It has been some time.

As I previously stated in the title, it has been some time since my last post. To be completely honest, I don't even know how long it has been. While my posting has stopped, tough situations, trials, and opportunities to lead have been as regular as usual.....happening everyday! We are presented with these "opportunities", I would estimate, about 10-15 times a day. When things don't go our way, when people disrupt our comfort. All these "inconveniences" give us a chance to respond in leadership. How do you respond?

Tough Leadership

We talk a lot in class about things we need to do to be leaders. We are receiving 'training' for the tough situations in life, in which we will hopefully repeat from our training and 'lead'. But being a leader is supposed to be easy, right?

It is easy until you have to humble yourself because you just found out how hard being a true leader actually is. Life isn't easy, it is hard. Hard circumstances aren't fun or desirable, but if we use them right, they will humble us. That is what leadership is.

Life is full of difficult people, circumstances, and temptations. How do you respond? I can answer for you. Everyone of us responds the same way, it is a reaction not a response; we get angry, become frustrated, jealous, envious, prideful, sad, depressed, and the list goes on! Sure, some of these might describe you more or less than others do, but nevertheless, we can all be described this way at sometime or another. Well, if we react like this all the time, how do we become a leader?

This all ties together. Those difficult things in life aren't designed to show others how I act right, but to show myself just how wrong I am. When we focus inward at how we react, then we can respond by leading.

My first blog

I was supposed to create a blog as an assignment in my Leadership Development class. I would classify this as meeting the project requirements, as I created a blog.

I don't really know what to blog about, so I am just going to comment on what is going on around me.

Paragraphs with three sentences aren't really paragraphs at all. They are too short, non-informative, and are just plain stupid. I don't like them.

At this current moment Kubat Rahatbek is also creating a blog. He is trying to decide on a name for his blog, each one featuring something reflecting his Asian background. Jessica Stahl is sitting another computer past him to my right. She is trying to open a paper that she emailed to herself, but the computer, when she opens the file in word, is changing the font to weird languages etc. Stupid technology... :)...1..2..3...GO LEADERSHIP!


Well, I am going to go take a nap on some beanbags, have a good one.