I hope you will develop a Circle of Friends *(
www.flamefellowshipinternational....'circle of friends) since participating in 'Dream Teams' cause you to hear, learn and experience things you've never tried that build
integrity.... After all, if you only dream, only hear and never produce, what good will it do? Mentors help hold
your feet to the fire and to share your expected results. And join a Dream Team - an accountability group - to
inspire you to greatness.
Seldom do any of us dare to dream out loud. We've heard with disdain many called dreamers
and know why it is so. Because many continue to dream high yet do menial things because they aren't accountable to anyone.
There is a time and season for all of our dreams, and we may have to muck out stalls while we're waiting for the opportunity
to purchase our thouroughbred.
It's exhilerating to share the inner heart's dream tucked back in the recesses of our
heart. We can trust those who believe in us, have our best in mind and won't chide, no matter how strange they think
our dream has become. True mentors set the heart free to release the inner dream. A mentor may help you discover
the potential of your dream still locked within you and even help to identify that dream.
As you are
given permission and even encouraged to dream, the potential sets itself free to expose itself. Be careful and choose one
whom you are free to speak into your life. Find a bit of a dreamer but also one focused enough who can inspire your
thoughts into a dream, and one who can give access to your directional plan. Make sure they are not jealous of you, your
efforts and your latent abilities or you'll find yourself feeling a sense of drowning when you are around them. And eventually
they will turn against you. I know. Firsthand.
Most realize we all consist of what life has fashioned
us to become. It's not what happens to us in life but to which extent we allow it which grips our heart to give direction
to our dream. We all need encouragement, space and permission to dream a bit. You'll want to try out a lot of ideas to discover
the way in which you can "fly like a mighty eagle". You can, as you add mentors to your life.
Two ways of mentoring
is first on a one-on-one relationship and secondly with a group, such as joining a Dream Team. You need never to lock
yourself into just one mentor or just one dream team. In fact, for each facet of your life, you may want one willing to help...i.e.
music, leadership, homelife, etc.
These pages, devoted to women just like yourself, are for your use at no cost or
membership. I offer a service to promote growth in you, in your spirit, in your abundant life which makes a difference in
our outlook and outcome of life because I believe in you and because I care. Your quest has great value so
encourage the insights of mentoring by first identifying those you could allow to speak into your life.
Learning
from those who have gone before us through the process of a Biblical application found in Titus 2, where the older mentor
the younger. This is one of the oldest and most enriching ways of mentoring. Anytime zeal for life connects to wisdom,
a life is happier, healthier and more fulfilled.
Connecting zeal with wisdom will help you reach your dream quickly.
Using the resources on this site enables you to have a greater outlook on your destiny. This means you may look up to
a new future.
With informational resources available through the web, library and radio and television, knowledge
is increased as never before. However, information gleaned through another is a truly efficient, wise, cost-effective
way of being mentored. For you gain both the wisdom, experience and outcome by listening. One can learn something from
almost anyone. When desperation takes the backseat and one learns to excel past a communicational fear, that my
friend is really
flying.
Your neighborhood, school, community
center, college, church, and social group all have people you meet who've 'been there and done that'. Utilize their
experience as you open your eyes, look for that one willing to share, has a heart to help her sister, and may even have the
heart of a dreamer. Believe that they would like to speak into your life. All you have to do is ask to find out. What do you
have to lose?
As you become interested in the lives of others and pattern their successes, ask them questions which
might determine a new set of victorious events in your life. You learn something new from everyone you meet. You can. I
do and you will. From those at whose hand we learn, we call Mentor or even 'friend'. A wealth of information waits for you
that may be found wherever people gather. There, potential mentors await - and potential friends develop. When you make the
inner decision to inquire, to ask, to learn, you uncover both mentors and friends.
You are internally richer and more
informed to develop more life success potential when willing to learn through others life-experiences. Knowledge is power.
Knowledge becomes personal power when tried and applied.
Skip the years of experience it takes to learn the many life
lessons that others are willing to share in a moments time. Develop your own Dream Team so that you may interact with others
involved in this process.
Sure you can read and learn. Don't give up your reading materials. Just include talking and
listening to others. Discover the art of listening past the spoken words to hear what it takes to reach your quest for personal
power, happiness and success.
It's said, it's not how much you hear, it's what you hear. Discern the good, the
instructional, the life applications. Choose to read between the lines by hearing with your heart. Then, follow your heart
!
Making a decision to try taking the same steps another did is most fastinating. You'll begin a pattern of learning
by doing. Recognize which road to avoid, which decision to make, which action to take. Heartache and dead-end choices have
patterns - just as successful choices make successful life patterns.
Consider everyone in life a teacher by whom you
learn something. Make right choices for right living and find a life of joy, happiness and peace to overflowing. You CAN do
it. I believe in You !
Once upon a time, when life wasn't so difficult and people wern't so busy, we learned
mostly from our friends. Friends took time to explain why something worked and why it didn't.
Friends cared about
you enough to take the time to warn about the pitfalls in life. They wanted to see you succeed. They didn't want to see you
cry when you made a mistake. They watched out for you.
Friends still want that for their friends. They are just busy
and don't always have the time to devote to watching out for you. In our age of automation, instant this and instant
that and while wonderful inventions have made our life easier than ever, you would think many have more time. Yet they are
doing more and while we are blessed by so many new inventions, the art of developing meaningful friendships is often
neglected. Women today may often feel alone and even lonely since developing meaningful friendships takes time. Time excelerates
when we do more in one day than what it took our sisters of yesteryear to accomplish in many months. So friendships falter
and suffer. These friendships cannot be counted on to produce what we missed over the years.
This means we may want
to think of mentors as friends of the moment. They may not be a lifelong friends or even become a close friend. Mentors can
become a type of friend when they share something that aims us in the direction of life, happiness, joy and peace. Try
an experiment. Ask a successful person (however you view success) what the greatest secret they found in life which produced
the most satisfaction. It may be someone waiting for a bus, someone who sits beside you in an airplane. That's when you
will find hidden pockets of time to listen and to learn. Listen from the heart. Be in for some great surprises!
Truth has a way of uncovering a dream inside of you if you are willing to apply action to truth. Find joy
in the simple things of life as you seek the wisdom to do what is most important. Anytime your life becomes easier, more productive,
or enriched through others life-knowledge, you will discover a joy in just 'being'. The happier, more successful, kinder,
and more in tune you become means the greater opportunity you have to share any or all of that with another. Want to become
a magnet to draw others to your side? Sharing your life with others fulfills basic needs in us all. Become a mentor
produces a glorious outcome in becoming the person you have always wanted to be. Both in receiving and giving forth of
the true treasure of your heart are you enlarged in greatness. While many kinds of mentors are available, look for a
long-time mentor with courage to speak truth and mirror exactly what is seen. This mentor who has heart has not forgotten
how to dream, has ideas to spark your quest for realistic progress and will, with influence, open a door toward
your chosen path. Why get a mentor when you have many friends? This is why. While friends are are wonderful and while you
may be able to learn from them, they may not always have the time. Yes, all need mentors for personal freedom to become more
of who we really are.
In the search for a Mentor, we often overlook the older, wiser, successful, the more experienced
woman. This may be a grandmother, aunt, neighbor or a long-time friend. Or, someone you don't know well. Choose one who will
take time to share her life, a story, a thought, or a dream. Choose one who will encourage you to share what
you've learned and bring forth the dreams of your heart. Glean through those stories, thoughts, dreams and advice and use
what you need in pursuing your meaning of life. When you can learn anything from this interchange, that person is a potential
mentor. No matter what your station in life or sphere of influence, any person wanting to learn can,. What an exciting
adventure. A mentor is truly one of the best gifts that you can give yourself
To discover more about how our Mentoring
Network is influenced by F.L.A.M.E. 'Fly Like a Mighty Eagle' Conferences, look for the testimonials on that website to bless
you.
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