Focusing your Energies: Tip #25 Cultivate Others through Mentoring
We’re on day 25 of a thirty day series on focusing your efforts towards success.
I mentor a few women on a regular basis and the ability to do so is one of my biggest priorities.
When we mentor others, we in fact increase our own abilities, because we need to explain, enlighten, process, and understand our own experience in order to share our experiences with others.
For example, a math teacher truly understands a theorem when the teacher is able to teach a student the thinking behind that theorem. In the same way, when you mentor another person, you impart your knowledge and training to that person: you help them learn lessons in a quicker, more efficient way… the same mistake doesn’t *need* to be repeated twice ;-)
The very word “educare” means “to rear,” meaning we are rearing the next generation’s minds, spirits, consciences, and beliefs when we model for them what we have learned.
Make sure that your words and actions during the mentoring process are true to your core beliefs: you will learn something about yourself and you will be able to cultivate another person’s self-development when you actively monitor, care for, and mentor someone else.
Monica S. Flores is an author, educator, and speaker.
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