You can try contacting anyone you respect that offers an email address, but you won't always get a response depending on person, how busy they are, and their way of doing business.

However, there are people who are willing to answer questions and in fact list themselves as being available to do just that. SwapSmarts.com http://www.swapsmarts.com is one site that lists experts in many categories that have signed up as being willing to take questions. This can be one way that makes finding people to contact much easier.

CHOOSING A MENTOR

At times, you may find one or two people that you can form a good relationship with and contact repeatedly. If you are willing to give something back in that relationship, whether it be your own knowledge in a different area, other items of value, money, or at least friendship, you can end up with a mentor. You can have one to several mentors, and often relationship can be profitable for you both.

I define a mentor simply as someone willing to work along with you by answering questions or relating their own experience while you make your way through a learning process. Mentors deserve your respect, and they deserve to be paid back in some way for what they do for you.

However, there's no one that knows everything. You still need to think things through for yourself, seek other opinions, and relate others experience and knowledge to your own goals and obstacles.

You can learn from any or all of these resources. However, it's how you start to put your new knowledge into action that counts.

We'll start to discuss that in next article in this series.

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Never underestimate creative power of your own mind. The more you learn on a subject, more you can open yourself up to new thoughts and ideas on that subject. Especially if pushed by questions of others, you can develop things further through your own thought.

Stay in touch with those that have helped you, however. I guarantee no one will ever know it all even if they are considered to be an expert by others. Even when you do get called an expert, stay in touch with those you looked up to as experts. You'll talk to them with greater knowledge than before, but you'll still be able to learn from them as you discuss things together.

This concludes our five part series about getting your online education. However, you must realize there is no end to learning. No matter what your level of expertise, there are always more questions to be asked, more answers to be found, and more knowledge to be gained.

However, that's what makes life fun.

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