What price experience?

Do you have a mentor? How many do you have?

I am fortunate to have had many mentors throughout my professional career. As my career has progressed so my need to change mentors and teachers has had to change also. And the reason for my desire to continuing to grow, to change? Well, my desire to continue to grow and change of course.

I know that everyone on this earth has something to teach me, even if that "something" is how not to do something. You can learn from a good experience or a bad one. The interesting thing is that you can remember the bad times with all cringe worthy embarrassment. The sales call you flunked, the meeting where you arrived wearing odd shoes and a smudge of makeup down your face. Or you forgot to go to the meeting at all. Valuable lessons learned, each and every one of them.

But do you remember the "good" experiences just as easily? Well you should, because it is the good experiences that teach the best lessons. This worked, that worked, how can I leverage what I now know to make more, do more, sell more? Once you start to build on the good times, the good experiences you will see yourself grow in many different ways, you'll hardly recognise yourself.

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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Vernon Sanders Law
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