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The Three Keys to Success in Mentor Me
I discovered a pattern while working with (and studying) successful people throughout my lifetime, including almost twenty years in the financial services industry.
This pattern revealed successful people use a common core skill set in order to obtain success. In addition, I realized this information could be assembled, taught, and learned.
I call this core skill set: the three keys to success.
So what are these three keys to success and how can you use them to transform your life?
Success is unlocked by the proper implementation of these three keys :
1) Goal Setting
2) Time Management
3) Life Skills
The following graphic summarizes this concept:
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...
Properly use these three keys and anyone can transform their life!
Specifically, the benefits are the following:
- Goal Setting helps people get focused
- Time Management helps people be focused
- Life Skills help people stay focused
With this in mind, Mentor Me methodically walks readers through utilizing these three critical keys in order to create their definition of success.
Over the years I read a myriad of books on these topics, many of which seemed condescending, painfully boring, and/or theoretical. For these reasons, Mentor Me favors a different approach.
It has been described by readers as conversational, interactive, and fun, even with some "smile moments" thrown in for good measure.
Additionally, Mentor Me is designed so readers will benefit as they finish and implement each section of the book, producing an immediate, positive impact on their lives!
Goal Setting: Get Focused
Goal Setting is the first key to achieving success. It is important to define and structure goals, but to do so starting with a completely open mind.
As I wrote in Mentor Me, "Let's face it, the more time we have lived in this world, often the more jaded we become. Remember what life was like before someone ever told you, 'No...you can't?""
"...Children know no limits or boundaries. It is only through society and others telling us what we can and cannot do, what we can and cannot achieve, what we can or cannot accomplish in life, that we shrink or compress our beliefs in what we can achieve.
Ask yourself, what really changed in you from that time in your life, your childhood, when you knew no boundaries or limits? What changed in you when you were a child who dreamed and fantasized about the life you wanted someday?
You will find nothing changed except your beliefs, most likely due to what others and society told you. The only thing that really changed was your belief in yourself and what you believed you could do with your life."
"...It is time to believe again, to believe in yourself and the truth.
You have no boundaries in what you can achieve. "
For this reason, Mentor Me is designed to expand horizons once again, opening readers minds to the realization they are in control of their lives and therefore, their ultimate success.
Chapter I is a guide through this thought process, to help readers get focused by covering how to:
- Start with no structure –“…dream BIG like a child.”
- Visualize the life they want (their Greatest Achievement)
- Add structure to define goals (Elements of a goal, SMART)
Time Management: Be Focused
Mentor Me demonstrates how to directly use time management (be focused) in order to achieve the specific goals readers target for themselves.
It also covers time management in a novel way, using time-tested, real-world strategies, including one exclusively devised by me.
In chapter II, readers set up their blueprint to achieve their own definition of success by learning to:
- Focus their Time (T) and Energy (E) with their goals in mind
- Set up a weekly calendar to move one step closer to goal achievement
- Schedule most important activities ("Big Rocks") first
- Avoid burnout (“High Impact and Low Impact Days Strategy")
Life Skills: Stay Focused
Finally, I realized in addition to the first two keys to success, the most successful people have better-developed life skills than the average person.
These highly-developed life skills help successful people stay focused on their quest to achieve their goals.
This section of Mentor Me contains the tools necessary to stay on track, beginning with a chapter titled, "Understanding Personality Styles."
A deeper understanding of one's own personality style, as well as how one can best relate to other people, is a fundamental building block to help gain and keep others' support on the road to success.
Chapter III includes a personality style quiz and information that readers (and a professional reviewer) have said is one of the most beneficial (and fun) chapters of the book.
Within the life skills chapters, readers learn how to:
- Better understand themselves and relate/communicate more effectively with others
- Absorb new information in less time
- Motivate themselves and others
- Cope with life’s unexpected Situations
- Handle conflict and inspire others
Mentor Me is written to keep readers coming back, referring to it as a helpful guide.
For those readers who are searching for more profound themes, many of these have also been woven into the fabric of Mentor Me.
Some of these themes are subtle while some are not so subtle.
This is truly a book readers can enjoy over and over again on many different levels.
Find out why some have called Mentor Me, "revolutionary" and why it has been quoted around the world!
Enjoy the practicality of the three keys to success, how to use them to transform your life, and the book's deeper themes in pursuit of your goals.
Pick up your copy of Mentor Me here today:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KPGM28C
Use the three keys to success, based upon a lifetime of work, delivered with practical, real-world experience, packaged concisely into Mentor Me, and live your dreams!
Warmly,
Ken Poirot
Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
Ken Poirot
I discovered a pattern while working with (and studying) successful people throughout my lifetime, including almost twenty years in the financial services industry.
This pattern revealed successful people use a common core skill set in order to obtain success. In addition, I realized this information could be assembled, taught, and learned.
I call this core skill set: the three keys to success.
So what are these three keys to success and how can you use them to transform your life?
Success is unlocked by the proper implementation of these three keys :
1) Goal Setting
2) Time Management
3) Life Skills
The following graphic summarizes this concept:
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...
Properly use these three keys and anyone can transform their life!
Specifically, the benefits are the following:
- Goal Setting helps people get focused
- Time Management helps people be focused
- Life Skills help people stay focused
With this in mind, Mentor Me methodically walks readers through utilizing these three critical keys in order to create their definition of success.
Over the years I read a myriad of books on these topics, many of which seemed condescending, painfully boring, and/or theoretical. For these reasons, Mentor Me favors a different approach.
It has been described by readers as conversational, interactive, and fun, even with some "smile moments" thrown in for good measure.
Additionally, Mentor Me is designed so readers will benefit as they finish and implement each section of the book, producing an immediate, positive impact on their lives!
Goal Setting: Get Focused
Goal Setting is the first key to achieving success. It is important to define and structure goals, but to do so starting with a completely open mind.
As I wrote in Mentor Me, "Let's face it, the more time we have lived in this world, often the more jaded we become. Remember what life was like before someone ever told you, 'No...you can't?""
"...Children know no limits or boundaries. It is only through society and others telling us what we can and cannot do, what we can and cannot achieve, what we can or cannot accomplish in life, that we shrink or compress our beliefs in what we can achieve.
Ask yourself, what really changed in you from that time in your life, your childhood, when you knew no boundaries or limits? What changed in you when you were a child who dreamed and fantasized about the life you wanted someday?
You will find nothing changed except your beliefs, most likely due to what others and society told you. The only thing that really changed was your belief in yourself and what you believed you could do with your life."
"...It is time to believe again, to believe in yourself and the truth.
You have no boundaries in what you can achieve. "
For this reason, Mentor Me is designed to expand horizons once again, opening readers minds to the realization they are in control of their lives and therefore, their ultimate success.
Chapter I is a guide through this thought process, to help readers get focused by covering how to:
- Start with no structure –“…dream BIG like a child.”
- Visualize the life they want (their Greatest Achievement)
- Add structure to define goals (Elements of a goal, SMART)
Time Management: Be Focused
Mentor Me demonstrates how to directly use time management (be focused) in order to achieve the specific goals readers target for themselves.
It also covers time management in a novel way, using time-tested, real-world strategies, including one exclusively devised by me.
In chapter II, readers set up their blueprint to achieve their own definition of success by learning to:
- Focus their Time (T) and Energy (E) with their goals in mind
- Set up a weekly calendar to move one step closer to goal achievement
- Schedule most important activities ("Big Rocks") first
- Avoid burnout (“High Impact and Low Impact Days Strategy")
Life Skills: Stay Focused
Finally, I realized in addition to the first two keys to success, the most successful people have better-developed life skills than the average person.
These highly-developed life skills help successful people stay focused on their quest to achieve their goals.
This section of Mentor Me contains the tools necessary to stay on track, beginning with a chapter titled, "Understanding Personality Styles."
A deeper understanding of one's own personality style, as well as how one can best relate to other people, is a fundamental building block to help gain and keep others' support on the road to success.
Chapter III includes a personality style quiz and information that readers (and a professional reviewer) have said is one of the most beneficial (and fun) chapters of the book.
Within the life skills chapters, readers learn how to:
- Better understand themselves and relate/communicate more effectively with others
- Absorb new information in less time
- Motivate themselves and others
- Cope with life’s unexpected Situations
- Handle conflict and inspire others
Mentor Me is written to keep readers coming back, referring to it as a helpful guide.
For those readers who are searching for more profound themes, many of these have also been woven into the fabric of Mentor Me.
Some of these themes are subtle while some are not so subtle.
This is truly a book readers can enjoy over and over again on many different levels.
Find out why some have called Mentor Me, "revolutionary" and why it has been quoted around the world!
Enjoy the practicality of the three keys to success, how to use them to transform your life, and the book's deeper themes in pursuit of your goals.
Pick up your copy of Mentor Me here today:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KPGM28C
Use the three keys to success, based upon a lifetime of work, delivered with practical, real-world experience, packaged concisely into Mentor Me, and live your dreams!
Warmly,
Ken Poirot
Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
Ken Poirot
