A lot of people reccommend getting a mentor in a paticular area you want to succeed in. For example if you want to become a great salesman find someone who already is and develop a relationship with them. I think its a great idea!

A lot of people reccommend getting a mentor in a paticular area you want to succeed in. For example if you want to become a great salesman find someone who already is and develop a relationship with them. I think its a great idea!


Finding a mentor is an excellent idea!

The easiest way to become a success is to duplicate what other's have done to become a success.

Life's simplicity is beautiful, isn't it? :yippee:

A lot of people reccommend getting a mentor in a paticular area you want to succeed in. For example if you want to become a great salesman find someone who already is and develop a relationship with them. I think its a great idea!I think that is a great idea. I've heard that a million times before. Perhaps I should seriously think about getting one. A friend of mind has kinda been one for me. Perhaps I should work with her more.

I agree. If you really want to be successful, you need a mentor. They may be hard to find depending on your location/situation-but there is something you can do to get around that problem. Learn the psychology of human behavior and then you can utilize almost EVERYONE as a mentor, here's how...If you understand why people act or react in a certain way, you can use that to learn what not to do or how not to act to avoid getting their results. Well, if you act in the opposite of how someone who is unsuccessful acts, then you should in most cases end up doing the things that will make you successful. Keep in mind, this usually won't be as fast as the traditional mentoring, it will work. You just have to understand people and be totally honest with yourself since you are only holding yourself accountable to yourself-it is VERY easy to slip up in this scenario.

One way that you can find a mentor is by getting involved in large charity organizations. Most wealthy people have gotten wealthy because of success. Most wealthy people need tax write-offs, and the ones who are worth learning from usually enjoy helping people/organizations in need, thus their involvement in charities. So get out there and start networking.

One more thing, if you want a mentor-DO NOT go up and say "Hi, I'm looking for a mentor. Will you be my mentor?" Figure out who you want to learn from and then figure out what benefit you can provide to that person in exchange for mentoring you.

Good luck :thumb:

Good advice jlknauff,

And don't be put off if you don't find someone who has completed ALL of the things you want to learn about.

A basic education in finance and business can worth its weight.

If you have trouble finding someone, split your goal into small milestones (hopefully you'll have done this when you clearly defined your goal initally and set timescales for certain progress measurements)

This way, you can find someone who can take you to the next level.

I've helped several small businesses (on and offline) become versed in the marketing aspects of what they do and opened up their visibility of the options available to them.

The key thing is to have a clearly defined goal that underlies all of the choices you make. If you haven't decided explicitly where you want to end up, your subconscious won't be able to change things to get you there, and you will find decision making more difficult as you have no over frame of reverence within which you make them.

My brother acts as a business mentor to large company directors (the money's good too- he gets around £1500 a day to help them out) and so I also have him as my own mentor, which is amazing.

Andy