Feeling Stuck? Choose Your Mentor And Forget The Others

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No doubt you have found yourself more than a few times feeling lost about the next move to make.

And why wouldn’t you feel that way? A quick visit to the online realm of the influencers is all one needs to find themselves feeling unsuccessful, burdened by irrational possibilities, and stuck in place by option paralysis, and all before we even start our workday.

Our technology has given us a twenty-four-seven feed to millionaire kids, shameless only fan accounts, karma-dodging pranksters, and an endless stream of proof that we could all be anything we wanted, but if we can be anything we want then who should we choose to be?

It should be simple to choose a path, right?

You know who you are. You know what you like. Yet, here you are, standing in place, confused by the complexity of the multitude of options available to you now.

More often than not when you think that you can be anything then you end up choosing to be nothing at all.

A decision must be made if you are to escape the path that leads to the death of dreamer.

Time is not a forgiving creature, and it will devour up your opportunities the longer you waste time pondering all the opportunities available to you.

It all feels so complicated, doesn’t it?

Do you buy that course for 97% off that promises to teach you how to dropship your way into a lambo?

Perhaps you set up a webcam, some lights, and start streaming to a couple of your friends?

Sell some rocket-monkey NFT’s.

Write and sell a book without being the one to write or sell the book.

Create a course on a subject you know very little about and market that course like it’s the answer to your target marketed viewers and collect that easy money.

Hell, you can even set up a business where you start farting in jars (just watch out for the potential health issues there, I hear it can be heartbreaking).

IT ALL STARTS WITH CLARITY AND CLARITY STARTS WITH ASKING CLEAR QUESTIONS.

First, we must look inward, and we have to ask ourselves ‘Who has our job?’

That’s right, you won’t be inventing anything that has never been heard of. The wheel has been made and it works just fine. Everything at this point is a variation, a mutation, an evolution if you will, of what has come before it.

Having a clear vision of who is currently enjoying your future career will help you pinpoint the start of the path you must be willing to take.

The beautiful thing about us humans is that we are addicted to storytelling, and we tell our stories every day as they unfold in everything that we do and technology has made telling those stories even easier.

Once you have chosen your mentor your career as a detective begins.

You will now become a humble and dedicated student (not a stalker). You will now learn to imitate before you can innovate.

I am not saying that you will leave no room for your individuality, of course, you will, but you are walking a path now that has been walked before, simply not walked in your unique shoes.

There are rules to joining any club that you wish to join. Sometimes those rules are written in clear ‘Submission Guidelines’ and other times it’s as vague as Fight Club “and we do not talk about Fight Club.”

You know who your mentor is.

You know the rules of the club.

Now how do you get invited to sit at the table along with your peers?

This is the part where you start to act like those in the field that you wish to be in.

Once again, you stay your unique self as always, but people like to tribe-up with like-minded individuals, and when they can see you as one of their own then a seat at the table will be much easier for you to achieve.

You can’t be everything that you think you could be, there simply isn’t enough time and energy to accomplish it all, and therefore a sacrifice must be made, at least at the beginning.

Choose your main path, put a ring on it, and love the hell out of the journey ahead.

You will doubt yourself often, in Mandalorian terms “This is the way.”

But you will only get better and more confident, and eventually, you will look back on your journey, embrace your personal story, and you will appreciate what it took for you to make it here to be the successful person that you knew you could be.

But it all starts with you choosing to learn from the one person that you know has your job.