Three Pillars of Effective Mentoring 

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There are three major components of effective and concerned mentoring. The Support System will deliver what those three direct and indirect components are that help guide and transform young lives. First, you have: Finding Your Power Source (Discovering Yourself). As every young person moves from childhood through their teenage years and finally into adulthood, it is important during each phase that hungry minds seek out individuals and/or organizations that can help guide them to greatness.  

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Secondly, you have: Igniting Their Spark (Parents). Just as young emerging minds must find those people who can help guide them, the most important individuals to ignite their passion for greatness must initially come from within their homes. Young people grow up seeing their parents interact and engage in positive actions or professions that spark their developing minds. Mothers and fathers should always be thinking about how to guide their offspring. Parents must be intentional in developing their children’s impressionable minds.

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Finally, you have: Feeding Their Power Source (The Village). The third and final objective of the book will illustrate examples of how the “village” or community must come together and share in mentoring young people. For every successful or accomplished adult from the ages of 25 - 50 (plus), I’m sure they can point to a single person or multiple people who have helped guide them. Whether you are an educator, lawyer, doctor, law enforcement officer, fire personnel, corporate CEO, entrepreneur, or U.S. President, getting to that level of achievement could not have been accomplished without the support of external forces.

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The Support System will emphasize the importance of these missions. By exploring these three areas, this book aims to show how impactful good mentoring can be, not only for the mentees but for the mentors and the community. This book will also serve as a chronicle of select individuals who have dedicated themselves to guiding, nurturing, developing, assisting, changing, inspiring, motivating, and, at times, sacrificing for others. These successful personalities inserted into the book have achieved what we define as greatness, not measured by wealth or educational attainment, but by character and faith. The figures profiled in this powerful volume, “The Support System,” are paragons of effective mentorship.