Someone in Your Life

Do you have someone in your life that you look up to ? The person you can count on, that provides clear guidance, and helps you help yourself in a manner only possible through clear understanding of who you are, combined with their own experience and wisdom. This is obviously a special person to you, one who is both confidant and mentor. It's your go-to-person for counsel and opinion.

I hope you do. The individual can act as your external conscience for moral dilema's and provide you with the upside of their life experience. It doesn't matter if their life was lived when TV was black and white (or there was just radio) as our core issues are unchanged by the movement of time. Our modern word isn't so modern that wisdom is ever out of place.

I would offer that in the past it seemed an unfair trade to me. I would offer issues, situations and opportunities to choose from, and they would (only) get to advise. I was the player that didn't want to coach. Seeds were planted though and I grew and saw the benefit of guidance and helping someone lay the foundations to harness the potential that they have within themselves. Perhaps the greatest gift given to me was this understanding of how to help make a difference for someone else. For that I am grateful beyond words and I can only hope to be as unobtrusively impact-ful to others as I've been fortunate to experience for myself.

I really hope for your sake you have such a person in your life. I do, and count myself lucky every day for them.