Become a mentor: have one hand up and one hand down

Tutoring, pass it on

Success is hard…once you achieve it, chances are you’ve greatly benefited from a host of teachers, mentors, motivators, and high achievers who took the time to brainstorm and brainstorm with you. concepts, and served as advisors or probes. – boards or partners. I have learned that becoming a mentor to others and helping them achieve it can be just as rewarding as achieving it myself.

Success isn’t always easy, and sometimes you have to earn it through years and years of trials and tribulations, through many hard-fought battles to get to the next level.

Some don’t make it, ever.

So if you stick around long enough to achieve success, let me share something with you: Now it’s your turn to give something back and mentor someone else.

Once you have amassed a lifetime of business and practical experience and a wealth of financial and marketing insights and insights, don’t be greedy! Don’t waste all that powerful knowledge keeping it all to yourself.

Take someone just starting out and give that person the benefit of your hard-earned knowledge and experience.

Advise them.

Motivate them.

Contribute to your success as others have contributed to yours.

There really is no better legacy you can leave from your entrepreneurial career than doing your part to make it a little easier for the next dreamer.

This time, I’m not asking you to follow my advice.

I tell you that you must give them yours.

You have it in you to change lives for the better!

The mentoring relationships in my life, as I’ve gained more and more business experience, have tended over time more to be a mentor than a mentor. But that doesn’t mean I don’t reach out to those who know more and have done more than I do, to ask for their advice, seek their advice, and benefit from their encouragement. I will always have mentors, because I have gained so much from learning from others that I cannot imagine not seeking advice and mentoring from those who can help me along my journey.

It just means that nowadays I have one hand up to reach someone at a higher level, I often have the other hand down to help the next generation of doers.

And if you’ve managed to pull off some impressive feats in your business career, I hope you’ll do the same. Remember all those times someone opened a door of opportunity for you, made a key connection for you, explained something difficult so you could understand it, or taught you how to do what they did so you could get the same results? In my opinion, you have an obligation to pass on those lessons.

In the lightning-fast business world, the lessons learned through many years of struggle and error have timeless value that only diminishes when you keep them to yourself. By the time you open your mouth to start teaching others, I assure you that if you keep your ears open, you will not only pass the knowledge on to others who will greatly benefit from it, and appreciate you greatly for doing so, but I am willing to bet everything that he will learn from those he also advises.

And who knows, you might impart some of your hard-earned wisdom on some ambitious people, rising superstars who go on to do even bigger things in business than you. Isn’t that something to be proud of? Sure, it’s from a disinterested perspective.

But also from a purely profit-driven egotistical point of view, it makes sense to share your knowledge and guide others. In my experience, this is one of the best ways to discover new relationships with potential business allies, strategic partners, and lucrative opportunities with other action takers who understand what you’re all about, know the value you bring, and are looking to reciprocate by helping you. in the same way that it has helped them.

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