Words to Lead By: David Mellor

David Mellor is a mentor who helps business owners to increase their profitability, fund their growth plans, and free up their time. Mellor, a Freeman of the Guild of Entrepreneurs, shares the best piece of advice he has ever received from a mentor:

Mellor says he wants to help everybody, it’s his natural instinct and means that he does encounter people who take up too much time and energy. He recalls a time where he was feeling exhausted, and his energy was being sapped: “it was a combination of the people that I was involved in as kind of clients and prospects and the people I had brought into a consultancy practice that I was building at that time. ”

Mellor and his mentor discussed how could he get better at making sure that he gets the clients that he wants. They came up with 4 criteria:
“Firstly, I only wanted to work with people that I liked, trusted, and respected. Secondly, I only wanted to do interesting work. Third one, I wanted to make money but not be greedy. The fourth one, I wanted to have fun.”

Find out more about David Mellor and his work in our September Issue!