| We were never meant to be alone! Birds flock | | | | in Canada, and quite possibly other places in |
| together, wolves form packs, whales form | | | | the world, is the co-op program. This |
| pods, ants form colonies, ancient peoples and | | | | involves several months of education followed |
| North American aboriginal peoples formed | | | | by an equal amount of on the job training at |
| tribes. Thousands of single people spend | | | | companies that have contracted with the |
| millions of dollars on dating services and | | | | educational facility. This cycle continues |
| other things designed to put them in contact | | | | until the student graduates with a degree or |
| with their future soul mate. Millions of | | | | certificate in the chosen discipline. |
| others have found them and married. Some, in | | | | Because they also have experience, these |
| their rush, have made the wrong choice and | | | | students are in very high demand and most are |
| have either divorced or continue to live in a | | | | employed within days of graduation.Some |
| poor relationship.WHY do we need this | | | | mentors prefer to refer to themselves as |
| companionship? It certainly isn't for sex or | | | | coaches. Every successful individual or team |
| the continuation of the species, because both | | | | has a coach. Even Tiger Woods, one of the |
| sex and pregnancy take place outside of | | | | most successful golfers of all time, has a |
| marriage or co-habitation every day. It is | | | | coach.When you embark on your journey to make |
| because the psychological makeup of most | | | | your life more successful or meaningful or |
| living things requires close interaction with | | | | wealthy, you must have a coach or mentor or |
| like beings. It is one of the reasons we live | | | | even both, depending on how great your goals |
| in hamlets, villages, towns and cities.So, it | | | | are. There have only been an infinitesimal |
| stands to reason that when we embark on our | | | | number of people who have made it completely |
| quest to be successful we want someone there | | | | on their own and they had to work their butts |
| to bounce our ideas off and to keep us | | | | off to make it.So, if you are unhappy with |
| motivated when the going gets rough or we | | | | where you are in your life and would like to |
| make an error and have to start again. This | | | | increase your success, or your wealth, or |
| is were a MENTOR comes in.If you want to be | | | | your knowledge, then find yourself a mentor |
| successful then you must befriend someone who | | | | or coach.We all have a GIANT hidden inside of |
| is successful and convince them that you | | | | us. Find a mentor and unleash YOUR |
| would like them to mentor you in your quest. | | | | giant.Gilbert Griffiths helped thousands of |
| Or you can hire a mentor to guide you and | | | | people during a professional career that |
| motivate you. There are a large number of | | | | spanned more than 35 years. He recently |
| organizations in most cities that have | | | | came out of retirement with a passionate |
| professional mentors on staff.Another form of | | | | goal to help one million people improve their |
| mentoring is the apprenticeship program, | | | | lives. Would you like to be one of those |
| which is primarily used in the trade field. A | | | | people? |
| new type of mentoring that is now being used | | | | |