People always ask me why I never mentor new comedians/designers/animators or take new acts under my wing and my answer is illustrated in this article. You see mentorship is a two way project where both master and student must travel a road together. God is taking me through the process listed below and I too take people through the same process.
I however have understood that though I have taken many under my wings (in comedy, hospitality, graphic design, entrepreneurship and just life coaching) they haven’t fully understood how I mentor them until now. Most of the students I have tried to teach don't know how long it takes to GET GOOD ---THEN GET SEEN---BEFORE THEY GET PAIDI developed this analogy as an introduction to help any students I take on in different spheres. I hope it make sense to you as well. I have lots of mango trees in my yard and I liked the example of using fruit to make people understand how I teach or metro students although I have used the apple tree in my analogy. So here are the steps I take. Finding the right tree Sometimes you don’t just pick people to mentor. You will often try to find the right tree to identify which one will yield the best fruits for you. Some fruit already is out there thinking they are the be all and end all but don’t realise that unless they are picked by the right person they end up being eaten and core discarded or simply falling out the tree and rotting. Taking some fruitI will often take a bunch from the tree I like. Sometimes the one that has willing fruit. Fruit that’s not too full of pride, desperate fruit even because it is the more receptive fruit to my method of teaching. Eating fruitIn order to get to your seed I need to eat the whole fruit. It might seem like it is to your benefit but it is more to your benefit that it is to mine. Keeping seeds. I have to separate the seeds from the remaining fruit, seems like I am being selfish but already with this analogy you can see what I am about to do. Leave them out to dry I need to leave you out to dry. Nothing else but leave you out in the sun to dry. Doesn’t seem like I am allowing you to do anything, I just need you to dry for the next stage. Burying themTime to put you in the ground. Not show off with you but instead bury you. This process is important. I love this one quote of mine that says the best by product of new life is death. I bury you so you can die to your old self. Flooding themYou need to feed your students information. Water fertiliser, sunshine and time help a seed to reach germination. Same thing with anyone your are teaching. Extracting themOnce they germinate they may think they have already made it but we are still far from it. Time to separate the seedlings and remove them from the pot play and relocate them to the orchard. Isolating themIn the big world (orchard) your students will feel isolated and abandoned but they are in the right space to spread their roots so that they can be grounded forever. Imprisoning themSometimes to protect growth you need to protect the seedling from the elements. Firstly braces so they grow straight, sometimes raising the levels of sand around them to retain moisture. Your students at this point think they are trees but they are far from it. Letting them goWhen you notice their first fruit its always a good time to let them go. Checking out their first cycle of seasons to make sure they are doing what they should. Shedding their leaves in winter, flowering in spring, fruits in summer etc. Your students are now performing. Let them WaitYour students need to understand how to wait through each season in their life, knowing what they are meant to do. If you know how seasons work you will understand how life works. Picking more fruitOnce you are a tree that bears fruit more people are attracted to you. Enemies cannot destroy you because they6 are not willing to destroy you from the roots. People picking your fruits for free won’t kill you because you still have more seasons to produce more. your students will understand this but only a few ever get this far.
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In this first phase of getting you started we asked you to start a whatsapp group and most are wondering how this helps my career/life/family/business or even more importantly what does it have to do with food? Hold your horses and lets take it one step at a time. To start anything, a dream, career, business, family, friendship, network you need to have a strategy document a RECIPE before you begin cooking or even buying the ingredients. Sure you can wing it but the results are unknown. So here is the recipe for setting up a whatsapp group and next to the ingredient is the business lesson...these will be the first units we will cover.
HOW TO START YOUR CARL CAN COOK MOTIVATED NETWORK in 3 easy steps
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