Don't put all your trust in a mentor on achieving your goals in life, it is because your mentor and you had different situation that has also a different solution, so i think we need to have faith in our own self capacity to pursue our dreams not just trusting our future to others or to mentors hand.
A mentor can just give some important guidelines, but the whole life has to be well-organized by yourself. Therefore, instead of being completely dependent on a mentor, you need to increase your trust and confidence in yourself. We must remember that man is the architect of his own destiny.