We all have special qualities and skills that are too valuable to be kept to ourselves. I feel compelled in my life to mentor others in those areas as a form of community service. I have been blessed with an incredible family, a level head on my shoulders and a wide variety of life experiences which have shaped the person that I have become. In the past, I have mentored disadvantaged kids and currently am serving on the Board of a sizable children’s shelter and counseling center in my local area. I am passionate about seeing to it that children, whose voice is often too quiet to be heard, get the same chances to succeed that I did.  

Of course one of my professional passions is real estate mentorship and I have learned as much by teaching as I have from my own mentors. In business, I constantly mentor my employees and try to get the most out of the talents they possess. I listen to their ideas and then channel those into viable marketing plans helping them to avoid the pitfalls caused by the fallacies in their plan.   I don’t feel like I am doing near is much as I should but I certainly see a huge difference in those people’s lives I am able to help. If we could all just introspect a bit about what our talents are, seek out those who could benefit from those talents and mentor them, we could really enrich their lives and have a profound effect.

I challenge to you today to identify both a personal and professional strength or passion you have then share with me on this blog about how you can reach out to someone who could most use your mentoring in those areas.   Conversely, there are many other areas in our lives which we should rely on others to mentor us.