March 11. Who Builds Your Shoes Is Different From Who Teaches You To Run.

Being an entrepreneur and leader requires many different things. We mitigate risks but also capture opportunities. We advance our ideas and employ others to help us move them into value propositions.

Putting all that together and balancing our personal life, family needs, while growing our faith and financial desires is difficult. It can be easier if we have coaches and mentors to help us reflect upon those issues where we might get off track.

Therapists help repair and restore us like helping someone after a fall on a bicycle ride.  Mentors and consultants help you improve the bike that you ride. But a coach helps you ride the bicycle faster, more efficiently and for as long as you want to ride it. 

As an entrepreneur or leader, how many mentors have helped to shape you and your business? If you are on the successful end of being in business for yourself, is being a mentor on your radar? If you can answer questions and ask questions you might have what it takes to add value to a younger leader.

What is the first thing you can do in the next seven days to thank a mentor of the past or to start a new mentorship opportunity within your triangle of influence?

As Christians, we need to be in fellowship and have mentors as well. The disciples had Christ. The Bible tells in the New Testament how Christ sent the followers out in two's as well. We learned that Mary, the mother of Jesus, went to Elizabeth for six months while they were both pregnant.

You can find that in Luke‬ 1‬:26-39 NLT. These verses show the value of being in relationship with others. Others can help us with our struggles and celebrations. When we allow others to be in relationship with us we do not have to have the same perspectives but we agree to share them.

  Being authentically curious helps in any relationship because it does not focus on being right.  We have pastors, Sunday school classmates, elders, and others in the church to help us. If you do not have a mentoring relationship, do you think that you could benefit by having one?

If you are growing in your faith, you might be of value to another in a mentoring relationship. Where is the first place you would go for help to be mentored or to become a mentor? What is the first thing you can do to grow or become one?

Let us pray, Heavenly Father, you have given us one another and each with so many strengths. We can lift one another when we are in a relationship. Many are looking to grow their relationship with you and to be accountable to a mentor.

Help those that want to become part of a mentoring relationship to find compatible participants. Help both people to grow closer to you and bring you glory. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,