Mentoring

Why Mentoring?

Why don’t you just learn how to play golf by reading a magazine? Why don’t you just go to the library to learn how to play golf? Why on earth would anybody pay Butch Harmon or Hank Haney $2,000 an hour, and often much more than that and spend multiple hours, day after day with them to learn one simple concept to improve their swing? Because their instruction has the corresponding value! In fact, their instruction translates into millions of dollars for some of their students. These professionals have the crucially important information that you can’t get from reading a magazine or going to the library, or for that matter doing it on your own. If you want to play better, you need a mentor, a mentor that has been there and done that.

The same thing is true in the business world. Most who think it is better to go to the library or do a Google search for millionaire insight will first of all, never go to the library, and second of all, they’ll be hugely disappointed from what they find from that reading. Real millionaire mentors are not necessarily professional speakers and authors. Virtually all published material about success are from professional speakers and authors. They made and will make their money by writing and speaking-selling their books. Audios, and DVD’s. Most are very good at their craft. But while their materials are entertaining, they are also quite similar, predictable, and provide only short term motivation. Mentoring is an ongoing process of insight and motivation.

What is valuable is to find real people who are actually in their fields, other industries, other endeavors that have made millions by offering value through their service and or tangible products. These people have become successful, not by going to the library, oh no. They became successful by struggling their buns off for years, and gaining experience that has not been recorded or published, other than on rare occasions. That experience is something you should know. Each person should pay a corresponding dollar amount for that value. Mentoring from very real millionaires not authors and speakers, but from the mouths of the people who lived their unique and amazing stories is priceless and could change your life.

Mentoring from someone who has gone bankrupt building their business, some multiple times is different. Their business was built by making mistake after mistake and yet they prevailed. Knowing their mistakes, their struggle, understanding what “tenaciously prevailed” really means along with the corresponding lessons that resulted from those real life experiences is of value.

Personal contact with millionaires alone is huge. Why do you think people join country clubs that cost $150,000? It’s not just the golf or tennis. They do it because contact with these people is of value. They know things, concepts, strategies, and people you don’t.

Mentoring is the lever that delivers the insight to dislodge the burden of mounting debt, small thinking, small income, insignificant pay raises, inflation, rare vacation time, little to no savings, the pain of unexpected expenses, and stagnant unfulfilling careers. Those who scoff at the concept of independence and much greater income potential will not win. They will either wake up to the importance of mentoring, change, business acumen, entrepreneurship, and the power of genuine faith, or they are doomed to repeat the same results they experienced last year.