#1 Secret to Being More Successful in Life & Work podcast

Hey guys, welcome to our podcast this week. You know, have you ever thought about how much you actually don't know? Sometimes we grow in our knowledge and experience, and think that we know a lot about a subject only to find out we really don't know that much. And so this week I'm going to talk to you about what it means to have the number one influencer in your life that can make a difference in where your life ends up. I think you'll find today's session particularly of interest and we have a special announcement today for a very special initiative that we're launching today that I want to share with you as well. So please stay tuned for that. So I hope you enjoy this session today. God bless.

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You don't know what you don't know. That's something I've learned years ago that has served me well, to realize I just don't know everything and I need to learn from other people. So today I want to tell you about the number one secret to being more successful in life and work. And this number one secret has served me well over my 40 years of walking with the Lord. And I know it will serve you well too. Before I get into today, I want to tell you that we've got a big announcement that I'm going to share a little bit later in the teaching today. And so I hope you'll stay around to, let me share that with you. I know it's going to be a blessing to you and it's going to help a lot of people. So what is that number one secret? Well, it's being mentored or coached by someone.

You know, in my life, I've had two major mentors and when we look in the Bible, we see that there were mentors. Moses mentored Joshua, Elijah mentored Elijah, and Paul mentored Timothy. Those relationships were so important because they learn things that they would use later as leaders themselves. And it's so important that we learn from people who've gone before us who understand things that we don't understand, who know things that we don't know. I've learned over the years that wisdom is caught, not taught by hanging around my mentors. I learn things by being around them; they weren't always trying to teach me something, but they did so simply by their life and how they lived their life and conveyed it to me. One of my mentors is a man named Jim Mezick. He's known me since I was 13 years old. And, was very close to my family growing up.

He was an assistant pastor at the church where I grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. And he later moved her to North Myrtle beach where he became a senior pastor there. And, it just so happened that when I finished college, I decided to move to North Myrtle beach to try to play professional golf. I wanted to raise money and go on the tour. And so I got into a lot of gambling. I wasn't a Christian yet at that time. And so I really got into a lot of bad stuff that led to me having a lot of disappointments and it looked like I was not going to achieve my goal of being on the professional golf tour. And God used that to draw me to himself. And he also used Jim to be the instrument of that drawing in addition to the prayers from my mother.

And so Jim has stayed a good friend of mine for many years. He's now 84 years old. I was just with him last month in North Myrtle beach and we continue to talk every week and he's followed my ministry. He's participated in many of my conferences and he's even been my Jonathon, if you will. And so he spent a great mentor. He was the mentor for me when I was first being established as a believer, but he wasn't necessarily a marketplace mentor. Later on in my marketplace call that role went to Gunnar Olson. I met Gunnar Olson