A couple of weeks ago I sent a bunch of photos from the Tom Woods Cruise to my main email list and I think the message came through: if Woods puts on a cruise, be there.

Of particular interest to this list is: I had with me Paul Counts, who co-directs my mastermind programs, but since not everyone on board was interested in business topics, we covered those in optional breakout sessions only.

We had to find a place to hold them, since we had no official conference space during these times.

I told everyone: there's nobody at the Boot & Bonnet (the British-style pub aboard Royal Caribbean's massive Harmony of the Seas) at 10:00am, so let's meet there.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a solid 40 percent of cruise attendees at this optional session.

We did two of these over the course of the week, in fact, and we called them mini-masterminds: we'd take someone with a business, put him (or indeed her) on what we call a hot seat in front of the group, and we'd help with challenges they were facing or give our best strategies for growth.

The session at the Boot & Bonnet was so good, and the feedback people got so valuable, that I think those in attendance were genuinely shocked.

This is why I've wanted you to meet Paul Counts. He's a superstar, which is why I recommended him to Ron Paul, who hired him to promote the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum.

Well, as we were getting close to finishing up, a staff member from the ship approached me and said in a low voice, "You cannot hold public events here."

You know I'm normally rather a polite person, but I replied, in a playful tone of disbelief, "You mean in a deserted pub at ten o'clock in the morning?"

Yes, correct. We could not be there.

Now as Paul said later, what they should have done was go around and give everyone a copy of the menu, or have coffee available, or something. You have all these people gathered in a place that's normally dead and generating no revenue, so why not make some bonus money from people who have unexpectedly gathered in a place you've normally written off at that time of day?

Well, the ol' Boot & Bonnet has the misfortune of not having Paul giving them business advice.

You, dear reader, need not labor under the same handicap.

It's about time to open up my Junior Mastermind program to additional members. (This is the online version of my mastermind programs, not the one involving travel and in-person meetings.)

You'll be part of a group of people who think the way you do and are also smart and ambitious in business terms, and where you'll get profitable ideas and strategies tailored specifically to you that you'd never have thought of otherwise.

Just the other day one of our members, who runs a financial membership, told us he tripled his membership after implementing what we recommended.

But you have to get yourself into the room to get results like that.

The room:

https://www.TheJrMastermind.com

Tom Woods