“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

every time we watch someone and make a mental note about that individual’s character or conduct, we’re being mentored.

Mentoring can happen at any time or place.

“Don’t whine, don’t complain, don’t make excuses. Just do the best you can. Nobody can do more than that.”

Mentors are all around us; they are everywhere we look. Anywhere there is a sharing of knowledge or a teaching of experience, there is a mentor.

THERE IS NOTHING YOU KNOW that you haven’t learned from someone else.”

Anywhere there is an individual with life lessons to impart to an audience—more often than not, just an audience of one—there is a mentor.

IT WOULD BE wrong, however, to assume that being mentored is always as simple as absorbing a positive example. Sometimes the opportunity for mentoring comes from passing on what one has gained from learning an incredibly painful lesson.

While mentoring is usually about building someone up, it can occasionally be about taking someone down a notch or two, too—provided the dressing down is done with that person’s best interest at heart and that it stems from love.