Service

This weeks lecture is on service, which summerizes our purpose for being leaders at BYU, to serve all those we can. I found it very inspiring that the speaker shared the great examples of service from famous leaders. George Washington not being dressed as a general, dug in the trenches along with the other soilders. Though he was a great leader and in very high standing, he was not above working in the muck.

A quote that really touched me is, " a servant leader is a servant first...it begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve others first, the conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead." All of the great leaders that I can think of never strove to be leaders and to be recognized, but only wanted to serve. They already had the serving mind set, so they were more able to become great leaders. I feel like being in a leadership position is a blessing, not something you can try to gain. Society views leadership from the opposite perspective which is sad, because we end up with leaders who are only in the position because they stepped on some many people on their way up.

In viewing my leadership position with BYUSA, for we were require to have a leadership position for this class, I think we should have viewed it as a "serving position" rather than a "leadership position" because we can't just "be" leaders. We really have to earn it. So instead of viewing my position as being the advertising coordinator for Freeze Fest as me being a leader, I am going to focus on how many people I can serve. The point of Freeze Fest is to bring BYU students together, to branch out of their cliches to form great relationships with people they would have never met before, as the motto "warm up your social life" suggests. I really want to serve the BYU student body through Freeze Fest, because I think they will really benefit from the time I spent working on this event. Through serving, I might be blessed to become a leader, but for now, I'm going to focus on those I can serve.