Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Mentoring

One of the many stages in the journey to become a certified leader in the Mankind Project is to get an existing leader to mentor you. Over the years I've had many leaders suggest to me that I move onto the leader track, and implicitly they've all been options as mentors for me.

In making the difficult choice of whom to approach, I considered many criteria - who did I most get on with, whom did I admire the most, who's style did I like etc. etc. Finally, I went with my gut, and my gut chose the one I was most scared of - let's call him M. Funny that.

I called him up, and after some very probing questions M agreed to mentor me. I asked him what his terms were, and M said he only had two rules:
  1. Don't waste my fucking time
  2. Don't waste your fucking time
... and then I knew my gut had chosen well.

Monday, September 26, 2005

Update

A friend of mine reminded me about my blog last week, commenting that I was smoking whilst the counter of nicotine free days was ticking away obliviously on these virtual pages.

I'm OK with me smoking - for now - so I've done away with the timer. However, I'm still on my journey and right now I could do with the clarifying process that is writing a blog for me. The subtitle has changed too.

So what am I here to blog about now?

Well I'll see what enfolds (if anything), and I have a hint that I'll be talking about my journey to become a certified leader within the Mankind Project that is just beginning.