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In today's episode, I'm suggesting you do something
you may have never thought of before, and that is to mentor yourself.
Are you ready?
Let's get started.
When we think about mentoring, we usually think about finding someone to mentor us.
Let me be perfectly clear.
I believe that we need mentors, other people
that can provide perspective and all sorts of benefits to us.
We can have mentors in all different phases of our lives.
I totally suggest you have them.
This is a both and conversation, not an either or conversation.
I am not suggesting that you don't look for and find other mentors.
I am not encouraging you to be a loner or isolated.
I am not suggesting that you can do everything on your own.
None of those things are what I'm saying.
So what do I mean by mentoring yourself?
Well, I've got four ideas.
The first one is treat yourself better.
Like if you have a mentor that's been very helpful to you,
are they encouraging to you?
Do they support you? Do they believe in you?
The answers are yes, yes and yes.
How much are you supporting?
Encouraging and believing in yourself.
Which little voice are you listening to?
The one that's.
That's saying all the negative stuff or the one that's
encouraging you, supporting you and believing in you.
You need to treat yourself better as one way to mentor yourself.
Second, look for new perspectives.
One of the things a mentor brings us is a fresh and different perspective.
So we can we can either read more variety of things
or find other things to gain access to, to change our perspective.
Or we can simply do things like, Well, how would a ten year old see this?
Or how would my grandmother view this?
Or how would Albert Einstein have thought about this?
In other words, we can sort of place our gain
a perspective by putting ourselves in another position.
Okay. The third thing that we can do is to
slow yourself or we're going to have to do a cut in for that
because it says low there. But should be slow.
Like it says slow.
No, it says low. Every place slow.
So we'll do it.
We'll cut in on this third one. Okay.
When I got there, then I couldn't remember what it was.
And when I remembered it, it was just a little.
I thought it was an intentional pause.
You know? Yeah.
Well, shit, I said it just kept going.
And so we're going to jump. Cut.
Hopefully I'm in pretty much that.
My body's that pretty much the same spot.
Third suggestion.
Slow yourself down.
When we are in the Rapid
Fire movement of automatically working on things, getting things done,
operating on autopilot, that's sometimes when we most need a mentor,
someone to say, Wait a minute, have you thought about this?
Wait a minute, Have you considered this?
Have you thought about this?
It's often what we ask of a mentor is to help us slow down our thinking,
move us out of out of reaction and into response.
So if we want to mentor ourself, we need to slow ourselves down.
And next, ask yourself more questions.
Once we decide to
slow down, or one of the ways to slow down is to ask ourselves more questions.
Ask questions that reflect on what we've done before.
Ask questions about what you're really trying to accomplish.
Ask yourself more questions to gain more perspective.
All of those things when we treat ourselves better,
look for new perspectives.
Slow ourselves down and ask ourselves more questions.
We will be mentoring ourselves.
And guess what?
These are the things good mentors do,
and these may be things that you help others do as well.
Now I'm suggesting we do them for ourselves.
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Let me close by summarizing with today's remarkable
reminder We need mentors in our lives.
One of those mentors can be ourselves.
Have you ever considered mentoring yourself?