Personal Statement: Myself As A Leader

I have always considered myself a leader especially because of the environment I grew up in. The ability to become a leader amongst my friends, family, and my organization are all attributed to the choices and effects on other people that I had growing up. When it comes to my organization I have no choice but to be a leader, you can’t just settle for being a manager because people may not truly respect you. As a leader in my organization, I am able to influence not only my supervisors, athletes, as well as my friends. When it comes to influencing my supervisors, I am the connection between the athletes on the team and them because I am in closer age. My ability to show my supervisors the thinking process of the athletes through the eyes of …show more content…
I don’t do the things I do to be praised for it, but it’s nice to see people recognize the good work you are doing. When you’re continuously doing good things and aren’t being praised for it you tend to feel unappreciated and there aren’t many much worse feelings. The thing only thing that truly bothers me with being praised is when it isn’t genuine. Where I come from we call it fake love. Fake love is when people pretend to be interested and happy in what you are doing when in reality they are envious and jealous and don’t want to see you do well. It isn’t good to find out people have been talking ill about you being your back and pretending they are proud of everything you are doing behind your back. You can always who is more genuine in their praises because you read most people emotions on their face. I am always happy for everyone’s success unless they truly didn’t earn it the way they should have. Everyone deserves to be the best they can be in life but you have to truly work for it. There is nothing more disappointing to seeing things handled to people and they truly have no backstory of earning things. How do you truly measure success if you have never failed? You can be handed success, it’s earned not given. If you are catapulted into a successful situation or business, you have to find ways to get better and enhance the vision of the person that passed things on you to you.

My first reaction to reading “Servant Leadership is love in action” was what exactly does that mean. Shortly after before reading on I developed my own thoughts on it and realized that you can’t truly succeed at being a leader if you do not love what you do. I had to read on to understand the meaning