How to find local millionaires willing to mentor you for free?

[Ivan]

The rest of the video is good stuff too. My favorite line was when he said that starting a company is like "jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down".

 

[Raoul Duke]

i would like to kno this as well lol

Please tell me the EXACT steps. Don't leave anything out.

 

[Jon L]

F*ck that. Skip all steps. Go straight to millions. The end.

Maybe I should sell my company for millions, now.

I just know its going to be successful some day, so if you buy it now for $10M, it will be worth at least $100M in a few years. Great deal. Ground floor opportunity.

 

[jon.a]

Just do what zen******* told me. Read all of Z's Posts and golden threads and it's like a free mentor!
Good luck man!

Good

 

[RHL]

Instead of focusing on your own needs, why not focus on somebody else's needs? Just because you're not worth millions, doesn't mean that you might not figure something you could make, do or provide that could be helpful to a rich person, and out of interest in that, they might be willing to talk to you. Demonstrate what value you can provide; mentors will find you.

 

[Windsurfer]

This podcast will help:

http://mywifequitherjob.com/episode14/

 

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[GMSI7D]

General ideas and suggestions are ok but I really would like to hear from people who have been successful at achieving this (or at least tried) so that we can all benefit from your experiences.

I have no real expériences yet but i have ideas to share with you guys.

Eben Pagan says the best way is to help your mentor to achieve greater success in his life so by reciprocity, he helps you with your dreams.

Maybe you can go to a seminar of him or her and take notes and make a CD of theses notes for your mentor so that he can give it away at his next seminars as a gift for his attendees.

So you are now someone important for your mentor because of your initiative and litlle by little , you build a relationship wih him.

Eben says we must help our mentor to grow to the next level so he wants to help us to reach his current level of success.

That's human psychology at work

We must give to get something. we can't escape this step.

I'd like to but we can't.

 

[Supa]

i would like to kno this as well lol

Please do yourself a favor and read the book. http://www.themillionairefastlane.com/download.php

You won't find a mentor here the way you try to do it. Just think logical, why should anyone who is successful mentor you? What value do you offer to them? Fastlaners treat their time as the most valuable thing, and I can't see just 1 reason they should invest their time in you.

Really read the book, then come back and you will understand it.

 

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[devine]

F*ck that. Skip all steps. Go straight to millions. The end.

That's what I though when I read TMF and joined this forum a year ago.
I was sure I'll start making 1 milli a month right away.

(bitchslap saturday party)

 

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[Chadi]

This question, in various forms, comes up regularly on the forum. Just search "a mentor," "mentor me," etc in the forum search box.

https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...-will-reach-1-million-soon.51214/#post-345109

Thank you very much Mrs BRKb,

I did come across a thread or two including the one about zen******* talking about helping someone within the forum community. My intention was to get more perspective from people who were able to find local millionaires (close to where they live) and whether the face to face aspect was a huge factor or not.

And another part of my question was about what will the mentor specifically get out of the relationship so that I know what to offer prospective mentors.

I will take your suggestion though and see if I can uncover those specific answers.

Thanks

 

[brob742]

That one link above has been worth all the hassles I had to go through with brob742 (just kidding )

LOL, good luck bro!

 

[Mike351]

Guys, I agree that this was not the most eloquent way to ask this question, this was probably the first thread I started. I meant it to be read as a how-to question so that people would be more interested in the thread but given the responses it seems that this "tactic" has backfired

In any case, I'm glad that I started this thread because I did get some very helpful suggestions that I started acting upon and will hopefully be able to share some good results with you soon.

Translation: How do I get rich by letting someone else do all the hard work and I simply copy their 2 step formula for success?

The answer is, who did they have? They worked hard on their own to the point where they questioned the 9th dimensions of the universe as to why the upper echelons of the galaxy chose them to face such adversity....

And then while they are having dinner at the country club some pipsqueak who is wet behind the ears but full of hope interrupts their dinner...

"Scuse me sir, I couldn't help but notice your De Tomaso Mangusta parked out the front, its beautiful and so is your wife who is a quarter of your age. How did you do it? Will you mentor me??? Please??? Pleaseeee???????" to which he just ignores you and continues fine dining...

Filled with rage you go onto forums asking "Please tell me how to get a millionaire to mentor me for free!!!"


Does this sound like someone who is self made to you? Even if you make your millions through hand holding, will you feel fulfilled? Or will you just blow it all on cars and girls until you are broke and have no freakin clue on how to build wealth from the ground up again. Part of the reason their struggles were so real is that if they ever lost it all at least they can build it up again. Whiners who have their hand held instead of figuring it out for free end up bankrupt and not able to create that wealth again...

Don't be "that guy" who asks for the simple way to wealth. There is no simple way. Even if your hand is held it is still a massive effort to gain even some momentum. Don't be "that guy". I used to be the guy who asked for the simple way and "if only a rich mentor could just write in dot form exactly how they did it and did it for me that would be awesome"......looking back its so ridiculous and now I would not be happy if I made my wealth getting a mentor to do all the hard work for me.

So instead of going on here asking, get out there and create those opportunities for yourself. Don't know how? Learn how. Don't know how to learn? Learn how to learn. My mentors are my books by millionaires who started out struggling thinking why the fck are they even doing what they are doing, youtube videos, friends or friends of friends who have made it. Hell just walk up to a guy with a lambo and genuinely sound more interested in him or her than his car or his money. Build a rapport. Sounds ridiculous? Well that is because you were raised expecting everything done for you. Life is not a catered event. You have to cook, serve, clean up and pack away all by your wittle self. I'm not an expert nor am I wealthy but ffs some of the "give me answer free now. magic pill silver bullet now!!!!!! me me" type of threads frustrate me. But I commend you for at least having the desire to not be stuck being someone else's pleb.

 

[southfloridakid]

This question is asked all of the time. Everyone that has this question needs to listen to this interview from minute 4:45 - 13:00. The whole interview is good to listen to while you work...

One of the best talks ive seen.

 

[devine]

Step 1: Start a business and then get sued out of existence 3 months later. Start another, then another side business
Step 2: Work a depressing job for 7 years, then another for 9 months
Step 3: Start something on the side, and get paid $5/hr for your efforts
Step 4: Get more successful and hire people to help you
Step 5: Run into major problems with a big client and only focus on bringing in big new customers, thereby almost failing again
Step 6: pull a rabbit out of a hat and get the big client back on track, land another big deal, and a couple small deals
Step 7: well, that's where I'm at right now, so ... to be continued

What's your fastlane pursuit at the moment Jon?

 

[Jon L]

What's your fastlane pursuit at the moment Jon?

Software...we're doing custom work currently, and have a few larger product-based projects in the hopper. We've run out of enough custom work right now, so we're refocusing on getting that going again to support the other activity.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Step 1: Start a business and then get sued out of existence 3 months later. Start another, then another side business
Step 2: Work a depressing job for 7 years, then another for 9 months
Step 3: Start something on the side, and get paid $5/hr for your efforts
Step 4: Get more successful and hire people to help you
Step 5: Run into major problems with a big client and only focus on bringing in big new customers, thereby almost failing again
Step 6: pull a rabbit out of a hat and get the big client back on track, land another big deal, and a couple small deals
Step 7: well, that's where I'm at right now, so ... to be continued

I was hoping that fairies wear boots, rainbows and unicorns would be apart of the steps.


I am deeply sadden.

 

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[Ninjakid]

It can be unicorns and rainbows (and squirrels)!

Here's the logo for one of my best friend's companies:

http://imgur.com/NHec5cj

He recently sold the company for a ridiculous amount of money...

I F*cking love this

 

[Chadi]

brob742,

I think there's a few misunderstandings, maybe I wasn't clear in my initial message:

1- I'm not looking for a mentor on this forum, although I'm open to it if it happens
2- I'm not desperate for coaching/mentoring, I'm using the millionaire criterion as a benchmark to differentiate between the coaches (which I'm not interested in hearing from anymore) and the people who actually accomplished something in their lives. I'm not chasing the millionaires' millions, I'm chasing their mindsets!
3- The free part: as you can see from my very first message I did not have a problem paying coaches a lot of money even though I did not get a lot of value from it, so do you think that if I now get a millionaire as a coach I will refuse to pay them if they ask for it? Of course not! However money might not be what they're after, so offering them money outright might be taken the wrong way, I don't know! I haven't had this discussion with a millionaire to know for sure and that's why I'm asking these questions.

 

[Chadi]

A millionaire isn't necessarily what you are looking for. There are plenty of 70-year-old millionaires that spent their life in the slow lane.

Look for someone that is doing what you want to do and doing it well.

Then figure out how you can help them.

That's a good point Carny.

So if I factor in InLikeFlint's feedback I should just have a list of "target" mentors (give priority to local mentors) and research what every mentor could use help with OR just call them outright and ask them if 1)they can mentor me 2)what I can do in return?

 

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[Chadi]

Not every millionaire would automatically be a good mentor. In a good mentor there will be attributes like talents for teaching, explaining, guiding.

Also:
- Get connected – meeting more people will provide you with more opportunities to find a mentor, so go out and connect with more people. That way you have more potential mentors.
- Give first – depending on your prospective mentor, offer to work for them for free for a certain number of hours per week in exchange for mentoring.
- Deepen the relationship - you may need to give more in order to deepen the relationship into one where it is appropriate to ask for a mentorship.
- http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/11/...onaires-and-how-you-can-get-to-know-them-too/

That one link above has been worth all the hassles I had to go through with brob742 (just kidding )

No seriously Mrs. BRKb, what a great find, +rep transfer

 

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[Chadi]

Hey Jason,

As I explained in my last message the headline was really meant to engage people and get more feedback (which is working to an extent ).

As for giving back, I did mention the following in the first message:

I'm also interested in knowing what do millionaires get from mentoring other people, I get that it's helping others, but what is specifically about that that moves them? Is the monetary compensation still needed? I'm asking because I'd like to know what can I give in return and make it win-win.

Based on some responses in this thread I did get some really good pointers that address that question specifically.

If this is something that you've done, would you care to give us your feedback as to what has worked for you (in terms of giving back)?

 

[oldscool]

I think you got all you need in this thread and I gotten a few reminders out of it myself. I am glad I clicked on the page even though your headline also made me cringe too initially

 

[Raoul Duke]

This entire forum is one massive mentorship program.

Hell, I have mentors that don't even know I exist.

Reading biographies as well.

 

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[SethTavis]

This entire forum is one massive mentorship program.


Hell, I have mentors that don't even know I exist.

Spot on!

 

[croatan]

Can I ask you guys if it's alright to use some B2B Contact Lists that I can filter to my City and then send to each one (of course that I like, or by industries I want be in) email or knock on their business door and ask them for mentorship in exchange for nothing?
Like volunteering I mean...
Thanks Guys! I'm not very long in business But I saw many good CEOs around my city that think they could help and be my mentor
#excided hehe

 

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[The Abundant Man]

It's like dating:
Approach a girl and say, "I think you're cute/beautiful. We should hang out or grab some coffee sometime. What's your number?"
• Gives number
You: "I'm free Wednesday at 6pm.
Her: "I can do Wednesday at 6."
You: "Great! I'll pick you up. See ya then!"
Wednesday at 6-Go to local coffee shop and chat for 30 minutes. Then walk around the neighborhood and chat for 30 minutes. Go bowling for an hour.
You: "I saw this really good movie on Netflix. We can watch it at my house."
Next morning...
You:"Hey! I had a really great time. There's this event next weekend. We should go together."
Rinse and Repeat...

 

[Quim Baig]

so I have moved several times. in the past 20 yrs.

new town, new people

everywhere I go, I meet millionaires.

how is that even possible?
perhaps its my mindset, or my expectations, or I just know who to talk to.
very likely I just hang out with the right crowd.....

or I have learned to ask better questions.

Could you explain a little bit more those experiences??

Thank you

 

[jazzdorf]

Oyyy...Are you even trying?

Please leave this thread and use the forum search feature immediately. Then come back to this thread and tell us what your plan is.

BTW - You need a complete mindset shift if you think someone is going to mentor you for free. Provide value to others (this is your payment to them - not always money) and expect nothing in return.
Go read IceCreamKids zen******* thread. All of it.

And maybe don't read replies in this thread until you did the above. It might get brutal.

I would love to read this zen***** thread, but was unable to find it. Could somebody please post a link?

Edit: I think I found it: HOT! - MINDSET - Z**** Changed How I View The World

 

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