Posts Tagged ‘commitment’
Steps You Can Take to Help Students with Commitment…
0share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn I have been musing over the last three blog posts about how difficult it is for this emerging generation to make and keep commitments. Especially long term commitments. Our organization, Growing Leaders, is in front of about 50,000 students and staff each year. We see it everywhere we go. Passionate…
Continue ReadingHow Commitment Works
0share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Let me ask you a question. How long did your New Year’s Resolution last? Or, based on past failures, did you even make one this year? Most of us fail to keep commitments because we don’t realize how commitment works. We want to move from a “wish” to a “lifestyle”…
Continue ReadingInvolved But Not Committed
1share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn I describe most students today with this phrase: Involved but not committed. It’s a Habitude, from Book One of our series: Habitudes: Images That Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes. It is called, “The Half-Hearted Kamikaze.” The syndrome is illustrated by the kamikaze pilot who flew in World War II for…
Continue ReadingWhen Convenience Eclipses Commitment
0share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn In my last post, I blogged how students (and adults for that matter) struggle with commitment. Let me summarize what I believe has happened, then suggest how commitment works with students. We live in a world of convenience. Kids today have been called the “disposable” generation because everything can be…
Continue ReadingDrawing Commitments From Gen Y
0share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn I have a friend whose son made the varsity basketball team his freshman year of high school. He worked hard to make the team, so we were all proud of him. Because he was a first year student, however, he didn’t get a lot of playing time, and approached his…
Continue ReadingMy Fourth Concern for the Year 2030
0share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Here is my fourth and final concern for the year 2030. To read my previous blog posts on the previous three concerns, click here for the first one, here for the second and here for the third. 4. The inability to remain in a long-term commitment. Because our world talks…
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