Mentoring Relationships are Key to Greatness!
The quality of your life or your business depends on the quality of your relationships. The definition of greatness and success is never complete without an element of successful relationships. The most important activity in life is building relationships. Leadership is the art of developing and fostering relationships through which goals can be achieved and tasks undertaken.
Stephen Graham once said, “To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work towards your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy.” – Stedman Graham,
Mentoring is an age old key to leveraging relationships to help you attain your greatness in your chosen calling. Mentoring is about developing relationships that improve you. You know you have been successful in developing a relationship if you can easily pick up a phone and call someone and discuss whatever issue is at hand.
No person ever succeeds alone. Even those that may claim to have pulled themselves up by the bootstraps need other people to facilitate and celebrate their success.
In life there are two ways to learn – Mistakes or Mentors. Mistakes are a learning method that is reserved for those who are stubborn and are not willing to invest time with a mentor. Mentoring is essential and critical for every person regardless of the field of endeavour, calling or age. It reduces the learning period, increases effectiveness and gives you experienced shoulders to stand and build on. It acts as a lever that makes you lift weights that would have been very difficult to lift on your own.
Mentoring is the key to greatness and building supportive success-based relationships. Your success is the success of the mentor! When you mentor other people you contribute to your own success. You open a door for your own future blessing. In Shona there is a saying which goes, “Chirere chigokurerawo mangwana.” Literally translated this could be rendered as, “Look after it and it will look after you as well tomorrow”. The effort and investment you place into developing your protégé or mentee (The person you are mentoring) are not a waste but an investment in your destiny.
Edwin Cole exhorts us to “Invest your time with men who inspire, invest your money with men who produce and invest your talent with men who create.”
What is a mentoring? Mentoring is the practice of teaching someone practically, from what you know and have lived or worked through. A mentor is different from a teacher. A mentor is a life model. He is somebody who has applied or is applying with positive effect the principles that he shares. A teacher is important and useful and he can teach you things that he may not believe in or fully understand himself.
In your success journey you need to have mentors that can guide you along and help you. A relationship with a mentor creates for you a well of inspiration that you can tap on. It creates a support base that helps you remain focussed and to achieve things faster than you would have done otherwise.
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I have been reading your articles, they are so inspiring, they are helping to get to the next level in my life. I have come to realise that there are so many things which I have been taking for granted for a long time. Thank you for making me realise that I have got such potntial and I can actualy help make this world a better place for me and everyone else. Please keep up the good work
This is great stuff!No man is an Island. Indeed Mentorship is key to greatness!
the motivation is good
i think good relationships are good for our life
May you send me more of the motrivations .
thank you
Good stuff
Oh how I wish I could literally open up some peoples interlectual eyes for them to see what your motivations mean, how if we take heed to the advice and apply, it can help us become great and wealthy (mentally and financially). Stay blessed and keep the motivations rolling.
these messages go a long way into building our lives easpecially as young people,we need this sure. i appreciate.
Your speeches are so inspiring and I am always on my feet searching for more.There is power in numbers kindly send more .Thank you for the care you are giving us and you have kept us on our toes to try and quench our thirty of greatness.
Your speeches are so inspiring and I am always on my feet searching for more.There is power in numbers kindly send more .Thank you for the care you are giving us and you have kept us on our toes to try and quench our thirty of greatness.
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you should begin a second blog, it’s great!