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Have you noticed when someone receives an award for an achievement, they usually thank someone else without whom that achievement would not have been possible?  When an actor receives an Oscar, they often say something like, “I owe it all to my wife (or whomever).” They thank their parents, spouses, and anyone who has given them the support and encouragement they needed to reach their goal.

When you set big goals that require you to stretch and grow, you owe it to yourself to have a good support system in place.

Finding a mentor is one of the best ways to get that support.

So, how do you find the right mentor? The person who will really make that positive impact on your business and life?  Ideally, your mentor should be someone who is experienced and has already produced the results you want. Look for someone who has been through and understands the process of change you’re going through because they are making constant positive changes in their own life. This is your best choice for a mentor.

What can your mentor do for you? Your mentor (if selected carefully) will help keep you on target as you step up to change. He or she can show you how to deal with distractions so you aren’t sidetracked on your path to reaching your goals.

A mentor who is on a fast track of growth can teach you the strategies that will help you during periods of massive change. Your mentor will be able to help you decide not only what you need to be doing, but what you need to stop doing as well.

When you undertake a massive change, what you have to stop doing is as important as what you need to start doing. A strong mentor can help in this area. For example, your mentor can help you to clearly see which things are not going to fit with the new you, and which projects will help you to achieve your goals. This means that you have to decide which projects to pursue and, even more importantly, which to ditch.

A good mentor has the ability to see you, and the you that you’re stepping into; their belief in you is stronger than their belief in the obstacles that challenge you. A mentor will guide you through the process of change as you take the steps to your new reality.

That’s exactly what happened for me.  Deciding to work with a mentor was one of the best decisions I ever made.  And I continue to invest in myself and work with a number of amazing mentors.  When I first took that step, I really took a leap forward and upwards in my business.  It made such a powerful difference in my life – how I viewed myself and how I viewed my business.

Most successful business people have had help throughout their careers, and most are willing to offer the same to others. Think about successful business owners you admire. Consider people you’ve met through your networking or training groups or other professional affiliations.

You deserve to have a mentor. Make the decision – take that step forward.  The right person is waiting to give you the support you need to achieve your goals.

Bernadette Doyle specializes in helping entrepreneurs attract a steady stream of ideal clients. If you want to get clients calling you instead of you calling them, sign up for her free weekly e-zine at http://www.clientmagnets.com

Have you ever come across a successful business, on the face of it, looks really simple and straightforward? You look at the website, at the marketing, and the products, and it seems like the winning formula is one that you could apply to your own business. Whatever they are doing can’t be rocket science, so you won’t have to be a genius to mimic it and get the same results.

So many people do this when setting up their business. They look at people who are getting the results in their business that they want in their own and think that it looks easy. It’s pretty simple to copy what other people are doing, apply it to their own business, and watch the profits roll in. They tell themselves that they can figure it all out on their own.

They are wrong.

If you think that you can easily follow someone else’s roadmap to success without direction, you will fall into the same trap. This is one of the lies that we tell ourselves, because it’s so much easier to think that we can teach ourselves than it is to seek that advice from others. You can use someone else’s experience to fast track your own success but it has to be done the right way.

There’s a simple method of doing this: invest in mentoring. It will help you realise how much you are holding yourself back by simply trying to copy other people.  You can also be assured that your investment will be returned more times than you can imagine. It’s amazing how much mentoring gives back to you.  It’s not just the information that mentors share with you, but also the fact of having someone who is already getting results believing in you.

Let me give you an example of the power of mentorship. One of my mentors is Yanik Silver, and my business has really changed since I joined his mastermind group. Just before I held my first big workshop, I talked to him about my plans. I was really nervous about it, because I’d never done a three-day workshop of that size, and I had never charged £1,500 for people to come to the workshop. I remember saying to Yanik, “I think this might be possible for me.” He looked me right in the eye and said, “Yes, I think you can do that.”

That simple sentence was the value I got from investing in him. It wasn’t that I needed specific information from him or advice on how to run my workshop. Instead, it was the fact that someone who was already very successful was able to tell me that I could be as well. I needed to hear it from someone more experienced than me, and it gave me the confidence to run the seminar the way I had planned it. That seminar was a great success – both for me, and, I hope, for the people who attended.

On the other hand, before one of my conferences, I did a series of preview calls.   A number of people emailed me at the end of the series telling me that they had gotten so much from the calls that they didn’t think they needed to go to the course. A year or so after the course, I did a bit of sleuthing, and from what I can see, none of these people had made any real progress. Not one.

I’m not saying that if these people had come to my conference, they would all now be multi-millionaires – I’m not trying to suggest I have all the answers for everyone. But it did make me wonder how many “goose chases” and “blind alleys” they have been down because they tried to progress on their own, or because they kidded themselves that they could do it without help.  I’ve tried that track and I know it doesn’t work.

My message to you: invest in a mentor’s help. And you will get help. There are too many pitfalls you will come across when you think you can figure it out on your own. If you keep telling yourself that you don’t need someone’s help, one year from now you will be no further forward in your business. You have a chance to do things differently, so take that chance and start achieving!

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