A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring

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

There is also the professional mentor, a person whose success in his or her career can be a source of practical wisdom and inspiration.

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.

it is the transmission of understanding that is the very basis of civilization.

A personal mentor is an individual whose principles and values have dictated his or her decisions and actions as that person went about his or her life.

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

That attitude of openness is the bedrock of mentoring, I believe.

That same level of honesty is required of a mentor. You have to be willing to identify a need, weakness, or even an unpleasant reality but also assure your mentee that you’re going to help him or her overcome it. The frankness builds trust, while the positive action you take builds character.

Do any of us really have a choice as to whether a child looks up to us? Do we have any control over another person’s choice to look to model themselves after our own lives?

“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.”