Leadership Week 1

Leadership Week 1

Habit 1:  Be Proactive - You are in Charge

Read/learn:  Read The first story in "The 7 Habits of Happy Kids."

It's called, "Bored, bored, bored."

Be prepared to discuss this story in our class.  Take some notes on what you learned.  Answer the 5 questions with a parent and write down your answers.

Then, think about what you learned and try one or more of these baby steps toward being Proactive.

Baby Steps:  The next time you feel bored, do something nice for someone else, Like Sammy did for Allie.

Try doing something today that you've always been scared to do.  Make a new friend, clean a toilet, or answer a question.

The next time you get mad and want to say something mean or rude, bite your tongue instead and don't say it.

If you do something wrong, say you're sorry before someone asks you to apologize.

Know/Understand:  Prepare a speech!  Yep!  Do it!  
Look at these prompts and choose one to focus on.  You can also come up with your own idea.  This speech is all about you, but I want you to go into more detail about one part of what makes you who you are.  You will have 3-5 minutes to present your speech.

What Events Have Brought You Closer to Your Family?

What Have You and Your Family Accomplished Together?

When in Your Life Have You Been a Leader?

What Challenges Have You Overcome?

What Challenges Have You Set for Yourself?

What’s the Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in Nature?

Where is the most interesting place you have ever visited? Why?

What’s Your Favorite Holiday Memory?

What activity has played or plays an important part in your life?

What is your main personal goal?

Can you come up with a turning point or milestone in you life?

What does a day in your life look like?  Describe the things around you.

If you could be any animal, what would you be? Why?

Type up your speech or make note cards and hang onto them, because next month you will give it again, but you will do it with all the suggestions that your other vanguard friends will give you in class.  Then, you will give it again a 3rd time, but it will be all memorized!

I know this might sound scary for some of you, but this is one of the baby steps in being proactive, do something scary!  You can do it!

I'm excited to learn more about each one of you!

Become/Serve:

Have you ever felt like other people are always telling you what to do-that you don't have many choices in your life?  Well, the exciting news of today is that you have choices!

Every day you have lots of choices, beginning with your attitude in the morning, whether or not you eat breakfast, how you treat people around you, and what activities you participate in.  All of these choices form who you are.  You are the leader of you. 

Answer these 3 questions in your common place book.

1. What is a choice you have made?

2. What happened because of your choice?

3. If you could make a different choice now, would you?