Alignment with mentors, coaches, instructors, challenging relationships, and loving relationships are important to your growth and success. I have mentors and coaches who speak into my life daily. Most of these are what I call “mentors from a distance.” I read books and I have a learning agenda. I want to know what I know and learn what I don’t know. I don’t want to go through my life unaware of my shortcomings. I work on myself daily. I seek out mentors, and I seek out “mentors from a distance” to help me learn, grow, change, and elevate my thinking.

As Charles “Tremendous” Jones said, “Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully.”

What authors are mentors from a distance for you? What books are you reading right now to grow and learn?