Time
for some Freshmen wisdom!
I
get to do many great things in my “day job” as a university administrator. One
of those things is to teach a leadership class for incoming freshmen who were
competitively selected for a four-year leadership program I was given the
opportunity to create.
One
of my first assignments asks the students to think about what they need to
leave behind and what do they want to keep as they transition from their old
life to this new chapter as a college student. I get a lot of great responses but a student recently wrote
this below:
"The
path you choose to lay behind your footsteps is the path you choose to
create."
Obviously
this student is scary smart. I know I was not that articulate when I was a
freshman in college! Perhaps she was not doing so intentionally but that very
quote speaks to both the POWER and RESPONSIBILITY of CHOICES.
Our
ability to CHOOSE our own destiny at any point in our lives is powerful.
Unfortunately many feel they have lost the power to choose but it really never leaves
us. At any given moment, we can change directions, set a new course, and take a
leap of faith. It just requires us to trust in our selves more than our fears.
With
every choice, however, we have a responsibility. We have to “own” our choices
and their consequences . . . good or otherwise. The choice is yours, and we define
ourselves by the choices we make!
So
what choices have you been waiting on? What’s holding you back? What do you need to Keep? What do you need to Leave Behind?
As
always, if I can help you work through those choices, I would love to hear from
you.
Yours
in Leadership,
Bill
Faulkner
Co-Founder
– Out Loud Strategies
Independent
Coach, Speaker, and Trainer with the John Maxwell Team TM
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