Top Tips For Finding a Mentor

(Photo: Martin “DrGiggy” Fournier Giguere)When you step out into the unknown, it is always a nice feeling to have somebody by your side. If you can accomplish that feat then you will put yourself in a much better position to succeed. If you are able to find somebody who has already ventured into the unknown, and knows the way like the back of there hand – now that is something completely different – what you have done there is struck gold!

The word mentor may be unfamiliar to some people, but without doubt we have all undergone some form of mentoring during our lifetime. Your early mentors will be your parents, followed by your schoolteachers and later the people paid handsomely to look after your welfare at work. In between those three you will have an array of friends and relatives who will also step into your world and mentor you in one way or another. A mentor is simply a wise and trusted soul who will teach you how to improve your life one way or another. [click to continue…]

Mentors come in all shapes and sizes and they influence in your life in many different ways. Some mentors are involved in your life, each and every day, and others are just there for support when you need them. In my last blog post How to Find a Mentor: Observing and Grabbing Opportunity I spoke about my first meeting with a professional online poker player called Martin “Dr Giggy” Fournier Giguere. If you read the blog post you will know that he was willing to give away 179k of his poker hand histories – which is essentially the secrets to his game – and only two people received those hand histories. One person was selected at random and the other person was me. So how did I manage to persuade Dr Giggy to give me 179k hands containing his most precious secrets?

The first trick when finding a mentor is to be looking for one in the first place. In my blog post called The Bucket List  I spoke about the power of turning on your internal satellite navigation system, and when you do, how the world just seems to hand you the opportunities you need to succeed in life. So it is your satellite navigation system that finds your mentors, but once you have found one how do you get them to listen to you? There is a lot of advice out there but my biggest piece of advice concerns that first meeting… [click to continue…]

This is my fourth blog post on the topic of mentoring and so I will start by giving you a little recap of the previous three. I have explained about the importance of activating your internal satellite navigation system, and how this happens automatically once you start transforming from a Sleepwalker to a Daydreamer. I explained how important it is to recognise a mentor and how to grab the opportunity to be mentored. Finally, I explained the importance of being enthusiastic, inspirational and hard working. Today I want to talk about the next crucial stage in finding a mentor.

Make sure you have something that they need

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Welcome to another blog post in the series: Top Tips For Finding a Mentor. I never intended it to become a series, but as I started to write about my experiences with mentoring, I just couldn’t stop! To get the most benefit out of these posts I suggest you read the entire series.

In my last post entitled Top Tips for Finding a Mentor: Have Something They Need I spoke about the incentives I offered one of my first mentors: Martin “Dr Giggy” Fournier Giguere. At the end of that post I told you that the value I received from my relationship with Dr Giggy, did not come from his personal mentoring but instead from a process I like to call The Chain Reaction. The Chain Reaction is a series of beneficial events that occur after the initial meeting with your mentor. [click to continue…]