INTEGRITY

The thing that stuck out to me with the speaker today is that you always need to be thinking about where your morals will come in. I had never thought about planning ahead of time with work and stuff like that. The sentenced that summed it up for me was "what is expected of you, and how do your core values fit in with it." I think that this is really important to keep in mind because usually when you look at if you can do something you think about if you're capable of it, do you have the knowlege, skills, etc..but never about if it fits in with who you are. This is probably because a lot of people now try to tell others that morals don't matter, and that I guess morals aren't 'smart' because they come in between you and success. You can't have success, at least in my opinion, if you're miserable with yourself though which I don't think some people realize. The whole thing was just neat to think about :) something new.

PDSA numero 2

The alligator egg simuation I think worked out very well. We planned out things a lot ahead of time and followed the instructions. With this one also even though we all had the same idea of how to move it we stopped and discussed other options and ways to improve it. When things didn't go as planned no one got blamed, the group just went along with it that everyone was a part of the problem and then we fixed it so that we wou'dn't drop the egg again. :) Over all everything went great, everyone listened to everyone and the group worked really well together. The only thing that was "bad" was that we didn't realize we couldn't use the ball in our planning...whoops. Other than that though, everything went according to plan. :)

PDSA numero uno

Our first PDSA attempt thing worked pretty well :) the only thing was that there wasn't a specific leader which I think was a problem. Because there wasn't a leader that everyone would listen to people jumped to different steps and thought that they knew what was best instead of sticking to the order, planning stuff out, and following what we had planned. I think that this probably happened because we were all on the same page to start out with, we all had the same idea about how to solve the problem so we didn't plan out other things and got excited to just do it.

Communication

I really liked the activity last week because I think it was a great chance to actually see our strengths and weaknesses in real life. I noticed that well, it's like we've been talking about in class, how you need to have ONE leader. I've always thought that this wasn't right, I mean I know that when I'm in a group situation I hate it when one person just takes charge. However, learning more about it this week I realize that the problem with it isn't that there's one person in charge, it's WHO is in charge. I think that a good group leader is someone who helps direct the group and organize thoughts, versus group dictatorship which is what happens a lot. I think this is really important because this class is pushing us to be leaders, and we always have to make sure that we are the right kind of leader :)

Law of Choice

This weeks lesson really just stuck out to me. I hadn't ever thought about how many choices a day that we all make..EVERY DAY! And each choice can make a little or huge difference in your life. It sort of puts more pressure on you, because everything that you do will make an impact.

Another thing that I had never thought about with making choices is to not let your emotions get involved, it makes sense. However, everyone's always saying "just do what you want," or the cliche "follow your heart." Even songs like in Moulin say "you must be true to your heart." In all of these things it's saying do what your heart tells you, which I guess I've always interpreted as mixed in with emotions. On the other hand, it's just occurred to me that it can also mean follow your conscience, which we've been talking about how if you do what is right, other things will follow. It's all up to interpretation, and accurate facts. :D just like choices.

My speech

Today there are currently 27 million slaves around the world. We can't avoid slavery anymore, we have to confront it. Out of the 27 million, 25 million kids, (ages 5-14) are enslaved and working twenty hour days. Most cannot hope to live over the age of 45. Think about how miserable that would be! Some people may think that it's not our problem, yeah it's awful, but it doesn't effect us, it's up to other countries to control that stuff in their own borders. Well some countries have laws but they don't have the funds or force to enforce them! Like in Mauritania where there have been laws against slavery since the 1980's, but there are still hundreds of slaves there! Recently in Missouri a man was found to have forced a young girl into sex slavery and prostitution, he's now being prosecuted but this went on for years right in our back yard!!! In the United states there are estimated to be anywhere from 5,200-8,700 slaves. "With liberty and justice for all" that's in our pledge of allegiance..does that not mean anything? Our country has already fought a war against slavery, we already know where we stand on the issue, so then how is this allowed to happen? Some people may think, all this is awful and all but what can we do about it? Check where your goods that you purchase come from, that's an easy thing to do. You can also donate to organizations that fight against slavery, one little donation can make a difference. As citizens of this world we cannot let slavery co-exist with our country, it brings down our legitimacy and international standing.

The first follower

The main things that I got out of the video were:

1) You have to as a leader make your movement easy to follow

2) As the leader you have to accept followers as equals

3) Once you get started momentum gets you going

Going into these more in depth:

1) If the movements difficult people won't want to join. It's one thing to stand up and join with someone, but it's something totally different if doing so makes yourself more of the fool, the average person won't join in.

2) No one wants to be part of a dictatorship, it shouldn't be about one individual, it should be about what each individual stands for together, one common thought that connects them and turns them into a group.

3) Once a couple people join in, other people aren't scared anymore. It's like an avalanche, one rock may fall, and then two, and then everything comes tumbling down after them. :)