Service and Leadership
Service and leadership! Even though they are two different things they both do correlate well with each other. For example, most of the time when you lead you are serving others whether it be big or small you still are offering some type of service. Throughout my life I have faced many challenges and have overcome so many different barriers with the tools I’ve learned growing up. One of them was how to serve and lead, not only serve myself but to serve others. The most important thing in becoming a full person in life is serving others and leading! This comes natural for me though, I always looked for ways to help others before myself. Some may say that it’s a bad thing because I always aim to please others but, I look …show more content…
During this time not only did I help serve the community but I also showed people on my team that is was cool to help out because after people heard I signed up, a lot more kids on the team joined me. This is a perfect example of servant leadership because according to Robert K. Greenleaf a servant leader “focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong.” Which relates perfectly into what I was doing. It was really a serial feeling for me because when you see all those people faces and see how much they are struggling it makes you want to do more but, at the same time it makes u feel good that you got to …show more content…
We were down by 16 points at half and I had just got a message saying that my friend had been killed, so I was very emotional. At first I wanted to tank it but then I saw how defeated and down my team was and I realized that it was bigger than me and my problems. A lot of my teammates had way more going on than I did and I knew my friend wouldn’t want me to fall into a slump. I gave a speech to my teammates and told them no matter what happens we got each other and that we can do anything if we believe. My teammates rallied behind me after I said that and we went out there and really played like a completely different team. We came back and beat them 38-32 and it was the best feeling in the world. I stop worrying about me and just focused on making my teammates better and bring them up, I let go of my problems and did what I could to lead my
Service and leadership! Even though they are two different things they both do correlate well with each other. For example, most of the time when you lead you are serving others whether it be big or small you still are offering some type of service. Throughout my life I have faced many challenges and have overcome so many different barriers with the tools I’ve learned growing up. One of them was how to serve and lead, not only serve myself but to serve others. The most important thing in becoming a full person in life is serving others and leading! This comes natural for me though, I always looked for ways to help others before myself. Some may say that it’s a bad thing because I always aim to please others but, I look …show more content…
During this time not only did I help serve the community but I also showed people on my team that is was cool to help out because after people heard I signed up, a lot more kids on the team joined me. This is a perfect example of servant leadership because according to Robert K. Greenleaf a servant leader “focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong.” Which relates perfectly into what I was doing. It was really a serial feeling for me because when you see all those people faces and see how much they are struggling it makes you want to do more but, at the same time it makes u feel good that you got to …show more content…
We were down by 16 points at half and I had just got a message saying that my friend had been killed, so I was very emotional. At first I wanted to tank it but then I saw how defeated and down my team was and I realized that it was bigger than me and my problems. A lot of my teammates had way more going on than I did and I knew my friend wouldn’t want me to fall into a slump. I gave a speech to my teammates and told them no matter what happens we got each other and that we can do anything if we believe. My teammates rallied behind me after I said that and we went out there and really played like a completely different team. We came back and beat them 38-32 and it was the best feeling in the world. I stop worrying about me and just focused on making my teammates better and bring them up, I let go of my problems and did what I could to lead my