Part One: Significance

As I absorbed the words written on the pages of this book, I really visualized myself putting them to use in possible leadership positions I may step into. One of the things that really stuck out to me was how they spent an entire chapter proving that having passion for something means sacrificing what's important to you. By sacrificing, leaders demonstrate that they hold a certain position ro benefit the froup as a whole, not themselves. This really helped me conceptualize what would happen if I were to step into a leadership role. What is important to me right now that I would be sacrificing? Time. Time is incredibly important to me and I know I would be giving a lot of that up for my organization. Am I okay with that? Absolutely. I'm willing to make sacrifices for my organization if it means that positive change will be born from it. I genuinely want my sisters to have the "I want to do this" mentality as opposed to the "I have to be here" one. Another topic that stuck out to me personally was when they explained that to learn is to teach, and to teach is to learn. This applies to me in a few ways. First, the position I plan to run for in a few weeks involves teaching many people new things in Gamma Phi. Second, I plan to be a teacher in the future, so I flagged these pages for future reference outside of Greeklife. Requesting feedback was another section of the book I found appealing. I know that is something I struggle with personally because sometimes I'd rather not know how I'm letting people down and just push through it. But after reading this chapter I realized the importance of simply asking, "How am I doing?". I am enjoying reading this book so far and can already feel a change of thinking happening inside my head. I already make conscious efforts to think about a situation and try to apply what I've learned from the book to it before I act. I look forward to our next GLAD meeting and am egar to learn even more! On another note, I've never blogged before so I look forward to reading other Greek's perspectives and what stood out to them.