On our life journey there are several naturally occurring life transitions, which are growth, health and age related that we are bound to experience. In addition, for each of us there are also several life transitions that are initiated by the personal choices we make or that others make that impact us. The following graphic depicts several naturally occurring and personal choice life transitions that can occur. In your personal and confidential My Mentorsphere™ enterprise, we suggest that you attempt to identify the life transition(s) you are currently personally experiencing and those that you now expect to experience in the near future.
When we face one of our inevitable personal life transitions, the challenges and obstacles we encounter often are frightening and seem insurmountable. Further complicating life transitions are factors such as the speed of technological advances or cultural changes and an increase in personal life expectancy. Accordingly, our life long pursuit of our Dreams to attain our self-determined success and in pursuit of our individual happiness becomes more complicated.
Since many life transitions occur because of happenstance, circumstance or luck, the importance of understanding the components and complexity of them cannot be underestimated. Intelligently anticipating, planning and managing anticipated, unanticipated and planned life transition increases our visibility of each transition. Visibility enhances our ability to plan for and navigate the untraveled terrain ahead and, as such, would appear to be a large part of the solution for both ‘enjoying the trip’ and ‘arriving at our destination’. We believe that Open-System Mentoring™ can provide the visibility and planning opportunity we may need.
With Open-System Mentoring™, UIF attempts to identify, disclose and make available to you the dynamic operating characteristics of successful, naturally occurring mentoring relationships. Further, we center the Protégé’s Dream and its pursuit as the fundamental and essential driver of naturally occurring mentoring. Once you are educated about Open-System Mentoring™, you may analyze, understand and apply these essential natural mentoring characteristics to all your life transition experiences.
With Open-System Mentoring™, we endeavor to enlighten you with the ability to appreciate and demystify the often seemingly accidental and haphazard nature of many life circumstances before they occur. More specifically, our objective is to enlighten you with an appreciation of how successful mentoring can actually work to improve your life by using it to intelligently navigate your life journey. Successful mentoring can create an opportunity for you to form and focus your Dreams and empower yourself with the passion to pursue them. This pursuit enables you to navigate your life journey in search of your self-determined success and in pursuit of your individual happiness.
