Last week we started a topic on the power of mentorship. We discussed the indispensability of mentor ship, for people that missed out on this important topic or for those that deleted the mail that I sent before opening the content, please kindly go to the discussion board of the group “making of a star” and read it. This topic is very important because we cannot become a star without having a good mentor. The journey of life is too long you need someone that knows how to navigate it. I am so sure that this topic must have generated a lot of questions in the heart of wise readers; I mean those that took time to read my write up and meditated on it.
I will be writing on the demand and responsibility of mentor ship. I will like you to take note of the following point before going deep into the topic.

• Mentor ship is not all the time by proximity but by heartimity, permit me to use that word. It simply means that is by heart. You don’t need to be close to your mentor or to be in close proximity to your mentor. Let’s take a look at what the bible says about this in the book of {Pro 27:19 As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man answers to man.}
• For you to be a fulfilled prodigy, life will place a demand on you.

How do we now select a mentor?

1. Don’t select a mentor because of what he has, but because of who he is.
2. Do you understand the value system of the person you want to choose as your mentor?
3. What are the priorities of your mentor?
4. Does he or she have what you are aspiring for?
5. You need to know if your mentor is a forward looking mentor
6. You need to know if your mentor to be is a visionary.

What are the requirements for being a successful prodigy?

• Submission : anybody you can’t submit to you can’t enjoy the benefit of mentor ship
• Observation: if you want the best of your mentor, you must observe him.
• Application: it is not enough to hear your mentor but you must be a doer the words.
• Imitation: it is one of the proofs of a true follower ship. It is imitation that brings about duplication and duplication brings about originality. Imitation is consciously taking the same step to produce the same result.

For those of us that will really want to choose a mentor and are having problem with proximity of your mentor, I have good news for you. You don’t have to be the next door neighbor to your mentor, all you need to do is that , get all the books of your mentor and eat them, before you know it, the spirit that is flowing in your mentor will be flowing in you. A wise man told me that the spirit of a man is in his written words and I agree. If you can get his written words and eat them not read, there will be mixing of heart. Remember what that bible verse says {Pro 27:19 as in water face answers to face, so the heart of man answers to man.