Relationships

Concept/Principle

Love and accept yourself.

Meaning

To love and accept yourself means to acknowledge and understand who you are, your imperfections, and what makes you unique. People who accept themselves don’t wish that certain things they dislike about themselves would go away. They know that they have stretches, but strengths as well. By accepting yourself, you can develop a better self-image, self-esteem, self-respect, and increase your growth limit.

 

Reason and Importance

I chose this principle because I believed this is the baseline of good relationships. To have a good relationship with others, you need to maintain a good relationship with yourself first. A lot of people think that to have a healthy connection with someone else, you need to focus more on the other person. However, as mentioned in the session, the relationship with yourself is the first and also the most continuous one in your life. In my opinion, focusing on loving and accepting yourself is often overlooked and it can be the reason for some relationships. I also chose this point as I believe it’s important to start developing a positive self-image with yourself early on in life. Creating a good self-relationship frees you to focus more on others in the future.

Applying

By developing a good relationship with myself, I’m looking to improve my leadership in future events. I will avoid negative thoughts about myself, but instead correcting my mistakes and positively improving on my stretches. Currently, a stretch I have is putting forward my own thoughts and contributing ideas in leadership events. From building a better self-image, I hope to be more confident in myself during future leadership events.

 

 

Equipping

Concept/Principle

The Law of Mt. Everest

 

Meaning

The Law of Mt. Everest is defined in the session, “As the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates.” In other words, the better a team works together, the more they can achieve. The amount one person can do is minuscule compared to what a group, even a small one, can do. As stated in the session, this law is about gathering and growing a team to accomplish something big.

 

Reason I chose it and Importance

I chose this concept because I know that almost all leading successful people were only successful because of how effective and efficient their team was. Big names like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk all started in a small group of colleagues or other strangers with a shared dream. No matter how much a person knows, how intelligent they are, or how much they work, they won’t get anywhere near as successful as others working together. A team can accomplish more than a person, but it’s important that the team itself also has excellent teamwork, communication, and a shared dream.

 

How I will apply it

The Law of Mt. Everest helps me recognize that I shouldn’t ignore my teammates and try to do everything on my own, but instead look for help from them when I need it, and also give my own support whenever they need it. Using this principle, I could try to encourage and include more people to give their ideas if I were to lead a group. This way, I could get the most out of my team, and we would be able to accomplish more in a shorter amount of time. Another concept that this law shows, is that everyone needs to have the same goal in mind. In the future, I will make sure everyone knows the goal or purpose for the team before starting anything.

 

 

Attitude

Concept/Principle

Out attitude is a choice.

 

Meaning

This principle is straight to the point. “Our attitude is a choice,” means that we are in control of our attitude. People or events may affect your attitude, but how you face them will always be in your hands. This law is about not letting other things decide your attitude.

 

Reason I chose it and Importance

I chose this principle because I realize that I’ve seen lots of people using events out of their control as an excuse for a bad attitude in my life. Previously, I also believed attitude was something that you couldn’t control. I thought that if you had a bad day, you would have a bad attitude for that day. It’s much easier to choose negativity over positivity, as you’re able to put the blame on something else. However, having a good attitude can make you more productive as a leader, or a worker. Having a negative attitude not only affects yourself, but you’ll also be pushing the people around you to have a bad attitude as well! Choosing to have a positive attitude can make huge differences at times.

 

How I will apply it

So far in terms of leadership events, there hasn’t been something that’s frustrated me. However, I know that there will be times where there’s a problem or obstacle that’s difficult to deal with during event planning. If this ever happens, I’ll make sure I remember that attitude is a choice, and also remind my groupmates too if they ever start leaning into negativity. Facing a problem with positivity yields much better results than giving up and trying to put the blame on the problem.

 

 

Leadership

Concept/Principle

The Law of Process.

Meaning

Leadership is developed slowly, over constant work and opportunities to lead. It’s not immediately given by a lesson or speech. The lesson is to set you off in the right direction. As stated in the session, we overestimate the event and we underestimate the process.

 

Reason I chose it and Importance

I chose this law because I’m used to immediate results, and I’m not the best at slowly developing things over time. As well, I also previously believed that you could immediately get a skill just from learning about it. I’ve also seen this in other famous leaders. As they start leading more people, their leadership skills slowly grow as well. Nobody is a perfect leader the first time they try leading. In my opinion, this principle doesn’t only apply to leadership, but practically every other complex skill or habit as well.

 

How I will apply it

I won’t rush trying to become a better leader, by forcing myself into doing certain things. However, I will remind myself not to just slack off. I will try to slowly push myself out of my comfort zone during each leadership event. I will take criticism, but compliments into account as well. A long-shot goal, but by the end of the year, I hope to look back and see an evident change in my leadership skills from now.