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What is a Mentor?
A mentor is an advisor, a teacher, a coach. From the vantage point of her experience, she helps you learn and improve.
Every participant in an iL2L Leadership program will meet her personal mentor during the program to enjoy a meal together and discuss your plans for the future. Your mentor has committed to be available to coach you by email for one year after you return home.
If I can't attend an iL2L program, how do I find a mentor?
So how do you start searching for a mentor? Is there someone you already know whom you really admire? Someone in your neighborhood you can trust: a teacher, a relative? Tell them you would like them to be your mentor and ask if you can come to them for advice. Don't feel stupid asking. They will be honored you asked. If they agree, ask if you can talk with them once a week, just to keep on track. Make this meeting a priority in your life. (What is more important than your future happiness?)
If you keep doing this, taking small steps every week while focused on your goal, at some point you will look behind you and see you have made real progress going forward.
WHAT WILL YOU TALK ABOUT WITH YOUR MENTOR?
- List this week's problems (and realize they are just small setbacks compared to your big goal).
- Discuss the progress you made this week.
- Write down specific plans for small steps you will make the next week.
- Keep talking about your dreams and goals for the future. The more you talk about them, the more you keep focused on your goal.
"At any point of your life make sure to have a 'Board of Advisors' that stand ready to help you sort out issues. IDEALLY, you need three to six people your age and older—family members, friends, a priest, friends' parents, a teacher, a policeman, anyone who has exhibited kindness to others. Ask a few of them if they would like to give you advice from time to time. Most will say yes. And call on them for their advice when you need it. If they are not available, keep looking. You can always find good people willing to help a fellow human being."Hilda Brillembourg, CEO, Strategic Investment Group
