Advisor | Finding the perfect Guidance

When it comes to find a right Advisor, many will say who is better than your parents; or your elder brother or sister to give a reasonable advice. I believe that the person whom you are asking an opinion to take your own decisions, should be responsible and experienced enough; to share that piece of advice with you.

Be if it is your career or any personal advice, if you are asking it to someone who has never succeeded, he will take you to the same path. Yes he can tell you what NOT to do. But he surely cannot assist you with what needs to be done. To get that part of the puzzle you need to talk to someone who has already solved the puzzle or seems like he is about to solve it. So you should always discip the ones who have already achieved something in their lives. And also it will be better if that something is similar to what you are looking forward to achieve.

A Simple yet important advice given to me

I don’t have any elder siblings. So there’s was no one who can guide me in 10th standard of my school about what subject to opt for. Now on one hand there were many teachers who were just teaching there assigned subjects (they were doing their job and nothing else) and then there was this one teacher who seemed a very knowledgeable person to me. So I thought I should ask him.

I went to him and said something like this. “Sir, I’m really confused about what subjects to opt for in my coming academic year. Should it be Science or Commerce?”

Unlike every other person who gave me useless opinions, he skipped a second and then draw a line on my Notebook. He went ahead and said that this line is Commerce. Now if you add branches to it, that will convert into Science. Amazingly, one of those branches would be Commerce. So now I am what I am now by cracking ‘whom to get mentoring from?’ and it is simple “Don’t let other people tell you what you can’t do just because they can’t do it. Don’t impose their limiting beliefs on yourself, faith and fear both allow and guide you to believe in the unseen.”