Mentor Yourself.

Remember dear traveler, that eudaimonia is not the green hilltop just ahead of you—it’s a lifelong journey to the great mountain that beckons from beyond the horizon. May your journey be filled with virtue, meaning, and friendship. Go forth courageously and befriend the voice of your conscience, so you may never have to travel alone.

The approach to self-mentoring outlined in this website is based on making daily incremental improvements in our character by identifying and developing virtues that will make us more resourceful and resilient.

A key priority in that journey is to tap into our conscience and turn that bitter critic in the back of our heads into a gentle and caring friend who will be our guide, refuge and source of wisdom that guides us.

On a practical level, this philosophy rests on three main pillars.
1. The first and perhaps foundational goal is developing self-understanding.
2. The second one is about setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-based (SMART) goals, and making the necessary commitment to achieve them.
3. The third pillar is embarking on the 'hero's journey'

The Self Mentoring Guide is a one-page 'balance sheet' designed to help manage our improvement journey and to make it more explicit, fun and meaningful.