. They think they can do it all themselves. A few of them may achieve their goals…eventually…but for most of them, they spend their lives having goals and never achieving them.

No matter how smart or ambitious you are, other people have experience you don’t. Why not take that experience and use it to avoid their mistakes—with feedback personalized for you?

A couple years ago, Nabill was struggling with his health, weight, and energy and realized he wasn’t getting anywhere on his own.

What helped him shift was the amount of pain he wasn’t willing to tolerate anymore.

While you’re reading these words, someone else could be securing their spot in the mastermind — and taking away yours.

Just like you are right now, I was recently reading the sales page for a mastermind. I was on the fence. Should I do it? Should I not?

In the end, I did. I decided to invest $25,000 per year to be 1 of 100 people who belong to this mastermind.

Why? Because I’ve been in a lot of masterminds over the years, and I’ve noticed something about the successful people I’ve met through them. It’s something I’ve noticed in the biographies of successful people, too.

Every successful person I’ve met or read about has had peers they asked for help and advice from.

If you’re reading this, you’ve invested in an Asian Efficiency course before — so you’ve decided in the past that you were willing to step outside yourself and invest in help.

Are you willing to do that again now?

If you’re still reading this, something’s bothering you. Something you want to achieve and aren’t.

And you know that only personalized, targeted feedback will help.

You have a choice right now. And because we’re only accepting 8 people, you have a limited time to make it.

P.S. If you’re on the fence and aren’t sure whether this is worth your investment, I want you to consider 2 questions:

How much is not achieving your goals costing you right now? In lost revenues, in time you’ll never get back, and in wasted energy and frustration. At some point, you have to consider how much your own limited time — that you’ll never get back — is worth. As Nate said, “One mindset shift that really was helpful from the mastermind was that my time is worth much and how I spend it can sink or grow the business.”

How quickly will your action plan earn you an ROI? In Nate’s case, he knew that he only needed to sell 1 or 2 machines to cover the mastermind. Even just a 5–10% increase in revenues would do it. Instead, Nate earned a 50% increase. Whether through making more money or saving more time, how quickly could you make an ROI on the mastermind?

The masterminds I’ve invested in have paid me back many times over. The same will be true for you.

But only if you secure your spot now. If you’re on the fence, there are a couple things to think about:

We might not do a mastermind again (99% of our business is online, and we rarely do in-person events). And if we do, it might not be for another 2 years.

Seats are limited to 8 people max. Once the mastermind is full, we can’t accept more people. We expect to sell out, and only those who invest in time will get a spot.