Mentors – Do you have one?

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Do you have a mentor? Someone you talk to on a regular basis about your career, life, job and anything else that is important in your life? I don’t mean a friend, or a buddy, I mean a mentor. Someone who will listen with an open mind and give you the straight advice you need. Webster defines mentor as: “A wise and trusted counselor or teacher”. Do you have one?

You might ask, “Are you saying that if I want to be successful, I must have a mentor”. Take a look at the successful people you know and ask them if they had a mentor. Take a look at those who where once successful and now are struggling? Did they once have a mentor? Many of us had mentors, but then we thought we got to old, to smart, to successful and we did not need that mentor anymore. Wrong. Success is not a goal; success is a life long journey. Success is not getting rich; success is a totally balanced life, successful in all aspects. Many people are successful in one or two things, but people with great mentors are successful in most all things.

This is not a guy thing either. Women also need mentors who can help them in their lives. Again, this is not your best friend; in fact, at time this person may not seem like your friend at all. This is your mentor.

Think back on all your successes in life, and if you are reading this, you have had many successes, because only successful people are on this email list. You will find that your greatest successes in life come from reaching out and helping someone. Being that mentor who helps another succeed.

If you’re a parent, you know what great success comes from watching your child succeed at what they do. Many are lucky out there and have had a parent or been a parent who is a great mentor. Now take that same success and apply it in business. Those of us who have had great successes look back and say that success was based on this person reaching out and helping me. You can sit here and say “I Did It” all you want. But once you take a closer look, I believe you will find someone else helped you.

My first business mentor was a system analyst I worked for in the late 1970’s. He took the time to teach me the things that would make me successful at what I wanted to do. He took the time to listen and to guide me.

When I first became a senior manager, I had two excellent mentors who took great amounts of time to listen to me and to show me the right road. They also took time to let me fall flat when I thought I knew better, but at least they let me try.

If you do not have a mentor today – don’t push it; just make it a priority in your life to find someone who can fill that slot. While you are looking, go ahead and be a mentor to those who need you. Just look around, they are very easy to find.

Please send me any mentor stories and I will put them up on the website.

I am a firm believer that I am good, very good. But I also know how to take guidance. I hope when I am 70, I am still working with a mentor; and when I am 82 I hope I will still be a mentor.

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Manny Nowak is serial entrepreneur. Over the past 20 years he has built a number of successful and not so successful business enterprises. This has included software, high-tech consulting and tradeshow enterprises. He is a success coach who knows how to get the best out of his clients. He understands what it is like to site in your seat, because he has been there and done it. Though real life experience in building, running and working with small business he can relate to your needs and help you find the solutions you are looking for. His method is simple, yet effective. Build the vision, build the plan and then keep you accountable to get there. Results drive success through strategic success coaching. Manny has an undergraduate degree form Glassboro State College (Rowan University) and did his graduate work in the Organizational Dynamics program at the University of Pennsylvania. Manny is a trained professional speaker and has spoken at a variety of tradeshows and professional events. He is also the author of dozens of books, CD’s, DVD's and other tools to help entrepreneurs build successful companies.
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