Mission Statement

One of my strengths as a person is my outgoing personality.  I can usually get to know people easily due to this.  I love making people feel comfortable in situations and I absolutely hate awkward silences and can usually find a way to end one.  I also am a kind loving person who strives to be nice to everyone.  I think that this helps me to be the kind of person that God wants me to be.  Although I am nowhere near perfect, I try my best to know what is right and to do what is right.  Knowing how others usually react to certain situations is another skill of mine.  I can usually determine what to say in a certain situation so that the other person will feel comfortable. 

One of my passions is child slavery.  I have just been aware of this for a short time and I know that I myself cannot change the fact that it happens completely, but if everyone does something, we can all start to make a difference in the world.  At Passion 2013 this year, I heard a lot of heartbreaking news about child slavery which makes me want to help out.  I think that getting people to be aware of this problem can help start to put an end to this.  As a leadership class we can start to make more people aware of this issue, even in our own city of Charlotte NC, which is one of the top cities for human trafficking in the nation.  This news devastates me but as one of my passions, I will do what I can to make people aware of this issue and save one life at a time. 

Since I have gifts with interacting with people, I can use these gifts to talk to people about the issues at hand.  Knowing that people like the A21 campaign are making a difference gives me hope to be able to make a difference myself.  The power of prayer and communication will help me achieve the goals that I am setting for myself for my future and for the future of child slavery.  Everyone cannot do everything, but everyone can do something which can join together to make a difference and that is where I plan to start my mission. 

Leadership in the movie: Its A Wonderful Life

In the movie It’s A Wonderful Life, George Bailey shows his leadership roles all throughout his life as he works to help everyone but himself.  When only a little kid, George Bailey helped his boss, as his boss was mourning the death of his son and was about to poison one of his clients.  He also stood up for his father as the mean Mr. Potter was belittling him after his death.  George was supposed to go off to college but since his father passed away, he took over his business so that his brother could go off to college and then return to the job George was temporarily holding for him.  Even when his brother came home to George with a new job and no intentions of taking his father’s job, George still did what he thought was right even if it was not his first choice for himself and remained in his father’s former position.  When George and Mary got married, on their way to their honeymoon, George stopped and ended up giving all of their honeymoon money to people who were raiding the bank so that Mr. Potter would not take over their bank.  He always thought of others before himself.  However, even though he was a leader to everyone around him, he did not always see himself that way and the impact he had on everyone’s life around him.  It was not until the angel came to him and showed him his life without him that he saw all that he did for everyone around him and how different it would have been without him in their lives.  George Bailey was a leader, but not an overbearing leader.  He was the perfect kind o f leader that thought about others first, and himself second. 

Leadership in Dog Training

My family just got a new puppy after losing our dog not even a year ago.  Although it has been had saying goodbye to our dog Samson, Troy has been a good asset to the Cheuvront family.  However, we have to start from scratch and train him in all different ways.  In order to train a puppy, leadership roles are necessary.  We have to remain firm and in charge as we are telling him not to bite.  We also have to enforce rules such as not using the bathroom in the house.  If we do not remain in a leadership role, the puppy will ignore us and never fully be the trained dog we want him to become someday.  As a group, my family is coming together to form a group of leaders as we train our puppy.  Leadership does not always include only one person.  Sometimes, leadership involves a group of people all working to one set goal, which is to train our puppy.  It might not always be easy, but training our puppy is a lot of time and work and together, as leaders, we can help Troy become the well-trained dog we know he can be.