You Need A Mentor.

A Greek warrior-god, leading a consortium of warriors from a score of neighbouring homogenous settlements, was to embark on a war against the renowned Trojans of Troy. He had to inevitably seek a surrogate trainer in his stead to groom his barely five year old son, whom he would have groomed into manhood by himself as the custom stipulates, but for the war he was embarking on.

This surrogate trainer he found in one of his kinsmen loyalists; the seasoned Mentuor, who was renowned for his art and skill in grooming lads into manhood. Odysseus at his departure put Telemikus in care of Mentuor for grooming into manhood till he returns. This grooming includes all that a lad needs to learn in terms of knowledge about life, self-reliance, the art of war, being a man, leadership etc.

For the period of 15 - 20 years that the war lasted, Mentuor, out of his wealth of insight, skill, art, and experience, like a potter would a clay pot, moulded, tutored, discovered hidden talents which he nurtured into skills and imparted Telemikus with all that makes for the 'TOTAL MAN'.

At his return, Odysseus was not to receive back once infant, innocent, frail, naive son of his anymore, but a full grown man, who had become knowledgeable in various aspects of life, self-reliant, intelligent, full of experiential knowledge, skilful, valour in the art of war, one that had started commanding the uncommon respect of the old, young and his peers alike. That was the Telimikus Odysseus received at his return. Many thanks to Mentuor.

That was centuries ago, according to the Greek custom at the time. But in our fast paced world of today, this age long land mark path of bringing youngsters into manhood or maturity has been largely jettisoned or considered outdated or archaic and hence not subscribed to. Little wonder therefore, many youngsters have made a shipwreck of their glorious destinies and subsequently their future. This can't but be so because when youngsters disregard the ancient wisdom that says: "Remove not the ancient land mark, which thy fathers have set". They can't disregard this saying and not suffer its consequences. There's a syndrome plaguing many youngsters in our generation today that I call the 'self-made syndrome'. Many youths are under the 'spell' of egocentrism. The passionate quest of many youths today to get to the 'top' in their career, trade, business, assignment, vision, ministry (which though not bad, but sadly), is all for ONE purpose,''...to make for themselves a NAME and FAME'', without submitting for grooming in the hands of one with hands-on  knowledge of the career, trade or business they are in, someone with meaningful and enviable results, in their field that they can benefit from. In terms of wealth of insight, wisdom, experience and clout which would cut short their learning curve. Rather, many today are seeking to be made alone, all by themselves. But ironically, THERE IS NO SELF-MADE MAN!

The self-made syndrome is a self-destruct syndrome, because nobody goes far doing it ALONE! Lone rangers die in lone ranges. There is no assignment, vision, career, profession, ministry, business, etc. that one has received alone that one can achieve ALONE. Why? Because there is no assignment that God gives to a man alone that he can achieve ALONE! One is limited doing it alone! Someone sees what one doesn't see. Someone knows what one doesn't know. It is said that every great man or woman is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, which makes 100% manifestation (Greatness). Great! We can therefore deduce that greatness is the summation of inspiration and perspiration. It's important to note that it is inspiration that precedes   perspiration. Inspiration is the foundation for every perspiration. Until one is inspired, one cannot perspire. If true, it therefore means that you need inspiration from someone else's thoughts, actions, results (in your kind of business, life, destiny, profession, career, assignment etc.) to access perspiration, for your manifestation.

No matter your intelligence, brilliance, talents, wits, dedication, discipline, etc. in your chosen career, field, profession, or received calling, assignment(s), vision, ministry, you need to be inspired by someone who has gone ahead of you in your field and succeeded and is still succeeding outstandingly,( because success is not a destination but a journey). This is why I suggest to you that "YOU NEED A MENTOR".