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This week we will have celebrated Martin Luther King Day here in the US of A. Let us learn from his legacy. He, among many, bring to mind the crucial importance of the next pillar of the Best of Mentoring: Deep Change.
Intentional
Deep Change
As written last week the best of mentoring will always rest on four pillars. Without these, it’s just a pleasant conversation, which is good to have, but it will not be the best of mentoring that makes a difference and changes lives, over time.
What an example of being intentional was Dr. King…even at the risk of his life. Indeed, his very life brought about deep change.
In time, the best of mentoring will pave the way for deep change, intentionally. Neither you, nor I, need to be Dr. King. Comparison can sometimes bring a waft of slight defeat as we think correctly, “I’m certainly not him.” That’s true for both of us.
However, it is here that, with the best of mentoring, we must often ask of ourselves, “then who am I?” With those we’ve the sacred privilege of mentoring, we need to help those amazing souls return often to “who am I?”
The best of mentors will not be asking that question only of their mentoree. I, as a mentor, need to keep that question rolling my direction, as well.
Granted, it’s not an easy question.
Who Am I?
Who Are You?
This pillar brings inner strength, hope, change to the life of both mentor and mentoree. It is a crucial pillar upon which we can then see a person begin to build the life for which they have been born, designed, hope to live for all their own days.
Without an intentional commitment to personal change, deep change, a fulfilling life will not be lived at it’s best. Without a commitment to continuing to change as you grow up through all your years, will often leave you with a sense of, “Is this all there is…….?” As I’m fond of saying (…and living out…), “Until I breathe no more, there is still life to live…to be as alive as the current moment will allow.”
Mahatma Gandhi was attributed to saying, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Martin Luther King became change, by being willing to be changed. Click here for some exceptional quotes from Dr. King.
Where do you need to be making some changes?
What might be holding you back?
What help or support do you need to seek out?
How is your own life an example of intentional, deep change for those you mentor, or will be mentoring some day?
Mentoring, at it’s best, is always going to experience a creative sense of being intentional. Mentoring, at it’s best, will always be hoping for and living into continuing deep change in both mentoree and mentor.
There is good news in that there are two more pillars that create and support the best of mentoring. Next week we will introduce that pillar. And the next week after that, there will still be one more as we, together, create a solid platform for the best of mentoring.
…to be continued next Tuesday…26 Jan 16…
…We invite you to join us…
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