{"id":235,"date":"2009-10-27T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakeningpotentials.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-11-27T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T14:09:57","slug":"mentorsuccess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kanatachiropractic.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Thank Goodness for Mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank Goodness for mentors.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know your viewpoint, but for me having a mentor has helped my career take off.<\/p>\n

What is a mentor? Well, on a deeper level it\u2019s like having a coach. And with both cases, coaching and mentoring, there are differences between good influences and \u201cnot so good\u201d influences.<\/p>\n

When I first started my chiropractic practice I had no idea how to run a business.\u00a0 It was considered unprofessional to talk about anything other than health issues; only the charlatans were focused on the bottom \u201ceconomic\u201d line of a practice.<\/p>\n

Well, I bought into that old mentality and focused solely on being \u201cprofessional.\u201d Then, after about 6 months of practice, the bank\u2019s line of credit was used up.<\/p>\n

At that point it was sink or swim, and I was going down fast.<\/p>\n

But that, thankfully, is when I found my mentor.<\/p>\n

A wise old chiropractor told me to take a course on running an office, to learn the business skill that I was so lacking.\u00a0 The mentor I was directed to was Dr. Dom LaForte and he had the gift of seeing the weak links in a chiropractic practice.<\/p>\n

First thing he made me do was keep my office open Monday to Friday.\u00a0 No more late mornings, no more Wednesday afternoons off.\u00a0 I had to focus on being there and looking after patients. As he explained to me, the chiropractors who started late or took days off had been in practice for 30 plus years and had done their work.\u00a0 I was just starting out.<\/p>\n

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since those days, and a lot has changed.\u00a0 But what hasn\u2019t changed is the fact that when people are mentored by someone who knows what they\u2019re doing, they progress faster and farther than alone.<\/p>\n

The fastest ways of growing both your professional life and personal life is to find and release your internal blockages.\u00a0 I call these internal blockages your toxic mindsets.\u00a0 The right mentor can wake you up to your blocks and help you work constructively past them. When finding a mentor make sure they:<\/p>\n