One of the fastest ways to accelerate your growth and development is to find a mentor.

If you find someone who is where you want to be, you can use their example as a pathway to your own growth.

There are a number of different mentors we can find in life, and unlike the popular conception of a mentor, they aren't someone you need to know personally.

In this episode, you will learn how to find three powerful types of mentor to accelerate your growth and progression in life.

Rob Lawless is on a mission to spend 1 hour, 1:1, with 10,000 different people, documenting their stories on his Instagram, @robs10kfriends.

Since starting his project in November of 2015, he's taken it full-time, has met over 2,200 people between Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles, and has been covered by several press sources including, most recently, Ryan Seacrest on his nationally syndicated radio show, "On Air With Ryan Seacrest."

He plans to take the project abroad in 2019, beginning with Great Britain, and hopes to someday cover cities/countries across the world!

In this episode you will learn:

- Choose a skill, and develop your purpose from that

- Make your own path to success, don’t try to copy someone else’s

- Why we need to stop thinking interaction needs an “agenda”

- Don’t aim for the overnight success

Getting the balance between aspiration and self-care can be tricky.

To grow, we have to push beyond our comfort zone.

However, to maintain our health and happiness, we can't keep pushing ourselves incessantly.

In this episode, you will learn how to find that balance. To learn when to stop being hard on yourself, but also when to be a little harder on yourself too.

What do you consider to be the most powerful emotions you experience?

As you start to think of times where you felt the best about yourself, a number of those occasions will actually be when you did something for someone else.

Impacting and serving others is one of the greatest feelings we can experience in life.

However, sometimes in the process of giving, we can burn ourselves out, lose the meaning of giving, and even have our good nature exploited.

How can we still experience the joy of giving, but do so in a way that is most effective?

In this episode, you will learn about the difference between effective givers and not so effective givers, and what principle and practice you can follow to be the best giver you can be.

In life, we can often blame ourselves for things.

We blame ourselves when things don't work out: the health regime, the business, the relationship.

Blame isn't going to get you anywhere. Blame isn't helpful.

What is far more empowering is taking responsibility.

Responsibility = "ability to respond".

Life is not about what happens to us, it is about how we respond to what happens to us.

In this episode, you will learn the power and freedom you create when you stop blaming and start taking responsibility.

When you want to invest in your relationships, you can think of this just like investing in your finances.

In our relationships, we want to be making good deposits and transactions that are going to build the value of that relationship.

In particular, there is one key form of currency that makes such investments possible and allows you to build the strength and value of a relationship.

In this episode, you will learn what this currency is, and three ways you can invest this currency in your interactions so that you can raise the value of your relationships.

We all experience conflict in our relationships.

We argue with our spouse. We disagree with a work colleague. We fall out with a friend.

The key to conflict is not trying to avoid it, it is trying to resolve it.

Because often in conflict, you can find ways to strengthen and deepen a relationship.

In this episode, you will learn a four-step framework that will allow you to resolve conflict and improve your relationships.

Celebrating and reflecting on a year of Author Your Life. In this episode you will learn the three key lessons that I've learned so far on the podcast adventure.

The quality of your life is decided by the quality of your relationships.

In particular it is the people closest to you that have the deepest impact.

In this episode, you will learn how to create and cultivate your C5: the five people you spend most time with in your life.

Would you like to appear more confident in your interactions?

Would it help you to deliver presentations, make new friends and find new lovers?

In this episode, you will learn some ridiculously simple ways to appear more confident and build rapport in your interactions.

With these strategies, you won't just have a short-term fix, but a set of long-term habits to increase your influence and charisma.