Mentoring by association

One of the greatest needs in business is the need for a mentor. I am fortunate to have a mentor, a successful man who has built several multimillion dollar businesses who by the grace of God has come into my life and is willing to guide me through the thought process required to achieve the levels of success I have in mind. I also have other mentors that I tap into through books, CDs and DVDs, live seminars and meetings. Another great way to be mentored is through association. This is what I am going to discuss. Success has been studied and we know the attributes that one needs to acquire success. Success can be learned so that guys like me, a poor country boy from Africa, can be just as successful as anybody with all the supposed advantages of life.

Mentoring and counselling has to be learned. This is an area that I have to spend a lot of time on as I had no idea how to set up a million dollar business. In fact everybody has to learn, sometimes a little bit on one subject and a lot on other subjects, or a lot on most subjects like me. Why mentoring? Why counselling? Here is a story.

There was a certain man, a kind of crazy guy who has a lot of fun, nice to be around with, just a great guy. Let’s call him Jack. One day he was at home when his friend Chris called on the phone. Whilst talking to Jack, Chris recognised that something was wrong. He told Jack to go sit down and call his wife. Jack did what Chris told him to do. He sat down and called his wife. By the time Jack’s wife came it was clear the something was terribly wrong. A doctor was called and Jack was taken to hospital and was there for three weeks with a serious heart problem. A flutter in his heart was found, a little rhythm out of line. Because the rhythm was out of line, Jack’s blood pressure was going down and everything was changing

Now Chris was not a doctor yet he quickly established something was wrong and, by arranging for quick action from Jack’s wife, Jack’s life was saved and everything was all right. If that was me, knowing Jack, I would have said “You acting crazy! Go to bed!”. I would not have recognised the serious situation that Jack was in. Now Chris is not a doctor, he is not a nurse; he has absolutely no training in the medical field. But Chris’s father was a doctor who had his practice at home. By Chris being around when Dad was practicing, when Dad was diagnosing or listening to and talking to a patient a lot of information was being fed into Chris without any effort on his part, whether he realized it or not. So that when Chris called Jack, he recognised the symptoms of heart failure and was able to get help quickly.

When we talk of mentoring and counselling you may think that involves the mentor telling you what to do. That is not it at all. The whole thing is about a thought process. My thought process has got me where I am today. That thought process was a learned process. I have learned how to process things in a certain way. Chris grew up around a doctor and he learned how to process and recognise certain things unconsciously. Chris had a doctor to listen to. If you have a father who is a doctor and perhaps a mother who is a doctor too, when they are home and discussing certain conditions in their field there are a lot of things that you will learn automatically. You will have the ability to process certain problems. You will have some background in that area.

If you have a lawyer in your family, then there will be some legal things that will come to you automatically. If you associate with an auto mechanic you will hear a sound in your motor and your mind will recall, you will remember what was said about an engine sounding a certain way. If you have someone in your family climbing that corporate ladder, someone who is in a traditional business, there are certain thing that you are going to learn by simply being around them. You are going

to learn how to process thoughts a certain way and you are going to learn how to solve problems a certain way. That is mentorship.

The same thing holds with wealth. Perhaps you’ve got somebody in your home that is wealthy, maybe Mum and Dad are quite wealthy, maybe you have a wealthy Uncle somewhere. If you are around them then you are going to learn certain things about wealth that other people won’t know. If you are in a middle income family you are going to learn certain things as well. How you process things in a certain way, how you handle money, what you do with it, how you use it, how you solve problems about it, or with it, are all determined by your learned thought process.

The same thing holds true if you are in a low income family. There are certain things you are going to learn about money and wealth. There are certain things you are going to learn about problem solving and other things. What is interesting is that none of them are learned intentionally.

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Joseph Walter Brown

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