Napoleon Hill, in his seminal work, Think and Grow Rich, talks about the need for a Master Mind group to help you achieve your wealth building goals. Particularly, he mentions the need for a harmonious relationship with this group, allowing each member to freely express his or her point of view in an effort to move forward towards their end goal.

For a wealth building practitioner, it may not often be easy to find such a harmonious group to work with. And yet, the company you keep has a direct effect on how you think, the ideas you generate and even on your ultimate success.

For today's practitioner, the following avenues are available for seeking such a Master Mind group:

1. Immediate friends, neighbors and colleagues
2. Internet Discussion Forums
3. Entrepreneurial Seminars
4. A pre-existing MasterMind Group

Let us examine each of them.

If you are fortunate enough to have, amongst your friends and colleagues, individuals with a similar mindset as yourself with regard to wealth creation and entrepreneurship, then use this towards your mutual advantage. By developing a mastermind group with someone you are already familiar with can prove quite helpful by allowing your interactions to occur at a deeper and more meaningful level much faster. Plus, knowing each other's working style and habits can help smooth over any initial potential frictions.

In such a situation however, make sure that you do not mix business with pleasure, and that you hold the other person in good esteem. Otherwise, ill will from previous interactions can easily seep into this mastermind group, which is not profitable to either.

Internet Discussion Forums can be quite useful in gaining ideas, sharing experiences and even in getting encouragement to maintain and move forward towards your goal. Discussion Forums are indispensable sources for interaction with a wide variety of people from across the globe. However, they are poor substitutes for your own MasterMind group - unless the sole purpose of the forum is to forward the goals of a small group of individuals committed to a common goal (We are yet to come across such an experiment, though it might be worth trying). Having said that, to get the most out of a discussion forum, it is best to be active and involved in yet. Remaining a passive observer rarely offers you the same benefits.

Entrepreneurial Seminars, whether on marketing, sales, product development or similar topic offer you the opportunity to meet and interact with like minded individuals. Participating in one such seminar a year is a great energizer and you will return with a bunch of ideas to immediately implement in your own wealth creation goals. More importantly though, you will find it easier to meet individuals with whom you can plan and develop a MasterMind group. It will take time to develop such a relationship but it will be worth many times over.

Another opportunity to participate in such MasterMind groups is if you get invited to a pre-existing group devoted to similar goals. Such chances appear almost out of nowhere, but once others observe your goals, discipline and determination to reach your targets - it is more likely than not to get invited to such groups. Accept such invitations - though be careful to participate only in those groups where you feel there is mutual benefit.

A MasterMind group is most useful to provide you with the right energy and guidance while working towards your final goal. Wealth Creation is just one goal towards which this technique maybe applied. In reality, this technique may be used towards almost any worthy goal you set your mind towards.

So do plan on becoming a part of a MasterMind group.