Mentor Me: GA=T+E-A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

By Ken Poirot

Happiness. Success. Motivation. Influence. Inspiration.

We all want to have success and happiness in every area of our lives, as well as be a positive influence and inspiration to other people. But too often, we get lost in our resolutions to do just that, having no idea where to start or how to get there. Successful life coach Ken Poirot provides answers in this groundbreaking book, Mentor Me: GA=T+E-A Formula to Fulfi ll Your Greatest Achievement!

In Mentor Me, you will discover:

- How to formulate a plan to achieve your dreams
- Your personality style and how it relates to the personality styles of other people
- How to most effectively learn new information, motivate yourself, and others
- The two most powerful words in the English language and how to put them to work for you
- The best-and most effective-way to handle any conflict in life

Mentor Me delivers what other books only promise: real world strategies, techniques, and information that produces proven results! Easy-to-implement directives and personal life illustrations combine to provide readers with the pathway to success they have only previously dreamed about. Begin reading and following the plan found in Mentor Me today and step-by-step, you will transform your life!

Ken Poirot is a financial professional with over eighteen years' experience as both a successful financial advisor and sales manager. As the senior vice president and sales manager for Frost Investment Services, the brokerage department of Frost Bank (NYSE:CFR), he led his department to four consecutive years of double-digit revenue growth, increasing revenue by over 83 percent while substantially increasing the profi t margin. During these same four years, the financial advisors he coached increased their individual production from an average of less than $25,000 in revenue per month to over $41,000. Additionally, he has consistently increased sales by double digits as a regional manager at various other firms, including Guaranty Bank and JPMorgan Chase.

He is a coach, consultant, scientist, author, and public speaker, currently residing in the Houston suburb of Richmond, Texas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ken Poirot
• Release date: Sep 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310510526

Ken Poirot

Find out why this author is famously quoted daily worldwide. Shortly after publishing his first book, "Mentor Me," quotes from Ken Poirot gained popularity. "Mentor Me" quickly became a bestseller in multiple niches on Amazon; now Ken Poirot is famously quoted daily all over the world. Ken Poirot grew up on Long Island, New York in the quaint village of Northport. After graduating from Cornell University with a B.S. in Microbiology, he moved to Houston, Texas to pursue his Ph.D. studies in Cancer Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center through UT Health Science Center. Upon receiving a US Patent for his research, "Lipid Complexed Topoisomerase I Inhibitors," he left graduate school for a career in financial services. His career in financial services spanned working for some of the top companies in the industry; some better known New York Stock Exchange-listed companies like American Express, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America), JP Morgan Chase, as well as some smaller New York Stock Exchange-listed companies like Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE: CFR) and Guaranty Bank (now part of BBVA, NYSE: BBVA). He quickly realized his time working as both a financial advisor and sales manager with some of these top firms over almost two decades, exposed him to much high-level training which could be applied to both personal lives as well as any professional career. He also realized many others would benefit from this information, so Ken Poirot decided to compile the best of this training in order to make it accessible and applicable for anyone who had an interest. He combined all of this with trial and error uses/enhancements (real-world applications), personal stories, real-world experiences, and observations, creating the book, "Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement". "Mentor Me" has been praised for its uniqueness; it is different than other books in the same genre garnering such descriptions as "succinct", "practical", "easy-to-read", and "easy-to-implement". Additionally, others have expressed that everyone who reads "Mentor Me" finds something inside to have a lasting, positive impact on their lives. Find out why "Mentor Me" became a bestseller and why quotes from Ken Poirot are posted every single day in social media around the world...

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Preface

What do you want out of life? When you look back on your life, what do you want to see?

What do you want to accomplish…to achieve for yourself…or to give to others? What do you dream that people will say about you and your life?

Maybe you seek happiness. Maybe your desire is to help other people, or to lead a life that motivates, inspires, and influences others to accomplish things they never thought they could achieve. I don’t know what you want in life or where you are in your current situation. Maybe you are in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy looking for a way out, looking for the next rung in the ladder on your climb to the Peak of Happiness, or you may even be at the Peak of Happiness already, looking for a way to stay there. Wherever you are in life, this book is designed to give you the tools necessary to help you achieve your goals.

My Greatest Achievement (GA) in life is spending my Time (T) and Energy (E) helping, motivating, inspiring, and influencing others to create their own Greatest Achievement (GA). (GA = T + E: Greatest Achievement = Time + Energy).

My hope is, in turn, these individuals will also motivate, inspire, and influence others to do the same. Through this medium, writing, I can leverage my Time (T) and Energy (E) in a focused and methodical way to create a chain reaction that positively affects the world.

It is my dream to be the GATE, the conduit, to help someone from where they are today, to where they want to be in the future. It is also my dream to have a society of people who will be that GATE for someone else. Imagine if we lived in a world where everyone utilized their Time (T) and Energy (E) to positively affect others’ lives?

I have been a success and I have been a failure. I have experienced the greatest joys life has to offer (the Peak of Happiness), and I have experienced the seemingly endless Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy. I can say, having been there, the greatest transformations in my life, the most personal development, and ultimately my greatest breakthroughs, all came on the back of complete Emotional Bankruptcy.

Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and the Time (T) necessary to be introspective—to analyze where we are and where we want to go; to decide what is working well for us and what is not going well; and to make the appropriate adjustments so we can get to where we want to be in life.

As I see it, the meaning of life is each other, and we are all we have in this world. I will even go so far as to say that this world we live in, in my humble opinion, may, in fact, be hell. It does not matter if you are religious or not. We can all see we live in a world filled with violence, wars, famine, poverty, and sickness. We lose people close to us, and we experience tragedy, pain, and sorrow on a regular basis. If you are religious, I would ask you the question, Why would a God (or whomever you worship) who loves us allow us to experience these things? My humble answer is because this may very well be hell—this world. I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth—in the midst of all this hell.

I am not going to pretend I have all the answers and I am not going to pretend I am perfect—because we all know neither of those statements would be true. I am going to say that I have learned some things; I have gained some knowledge from my failures and successes, and I wish to share this knowledge with you. If you can take just one thing from this book to enhance or improve your life, then my work has been worthwhile.

Time (T) is our most valuable commodity. None of us knows how much Time (T) we have on this earth, and no matter how much money we have, we cannot buy any more of it. For this reason, I will submit, the most valuable gift we can give to someone in life is our Time (T). The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them. This explains why we feel so connected to certain people. The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in these relationships creates an even stronger bond with those closest to us in our lives. Through others, we leverage ourselves, we multiply our efforts, and we create a cascade of people who are positively affected by us. When all is said and done, I want my Balance Sheet of Life to reflect that I have positively influenced a multitude of people.

So I challenge you to take something from this book—learn something and apply it to your life. Invest your Time (T) and Energy (E) in others. Be a positive influence on someone else’s life. Add to the plus column in your Balance Sheet of Life on a daily basis. Accomplish your Greatest Achievement (GA) and be the GATE to motivate, inspire, and influence others to do the same.

Are you ready to take your life to the next level?

You are not alone on your journey; I will be with you every step of the way. Together we will develop a plan, a roadmap/blueprint, to help you get from where you are today, to where you want to be tomorrow. Turn the page and let’s begin the journey to your Greatest Achievement (GA), starting with the Introduction and Chapter I: A New Beginning.

Warmly,

Ken Poirot

Richmond, Texas—December 12, 2013

Introduction

Most people have the best of intentions when they begin a new journey of self-discovery by reading books such as this one. So you may ask yourself, if there are so many books written about improving your life, why are so many people, and most of the same people, not experiencing a better life, even after reading multiple books about it?

There is a simple fact: No matter how much you read about improving your life, no matter how much you think about it, entertain it, and internalize portions of the information, the vast majority of people never take the steps necessary to actually get any benefit from what they read. Let’s face it…life happens. It is human nature, we read some, we put the book down, we experience life, and we may or may not get back to the book until possibly hours, days, or weeks later, if ever. The overall likelihood of remembering all we read and taking action on it is negligible, if not zero.

As the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve explains, memory, and specifically forgetting, is exponential in nature with regard to the time away from what we read.¹ Per this curve, it is often quoted, we remember only about 54 percent of what we read after just one day! In just one week’s time, this amount shrinks to about 21 percent. So you can imagine, if we only remember a fraction of what we read over time, what is the true likelihood we will ever take action on just the small fraction of what we do remember?

This is the problem with books designed just for reading. We are up against human biology and human behavior—and we are fighting a losing battle. It is time to win! This book is designed to solve this problem. It is created to be a living and working, everyday document, a blueprint, if you will. It contains exercises to help you focus your thoughts, entertain you, allow you to internalize the material, and take action at the same time.

For this reason, I am asking you to make a commitment. This book will do you no good if you just read it, or even just internalize the information. I am challenging you to commit to doing the exercises and taking action in your own life.

Countless hours were spent wrestling with creating the best title with one purpose in mind—to help as many people as possible to have the success they dream of in life. How do you capture people’s attention with a myriad of other titles on the shelf?

Originally, the title was, GA=T+E: How to Live a Motivational, Inspirational, Influential Life—Have Happiness and Help Others. I mention this because, as you will see, the spirit of these words permeates and resonates throughout this book. The challenge with coming up with a new title is keeping the original purpose, being descriptive, catchy, yet making it memorable enough so people will find your book and tell others about it.

I want to thank my editor for her hard work, comments, and constructive feedback. Per her direction, I chose a more memorable title that still embodies the original spirit, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement.

Mentor Me has a dual meaning, depending upon which word you emphasize. For example, mentor me is a request to be mentored. It is a reminder we are all students of life and we need to be humble, asking others for the opportunity to glean from their wisdom.

I have found we can all learn something from just about anyone, if we approach others with an open mind, take the time to get to know them, seek out, and listen for what they can teach us. The better students we are in life, the better teachers we can eventually become, as we gain knowledge through life’s experiences.

Conversely, if the second word is emphasized, mentor me, it is a statement—me, I am a mentor. Mentors are people we want to emulate; they attract, motivate, inspire, influence us—we look up to them, admire them as role models, and seek their help. In this way, the title, Mentor Me, keeps with the original spirit of the first title, yet makes it memorable, meaningful, and descriptive in a more succinct fashion. It also carries with it its own message; be both a mentor to others and have the willingness to be coached and mentored as well.

If you truly want to have the qualities of a mentor, live a motivational, inspirational, influential, life—to have happiness, help others—to fulfill your Greatest Achievement (GA), then do the exercises in this book. Take the action steps within these pages and you can have the life you dream about.

This book is not for everyone, because not everyone is willing to make the commitment, to do what it takes, to take action to attain their dreams. If you do not want to improve your life, this book is not for you. Not everyone can be a member of the group that achieves their dreams in life.

This book is for doers—those who commit to having the life they want, who do the exercises, who use this book as a living/working document, and who take action to make a better tomorrow for themselves. Are you committed to this?

Make a promise, a vow to yourself, to create your better tomorrow. The first exercise I will ask you to do is to physically show your commitment. This book is your living and working document, your blueprint—so own it. Write in the upper left-hand inner cover of your book the following: I am committed to taking action, GA=T+E. Then sign your name next to this statement proclaiming your commitment. Under this statement write, This book belongs to: and then write your name, your address, and your phone number. You are taking ownership of your future. If you purchased the e-book version of this book, buy a bound notebook, write the title of the book on the cover, then follow the steps above in your notebook.

Moreover, this book has an added feature to help you take action, unlike so many of the other books out there—we are going to make this a social experience. We are creating a movement, a society of people who are going to make a better tomorrow for themselves, who will achieve happiness, and who will help others. As this book is the GATE to your tomorrow, so you too can help motivate, inspire, and influence others by being their GATE to help them achieve their dreams and attain their Peak of Happiness.

Carry this book with you, and when you see others also carrying this book, break the ice by asking them, Have you made the commitment to take action? Introduce yourself, and then discuss your hopes and dreams for the future. Share your lifetime goal, your Greatest Achievement (GA), and your one-year goal(s). Discuss the ideas and concepts found in this book, as well as your personal experiences. Share what you have written in your books with each other. You have common ground to begin a relationship with someone new. This will help you meet like-minded individuals who are also committed to achieve their dreams in life. You