Get A Mentor!

Recently I have been looking into people who are and have had fantastic impacts on the world and looked into what makes them do the extraordinary things they do.

Which bring me to my blog post tonight, Get A Mentor, a common theme i have discovered amongst all the people I have been researching including Donald Trump, Kaleil Tuzman, Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins and more is the fact that they learnt and asked questions of at least one person who was achieving at or near a level they wanted to achieve in their own lives.

Napoleon Hill in his book think and grow rich talks about getting a mastermind group, a group of people that you can focus you attention towards achieving great things and your individual ultimate goals.

If you haven't got a mentor yet you should think very hard on a person you would most like to model yourself on ir you believe can teach and help you develop your own unique skills. The person may be someone from your past that you remember was an influence on you in some kind, a strong voice of impact for you, a business or professional that you aspire to at work, or a businessesman or author that you may feel demonstarted the qualities you wish to possess.

We all need help and guidance from time to time, thats what our friends and family have been our entire life, and considering you will likely spend as much time at work and developing yourself than any other single thing in the course of the rest of your life its important that this part of your life gets the attention its deserves.

To give you an example of some mentors from my own life, my first mentor was Jim Shapcott who was my first boss who started my affinity to learning and reading, fast tracked my negotiation and sales skills and toughened me up at a point when i needed it.

Another mentor for me continues to be Kaleil Tuzman, a businessman, enteprenuer, venture capitalist and genuine business heavy weight (see his blog at www.kaleil.com), ever since I first saw Kaleil in Startup.com, a documentary about the creation of his first online business Govworks, I have attempted to model the things that he does including his ability to communicate objective, willingness to go after a big project, handling meetings, sales and work ethic.

Its important to note that you must select a mentor that you believe aligns to your similar values and you can see your self modeling, however the most important part of the process to ask questions, of yourself, of your mentor, of your decision, keep asking questions for questions will be your line to success, dont hesitate in your decision, jump in, splash around and learn to swim as fast as possible.

Work Hard, Work With Passion, Work To A Purpose.

AP