The Golden Mentor

Guide people to what's best and brightest in them, by focusing more on their spiritual map.

A movie about which I have talked before is "Gattaca (1997)". There is a scene, right at the beginning, which stuck well in my mind.

The story of the movie takes place in the not-too-distant future, in which the specialists could find out in just a few seconds, the exact time and cause of death of a newly born baby. And to Vincent has been predicted that he would die at the age of 30 years because of his weakened heart.

The boy's mother, lying on the hospital bed, waited impatiently and with great emotions, the doctors' verdict. After the doctors gave her the verdict, notifying her of Vincent's life expectancy, she still looked at her baby with a happy and affectionate expression on her face, and, very confident, not letting herself discouraged, exclaimed with pride and a spiritual delicacy: "I know he will do everything. You will do something, Vincent."

She was thinking: "I know you can. I know you'll be somebody. You'll be able to do something important with your life, no matter what the specialists say."

Undoubtedly, Vincent's mother had more confidence in him than in the genetics specialists. Furthermore, her confidence became reality in time. Vincent made it, eventually, although he was not meant for that world, although no one gave him any chance of becoming a pilot to Gattaca and fly in the outer space.

Have you decided that you want to experience the miracle of an impossible world to give meaning to the tendency of perceiving that you only exist in the minds of those who reinvent your own story?

Affection granted to those around, to which are closely tied the ambition, will, and commitment to yourself, has as a finality the need to remember only the landmarks that lift you in their eyes.

Empathy lies not necessarily in your care to fit some form of generosity or a dose of exceptionalism to a reality that can be denied. But rather in your tendencies of placing in a proper position the relationship of a vulnerability of man with the state of being gifted and that of fascination he feels when he discovers the wonders of the world, so as to not induce nefarious changes within the latter.

"I know you can, I know you will do something". These simple words, but full of life and of hope, full of desire and faith told by a person truly interested in you, make you feel better, stronger, to be more confident in your future, more creative, more willing and motivated to be a part of the show of life.

Being convinced of her good intentions, you will not hang in yourself, you will not fill yourself with sadness but, more than certainly, you will become a new man. Even so, you can very easily be demotivated by someone who tells you with conviction that you do not have the potential necessary to produce results, that you have a limited perspective on your field of activity or criticizing you with every occasion.

Do you bear the mark of a unitary and consistent personality in its tendencies to prevent and combat any other unfavorable factors that manifest themselves during the attempt of others to self-indulge?

To reinvent a story means to produce a new version of reality available only in the shape and content of the message that you can integrate directly into the background of an emotional manifestation that predisposes man to dreaming.

I strongly believe that very few managers, respectively leaders, are able to flawlessly play the role of loving and caring mother, who would always be there for people with a great heart, with hope, with a sincere and accentuated preoccupation, which would do everything possible in order to determine them to choose the best path to evolution. People's paths cannot be guided by more than one person with strong will, with an optimistic vision on life, on present and future, who knows how to read deep in the hearts of people, allowing them to catch a glimpse of faith.

Only a strong impetus, a healthy, intense blow of life and an excellent morale can help you overcome any obstacle, even if that hot blood owned by winners does not run through you, even if you lack the attitude specific to superior people. Your attitude may be subject to a change if you have around you, near you, as often as you feel the need, a person who, putting all his hopes in you, trusting in your potential, encourages you and gives you a certain dose of courage and imagination.

Is the imprint of your spirit of a man capable of sublime resonances visible everywhere in the tendency to take any emotion and turn it into a new landmark and impulse for life?

Life must be glorious, a complete triumph, under no circumstance a difficult or unpromising "score", and if you do not have on your side someone who, through words of eulogy, through periodical encouragements would make you confident that you are able to take over the initiative every time necessary, and that you are able to handle any situation, you will not be able to rise above all expectations.

Just as the blood circulation is concentrated on the heart rather than the liver - and so you, as a leader, you should focus more on the inner beauty of people, on their spiritual map, on their qualities and skills, rather than on their willingness to gather around you.

Help people breathe, not to stifle !

How good it would be if any company would have in its leadership a protective and loving "mother", worthy of being listened to and followed, who would give people a certain peace of heart, a mother who would not prevent weak minds to build a strong future, who would help people instead of shoving them, who would give them trust, and they, relying on this trust, to forget about all their fears, to leave behind their unhealthy thoughts and feelings, and to approach life with a great enthusiasm, just like Vincent did.

The impetus for life is essentially instilling a sense of belonging to a space defined by a value system based on a promise and a certainty to stick to.

You will always be evaluated according to your ability to identify with a reality in which you can act, experience, evaluate and decide on the consequences that make you responsible.

Every human owns a map which highlights their most precious values. You only have to understand very well their map and then to give them some precise coordinates to thank them spiritually and that would open a broader horizon to them. Guide people to what's best and brightest in them, by focusing more on their spiritual map.

Conclusion: Of course, it is very important to have a mentor, even a spiritual one, who would support you and lift your morale at least in hard times, just as it is equally true the fact that, sometimes, time does not pass in your favor and you are obliged to get palpable results quickly, which, of course, is the best impulse for you.