Essentially in this age of makeovers, mentoring is about moving. Moving from wherever you are now, to success. That is only reason for its existence. Nice chats, feeling good with each other, trying to impress with knowledge, experience or tall stories - it's all out and direct moving from A to B is it.

Part 2 of your mentoring makeover is to start choosing from expanded range of mentoring styles now available. These styles take you from original trad version to a version like speed dating that will knock your socks off.

And with all options in between, you are bound to find a style that will suit your skills upgrading need for whatever circumstance or stage of business or life you find yourself in. See link below for new mentoring range.

In short, mentoring needs to become a guaranteed form of development success:

 upgrade your expectations of and approach to mentoring;  make it a How To, action oriented process;  ensure it suits your specific circumstances and needs;  ensure you have your goal clearly stated;  choose a mentor who is already successful in your area of need;  copycat their How To.

This mentoring makeover shunts aside all padding of previous comfort approach and hones it down to identifying your success steps. After all, that's all you're after. Anything else is extra, is nice, is sometimes useful, and is secondary and should not get in way.

Stick to your identified goal, apply your mentor's How To, grow your business, make more money, faster, and have more fun.

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But you do need a business plan which is complete enough to anticipate typical problems you will face and provide solutions to overcome them

But do not get into belief system that “This is easy, I can just put down a few words, an outline sort of, and knock it off in a few seconds!” Hah! Not on your life, you can’t. This will be most important document in your business; it will be something you refer to often to see that you are still on right track, doing right things right way – or seeing if you may need to re-write your business plan?

What you write now will affect your entire business. And I strongly recommend getting outside help on your business plan. No, you do not need to hire some professional writer with a PhD for umpteen thousand dollars to create your Homebased business plan.

But what I would suggest is: first, jot down those notes that you were going to make, go over them, adding and crossing out as needed, until you have a pretty good idea of what, why, when, how and where? Then go to your local campus of Community College, University, Business College, and check into classes on writing business plans. Yes, they do have them. See if you can’t give your start-up business to students as a “school project”?

These projects often are accepted as class projects. In fact, classes frequently to out into community and seek out real businesses to write business plans for, as class exercises. It will prove to be an invaluable lesson for both class and yourself. The class will get a real life project and you will gtet a first class business plan. Free! And it will be “your” business plan, created for you and from your notes.

It’s a great place to start! And it could just be best business decision you ever make?