For my community service this semester, I did a couple of different things. First of all, back home I am apart of a community outreach group and we participated in a shoe drive. Over several days, we collected shoes from around the community, packaged them together and gave them to kids who needed them. That took about three hours of time. I also went home for Thanksgiving break and I participated in a disaster relief effort at Matthew 25 ministries. For about three hours we folded and packaged things to send to those in need. Lastly, through DSWS I volunteered about five hours at the Columbus Marathon on October 21st where we set up and handed out drinks at a water station.

After taking the true colors test I found out that I was strongly gold, meaning that I am very organized, consistent, and dependable.  Consistency is a very important thing to me, for gold people like to have a set schedule and to do the same thing everyday. After discussing in class and attempting to plan a vacation, I found that I am certainly not an orange person who is spontaneous and impulsive. The orange people mainly focused on where to go when they all chimed in with different places, while I was sitting here knowing that this trip would never happen, because there simply wouldn’t be enough time. While it would be great and unstressful to have a team full of golds, it wouldn’t be ideal. Gold people would always be the prepared ones, with a proper plan in place. However, we all know that that doesn’t always work. If everything went as scheduled, then the gold lead group would be very successful. But, when things got off schedule, this is when the orange thrives. They are great at adapting to the circumstances. While they my not be the most prepared, they will be ready for whatever is thrown at them, opposed to gold people who are always prepared, but struggle when things don’t go our way.

The main thing that I learned from this activity is that every color is needed to be successful. Things won’t always go as planned, so you need orange. People will start to get down, so you need blue. And people will start to lose focus so you need green. That’s what’s great about society. As much as we all would like it our way, uniqueness is what really keeps us strong and successful.

I’ve seen leadership in many ways in sports, several first hand experiences of coaches and teammates in different ways guiding the team. Whether it be a halftime speech or leading by example, both are effective ways to lead. Leadership has many attributes to it. Specifically pertaining to the aforementioned examples, leadership is inspiring, beleiving, and guiding the way. When people think of leadership, they often think of the typical pre game speech. In reality, leadership is much more than that. Leaders don’t have to be the outgoing and loud people. They can just as well be the softspoken, timid person who does their own thing.

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