Thursday, August 19, 2010

Wisely pick who your mentors are!

We can have many influences that determine who we become. Mentors can make or break us as professionals. Due to the internet, we don't ever need to meet the people that have the biggest influences on our lives.

I have many training mentors whom I have never met. Mike Robertson http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog is one who I have spent a lot of time studying in the last few days.

Mike does a great job of explaining the training ideas that I have in an easy to understand manner. He and I share training philosophies. An example: Pain is a symptom. The key is finding the causes. Einstein was quoted as saying, spend 90% of your time defining the problem and 10% on the solution.

The next time your back is bothering you, spend enough time figuring out why before you come up with a solution to the pain.