Choosing your own path to follow, can lead you down many roads in your life.  Which will you choose? How will you decide? What influences you to make that choice?

We have all experienced it before; tough decisions that can change your whole outcome in life.  So, which one do you choose to follow and how do you decide?  Here are some great tips for deciding What YOU Really Want in Life and how you can continue to live a positive, impacting life no matter what the outcome is.  It all begins with YOU and Your CHOICE.

Live Your Own Positive Life and Live a Good Story.

• Start Small- Figure out what it is you really WANT and what it is you NEED.  If you know that you want to change the world, first figure out who can help you, what specifically is it you want to do (find something you are passionate about), and set small goals in order to achieve what you want to do.
• Weed Out The People In Your Life Who Are Living Worse Stories- Figure out who is helping you and influencing you in a positive way, if they aren’t contributing to your life somehow in that manner, then you don’t need them in your story.
• Find People Who Are Living Good Stories- Find the people in your life who are living up to the expectations that you would want for yourself or already have for yourself.  Are you making it a point to follow them, lead with them, learn with them, and live with them?  Most people you already surround yourself with, are most like you. If you don’t like who you are or some of the habits you have formed, change who you surround yourself with and see the difference.  Remember to surround yourself with positive people daily.
• What Is Your Role In Their Story?- What is your current role in other’s lives?  Are you striving to find out how you can include yourself in other’s lives and how that will help benefit both of you?
• Be Willing to Impact Their Life- What kind of impact are you currently making in their lives?Are you making a positive impact daily? Are you constantly challenging them to be better than they were before?  Are you making it a point to reinforce good performance daily?
• Be Willing to Make a Scene- You need to be willing to make a scene in order for them to learn.  How are you finding those teachable moments with others and really making it a point to focus on the certain areas that need to be talked about in order to make a difference in someone’s life.

 

Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears. During that time he is faced with many choices that he must make that will impact his future and the future of others around him.

In the movie, Maria tells Joaquin to ALWAYS FIGHT FOR WHAT’S RIGHT and for Manolo to ALWAYS PLAY FROM THE HEART.  What does each mean and Why is the advice she has given to both of them important for a leader to follow? How can we as Student Council members ‘always fight for what’s right’ and ‘always play from the heart’?

After viewing the Lego Movie and Book of Life, we have focused on the 4 main characteristics that are important in order to be a TRUE HERO:

1. Courage to Live
2. Selfless
3. Lead From the Heart
4. Be an Individual

Why are all four of these points important to leadership and How can it help us each and every day on our campus and in our community? Give me an example of How each of these can play a role in our daily lives.

Throughout the movie, there are many other leadership lessons that take place, What other lessons stand out to you most and Why?  And Why are those lessons important in life and being a leader?