{"id":4438,"date":"2019-11-16T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:17:24","slug":"mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Mentorship.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-474 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mentorship is the key that unlocks all the doors confining you from being and becoming a success.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b> A mentor is a coach.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Mentorship is the guidance, direction, and instruction given to one or more persons who are aspiring to achieve something never before accomplished.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It can also be the guidance and direction given to a weathered, highly experienced veteran to help keep him and stay him on course, continue to be creative with the use of his energy, and continue to be productively effective in the achieving of his life\u2019s purpose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>The mentor should be one who has already accomplished or achieved that which his student is aspiring to achieve.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>A good mentor:<\/b> <b>Teaches men how to do what they ordinarily wouldn\u2019t do&#8230;So that they may become what they were originally designed to be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Good highly qualified mentors are very difficult to find.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bad ones seem to be plentiful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b> Choose your mentor very carefully.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b> Do not be in a rush to find one.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Keep your eyes and ears open to all those apparently qualified men and\/or women who are in and around you and who might consider becoming one of your mentors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Keep listening for the same name to keep popping up in the discussions you are having with fellow laborers or with other leaders of people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When you feel you have identified a potential mentor, set up an appointment with them if at all possible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Be professional and courteous, but also bold in your request for a potential candidate to become your mentor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Be well prepared for the ensuing discussion that such an appointment will surely generate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Keep in mind that you might have to use an intermediary person to help you arrange an appointment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Never be arrogant or presumptive when establishing a discussion time with your prospective mentor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Remember, you are requesting help from another person whenever you ask someone to become your personal mentor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are just as busy or most probably much busier than are you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>A humble heart and tongue are extremely valuable assets to be displayed on your part.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A mentor is not your slave.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is not one from whom you (as the student) will demand different things or services.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One should never, under any circumstances, try to take advantage of your mentor and\/or use him or her, in any way shape or form, solely to provide you the basis from which you can accomplish your own personal advantage. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Mentorship is a gift, a very valuable gift.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Mentorship is a two-way personal relationship.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You learn and receive knowledge, understanding, and wisdom from your mentor as to how things you are attempting to accomplish are to be correctly achieved.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once you have learned what to do, then you are to use what you have gained by giving what you have learned away to other people. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Mentorship and its lessons are never to be abused or misused. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What you learn from your mentor and then apply should be used to benefit yourself, other people, and most importantly your God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>Your role in this mentorship process is to learn all you possibly can from your mentor, and then use such gained knowledge and understanding helping yourself and others.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The real purpose of mentorship is:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b> To teach you (the student) what and how to do the\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">requirements you need to know.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b> To teach you why you need to know these requirements.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b> To teach you how to apply your newly acquired knowledge and\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">information so as to accomplish your desired results.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><b>To assist you in becoming a better, higher quality individual and example from whom others may observe and learn.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/b>and finally&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b> To guide and direct your personal efforts as you (the student)<\/b><\/span><b style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0use your learned knowledge assisting other people to grow and<\/b><b style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0succeed in their own lives.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When it all happens the proper and correct way, your mentor should become, wherever and whenever it is possible, (outside your Lord and Savior, and your spouse),&#8230;your very best personal friend.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They need to be a person who gets to know you as well or maybe even better than those other people within your own personal family.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yes it can actually happen within the personal relationship you develop with your mentor that they can, in fact, get to know you as well or even better than does your own spouse. <b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Always keep your personal relationships with your mentor appropriate. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Always keep them separate from those other personal relationships you have.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A mentor is a person to whom you can safely reveal your inner most feelings, beliefs, and thoughts without having any fear of being ridiculed, chastised, or embarrassed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>A mentor values your personal relationship and respects its privacy as much or more than you do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b> Your mentor is to always respect and honor your confidentiality and never under any circumstances publicly share or even privately for that matter, share what he knows about you with any other human being.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b> Your mentor\/student relationship must be honored at all times.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No exceptions!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Permit me to make absolutely certain that you understand what the role of your personal mentor is in your life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He or she, the mentor, is not a boss.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is not a demander of anything.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rather he or she is your personal friend&#8230;a helper, if you will.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A mentor is to be your road guide as you travel the highway to your own success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You, as the student, seek the <b>advice<\/b> and <b>counsel <\/b>concerning things that you are considering doing or employing in your business or personal activities or operations that will provide you the ways and means of accomplishing your own dreams and goals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Your mentor is going to provide you with his personal input as to what you are planning to do&#8230;<b>before you haul off and try to do it!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">May I tell you the absolute truth?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I will put it to you in the grammatical form of two questions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(1) <b>Do you know who you really are and where you are really going? <\/b>and (2) <b>Do you personally have a qualified mentor in your life? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b> Allow me to say to you&#8230;if you cannot definitely answer these two questions or if there is any doubt in your own mind as to who your personal mentor really is&#8230;then, I will boldly tell you that you do not have one! <b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The old saying remains appropriate even until this day: <b>\u201cIf you don\u2019t know where you are going or how you are going to get there, then you will not like where it is that you actually wind up!\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dear ones,&#8230;..that is precisely why, if you are desiring to become highly successful and prosperous, <b>you need an active and participating personal mentor.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Just remember this simple little Truth of Life&#8230;.<b>The most prominent character trait of a good mentor is that they always possess and display a good and Godly SERVANT\u2019S HEART.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Peace and Love to All of You\u2026\u2026.Poppa Bear<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentorship is the key that unlocks all the doors confining you from being and becoming a success.\u00a0 A mentor is a coach.\u00a0 Mentorship is the guidance, direction, and instruction given to one or more persons who are aspiring to achieve &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/mentorship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}