Leadership; Becoming a leader

leadership - the activity of leading

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Muriel Strode


1. Motivation
- Internal and external forces and influences that drive an individual to achieving certain goals.

Motivation plays a tremendous role in becoming a leader because nothing you do get's done without motivation, the most important form of motivation you need is self motivation. This is because being self motivated means you do it for you, and when you do productive things for yourself it's because you motivated yourself to do these things and that's what being a leader is about.

Take me for example, I like to write when I have free time, and I write for my schools newspaper. No one told me to go write, no one forced me to sign up for the journalism class, I did these things on my own. I did these things because I consider myself a self motivated writer because I motivated my self to begin writing. This is also why I enjoy writing so much because it's something I chose to do because it calms me down when I need to calm down, it makes me happy when I'm sad, and I consider myself a really good writer.


2. Integrity
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” - W. Clement Stone

Some say it's very difficult to do the right thing, so say it's rather easy. It depends on what the situation is. But, in any situation you need to always remember to do the right thing, no matter what people around you think is right, you do what you think is right, because you'll feel like a better person than you are now when you do what is right for every situation you come across.

To have the courage to say no is being a leader, to have the courage to be a leader your having the courage to be a person that has a lot of integrity, a person with a lot of integrity is a person that does the right thing and knows how to face the truth.


3. Confidence
- assurance: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

Having confidence in yourself is being a person that believes in themselves no matter what, it's being a person that has assurance in everything they do. I assure that confidence is a big part of becoming a leader, because you have the ability to make the decisions without relying on someone else, although at times you need someone to rely on, but why not be the person people come to when they need someone to rely on? Why not be the leader? Why not be the person people look for when they need help making a decision? You can be that person and you can be a leader.

"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." - W.C. Fields


"To become a leader you need to be led into leadership" - Makayla Hopkins