The Mentorship Issue

Finding a mentor can be an exhausting experience. You are facing multiple hurdles with getting the help needing. It can range from finding and choosing the right field for you to need a mentor in, understanding the skills required to achieve your goal, hoping the mentor even takes you on as a mentee. Any decent mentor will be very busy, and how do you catch their attention? Most people have not done much to catch anyone’s attention, let alone a successful mentor. Although there may be multiple types of mentors, these are the main three I have can across in my entrepreneurial journey.

1)Direct Mentor- Individual or group that has attained the goals/lifestyle you are attempting to achieve

2)Skills Mentor-Individual or group that has not attained the exact goal/lifestyle, but has the mastery of a specific skill that will be needed to achieve and maintain target goals

3)Indirect/Virtual Mentor-Individual or group that has particular expertise or met the goals/lifestyle and has documented the methods used to attain it.

The direct mentor will be your best bet for success as you will learn by shadowing or speaking with them regularly. They can also be very expensive as the point of a mentor is to accelerate your progression by shortening your learning curve. Typically, when you are starting a business, the beginning is the school of

hard knocks. This school is expensive, and it hurts. Direct mentors skip the schools and give you the main points and business connections.

The use of skill mentors is a relatively unknown way to achieve a goal. You have to analyze the skills and qualities of your target mentors. Then find people or even jobs that will teach you and help develop that skill. Robert Kiyosaki, a well-known author of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad, spoke about his need to learn how to sell. To acquire the craft, he applied to Xerox to learn how to sell because of the decent introduction program, and he could practice his selling skills. He goes on to learn many skills this way, then took that knowledge and started his company.

The indirect method of mentorship is in books, YouTube, or other platforms. The use of an indirect mentor is one of the most time-consuming practices to achieve your goals. But it provides limitless information on demand for your chosen field. Although since you do not have an in-person mentor you can ask a specific question to, you will have to look for the answers yourself. Keep in mind that having great indirect mentors is a necessary supplement to a direct or skills mentor. You can use the indirect/virtual mentors to study the fundamentals of your field while using the direct mentor experience to advise about your current situation.

In closing, all mentorship methods can help achieve goals. But regrettably, it has led to the rise of gurus that can give you bad advice or preach unproven ways they do not practice. A good

rule for choosing mentors is to look at what they are doing. Is it what you want to do? Are they doing it on a higher level than what you can do right now? Or do they just show you pictures of jets, planes and sitting on a beach. Mentors are busy, work hard and are currently doing the profession at a higher level that you. Stick to those main points and you will have the mentorship you need.

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