BRX Pro Tip: Seek Out Mentors
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, one piece of counsel that you’ve shared with many of our clients and colleagues is, seek out mentors when you’re just starting out in your career or your business.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:21] Yeah, or any project you’re working on. I think it’s so important to find people that have already kind of been there and done that and to lean on them, to ask advice. This is going to save you so much time down the road. It’s going to save you so many mistakes. You don’t have to listen to every single word they say. You don’t have to follow their exact path, but you should take the time to learn from them.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:43] And if you can’t find a mentor that’s willing to talk to you about whatever it is you’re working on, there’s been books written for thousands of years with the smartest people on the planet. They’re at your disposal that you can read and learn from them because everything that’s happening now has been done in some form or fashion in the past. So, you can learn from lots and lots of people. And a mentor doesn’t have to be a human being that you’re having coffee with. It could be a book that you’re reading that happened thousand years ago.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:14] So, I think it’s so important, especially if you’re young, to find a few mentors who are generally invested in your success, that they can kind of share their wisdom and they want to share the wisdom because they want to have a legacy and they want to help you become successful. And then, the key to finding and working with mentors is to create a system around keeping them informed about your progress, schedule regular check-ins, or regularly send them updates on your progress and your challenges. And if they really care, they will let you know what you’re doing well, where you should focus your attention and who they can connect you with to help you get to the next level faster.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:56] So, that’s a fair trade for what they’re sharing with you. They’re getting a lot out of it. So when you ask a mentor for help, it’s not something that they’re just altruistically doing. They do get something out of it because they get to prolong their legacy. They get to be heard, they get to be valued, and they get to be appreciated. So people like that and that’s a fair trade, and this person that’s a seasoned veteran is happy to spend, invest some time in people that are truly passionate and truly want to learn. So this is not asking somebody to do something for nothing. They are getting something out of it.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:37] So I highly recommend identify mentors, find those people that really do care and just, you know, try to acquire as many of them as you can and to really update them on your progress, let them know where things are going, where you’re struggling, and give them the opportunity to help.
