Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

DEVELOP A STRATEGY
As it happens, the best potential mentors are successful people who
are already very busy. Approaching one of them requires strategy
and planning. Here is what you do.
When you decide that you would like a particular person to be
your mentor in a particular area, you should contact that person
with a specific question or need. Most successful people are open to
helping other people who want to be successful as well, but they are
busy. They don’t have a lot of time. You should not ask for more
than 10 minutes.
The best way to approach a prospective mentor for the first time is
with a short list of key questions for which you need answers to help
you to make current decisions in your life and your career. Do not ap-
proach a mentor asking personal questions about his or her life and
experiences. Busy people are not interested in sharing their innermost
experiences and feelings with someone they have never met before.
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