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A guide for mentees: Best Possible Self for Mentees

What Best Possible Self is, how to write it and what happens next.

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What this guide covers

What it is

Your life when things went well

You picture a future where things went as well as they could, and write it.

One year from nowThree years from nowFive years from now

Pause 9:12 left

Your life when everything went well It is Monday morning, three years on.I open the workshop I now run for new team leads.Two of them once sat where I sat. 212

Which steps bring it closer?

1Ask to co-host the next onboarding day2Finish the facilitation course

Why it helps

See where you want to go

Writing it down can make the future you want clearer.

Not a test nobody grades it
No polishing spelling does not matter
Small steps up to three, for this month

Filling it in

Twenty minutes, in three steps

Choose a time frame, write, then name your steps.

Choose how far ahead

One, three or five years from now.

Write for fifteen minutes

Start the timer and keep going; do not stop to fix.

Name up to three steps

Things you can start this month.

Choose how far ahead

One, three or five years from now.

One year from nowThree years from nowFive years from now

Pause 9:12 left

Your life when everything went well It is Monday morning, three years on.I open the workshop I now run for new team leads.Two of them once sat where I sat. 212

Which steps bring it closer?

1Ask to co-host the next onboarding day2Finish the facilitation course

Write for fifteen minutes

Start the timer and keep going; do not stop to fix.

One year from nowThree years from nowFive years from now

Pause 9:12 left

Your life when everything went well It is Monday morning, three years on.I open the workshop I now run for new team leads.Two of them once sat where I sat. 212

Which steps bring it closer?

1Ask to co-host the next onboarding day2Finish the facilitation course

Name up to three steps

Things you can start this month.

Best Possible SelfSaved

Step 1 of 2

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Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

1Choose how far ahead

One year from nowThree years from nowFive years from now

Pause 9:12 left

Your life when everything went well It is Monday morning, three years on.I open the workshop I now run for new team leads.Two of them once sat where I sat. 212

Which steps bring it closer?

1Ask to co-host the next onboarding day2Finish the facilitation course

2Write for fifteen minutes

One year from nowThree years from nowFive years from now

Pause 9:12 left

Your life when everything went well It is Monday morning, three years on.I open the workshop I now run for new team leads.Two of them once sat where I sat. 212

Which steps bring it closer?

1Ask to co-host the next onboarding day2Finish the facilitation course

3Name up to three steps

Best Possible SelfSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

On Mentornity

Find it, fill it in, send it

Your mentor’s tool waits on your home page until you send it.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Tools to fill in (1)

Best Possible SelfFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Best Possible SelfSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

Best Possible SelfSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

1Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in (1)

Best Possible SelfFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

2Stop whenever you like

Best Possible SelfSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

3Check, then send

Best Possible SelfSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

What happens next

You talk it through together

Your mentor reads your answers, comments and agrees next steps with you.

Only you two program admins do not see the answers
Comments on any part of it
Next steps who does what, by when
Still editable change answers after sending

Find fifteen quiet minutes

Write before you meet, and bring the part that surprised you.

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