When we are born, our brains are nothing more than an empty shell, an empty barrel if you will, yet to be filled with ideas, concepts and images of the world that surrounds us.
As babies, we have no choice but to rely on those chosen by our Creator, to raise us, to teach us, to guide us, to discipline us and prepare us for whatever life will certainly bring our way.
We listen, we learn and we execute our conduct based on what we see, hear and experience in our natural environment.
As we grow and as we are able to feed ourselves and do for ourselves, those that have been chosen to raise us, inevitably, release us to make our own decisions and choices.
There will be thousands of people you will encounter as you take your own personal journey through your own life.
Many of these people will have absolutely no care nor concern about what you do to yourself, what others may do to you, whether you eat, whether you live, whether you die.
Then there will be a few people who, unbeknownst to you, will select you and will show some interest in you for their own purposes and you must be keenly alert as to whether those purposes are to help you or to harm you.
Then, there will be those people that you will select on your own to help you, guide you and teach you the things that you will want and need to learn, so that you can progress and grow spiritually, morally, mentally, physically and financially in your own life.
These people you select will become your mentors for the things that you will choose to learn.
Your chosen mentors will teach you things that you cannot learn in any formal educational environment because, what you will learn from your chosen mentors, are things which are not based on theory, but rather based on their own real-life experiences and their own actual physical trials and errors.
It should be said that not all mentors are the same.
Some mentors will have achieved their level of success by following and executing principles with honesty and integrity, while others may have implemented strategies that cheat and deceive.
Therefore, you must be very careful to choose mentors who have a record of real and credible success.
Though it may appear that both ‘integrity and honesty’ may deliver equal levels of success as ‘cheating and deceiving’, only one is built on a foundation that will prove to be strong and solid, while the other, on a foundation that may certainly crack and falter, at some point.
FAIR WARNING: It will be completely and totally up to you, and you alone, to choose your own mentors.
If you choose wisely you will reap a bounty of rewards. If you choose badly, you most certainly may face heavy consequences… if you get caught.
Your call, your choice, your life.
