You did not become an owner of your own law firm only to build the prison of a job, yet this is what most lawyers have built – even as they grow the revenue of the firm, they find themselves trapped in a job where they are working full-time as a lawyer, full-time as a CEO/Leader, and often full-time as a parent. Leadership must simultaneously function in three places – present, immediate future, and 3 to 7 years in the future.

That’s very challenging to do well and almost impossible to do while also managing cases and clients. If you are always exhausted from trying to do all of this, then the quality of your life is poor. Poor quality of life can be fixed, but it won’t fix itself.

The thing is, there are no books on this. No one or two-day seminars could possibly go into the depth necessary to not only teach but to actually live this experience. If more information were the answer, we’d all be billionaires with six-pack abs. And yet, every day it seems there are new gurus and wannabe “coaches” and (even) Facebook groups masquerading as being able to deliver to you the “how-to” of a low-maintenance, high-profit business through the latest AI widget. The truth is that they can’t because this requires work on your part. Nothing beats being in a group that will push you to levels far beyond where you are today.

Spontaneous combustion is the benefit of a well-run, high-level Mastermind meeting. And you can’t appreciate it until they've experienced it. It's what makes the experience different and differently valuable than one-on-one “coaching”. By the melding of the minds in the group, by the focus of all their thinking and varied experience on a single member's law firm, and the subject for discussion he or she has chosen, insights occur spontaneously that might never occur otherwise.

We call these “Oh $hit” moments.

Where one person's question or comments sparks another's, which sparks another's, and ultimately brand new and unforeseen solutions, common strategies, and opportunities are ignited. It actually is an explosive situation, in a very good way. I find that my own reservoir of knowledge and experience is plumbed, probed, and drawn from by the group in ways that are never topped by just a single call or a single individual.

There is unique efficiency in getting together for eight focused days during the year. Getting out and away from your regular day-to-day activities, away from interruptions and disruption, to work "on, not in" the law firm in this environment can produce more clarity and actionable strategy than what would come from 60 days of self-study woven inside your busy life.

You won’t get this sitting next to someone in a seminar. Top mastermind members are much more adept at leveraging everything they have to work with than are other people, and they are more intentional about creating assets conducive to leverage.

You won’t find this in the outside world. “Masterminding” is NOT “networking.”

Finally, there is competition in a group like this. No one wants to be the laggard. Everyone wants to be known as the firm solving the largest problems with the greatest innovation. That's good – it stimulates everybody to do more, get smarter, and bring more.