Presentation

In leadership class I had a presentation and I was really concerned with it. I have always have had the small fear of going in front of a crowd or a small crowd in this case and talking about a topic. I was really nervous at first and then I involved the crowd which made the presentation go a lot smoother. At the end of the presentation people commented and said I look really comfortable up in front of everyone. I was a nice experience and now I'm not so concerned about doing presentations anymore. You just have to know your information and then motivate others around you with communication. That is one thing I learned from the experience

Becoming Literate

One main goal in the leadership class I'm taking is to become literate. Being literate is the ability to become familiar with a topic, communicating it with people, and motivating people around it. I want to become literate so I can become a better leader and become a successful person. I want to accomplish this by doing well and learning how to become literate by doing a few presentations. My topic I chose was texting and driving; this related with the people I'm delivering this presentation to and I have an idea to motivate people around preventing texting and driving. Hopefully I can become more literate and motivate people around this important issue.

Mr Atkison

I learned that leaders have to lead in the dark. Leaders can't just lead in the open and expect people to believe their message if they are someone else when they aren't in front of people. A real leader has character and has responsibility. A leader has integrity and patience. Mr. Atkinson brought a new perspective of a leader to me. Its nice to have different perspectives brought to me by these leaders that come in and bring a presentation. I can really take a look at myself and see what I want to change and how I want to change it through self-recognition before I go to bed at night. Looking at the things I need to work on to be a better leader

How do we perceive things/ Mr. jepson

I believe we see things and judge them through our core values. These values have come from how we were raised or who we chose to relate with in the world. If you were raised to learn from your experiences you will perceive your failures and successes as being something to learn from. This is the way I think I was raised and I am thankful for it. I am fortunate to have a good family to show and create good examples for me. I am content with what I value and how I perceive things.

Mr. Jepson had a good speech that made me think about his lesson about how everything we do is 90/10. He said that 90% of everything we do is controllable by how we react to that 10% we can't control. I took this to the field in my football game playing Grinnell. We lost the game and everyone has someone to blame it seems like. But the thing we need to learn is how to get better from the experience we went through. What we need to focus on is our turnovers and how to control those. Getting better everyday in practice and working together can help us achieve this.

confidence

Confidence goes a long way in leadership. It gives you the confidence that is needed to believe in yourself and make decision that you think are right when in the leadership role. It gives you the fearlessness to try new things out and be prepared to fail at the first attempt. I think I have this confidence in everyday life but I also have my insecurities that I hide loosely. The only way to get better is to have that fearlessness to try new things to make those insecurities something of the past. Hopefully this confidence can help me on my way to become a good leader.

who inspires me?

Who inspires me? That's the question we were asked in leadership class. It makes me wonder who I do look up to. I look up to Michael Jordan because he has accomplished so much in his lifetime. He wasn't even a starter in his junior season in basketball. But he worked as hard as he could to achieve his dream. I love to see Michael Jordan play in old clips of him making clutch shots on the biggest games in the NBA finals. When he played through the Flu in his famous "Flu Game" he showed his love for the game, teammates, and fans. His determination for the game can't be described. His hard work, determination, and love for the game make him one person that inspires me.

Ticket

Yesterday i got a ticket for speeding when coming into school a little late. I was going about 67mph on a highway when the speed limit was 55mph. A state trooper pulled me over and he gave me a ticket after I explained to the officer why I was late. He lowered my speed down to 65 because it wouldn't go on my insurance. I was really thankful for that even though he gave me a ticket. I was pretty bummed out from the experience.

The same day in leadership class we talked about having a good attitude when "failures" come along in the road. I learned that in order to grow from your failures you need to have a positive attitude and make yourself better from the mistakes you make. I learned that I need to watch my speed more often and wake up earlier for school so I'm not late. That is how i will make myself better from this experience.

what do i want to be?

College is coming faster and faster. And going to college brings up one problem for myself; I don't know what career I want to pursue and have a future in. This is a huge step in my lfe and i don't want to make a mistake. I know it will be almost impossible to predict what I am going to be doing after college but I want to be in a field that I will love. So I had a plan to make this process a little easier on me. I signed up for a college course called Career Decision Making. Currently I am now taking the class and I am learning some important things about myself and the job market. I now am planning to find myself a field that I would like to pursue. Hopefully with this action and determination I can find what I am looking for.

Goals

At leadership in school I was to make some goals for myself and one goal i made was missing zero tackles in my football game that I had. My first step was to make my goal more specific after I made a goal to win our football game. So I filed it down to something that I could control myself because I can't control our whole team's actions. I was going to accomplish my goal of zero missed tackles by concentrating at my tackling stations to prepare myself for my game. So on game-day, I only missed two tackles. I can still improve but I can only takes things one step at a time.

I will still strive for this goal with the ongoing season.