Recently I shared a newsletter with the www.WomackCompany.com community, outlining the three most important questions a mentor can ask their mentee, or a mentee can prepare to ask their mentor.

Are you regularly meeting with the mentor?

One of the easiest ways to move from where you are, to where you want to be, is to surround yourself by people who are moving in that direction - someone you can learn from, that is what I call a mentor. Not that they will give you every step to take in a checklist form, but being able to sit down with someone who has forged the path ahead of you will allow you the opportunity to throw questions on the table, and listen to stories and return.

Over the past decade or more, I have been able to align myself with mentors in both my personal and my professional lives. I can say that my business has grown, and my marriage is more successful, because of spending time with people successful in those two areas. For example, before Jody and I got married, and this is going back more than 15 years, we made a commitment to each other that we were going to spend up to seven dinners going out with successful, happily married couples.

In all transparency, finding that many people who were both successful in their professional lives, and happy with their personal lives, proved to be quite a challenge. Now, we did it, and as a result we have information and stories to look back on as we look to our future. Okay enough about personal examples, here are those three questions I wrote about for entrepreneur magazine a while back. I will list the questions here, and you can read the full article by clicking here.

The Three Questions to Ask

1. What is one specific goal for the next 6 months?

2. What exactly do you feel is in your way of achieving it?

3. What is the very specific help you need to achieve that goal?