Working Your Business
In the Spirit of Mommy Mentors
By Barbara Theodosiou
Sep 20, 2007, 09:33

To the world, you may be one person; but to one person YOU may be the world! We, at Mommy Mentors, believe that success alone is not enough. We need to share our success with others if it s to provide us with the satisfaction we seek. Through Mommy Mentors, we explore the unique characteristics that make us women and mothers, and in the doing, help each other to grow and to prosper.

Mommy Mentors is a network of women who, through a common purpose and a common bond, share our strengths, hopes and experiences with one another. Coming from diverse cultures, and backgrounds, we have found that each of us possesses unique gifts. When given the opportunity to share these gifts, we see the world in a different light. Our failures become successes; our burdens grow lighter; and we find the eternal sun that can pilot us through all barricades, through the shadows that might be cast over us tomorrow!

By sharing, we lighten the load. We make new friends, and new relationships bring fresh perspectives. Alone, we can only see and do so much, but working together and learning from one another enables us to call on wider knowledge, a greater range of experience, and far more ability. How can mentors help? A Mommy Mentor strives to teach a person to fish, rather than provide the fish for one meal. By sharing her knowledge and life experience, a Mommy Mentor helps her protégé to achieve organizational and personal goals. And it s a win-win situation: The mentor too grows from the experience, gaining a tremendous sense of satisfaction and goodness from helping her protégé to succeed.

Meg Whitman is an example of a woman in the spirit of Mommy Mentors, whom I would like to acknowledge. Not for her ultimate success, but for her ultimate hard work, for overcoming failure and disappointment, and most importantly, for her sense of clarity and good work.

Meg Whitman, founder of E-Bay, could have been knocked off purpose and lost it all when her computer systems failed and crashed in 1999. Instead, Meg worked 100 hour weeks for over a month until the problem was overcome.

She enlisted help from the mentors who guided her, and she saw her labor come to fruition. She now mentors others, so they can learn from her experience. It s her way of giving something back to the world, of being the world to one person for just long enough to make a difference.

Barbara Theodosiou is the founder of Mommy Mentors. Mommy Mentors goal is to encourage and assist every woman to share her inspirations, hopes and dreams with other women throughout the world. We know that by sharing our weaknesses we can build strength, and by sharing our strengths we can become stronger. To learn more visit http://www.mommymentors.com



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