New Goal: being organized

I need to be more organized; plain and simple. There is a problem of forgetting certain assignments that I have to complete online or just forgetting everyday items that I need. I haven't been taking advantage of my assignment book he school has provided for me. I need to starting using it and writing down my assignments. This simple thing can help me be less forgetful and start reminding myself of the duties I have to complete every week. So my goal is to be less forgetful with homework and I will achieve this by writing in my assignment book. This is a very achievable goal and I will complete it. :)

Speaker

We had a speaker come into leadership class the other day talking about what influences us in the world. What makes us believe what we believe? We discussed how advertisements, family/ friends, and the media influence you in everyday life. Advertisements make you want to but certain things on television; friends and family influence you to do things or believe certain the things as well.  Media can make you like or dislike someone. But whatever  you choose to do, you have beliefs that make your conscience think certain activities are wrong.  believe most of the decisions i make are linked to my family. I always want to make my family proud.

Communication

Communication is something we focused on this last week in leadership class. We went through a couple of exercisers which display what kind of qualities each person had left for Mr. Fritz to jot down. We went through the exercises and found out what Mr. Fritz was observing. He observed me taking the initiative and getting everyone in a circle and starting conversation for a plan. He also observed me being a worker because I was doing all of the work for getting my partners across a "river" without dropping them in the river. These qualities are good ones but anyone can improve  their leadership qualities. Hopefully these qualities can help me on my way to gathering more good qualities and becoming a better leader.

Prioritizing

Prioritizing is a essential component to living a comfortable life. If you prioritize you will know what's important to you and how it applies in your life. I personally prioritize things like homework, friends, and communication. If I prioritize homework I would do the homework that has the most importance and most urgency to get done. An example that would be an exam due in a college course in a week. If I don't do the exam I could fail the class and my GPA for college could go down. If i prioritize friends, I am choosing which friends I want to hang out with on the weekends. I prioritize communication when I forget something and don't tell someone; or if i do remember to tell something before a certain time. If i remember it has some significance to me and I am prioritizing. This can help you do various activities in every-day life.

Getting Better Every Week

As a player for Williamsburg High School football team, I think we need to take things one step at a time. Just like in leadership, everything takes a while to get started. We need to come together as a team and finish out the season well. We have a tough game next week against Washington and we need to win it to stay in the playoffs and maintain our goal of going to The Dome at UNI. As a team we need to stay discipline and do our assignments. As a leader it is no different, people depend on you to fulfill your assignments and follow through with success. A lot of pressure is put on the leader but people have faith. Believing is what drives the leader and pushes him/her to put forth their greatest effort. Leaders run off of the followers that believe in him/her

What are my Core values?

My core values are respect, honesty, communication, faith, family, initiative, and hard work. I chose respect because I believe you don't need to be everyone's friend but you need to respect everyone. Respect can bring relationships from people closer to you and develop good friendships. Honesty and telling the truth can bring people to have a higher respect of you but if you aren't honest you will only break the trust of people you care about the most. Communication is important because you develop relationship with people when you communicate. Faith is very important to me in life. I believe God helps me through all the times of struggles and helps me find the right paths for me in life. Initiative is essential to completing goals in life; and when you create goals you have to have that initiative to change for the better. And hard work is very important because I believe yo must have that quality of how to work hard in everything yo do. If you work hard, only good things can come from that effort. I believe all of these qualities and core values make  me who I am today
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Pursuit of Happyness 2

In the Pursuit of Happyness I watched in class I analyzed certain character qualities and motivations of Chris Gardener. He displays a high character quality throughout the movie toward his customers and his fellow businessmen. This is important because he never loses control and becomes unprofessional. He also has great value in his son's education because Chris wants his son to become a better man than he was. This philosophy comes to him because he met his father for the first time when he was 28 and wants his son to live the life that he didn't. He grasps those qualities and is motivated by his son to have a better life. He is also motivated when his wife leaves him. This motivates him because he is finally rubbed down to the core with adversities; and he just wants to be happy. He questions what happiness his and how to achieve it. He eventually finds happiness within himself after he goes through adversity. He pushes himself to be a better man and work harder than everyone else in the stock brooking company. This brings him to a job and true happiness with himself and his son. I believe that you must find happiness within yourself and not look for it in others. You will only have false  happiness when you put it in objects. The story of Chris Gardener is motivating to find true happiness and to do what is needed to achieve it.

Pursuit of Happyness

In leadership we are analyzing the Pursuit of Happyness. I have seen the movie before but it is interesting to go more deep into the movie and look at the steps it take for Chris Gardener to get motivated to become a better person and climb up the scale of stockbroking, from the bottom to the top. He is in poverty and can't make the essential needs for his family. He goes through the up and downs to meet his goal. So what makes us get motivated? for me personally, I have to  see my weakness that needs to be fixed. In other cases I like to pursue something I am passionate about and set small goals to reach it. I can also be motivated by an experience that changes a view or a belief that can be a good or bad experience. Once I am truly motivated I believe I can reach any goal with hard work and dedication.

What you believe in

I recently heard a quote that said," Getting in arguments shows that you have stood up for what you believe in." I think this quote couldn't be more true. I'm not saying you should go and make fights because that's not the point. I believe if you stand up for what you believe in you are less likely to change your opinions and you will be more confident about your decisions. This is essential in leadership because it builds trust with your audience when you are consistent and true with your followers. I think I stick up for what I believe because I don't let someone else tell me what I believe in is wrong. I can be stubborn because of this but I know what I believe in.