Life Lessons: Becoming your own mentor
Spring has officially sprung, bringing a sense of renewal and purpose. Flowers bloom, and everything looks cleaner, brighter, and fresher. While January is the month for fitness, Spring is the perfect time to develop your mind, body, and spirit. Embrace change by attending a class, signing up for therapy, starting meditation, or finding a coach or mentor.
While signing up for a class or starting meditation is relatively easy, having a dedicated life coach to help you re-evaluate your life or career is not practical for most of us. So, how do you learn enough about life, others, and yourself to create purposeful, mindful strategies for small changes that benefit your soul, home-life, and career this Spring?
Become Your Own Coach
Seek knowledge, learn from your mistakes, adjust your mindset, and will yourself to succeed. Take advice from friends, family, colleagues, books, TV, articles, magazines, and the internet. These sources provide access to hundreds of thousands of ‘mentors.’
From celebrities to athletes, business tycoons to bloggers, if we pay attention to what we read or watch, we can find lessons, hints, tips, and heaps of inspiration. Even your social media feed can be a helpful resource. Inspirational quotes can spark a change, whether you act on it or not.
Collect Nuggets of Wisdom
To become your own Yoda, collect these nuggets from various sources and put them to good use. Keep snippets of wisdom in a notebook for easy access. When reading a book, watching a movie, or having coffee with a friend, note anything that resonates.
Life Lessons from My Notebook
Here are 10 snippets from my notebook to inspire you:
- You become what you believe
- Just do you
- A path doesn’t have to be straight
- Always have an attitude of gratitude
- Know your audience
- Life is all about perspective
- Count to 3 before you answer yes or no
- Never hit snooze
- How hard can it be?
- If you mess up, fess up
