How to Make Life Work For You

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Mentor

Behind every successful person there is a mentor. A mentor is a person who has already done what you want to do, and he or she is willing to help you do the same thing. You must find a mentor to help you achieve your great dreams. Famous, successful people do that, and you must too.

This is where some people run into a brick wall. They think either they cannot find a mentor, or else if they do find one, that mentor will not be willing to help them do the same thing, either because they don't have the time or they don't want the competition. Therefore the aspiring entrepreneur sometimes elects to try to succeed on his own, and by doing so puts himself so far behind on the road to success that he may never achieve his dreams.

Let's analyze those concerns. Do you think you can't find a mentor? Balderdash! That's a cop out, used to excuse you from doing what you know you ought to do. If you want your dreams bad enough, then you can find a mentor. Period. Even if no one else has ever done what you want to do, you can still find mentor to help you along the way.

For example, suppose your great goal in life is to walk from Los Angeles to New York City. Let's further suppose no one else but you have every done that before. Now let's suppose, as you walk, you come to a small town in Colorado and it's starting to rain. So you stop in a restaurant for lunch to rest and wait for the rain to stop. You look around and see a woman working at the restaurant, so you decide to strike up a conversation. As you talk, you ask her, "How are the roads between here and Denver? Do you know of any construction going on that I should avoid? Is this the rainy season? Does the rain wash out roads? What's the weather forecast? Is it going to rain for several days or several minutes?" And so on. You keep getting information about where you are and where you want to go from a person who is familiar with that area.

Are experienced people willing to help others? Almost always Yes, IF that person who needs help is sincere. If he is really going to do what he says he's going to do. Suppose you want to hang glide and you ask somebody to teach you what to do. That person quickly analyzes you. He figures for himself, Does he really want to learn? Will he really buy wings? Will he really take time to practice? Is he committed? If the mentor thinks you are not committed, then he might very well decline the request to help you. You can't blame him, either. You must have already decided you're going to succeed, no matter what. If you are not committed, you might not find a mentor.

Suppose you are committed and you've found a mentor, but that mentor declines to help you for any reason. Then what do you do? It's such a simple answer. You go find another one.

If you don't get a mentor, then you can expect one of these events to occur: 1) You may not succeed, 2) it may take you much, much longer to succeed, or 3) if you do succeed, you will not be nearly as far ahead or as successful as you would have been had you found a mentor.

Super achievers get mentors, even if they are working at something that no body else has ever done before. You must find a mentor to obtain your great life dreams.

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