In mentor training I mention that, as a rule, more clients don’t succeed in our program than do. Though this is a discouraging bit of information, I also mention that the one or two who are wildly successful are enough to sustain us in our desire to keep mentoring through those that disappoint and frustrate us.
I had lunch yesterday with one of my very first wildly successful clients. She’s now a friend. I still feel the joy of her success whenever I see her and get to catch up with how she’s doing.
It’s been ten years since I got to know her. An incredible 10 years for her. She had an impressive list of goals then, most of which she’s accomplished. She’s still working on some of them. Along the way some terrific things that she neither planned nor foresaw happened as a result of her hard work and commitment to making her life better for her and her children. She spiraled those into even more goodness in her life.
Yesterday she was still happy and excited about the future.
And boy, howdy, was I happy for her.
That’s what really sustains us as we help these women find their way to the Land of Possible.
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