How to Find A Mentor

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Find A Mentor

Are you looking for someone to mentor you? Here's how you can find the people and resources you need.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

First, decide what you want to learn. Do you want to learn how to be a better parent? A better salesperson? A better writer? To be more organized or frugal?
Step 2

Find people in your life who exemplify these qualities. You may need to learn from more than one person, because no one person is strong in every single area.
Step 3

When asking a potential mentor to help you, be specific about what you want. If you want to learn how to do better in sales, ask the top saleperson if you can sit in on the next couple of deals and observe his technique. If you want to be a better parent, ask a great mom if you can take her out for coffee and pick her brain about parenting.

Don't ask a person to simply "be my mentor", because it's too vague. They may wonder if you expect them to be available for questions around the clock, or hold your hand while they do all the work.
Step 4

Don't discount the value of mentoring from a distance. You can learn from people you don't personally know, or even from people who have been dead for centuries!
Step 5

Read! Whatever you want to learn, I can guarantee someone has already written a book on the subject. Reading is a great way to be mentored at a distance.