TERRI: Every successful person has mentors, and if you want to
go to the next level in your life, you have to connect with
someone who's doing what you want to do.
TERRI: Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy your
cheerleader of dreams. You know, anytime someone
asks me how I went from living paycheck to paycheck, in
debt, out of shape, no dreams or goals for my life, to doing what
I'm doing today, I always say one word, routine. The secret of
your future is hidden in your daily routine. Well, one of the
biggest changes I made to my daily routine was the listening
to inspirational messages that pointed my life in the right
direction. I want to help you do the same thing. So, I want to
ask you to subscribe to this podcast by pushing the little
red arrow so you start a routine of consistent inspiration and
coaching to help you live your dreams. So today, I'm going to
share with you how to find a mentor in business. You might be
like, "Why?" Because it's critical to help you succeed in
life. You know, connecting with mentors is vital to achieving
your dreams and goals. In fact, before I finish today, I'm going
to give you a free download that includes this little checklist
of five ways to just connect better with people and to find
mentors who are doing what you want to do. But first, let me
say every successful person has mentors. I read where 93% of the
wealthiest people attribute their success to having mentors.
You know, some of the famous mentors that you've heard of,
like Madonna, is a mentor to Gwyneth Paltrow. Audrey Hepburn
was a mentor to Elizabeth Taylor. Gandhi was a mentor to
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to Nelson Mandela. Socrates
mentored Plato. Plato mentored Aristotle. So, you see what I'm
saying? And let me just switch gears a little bit. Little
Wayne, he mentored Drake. Oh, you didn't think I knew that,
did you? Oprah was a mentor or is a mentor to Barbara Walters
... No, no, no. Oprah told Barbara Walters ... That wasn't
her mentor. Barbara mentored Oprah, but Oprah told her one
day, she said, "Had there not been you, they would never have
been me." So, you can see everybody looks up to somebody.
Steve Jobs served as a mentor to Mark Zuckerberg. You know the
CEO for Facebook? Well, in the spiritual realm, I think about
Oral Roberts, how he mentored Kenneth Copeland. Kenneth
Copeland mentored my dad. My dad mentored me. So, every
successful person has mentors, and if you want to go to the
next level in your life, you have to connect with someone
who's doing what you want to do. You know, many times it's
through their books, audios, courses, podcasts, like what's
you're watching today, going to their conferences. You know, if
you've been following me for a while, you may consider me like
a mentor. Andy Stanley said, "You will never maximize your
potential in any area without coaching." He said, "It's
impossible." So, it's so important that you connect with
someone who's two to 10 steps ahead of you. See, the quickest
way to get to where you want to go is finding someone who's
already doing what you want to do. They've already been there.
They've already learned the lessons. John Maxwell said in
the early days of his personal development, he would seek out
successful leaders that he really admired. He would offer
them $100 for 30 minutes of their time. And he said many of
them graciously agreed to meet with him, but he said he always
went to his meetings prepared. He would carry a legal pad just
full of questions, pre-thought, and he was always ready to just
gain their wisdom. Maxwell said, "I can hardly explain how much
I've learned in those vital sessions." Well, before you
decide on a mentor, look at their results. Do they talk
really charismatic, or do they have proof that they practice
what they preach, and you see the fruit in their lives? I
think about Bob Proctor. You may have heard of him. He said he
was broke. He was in debt. He was struggling in every area of
his life, and he said his boss, Raymond Stanford, came to him
one day and he just said, "Look, look at these three areas and
determine if you're getting results in your life." He said,
"Health, wealth and happiness." Well, Bob didn't even know how
to respond to that. So, he asked Bob to rate him. You know his
boss, he said, "Do you think I'm a happy person?" Bob had never
seen him sad. He said, "Do you think I'm a healthy person?" Bob
had never seen him sick. He said, "Have you ever seen me
when I was broke?" Bob never had. So, Ray proceeded to say,
"You are one of the most miserable persons I have ever
met." He said it was true. He said, "You're always sick.
You've always got a cold or a backache or something's going
on." Then he said, "And you're broke. You're always trying to
hit somebody up for a couple of dollars for gas." Well at the
time, Bob said he was making $4,000 a year. This is back in
1959, 1960. He said he owed 6,000 just in his bills, his
debts. Well, his boss told him, he said, "If you'll follow
certain laws, you'll be happier, healthier, and wealthier." Well,
Bob had a difficult time believing this, but his boss
said to him, he said, "Bob, your way isn't working." He said,
"Mine is so, why don't you just try mine?" So, he began teaching
him to find mentors inside the pages of books. He told him,
"Build a personal library." He told him to listen to audios,
enroll in courses, absorb everything you can from those
who are proving success. Well doing this, led to Bob getting
like crystal clear on his goals. He said he made a decision to
read every book he could get his hands on to just learn more
about this. Bob said, "Today I have one of the finest libraries
you've ever seen." And he said, "It's not just books, it's
audios." He said he would travel to conferences to just keep
learning. He said, "You can't escape from a prison if you
don't know you're in one." Well, his boss began to tell him,
"You're in a prison and you can get out of this." So, by the end
of that year, something miraculous happened. He didn't
earn 4,000 a year. He made 175,000 that's a true story.
That's hard to wrap your mind around, isn't it? But he said
connecting with a mentor who was already doing what he wanted to
do, changed his entire life. So, I want to encourage you, connect
with mentors who are where you want to be. I read where 6%,
only 6%, of the US population makes over $100,000 a year, and
less than 1% of the population makes more than $365,000 a year.
Less than 1%. So, think of it this way. You're going to have
to do things that 99% of the people out there won't do. Well,
what is it? It's connecting with mentors, investing in coaching,
investing in training. In fact, Allie Brown, when she was at the
lowest point in her life, one sleepless night, she said she
ordered a little cassette tape course by Tony Robbins. She said
she did the payment plan because she couldn't afford the whole
price, but she said it was perfect for me because the only
positive voice she had in her life was that little cassette
tape by Tony Robbins. She said, "Hearing him in my ear every
morning, hearing someone say, you can do this, I believe in
you. Here are some ways to be successful. Here's what we've
learned from successful people." She said, "I was hooked." Well,
she learned things like, you're the average of the five people
you spend the most time with. She thought, "Oh no, I need some
new friends." And she was still surrounded by people who didn't
want more out of life. She said they lived for Friday night and
going to the bar to just talk about what's on TV. She said, "I
had to find mentors who were living the life I wanted to
live." Well today, she's a success coach to hundreds of
thousands of people. So who are you listening to you when it
comes to your dreams, your goals, fulfilling God's plan for
your life? I want you to connect with mentors because I'm telling
you it's a game changer. I want to encourage you today to
dedicate yourself to lifelong learning. Take every course you
possibly can in your field. The person teaching you has
developed this over years and years, and they can give it to
you in a matter of weeks. So today, I want to recognize our
YouTube subscriber of the week. Let's see who it is and if I can
pronounce it, Chanteur. Ooh, it sounds French. Ooh, la la.
Bonjour, Chanteur It says, "Terry, I have the dream and
goals notebook, and last year I put the amount I wanted to tithe
with the limited amount we had. Well, I gave more than the
number I wrote," and she said, "This year, I am aiming higher."
I love that. Isn't it amazing when you set a goal for
yourself, and it just stretches you to believe bigger. So,
Chanteur is French for sing ... Chanteur, I am cheering you on
to just keep setting those goals and checking them off. And I
want to help you with this. You know this week, like I said, I'm
giving you a three-part series on the leadership connection
method. Now, I've broken this down in three different emails
that you will get over the course of the next few days. In
order to live your dreams and fulfill your assignment, there
is one thing you must master and that's connecting. So, I want
you to just click the link in the description or go to
Terri.com/connection to enroll in my free three-part series on
the leadership connection method. And remember, for more
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make this your best year yet. Thanks for
watching and remember, I'm cheering you on.