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Mentoring is when someone sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, and wants to help you reach it.
I see more potential in everyone and hope you can benefit from Life Motivations in success, wealth, happiness, health and anything else that you would like, including consciousness.
You get what you want. Now if you are saying to yourself “I don’t want to be poor, but I am,” then so you are. You see yourself as you are, not as you might want to be.
I was at a meeting this week, and a former mayor of the city said, “I don’t think that airy-fairy thing plays well here”. The former mayor wasn’t talking to me, but about another self-help author. (I think for some reason they don’t think of me as one of those, but I think I might.)
Boy, I didn’t really know the attitudes of people until I got into this business as an exclusive. Before, when I talked about these ideals of being better than you are, and that you can see success in the organization by helping to create the vision, I was an innovative, thinking out of the box, progressive, daring, challenging executive. Now I belong to the airy-fairy brigade?
It is a good thing that I have a sense of humor, and believe that what I do does make a difference in the world and in individuals’ lives.
What if there weren’t any motivators in the world - and I just don’t mean the guys and girls out there like me. I mean the leaders that make a difference in who and what we are. The teachers in the schools, the coaches, and leaders of every facet of the society in which we live give their time to mentor us for our success.
And what is our job as self-mentoring ourselves? We have to at least take responsibility for ourselves and decide what we want to do in our lives. I was on a radio show this week and I was amazed at the number of people that have no clue what they want to do.
“Oh, just anything that makes some money.”
“Oh, just anything that would make me happy.”
“Oh, just anything....”
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A mentor’s job is really to help you become better at what you want to do, but you have to figure out what it is that you want to do. And if it doesn’t come from you and your heart, then you really don’t have a goal that can be achievable in your life.
We have to take a look at what we want to do and what talents we think we may have that we can build on.
Is there nothing that you can be passionate about, even if it may not be your final calling? Sometimes you have to be passionate about what you are doing now, so you can be passionate about what you might be able to do later.
When I was selling cars, I was passionate about selling cars; when I was managing a sales force I was passionate about managing a sales force; when I was managing hundreds of people and millions of dollars of assets, I was passionate about that, all of which was not where I wanted to be at the end of day. But you have to bring some passion to the day that you are living, or what are you going to accomplish?
If you are flipping burgers, then be passionate about it. I know that is a lesson I learned from my father. Be passionate and the best you can be at what you are doing, or find something else to do, but in the meantime be passionate about life.
Sit down with yourself and list your wants and talents and what you would like to do with your future.
If you are passionate, you will find mentors all around you that will help you fulfill your potential.
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