Blog #6

The leadership Style Test proved that my highest category was enabling others to act and my lowest to be challenging the process. I am actually surprised at how well these tests are getting my personality because the scores of each category make sense to me. I am very much a team person and want to help others succeed so enabling others to act makes sense as my highest category. I personally like to see things black and white as well, I don't mind rules or processes because I believe they are there for a reason so I tend to follow them. Therefore challenging the process is not something I do often and again makes sense that it would be my lowest scoring.

To work on improving this category though I would like to take more risks. I think to implement this strategy I want to start saying yes to more things. Instead of just following the idea I have laid out during the week of what I need to accomplish to not be afraid to say yes to more things. I like the idea of challenging myself more because it leads itself to learning more along the way.

Post #5

My high school's athletic teams are incredibly competitive. Therefore the week of tryouts are really stressful. My experience with this week started every morning with a quote. My dad would print out a quote and put in my car, on my bag or by my breakfast just something motivating to start the day. So cheesy but so special. When I graduated high school my mom presented me with a big board with all of the quotes that she had saved. Flash forward to today my brother as a sophomore is trying out this week for varsity baseball. My parents are out of town for the week and my brother is heading into tryouts every morning so my random act of kindness has been sending a picture every morning of a quote my dad had left me. A little tradition that my brother had no idea was going to continue. I felt really good sending these to my brother actually thought I would have to remind myself every morning to send the quotes but I actually looked forward to sending them. Each one sent has a meaning and I knew my brother being my brother wasn't expecting them even as the days went on. Overall it felt so good to perform a random act of kindness and it was so nice for my family to be part of it.