Mentors can help you find your way through life. But how do you go about finding the mentor?
Use these directional guides from GenuLines to better get your bearings.
Do You Need Mentors?
You can’t know everything there is to know about how to get where you want to be in life. While it’s possible to learn the needed skills, this will take time and likely a lot of money.
Instead, what if you had someone (or a group of people) who can help guide you to success?
A mentor is someone who right now is where you want to be. The relationship you have with a mentor can be an official one.
Or it can be informal such as following in the footsteps of someone you admire.
Mentors have experience and have gone through the growing pains towards success. They will know what kinds of training you may need or skills to develop.
Feedback
Best of all, mentors can provide feedback. They’ll let you know what you’re doing right and wrong during your development.
This kind of advice is invaluable.
You don’t want a mentor who will hold back. Make sure you give them full permission to be completely honest with you.
Most worthwhile mentors will have no problems doing this for you. It may be a hard pill to swallow, but you’ll be better off than having mentors who sugarcoat your progress.
That won’t help you in any way.
Matching up
The mentors you choose should have the experience or skills you desire to learn. Be sure to ask lots of questions about what they expect from you and ask what you can expect from them.
This expectation is important.
Otherwise, you won’t know whether the mentoring relationship is working. Someone you’re considering to mentor you may take issue with these questions.
If so, this is a sign they may not be right for you. It can also be more difficult to sever the relationship once it’s begun.
Should you pay for mentors?
It depends on what you currently have available at your disposal. And what you intend to receive from this kind of arrangement.
If mentorship is available free of charge then consider going ahead with it. Then again, paying for someone to help you lets you hold them accountable.
This is a crucial aspect of mentoring.
Without it, you could be spinning your wheels, going nowhere. You don’t want to waste time.
The whole reason to take on a mentor is to save time and get you further in your development.
JohnK 11-14-2022
Overheard: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” ~Isaac Newton
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