From my reading, research and experience, there are many tips but I will just share three here.
Number one dream big. There’s a tendency for those who are from poor backgrounds to think they have been limited because of their circumstances.
It is said that your past is a place to learn and grow, not a place to live. If you find yourself in the situation of being raised from a humble family, one practical thing you can do to expand your dream is to expose yourself to material information about people who have risen from very humble backgrounds, and have gone further in life to achieve great heights. Reading biographies of such people is one practical way you can expand your capacity to dream big regardless of your backgrounds.
The second solution to the problem of lack of awareness is readiness to learn. For those who have left school a long time and have not upgraded their knowledge and training, they need to read and learn, and this would require a lot of discipline. There could be endless excuses and reasons why they may think they won’t be able to learn., discipline will help them not to yield to those excuses
The third one is to be intentional about your search for a role model. I can tell you two things about this set of people.
Number one, they will not come looking for you. You have to go out of your way to search for them because they are typically on the go and are very busy which is why they are successful in the first place.
Secondly you do not need to access them directly one on one to benefit from their knowledge, skills, expertise and guidance. You can actually do that through a variety of ways such as reading their books, listening to their messages, podcasts and publicly available materials. Thirdly if you insist on one on one with them, you can initiate a one on one access by having the readiness to be committed to what it takes to get such access
You may be reading now and thinking you have lost time and you suddenly realize that you are in a season of life that you are not prepared for. Or you did not do what you should have done in prior seasons, I want to strongly encourage you not to lose hope There is still so much ahead of your life that you can accomplish. History is full of those who did not start early, but still finished very strong. It is said that you can move forward with hope, not backward with regret.
