Teachers and Mentors

Teachers and Mentors

• Posted by Create Abundance Int'l Community 

I’ve had lots of teachers before. Some were okay, some were not, and there were only a few souls, so great, as they even inspired me to do great things as well. Yes, they were great, but I didn’t see them as mentors. Why? I only had one simple reason. I didn’t want to be like them.

Teachers have students, and mentors have apprentices. Teachers and professors teach you subjects, while a mentor is someone you want to be like. As Robert Kiyosaki said it, “a mentor is someone you want to grow up to be like – a role model.”

If you want to achieve something, model the person who was able to get it. If it’s traditional business, you’re lucky if he accepts you as an apprentice and he teaches you everything. Here in CA2020 community, the mentor-apprentice approach is being applied. All the members are being honed to become mentors, to become masters. Its purpose is neither to create ranks nor give titles. Its sole purpose is the make them the best of who they can become.

I would like to end this with a few words from Kiyosaki and Trump’s book. “If you are lucky, and a mentor you like decides to make you his or her apprentice, honor that person with respect for the rest of his or her time and the wisdom he or she is willing to impart to you.”