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PB&J #37: Mentoring - Let's Taco About It!
It was the 4th day of the 10th month of the 2022nd year.
I was amused by the fact that National Taco Day fell on a Taco Tuesday.
Naturally, I was craving tacos, the street kind, not the American kind, and found myself looking up the walking distance to the nearest taco truck.
20 minutes there, 20 minutes back, that's easily 4,000 steps, give or take!
Today is also a Tuesday, which you know rhymes with NewsDay, hence this newsletter.
Actually, I've been craving those same tacos since yesterday but it was National Nothing Day so...
Which brings us to today: International Mentoring Day!
I tried to make the taco truck appealing to her, but alas, we walked along our usual route.
Then it started drizzling, so she and her dog went home while I was determined to satisfy my craving.
And I told myself (and herself) I'd finally send out a newsletter this year because a full, happy stomach equals happy thoughts equals happy writing!
So here we are, writing, rewriting, wondering what any of this taco business has to do with mentoring.
A ha, I got it!
Naturally, I took a picture of the full plate, and moments later, the empty plate, to show my neighbor what she missed out on!
She was impressed with how determined I was, and then I explained this concept I learned from a mentor that stuck with me:
Decide Once.
Basically, you make a decision once and save yourself the dilemma of yes, no, maybe so!
With or without her, I was getting my tacos today!
I also wanted strawberry shortcake from the local grocery store, but that would require me to keep walking past the street that would take me home.
Soon I was at that intersection with taco decision in my hand but cake indecision in my mind, so I decided to let the pedestrian signals decide. I simultaneously pressed the button to go straight (cake) and right (home). Whichever walk signal turns on first, that's the way I cross!
Unfortunately, no cake today but there's always tomorrow and the many morrows after that!
Got a decision to make? Taco to your mentor about it if you can't remember the hacks they already shared with you!
P.S. Don't make food decisions while hungry (unless you already decided once what to do in those cases, of course)!
Gurleen Deol
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