Sometimes I think that I'm too soft, too naive, too easy-going. I have to repremand someone today for not wanting to carry on being a small group leader because they are stressed with the amount of work and the job that they have outside of uni, I mean I am in the third year, on the committee and still doing small group co-ordinating which is proving to be more of a role in itself than I actually realised. Sometimes I think I let people off too lightly for things that they realy should be doing, but aren't. I need to learn to be more assertive and firm with people who are leading me on and taking me for a ride, because they think that I'm too nice to tell them off for it, or be honest with them when they really need it.
This person needs to learn from somewhere that you can't just quit when the going is tougher than you realise, you need to see it through to the end for it to be beneficial. It even says in the bible that God is more concerned about where and how we finish than when we start, for whats the good of running in a race when you quite half-way and not make it through to the end? there is no point, and no prize for quitters.
I know from last year that this term was a really difficult one to get through, but I managed to do it (and thought about quitting uni at one stage just at the Christmas Holidays) but it did get better in the new year, and although my grades weren't as good as in the first year, I was still glad that I'd chosen to stay and carry on.
I remember in school when we had the last sports day and a girl and a boy had to run the 1500 out of every class, and no one wanted to do it, but it gave the class 20 points for just completing it, not even getting a 1st,2nd or 3rd place! (and 20 was a lot of points on sports day) so I went along to do it (albeit at first quite reluctantly!) and I nearly died at the end of the 20 minute run, it was a mammoth task for me cos I hated running so much, but I would have got no points if I'd have just given up, and it was something that I was proud of doing, and I got such a buzz out of it in the end. The things we work most hard at, will give us pleasure because we see the good results in the end.
A good leadership quality is a non-quitting attitude, even when its so tough that you can't see a possible way out alive!
