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July 15, 2008

Mirroring Your Mentor’s Success

Copying or mirroring is a very powerful tool that many successful people have used to reach where they are today. There is nothing wrong in copying your mentor as this will enable you to acquire a mindset and attitude to achieve success. Copying does not mean losing your own identity. It simply means emulating what works.

Look at your mentor’s traits, style and abilities that you would like to acquire in order to be successful in business. Thing about what you admire about your mentor and why. When my mentor first began working with me what I most admired was his calmness and ability to stay positive in virtually any situation. By noticing this and having the desire to have a more peaceful and positive life, I took notice of what he did and bit by bit made the necessary changes in my life to achieve my goals.

When in a difficult situation a very powerful exercise is to imagine what your mentor would do in any given situation.

This is a very powerful exercise and is used by many to achieve not just success in business but also in personal life.

In order to be successful in business and life, you have to acquire certain characteristics and unlearn certain behaviors.

A note before ending, no business can be successful without a good product, excellent marketing strategy and outstanding customer relationship. You can learn all you want from your mentor but without these three things, business success will not come easy, if at all.

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