Coaching Tips for Parents, Educators, and Mentors

Ask yourself: How are you viewing the person you will mentor?

How much effort does it take to coach someone?

You have just the solution. You know the formula—the exact steps she could take to overcome her difficulties and reach her goal. Resist the temptation to offer it. As a mentor, your role isn’t to swoop in and save your mentee, but to guide her to take responsibility for herself.

We all have one, if not more. We love ourselves too much to see ourselves accurately.

While struggle isn’t easy, overcoming it brings the deepest satisfaction possible.

Which “spiritual strengths” do you or your mentee possess? How can they be utilized to combat a negative trait?

It takes effort to operate in a preemptive manner, rather than an instinctive one.

As a coach, it is your job to help identify a coachee’s weakness and explore how to flip the coin, utilizing the strength of their personality and shedding their weakness.

Does our environment, something so external, influence us?

There’s a little autocrat in my head literally dictating to me what my next step should be. The autocrat’s name is Habit, and it could be my best friend or my worst enemy.

Right now, chances are you are struggling with something; we all have our pain points. When you plug your current struggle into a framework, you have a path and a way forward.

If you try to put a stop to too much, there will be an overwhelming amount of inner resistance.

Why? Why are they crying about each other’s tragedy, rather than their own?

Sometimes, words of reproach are necessary. But when they are offered against a backdrop of love—with firm trust between the student and teacher, child and parent—then the child can hear and internalize and grow from what his mentor is saying.

Does taking pictures take away, or enhance, whatever we are presently doing? Can you take pictures if you are fully immersed? Can you be fully immersed if you are taking a picture?