Wednesday, November 20, 2013

My Everlsting River of Leadership

As we all are different, we all have our own different styles of leadership. For me, a leader is somebody who is strong in their own opinions, whatever those may be. A leader puts passion before pride and strives to be the best person they can be. A leader is a large variety of things, and has a different meaning to everyone, but for me, the most important aspect of leadership is allowing yourself to grow and be expressed to new ideas, and remembering that you could always use work. The only way to become the best we can be is by remaining open to all other ideas and allowing room for improvement no matter the situation we are in, and by treating everything as a learning experience.



My leadership style is much like the everlasting body of a river. We are constantly flowing forwards, being supplied with ideas and knowledge, or precipitation and water from smaller streams, later to give some of what we have to another body. We are endlessly learning, but never fulfilled. Life is an endless journey, and once we have lived and made our contribution, another raindrop fills our spot to attempt to make a larger contribution. However, this is not a negative thing. There are two ways to look at this situation: we are all contributions to this large, beautiful world of endless discovery, or if you do not have such a positive view of the world that we are all placed onto this world with the potential to make the world and better place, whether it be making a contribution in an individual life, or significantly impacting the world to make it a better place. Either way, we must remain endlessly growing and improving with new ideas and knowledge, much like a striving river flows vigorously, with great life and beauty.