Steps You Can Take to Help Students with Commitment…
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 students only work when the cause is “fashionate.” So, how
How Commitment Works
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” overnight—and it usually doesn’t work that way. The following
Involved But Not Committed
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 the Japanese Air Force. He was still alive after fifty
When Convenience Eclipses Commitment
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 thrown away when they’re finished with it. No commitment has to
Drawing Commitments From Gen Y
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 dad with an idea. “Dad, I’m sitting on the bench
My Fourth Concern for the Year 2030
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 in sound bites, tweets and texts, we have reduced our capacity to