How Love Mentoring Can Change Your Life
And now–a very special guest blog from our senior professional Love Mentor, Jim Delpino, in our Dating Advice for Women Series. It is reprinted by permission from Icon Magazine.
None of us comes into the world with the requisite knowledge and skills to achieve the goals, hopes and dreams that we will set for ourselves in life. Our first mentors and coaches are our own parents and family. After this comes a wave of people from neighbors, ministers and friends to coaches, teachers and mentors. All of these folks can potentially reach us at the deepest levels and profoundly affect the way we look at, understand and proceed with life as time goes forward. We are born with the need and wired to accept certain inputs for us to grow and achieve our hopes, dreams and goals. It is almost universal in humans to wish to meet people who will make us be what we wish to become; someone who will make us do our best and become the best version of ourselves.
A coach or mentor can significantly increase our chances of realizing our goals in virtually every aspect of life. Studies show that without a coach or mentor that, in general, we have 10% of the chance of succeeding and reaching our goals as does someone who has a coach or mentor to help them achieve their goals. Mentors and coaches are available to help us with: 1) money (Do you have a financial adviser?), 2) Fitness (Do you have a trainer?), 3) Career (Do you have a mentor at work or a career coach?), 4) Spirituality ( Do you have a priest, minister, rabbi or other teacher?), 5) Hobbies (Do you have a teacher or mentor?), 6) Nutrition ( Do you have a nutritionist?) and 7) Love and Relationships ( Do you have a mentor?). The list goes on and on.
We live in such a complex world that it is difficult to acquire all the skills and understanding necessary to succeed without proper help and guidance from someone who knows more in a given area than we do. In the middle ages, young people were taken into a guild where a master craftsman would teach and develop the skills, knowledge and habits that would lead to success. In our more complicated world we must do a similar thing and seek out those who know more about something to give us the correct inputs to realize our hopes, dreams and goals. As a species, we are designed to grow in the context of a relationship. A coaching or mentoring relationship can provide us with the inputs we require to progress.
Before we share the three specific inputs that truly great mentors give us I wanted to share some great news. We have kicked off a Love Mentoring Coaching service and we can give you an introductory 40 minute one-on-one personalized session by phone or Skype for FREE. No strings attached. Just Click On www.lovein90days.com/contact/ to contact me and get your own personal FREE session by phone or Skype asap, because the time slots are filling up very fast.
Now back to love mentoring and how it makes such a huge difference in our lives. People in general are more likely to repeat than they are to change. This is true regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, etc. If we have been doing the same thing about a problem for the last five years, we are most likely to address that same problem the same way in five years from now. This is true even if the approach to the problem has failed over and over again. Pride and stubbornness along with fear and lack of knowledge can work together inside of us to sabotage success; thus the saying, “Old Habits die hard.” With enough repetitions of failure, many of us give up hope and stop trying to achieve our goals. This is where the role of a coach or mentor becomes necessary.
A good coach or mentor brings to the relationship with a mentee the kind of inputs we are wired to receive to move through our failures to find success. There are three basic inputs a mentor or coach brings to the equation: 1) Limit setting or discipline, 2) Nurturance or support and 3) Programming, teaching or information. These are the same inputs we are wired to look for from our parents initially. A coach or mentor provides a kind of specialized parenting focused in a particular area.
Limit setting is a key input in the learning and growth process. So many of us do things which actually make failure and lack of achievement a high probability. A good mentor will know which behaviors and actions are contributing to failure and knows how to decrease or stop those negative actions. This calls to mind the popular quote from Albert Einstein that, “ Craziness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” For those of us who recall the song, “Hard Headed Woman” by Cat Stevens, the following quote equally applies to limit setting, “ I’m looking for a hard-headed woman, one who’ll make me do my best.”
The need for nurturance and support for we humans is universal. Without basic love from our parents, we fail to thrive. In the areas of growth and goal achievement nurturance provides a certain kind of energy that embodies a belief before the fact that someone can reach a reasonable goal. We move ahead in part because those things we have not achieved are frightening for us. Nurturance and reassurance are the cure for fears of this kind. We respond to nurturance the same way that plants respond to sunlight; they orient towards the source of it. A coach or mentor who is able to provide discipline and nurturance has a better chance of succeeding with his or her mentees than one who is unable to provide both.
The third and last input of a good coach or mentor is to be able to provide knowledge and information about how to go about achieving a goal. If someone has relatively little or no knowledge about fitness he or she will not be a good trainer no matter how good he or she is at limit setting and support. Information or programming helps to rewire the brain, creating new synaptic connections allowing for us to better achieve our goal. Synapses in the brain are formed by repeatedly responding to new information. If we have as a goal becoming a better chess player, with information and practice over time we will be better in five years at chess than we are now. The physical formation of synaptic connections in the brain help us to recognize patterns and improve our efficiency at dealing with problems. As an example, watch any teenager learning to beat a new video game. The exact same thing occurs in our physical brains when we are acquiring new knowledge to increase our chances of achieving our goals. Having a good coach or mentor who can provide all three inputs not only creates the possibility but greatly enhances the probability that we will live our hopes, dreams and goals. Especially in the challenging arena that love provides. ~Jim Delpino
Thank you to Jim for his wise words!!! Jim is one of our most gifted Love Mentors. In case you haven’t heard– I just started a highly personalized Love Mentor coaching service. Now you can have coaching from a trained Love Mentor like Jim, who has used Love in 90 Days principles to get and stay happily married. Each one has a long background in transformational work and is closely supervised by me. Most importantly, each Mentor is gifted and can help you move forward to the love relationship you really want!
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Wishing you love,
Dr. Diana
Diana Kirschner, Ph.D.
♥ Relationship advice from my heart to yours ♥
Diana Kirschner, Ph.D. is a frequent guest psychologist on The Today Show & best-selling author of “Love in 90 Days” (dating advice book)” out now in paperback (at Amazon) with a new chapter on “Dating Games Men Play.” Love in 90 Days was the basis of her PBS Special on love. Connect with Dr. Diana through her FREE relationship & dating advice newsletter.
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