Comments on: The Crippling Myth of Source

By: Sue Painter

Sue Painter — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:30:28 +0000

I so agree with your blog post, Kevin. And I also think that Scout’s comment is spot on. I’ve spent a huge amount of energy and time studying with mentors over the past year, and with spiritual mentors over the past 15 years. Literally, the decision to do that has changed my life. We are all connected, so going forth and thinking one can do it all on one’s own doesn’t work, simply from an energetic standpoint. To me, when one consistenly says no to mentoring, one is consistently saying no to one’s own greatness and potential.

Sue P.

By: susan kuhn frost

susan kuhn frost — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:20:21 +0000

Here’s what the Cistercian monk and writer Thomas Merton has to say about this:

“Sometimes we see a kind of truth all at once…a kind of image of completeness. But it is not real completeness. We have to make it up afterwards in our own rag-picking way, grubbing around in our own rubbish.” And as we do so, “we are really living that idea, working it out in our own lives.”

Quoted in Paul Elie — The Life You Save May Be Your Own. Elie then writes: “The passage is an account of the process of pilgrimage, of the way secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand experience, of the way one comes to see with one’s own eyes.”

Refusing that pilgrimage, refusing to accept the imperfection of our own journey, preferring our intuitive experiences, is refusing to engage in the human experience, refusing to incarnate that which we intuit, refusing relationship, refusing to grow.

By: susan kuhn frost

susan kuhn frost — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:33:34 +0000

This IS a provocative discussion. Another level: We search for comfort by defining the boundaries of where we are going (which is unknown tp us) by where we have already been. Recipe for failure in exploring new lands. And for developing higher level skills and capacities.

Every one of us is thumbprint-unique and so is our business. The challenge is to absorb new information/perspectives/etc. so one can steer one’s own business and life. That independence is what characterizes an in-the-bone entrepreneur….and becoming an entrepreneur (an original, not an implementer of someone else’s idea) is ultimately the state we all seek.

By: Kevin Nations

Kevin Nations — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:50:46 +0000

Our greatest gifts are each other! Thanks Matthew for all you do and are!

By: Matthew Blom

Matthew Blom — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:15:41 +0000

I will forever hold the image of you standing on the chair at the event reaching up holding the imaginary hands of your mentors while reaching down to hold the hand of your client, who in turn reaches down to her client..and so on.

Nicely done, and nicely said.

Keep it coming Kevin.

Matthew Blom

By: Kevin Nations

Kevin Nations — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:09:50 +0000

Congratulations! My little girl is growing out of having tons of ‘daddy time’! But it’s all good – we still have TONS of fun. Spent several days in Vegas last week with my son so that was outstanding!

By: Kevin Nations

Kevin Nations — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:08:18 +0000

Looking forward to connecting with you this week Sailesh!

By: Kevin Nations

Kevin Nations — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:07:44 +0000

Buckle Up, Buttercup…

By: Kevin Nations

Kevin Nations — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:07:10 +0000

So So honored to see you take off like a rocket! And in SO many more areas than the money! Grateful as always for you showing up and showing again just how it can be done.

By: Kevin Nations

Kevin Nations — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:06:13 +0000

Love to hear more about your wonderful Mentors!