The best way to succeed is to follow other’s footsteps. Even
the footsteps that led to failures too. The advantage you get here is that, you
will not have to experience the failure he/she had. You will get to know the
steps and make a strategy so that the same don’t happen to you. Get it?
A mentor is not synonymous to the teacher. Teachers teach you from textbooks
while mentors teach you from life. A sportsbetting mentor is not the most
easiest people to find as gambling refers to all for themselves. People in
sportsbetting often keeps their lessons and teachings to themselves. But if you
run into one, you are a lucky guy and sportsbetting is a lucky game. understand
the math now?
I had mentors too. Not in this particular sportsbetting
business but in other stuff. But, mentors may vary but the lesson follows the
same principle. I don’t know if I’m very good of a mentor for you to describe
how a mentor is like but I’ll give it a try.
I could start the definition by a quote I heard form I don’t
know where “haha”:
“ Give
a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for
a lifetime. “
Taking this quote in mind, a mentors role is to teach you:
- How to
research the sport in an expert way both on the Internet and offline
through other forms
- What
the key figures to look for are when performing your research
- Managing
your money for long term positive investing
- How to
effective use multiple sports betting agencies
- How to
stay focused and motivated
There is a skill set required to be an effective mentor. At
the top of the list is to have excellent communication skills, counselling skills,
leadership skills, implement a range of learning techniques and to be patient.
Ultimately the expert has to to be willing to become a
mentor. If it is forced or if it’s viewed as a chore then the mentor will
not be at his best. Frustration, anger and resentment will soon follow if this
is the case.
Don’t worry about that last paragraph all too much. If a
mentor has decided to take you under his wings, it’s more than likely they have
accepted and he’ll accomodate being as effective as he can be.
Does all this talk about mentors make you want to go and get
one? Unfortunately mentors can’t be purchased in any of the thousands of shops
in Westfields. Luckily there are a few places where they hang out.
- Sports
Betting Forums – This is the best place to find a mentor. Forums
are a great place to come across people who are really passionate about a
topic. There are heaps of people in these forums though, so it’s best to
spend time checking out and separating the experts from the not-so-expert
punters
- TAB
Retail Outlets – You can find mentors/experts in TAB outlets – although
you are in a place with a lot less people than a forum. It’s like fishing
in the ocean(forum) versus fishing in a small little pond(TAB
Outlet). You may still catch something, but the quality, the time
it’ll take and the experience of the expert many not be as good
- News
Articles – Check out your daily newspaper for sports betting articles.
Occasionally when the topic gets mentioned you may have a reporter who
calls upon an expert. Once you have the experts name, try a Google search
to find ways to connect with the person – through social networks is the
best way
- Blogs
– Like the one you’re reading now. The best way to find experts on a blog
is through the comments section of posts. If people are open to comunicate
they’ll leave an email and/or a URL.
Ok I have found an expert who makes 6 figures a week on
sports betting! … now what? Buy them lunch! Buy them a coffee – Be nice to the
person. I think it’ll be rude if you were to approach an expert and straight
out ask them to teach you. Don’t do that.
Instead, if you find a mentor through a forum, contribute to
the threads they’ve started, or reply to a thread they’re in. Add them to
Twitter, or add them on Facebook and ask politely that you want to get to know
them because you have similar interests!
You’re not there to deceive your new mentor friend, so make
sports betting the main topic of discussion. You have to show that you’re
really enthusiastic about sports betting and that you’re willing and very eager
to learn as much as you can.
If you find the person on a blog or through a news article,
try to Google their name – so that you can add the person to Twitter and/or
Facebook. The key here is to form a communication channel with the person.
If you would rather try your luck in a little pond (TAB
outlet) and if this is more your thing, then it’s just a matter of having good
people skills. Become close to the person, find out their name, find out how
often and when they make it to the TAB and get their contact number. From here
it’s your job to become a good friend to the person.
Eventually you want to ask the question. Once you become
good friends you want to ask them to mentor you. You should
let them know that you admire their success and that you believe they would be
a great mentor.
One of the most important things to this is that you must be
willing to become a student. Become a sponge, take in all you can but also give
the mentor some space – you don’t always want to be looking over his shoulder.
This will just make the experience uncomfortable for him.
If you end up finding a mentor, let me know about your
experience in the comments section below. Have you ever mentored someone in the
past – and do you want to share the story? Let me know and we’ll make a blog
post out of it.
