How to Find a Mentor

QUOTE OF THE DAY

HOW TO FIND A MENTOR

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The key to accelerating your own progress is to find those who have walked the path before you and have achieved what you wish to achieve.

Because those people have gone through the trials and tribulations, they have experienced the setbacks and found ways to get around them while spending their time and resources to do so.

How do you find those people?

Finding those people isn’t the hard part; all you have to do is find someone who is living the life that you want to live, and boom, you’ve found a potential mentor.

Convincing them to guide you, however, is the hard part.

You may just think that you could offer to work for them for free, and for them, it would be a no-brainer, right?

Well, you’d be wrong.

Warren Buffett, after college, approached one of the world's best investors at the time, Ben Graham, and offered to work for free in exchange for learning from him.

Ben responded, “Your free is overpriced.”

You see, successful people don’t like to have their time consumed; for that, you must give them unconditional value.

So, if you’re trying to convince a mentor to guide you, focus on offering the highest value possible. Serve them with your best skills, making their life easier.

And don’t even think of asking for advice or knowledge; just concentrate on serving because, with time and hard work, they will give you access to their invaluable expertise.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Step 1: Identify someone who lives the life that you aspire to live.

Step 2: See how and where you can provide unconditional value to their lives while asking for nothing in return.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

Try putting yourself under some time constraints and creating a plan of action timeline.

If you give yourself a set amount of hours or days to complete different tasks that add up to your overall goal, you will feel more pressured to get a move on as opposed to just doing it when you feel like doing it.

You can use a calendar or a to-do list, whatever it is, to put yourself under a time constraint, and even better if you can make someone hold you accountable to that constraint.

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