Gurus, Mentors and Cupcakes

My wife and I were having a very interesting discussion the other night.  We were discussing how some people take action and others don’t.  One the keys in this discussion were that both groups of people have mentors, or at least they have people that they look up to.

One of the realizations was that the ones that didn’t take action was putting too much importance on being just like their mentors, that they felt they need more…  Then, if they did feel that they were almost there they didn’t putting themselves out there for fear of being compared to their mentors and potentially be criticized.

No big ah-ah here’s…so what do cupcakes have to do with this?

Cupcakes are a combination of ingredients, not one is more important then the other.  If we think that one mentor is more important to us then any other, we are focusing on the individual ingredient and not the batter (us).  Milk is not more important then flour in a cupcake recipe, they are both required to make the batter. When we understand that our mentors and gurus are simply ingredients that make up the batter – us, we can then understand that we are a mixture of all of them and by adding our own personal TLC we create a unique combination of them all.

Once this is understood then next step, putting ourselves out there, is similar to putting the batter in the oven.  The batter is no good just sitting around.  It has to experience heat (in the oven) in order to rise and become the tasty cupcake…that is us!

I believe that to grow and then take action, we deserve to understand that each ingredient (mentors and gurus) ARE important, but it’s the combination of them that makes us…well us.  And that this uniqueness is the combination of the ingredients that creates us as individual.  Then we MUST develop the mental strength go into the heat (into the oven)…and put ourselves out there in order to rise to our full potential.

So, what type of cupcake are you?

To Your Inner Strength!

Gregg