Power of mentorshiP
Ever since I was a little girl, I gravitated towards self-help, astrology and all things personal development. I was pulled towards anything that helped me better understand human suffering, successes and potential. YouTube really accelerated my search for why we do what we and how to be our best selves. All the visual information I could ever need. At this point, I should be able to write a book with all the knowledge I gathered from countless teachers, speakers, writers, scientists, etc. However, by looking at my relationships, bank account, career and emotional state, one wouldn’t know I was spending hours each week reading and listening about all things personal development and living authentically. Why wasn’t this diligent information processing showing up in my life? Why doesn’t it work for me? This question made me feel small and powerless. I was becoming weary of having these burning desires that weren’t showing up in my life. I felt tortured by wanting these wonderful relationships and experiences yet deep down believing I didn’t get to have them.
I called out to Source asking for help of how to cure this discord of wanting but not believing. Then, I let it go. Not too long after, I started becoming connected with people who helped me close that knowing/doing gap. Once I invested in myself through therapy and coaching, the gap started to narrow. The missing piece was connecting to and working with people who were living authentically and in love with their life. We aren’t supposed to do it alone. We need mentors and coaches who have been where we have been and are going where we want to go. They can help us gently jump off the gerbil wheel of our limiting beliefs and start walking the untraversed path that is our particular desires and dreams.
All that personal development studying buoyed me through confusing and scary moments but the real change with real results started happening once I invested in my growth and started walking the talk with mentors. They didn’t do the work for me by any means. They only helped me remember who I really am underneath all the layers of opinions and beliefs of others. They gave me tools to stay the course of living authentically as me- not my parents, friends, colleagues- but as me. They asked me questions I might have never asked myself or didn’t know to ask myself. They created moments for me to dust off and retrieve my core and all that makes me who I am. They held me accountable to making structured moments each day to create new habits that will support my growth and living the most expansive expression of myself. I learned through coaching that structure liberates. We all need someone to remind us of who we are and what we once knew.
Remember, You are a soul wanting to fully express itself. Your potential is immense and immeasurable.
