How Becoming An Electrician Gave Me Business Success!

 I am sitting on the airplane on my way to LA to another marketing conference for the weekend and got to thinking about my past and how I got to where I am today in business.

When I was growing up in rural North Dakota all we were ever taught was to grow up, go to college, get a good job and work hard.

So when I graduated high school I did just that.  I decided I was going to go to become an electrician.  After all being an electrician is a good trade and it pays pretty well.

So off to tech school I went.

2 years later I was an official electrician, or so I thought!

When I got out in the field I quickly figured out that I didn’t know anything.  I knew the basics as taught in school but I actually didn’t know as much as I thought I did.

I fumbled around, screwed up more times than I can count, but still I pushed on, learning as I went.

Through my trials and tribulations I found someone that I like to call my electrical mentor.  He was about 10 years older than me, and had been working as an electrician in the field for over 12 years.

This guy was good.  He knew just about everything about everything having to do with electricity.

For a couple years I worked side by side with him as my foreman.  I would fall and he would show me a better way to do what I was trying to do.

Over those two years I became a pretty good electrician.  I learned the shortcuts, and all the “tricks of the trade”.

But if it wasn’t for that man and what he learned in his years in the field, my willingness to learn from him, and his willingness to take the time to teach me, it would have taken me much longer to become the good electrician that I became.

Basically all I learned in school to become an electrician was thrown out the window.

Now I am not saying that going to school was a bad experience, it was just that I would have been that much further along if I would have been that much further along if I would have just started with a mentor and learned from all the years that he paved the way before me.

It have taken me years longer to learn how to be a good electrician by trial and error and finding my own shortcuts.

It is really funny how this ties to business.

I failed miserably trying to find success in home business for a few years.  I was trying everything under the sun with a lot of trial and error.

Then one day I decided to start educating myself by buying a few courses and books written by those who have been there and done that.

The more I read and the more I applied what I learned the faster more success came to me.

My willingness to learn and those “mentors” willingness to put all their trial and error on paper for me to learn from is what allowed me to get to where I am today.

Never have I purchased a course or book and thought it was going to be the end all answer to success, nor did I ever ask if it will work for me. 

I took the little golden nuggets of all the trial and error of those who went before me and applied it to my business.

The more I learned and applied the more successful I became.

This is why it is crucially important for you to find a mentor in business and that becoming successful in home business takes a couple years of learning, applying, and hard work. Just as becoming a good electrician took me a couple years of learning, applying, and hard work to find my success in my field.

So don’t make excuses for if you fall on your face a few times.  Find a mentor, read, learn, and apply those shortcuts so many others are willing to share with you.

After rolling up your sleeves and getting a little “dirty” your success will come.  But you must be willing to work for it.

Well the flight attendant is telling me that I need to close my computer to prepare to land in LA, so until next time. 

Go forth and prosper!

Justin Christianson

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