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Developing Yourself As A Mentor

Mentoring

One of the most critical aspects of developing leadership is mentoring. No leader has achieved what he has without the help and support of others. And most often, successful leaders can point to a person who was instrumental to their success. That’s called mentoring.

Mentoring is crucial because leaders who develop more leaders are mores successful that leaders who simply attract followers. It’s simply math: leaders add followers; mentoring leaders multiply new leaders.

But there are a few things that hinder a leader from developing a mentoring mindset.

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Don’t Waste The Pain by David Lyons & Linda Lyons Richardson

Don't Waste The PainDon’t Waste The Pain was a difficult book for me to read, and yet very timely.

Brother and sister authors, David Lyons and Linda Lyons Richardson, take a deep look at the pain in their lives caused by cancer. Linda has dealt with cancer for a decade, while David recently lost a son to a rare form of cancer.

This book hit me pretty hard. It’s been five years since my brother Mike lost his battle with liver cancer, and now my dad is dealing with melanoma that has metastasized into several other areas of his body. Both of those are open wounds in my life.

While Don’t Waste The Pain was difficult to read, it was full of timely input into my life. At first, I didn’t really care for the style of writing, switching back and forth from David’s experiences to Linda’s. At first, I didn’t appreciate the jabbing prod into my own tender wound right now. At first, I wanted to put the book down and maybe read it later.

But I knew that if I could just get past my own mindset, I could really learn from this open and honest look into the pain of others who have dealt with similar situations.

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Discerning Truth, by Jason Lisle

Discerning TruthI finished reading Jason Lisle’s book, Discerning Truth, last night. I have to admit, it was pretty enlightening, even though logic and reasoning aren’t topics I find highly interesting to read about.

Lisle’s purpose for Discerning Truth is simple. Explain the logical fallacies that are used frequently in the creation/evolution debate.

In order for an argument to be effective, it needs to be logically sound. Using illogical arguments, called fallacies, can invalidate the entire premise that one is trying to prove.

And so, Jason Lisle address many of the more common fallacies found within the creation/evolution discussion. Most of these are used by evolutionists who are trying to defend their position; however, creationists are not free from faulty logic either.

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The Narnia Code, by Michael Ward

The Narnia CodeHave you ever read The Chronicles of Narnia? The Chronicles are some of the best loved stories of the 20th century, and for good reason; C.S. Lewis wrote so intricately and deeply that you can uncover new layers of meaning every time you read them.

Lewis claimed that each of the seven volumes were “all about Christ.” But how? Oh sure, Aslan is parallel with Christ, and other obvious comparisons. But is there something more?

Michael Ward seems to have discovered the underlying basis for just how C.S. Lewis filled each volume with Christ.

In the pre-Copernican view of things, people viewed the heavens as much more than simple scientific astronomy. Each of the heavenly bodies had symbolic significance; they held a much deeper meaning. And during that earth-centric time period, the cosmos was considered to consist of seven heavens: the sun and the moon, as well as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

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The Summit Contest Winner!

The SummitCongratulations to Jami who is the winner of our contest to give away a copy of Eric Alexander’s The Summit.

Jami will recieve a free copy of The Summit.  New Leaf Press will handle the mailing of the book after Jami completes an online form that I will send to her.

Congratulations, Jami!

Note: The winner was determined by using Random.org’s generator. I entered the total number of legitimate comments and it gave me a random number to determine the winner.

Looking for more info about The Summit?
Read my review of the book.
Check out Eric’s website at www.highersummits.com.

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