The Invisible Mentor

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In August my friend Lauren Huffman Morris posted on Facebook 15 Favourite Books Share. I posted the following books that I read, and really enjoyed, and some of them influenced my life. I am forever growing and changing and as I evolve so the books, I like change. For today, here are 15 books I’d like to share in no special order of influence:

1. How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren
2. The Art of Thought, Graham Wallas
3. Key to Yourself, Venice Bloodworth
4. The Magic of Thinking Big, David Schwartz… Read More
5. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. New Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz
7. Best-Loved Folktales of the World, Joanna Cole
8. Gilgamesh: A New English Version, ed Stephen Mitchell
9. The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
10. The Outcast: A Novel (P.S.), Sadie Jones
11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
12. The Richest Man In Babylon, George Clason
13. The Greatest Salesman in the World, Og Mandino
14. Animal Farm and 1984, George Orwell
15. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, Frank Bettger

What would your list of 15 books look like? Let’s keep the conversation flowing, please comment. If you found this blog post through a search engine, please consider subscribing.

Before you answer this question, you have to understand how I define Invisible Mentors. Here is my definition of Invisible Mentors from my concept paper.

“An Invisible Mentor is a training tool as well as a different way of thinking, to move professionals from one stage of their life to a higher one through the systematic use of books, interviews, conversations and articles.  An Invisible Mentor awakens the “sleeping” genius within. To achieve this goal requires reading the right books, listening to the right interviews and conversing with the right people.”

So, who are your Invisible Mentors? My Invisible Mentors are:

Julia Conn Watt (She taught me to be a better listener, which is a critical skill for success)

Jim Rohn ( I have learned a lot from his books and training programs)

Earl Nightingale (His training programs – Lead the Field and The Strangest Secret have inspired me)

Key to Yourself (This book by Venice Bloodworth profoundly impacted me)

The Magic of Thinking Big (This Book by Dr. David Schwartz is another that profoundly impacted me)

As I grow and evolve as a person, and unleash more of the genius within me, I suspect that my Invisible Mentors will change. At this point in time, who are your five Invisible Mentors and why? Let us learn from each other!

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