From not making certain business decisions to fostering certain partnerships, a mentor can help guide you through your journey.
Here are ten other reasons why you need someone like a mentor:
- Mentors provide information and knowledge.
- Mentors can see where we need to improve where we often cannot.
- Mentors find ways to stimulate our personal and professional growth.
- Mentors offer encouragement and help keep us going.
- Mentors are disciplinarians that create necessary boundaries that we cannot set for ourselves.
- Mentors are sounding boards so we can bounce ideas off them for an unfiltered opinion.
- Mentors are trusted advisers.
- Mentors can be connectors.
- Mentors have the experiences you can learn from to prevent making the same mistakes beginners make.
- Mentors are free, which makes them priceless in more ways than one.
Typically, a mentoring relationship will grow organically through connections within your industry and network. A mentor does not do it for the money. Instead, they are driven by the satisfaction of helping another entrepreneur, paying it forward from a similar experience they had when starting their own business.
Having a mentor is not a sign of weakness; it shows you are smart enough and are driven enough to succeed.