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'Golden Wisdom from Golden Years'
You’ve heard saying a thousand times: “If I knew then what I know now.”
Can you imagine how different your life would be if you’d possessed all knowledge you have today at an earlier time? Perhaps it’s impossible to turn back hands of time, but it’s not impossible to pass along wisdom you’ve gained so others can benefit from it.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Gregory Scott Reid, a.k.a. The Millionaire Mentor.
Many people assume that, with a nickname such as this, it would be my personal goal and mission on this planet to mentor folks to become millionaires. Although that would be a great quest, I’ve focused my intentions in a different direction.
The fact is, I’ve been blessed to mentor inner-city kid’s right here in my hometown of San Diego, and I’ve been fortunate enough to find financial success along way. As my involvement with community grew, nickname was born. With this badge of honor, I was inspired to write international number one best-selling book by same title, which now reaches out to people of all generations as a guide toward living their ultimate dream and finding their passion.
Why do I share this information with you? Many people think they need unlimited success and knowledge, or they have to be Aristotle or some other brilliant philosopher, before they can become a mentor or share their messages with those in need.
At least, that’s what I thought. However, as I found out, this could not be further from reality.
All it takes to become a guiding force and beacon of hope is a genuine concern for other people’s success, no matter how they may define it. Remember golden rule of “treat people way you want to be treated”? Personally, I think it’s a fable. The true secret to helping and reaching others is to simply treat them way they want to be treated.
This is because we all have different goals and dreams. What may be important to you might be last thing on list for someone else.
In fact, way I have created a life of abundance for myself is by living this principal in corporate arena, simply stated it is -
“Mentoring your way to Millions”
It works like this -
Say you had a receptionist - we’ll call her Nancy - and she wants to go back to school to study nursing. She tells you her goal during one-on-one orientation meeting you have with every new staff member, meeting where you ask, “If you could have anything you want out of life, what would it be?”
Then, once she's shared it with you, congratulate her on a great choice of career paths, and tell her you’re going to help make her dream a reality. Now, Nancy is no fool. (Of course not! You don’t hire fools!) She may ask why you would support her in something that will eventually cause her to leave your organization.
Tell her she’s a valuable employee and you’ll be sorry to see her go one day. But you realize that by helping her achieve her true goal in life, you make it easy for her to give 100 percent entire time she's working for you, and assist in replacing herself when it comes time to move on.
Imagine Nancy’s excitement when, a few days later, you show a genuine interest in her goal by giving her a variety of brochures from local nursing academies - brochures you requested on her behalf. We then tell her she can take a few minutes each day on company phone to contact schools and set up a class schedule that works for her.
