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Finding mentors and networks to achieve your goals

Finding mentors and networks to achieve your goals

From the course: Goal Setting for Happiness and Success

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Finding mentors and networks to achieve your goals

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- In order to achieve your goal, it is very important to surround yourself with the right type of people, people who can support you to achieve and excel at your goals. Never surround yourself with people who pull you down. I'll share something with you. I had been invited as a speaker by Hari Krishna Diamonds. They are one of the world's largest diamond companies and hire thousands of people and are worth several billion dollars. I was speaking to their managing director, Ghanshyam Dholakia, and he was telling me that when they started, they didn't have a lot of capital or any formal education. All they had was a goal to create one of the world's best diamond companies, and they started from zero. They adopted a simple strategy. They first went to everyone who was doing a million dollars of turnover in the diamond industry and introduced themselves. That way they were able to get work from them. Then once they touched a million dollars, they became friends with people who were doing…

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