Teamwork

This week's topic was about teamwork which was pretty helpful for me in my activities. I really loved the comparison of types of people in the world. There are fire starters and fire fighters. The starters are the ones who are optimistic and help get a goal accomplished while the fighters are the ones who bring others down. As a pyro I love the comparison. I've always seen myself as a fire starter amongst my peers and hope I always will be. I think a great leader is somebody who can inspire all those around them to accomplishing a common goal. Not only do they get the goal finished, but they get everybody to be excited and cooperative in reaching it. This week I tried to get people to become excited about common goals and bring teams together to accomplish our dreams. I found that if I found the "fire starters" the success happened much faster. Happiness and optimism is way more contagious than negativity. Another thing that I liked about the presentations were the levels of relationships. At first I thought it would be best to have a significant relationship with everybody, but as I ponder this I've come to a conclusion that every level of relationship is important. If everybody were your best friend it would be a little hard to be a good leader. When we strengthen others they in turn strengthen us. Teams are important and I hope that I can always be the best team player that I can be so that my team as a whole will prosper.