Today I'm going to expand on Napoleon Hill‘s Invisible Counselors and my Invisible Mentors technique, but before I do that, I'd like to say that a few weeks ago I attended a networking event where Anna Rossetti, CEO, CPI Card Group was the guest speaker. She told the audience that today, having one mentor is not enough, we need a team of mentors (Personal Board of Directors) to help us get to where we need to go. I smiled when she said that because I have been building my Board of Mentors, and I plan to Build a Board of Invisible Mentors as well.
We've talked in detail about how to choose Invisible Mentors, so today I'd like to deal with the next logical step. Please also read “What Did Napoleon Hill Omit? Invisible Counselors vs. Invisible Mentors” to understand how Napoleon Hill used his Council of Invisible Counselors. This process involves a lot of research so let the Public Library, Google and Yahoo be your friends. Just a reminder, an invisible mentor is a unique leader you can learn things from by observing and studying them from a distance.
For each of your five invisible mentors find all the information that you can on them:
- Identify and secure biographies and autobiographies on your invisible mentors
- Conduct a video search to identify videos by or about them
- Conduct research to identify speeches and presentations given by and about your invisible mentors
- Read all the information that you have collected
- Identify themes that emerge
- Who were their mentors
- Who gave them their big break
- What are their philosophies
- In what way are they similar and dissimilar to you
- What did you discover that was very surprising to you
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What did you discover that wasn't surprising to you
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How do they solve challenges
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How do they generate ideas
- For each invisible mentor, identify 10 great ideas from the information that you read about them
- Combine the ideas you extracted, among invisible mentors and identify new ideas
- How can you apply the new information to your work and life
- When you feel as if you know your invisible mentors, refer to “What Did Napoleon Hill Omit? Invisible Counselors vs. Invisible Mentors” and try to follow the Invisible Counselor Technique that Napoleon Hill perfected
- Now that you have read the information, processed and played with it, map out a strategy to get to where you need to go
- Implement the strategy and fine tune as necessary
After you have amassed and read all this new information on your five invisible mentors, you will discover that your body of knowledge has expanded tremendously. With your Board of Invisible Mentors in place, or what Napoleon Hill called his Council of Invisible Counselors, whenever you find yourself in difficult situations, you have more information to draw on to solve them. Because you know these people who you have studied, you are able to think like them and anticipate how they would respond in a variety of situations.
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Resources to Have in Your Library
Have the following types of books in your library
- Famous Speeches
- People who have changed the world
- Great inventors of our time
Resources to Refer to
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