To find mentors in the important areas of your life (business or otherwise) is a great way to achieve your goals and dreams and short cut the learning curve by years.
Finding a mentor is a simple as asking the right questions to the people you admire in the area that you want to excell at. Often you will find that the people that are deserving of you admiration will be very receptive to your questions and possibly be interested in acting as your mentor.
If you are seeking an ongoing, professional relationship there are a number of companies around that offer coaching and mentoring on a professional level
Howard Brinton and his star power company
Brian Buffini and his business system based on referrals
to name just 2.
As a 25 year realtor and managing broker, I feel that the best real estate company for offering coaching and mentoring is Keller Williams Realty, so if there is a KWR office in your area, talk to the broker manager in the office and see if they are a fit for you.
It is the only company that I know of that actually has a very professional coaching and mentoring system and training program in place.
Where I am in Victoria BC Canada, I was with KW, however the local owners did not want or feel they could adhere to the KW systems, so I could not remain with the company, but I still fell and am convinced that as a company the offer the best overall support and realtor as well as clients service systems in the business.
I mean no disrespect to other companies and their services, it is just my observation that most companies are more and more focussed on the profile of the company and the agents without having real support and education to back their claims up.
If you want to read a little more about the business of real estate, one of the best books I know about running your career as a business is
The millionaire real estate agent, by Gary Keller
it is all about setting up systems and procedures that allow you to work to the highest possible quality and consistency of service, lead generation and longterm busness success, what ever that means to you.
By the way, good coaches, and or mentors, do not have to be in your area, in fact it may be easier to built a great mentor relationship with agents and or coaches, from a different area, and work either by phone or on line.
In order to be coached and or mentored the trick is for you to set goals and expectations, in clear definable areas and targets, over a period of time and to measure the progress against your goals over time.
this way you can make incremental adjustmentsas you progress along your journey.
So start making your goals, start with the end, so what do you want your career or business to look like when you are done with it. Then determine when this will be.
From there you start filling what you need to do, what you need have and what you need to know in order to achieve your goals.
Next is to determine what your targets are say 10 years from now, and what you need to do, know and have to be on target to hit your someday targets
then you bring it back to say 5 years
then 3 years
1 year
one month
and then each and every week, as to what it is that you need to do, know and have in every area of your life and business, so that you are on track for your monthly targets, you annual targets, your 3 year targets, etc etc.
Then you make arrangements to meet in one way or another with your mentor/coach and review how you are doing, if you know how to get to thenext level and if there is anything that needs adjusting.
I hope this gives you a bit of an idea, and direction to go where ever it is you want to go with your business and life
Good Luck