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Editor's Notes

• #2: What is a legacy? (Look for: 1) For others, 2) A story) Leaders don’t let their legacies just happen to them, they create their own. Connect legacies to hero stories. TITLE: The Power of You: How to Live Your Legacy DESCRIPTION: Are you confident in your leadership, but ready to go to the next level? Do the words “status quo” make you cringe? Are you ready to make a powerful impact as a leader? In this session led by Chad Ellsworth, 2007 Anti-Hazing Hero and 2010 Outstanding Greek Life Professional, you will identify and address the challenges your chapter or community is facing, learn time-tested leadership techniques, and develop specific strategies to make a significant, long-term impact on your chapter and take your own leadership abilities to the next level.
• #3: “We’re all Clark Kent. We all know what it’s like to be boring and ordinary, and wish we could do something incredible beyond ourselves.” –Brad Meltzer
• #10: Ordinary is by the book. Ordinary is going with the flow. Ordinary is waiting for the right time to do something, to speak up, to stand out. Ordinary is the world’s way of doing things. Ordinary is a choice. Or, you can choose to be extraordinary, to be heroic. Once upon a time, the world was dominated by two powerful forces. These allies had once come together to defeat common enemies, but once the realities and threats of those great wars dissipated, the two forces locked themselves in a cold, intense war of competition and fear. Each force sought to prove it was more innovative, more powerful, and ultimately stronger than the other. In the middle of the night, a wall was built separating the two forces. As the years went by, successive walls of increasing security and strength were built to continue to divide and separate. After 26 years, the ruler of one of the powerful forces stood at the wall’s gate, and demanded that the other ruler tear down the wall. The sun set, and yet the wall remained. A week passed, a month passed, a year passed. And yet the wall remained. Two years later, rumors began circulating that the gates in the wall would open. For the first time in decades, people could pass through the wall without restriction. Crowds gathered at the gates, but they did not know that the guards had been under order to expel, imprison, or even kill anybody who attempted to pass through the gates. One by one, ordinary people demanded to pass through the gates, without penalty and without restriction. As the demands grew louder and more numerous, the guards acquiesced and people passed freely from one side of the wall to the other. The point of the story is that one loud and powerful voice, not even that of former President Ronald Reagan-the Great Communicator, could bring down the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall came down because ordinary people chose to do something extraordinary. On November 9, 1989, they put their freedom and their lives on the line and attempted to pass through the gates, a movement that began with just one nameless person who demanded to pass through. Change was not a result of a presidential proclamation, but rather a bold action by an ordinary person. We oftentimes think of heroes by the positions they have, from a father or mother to a civil rights activist, from a businessperson to a person who volunteers with a charity. But, it is the positions we take when we stand for something meaningful that makes us heroes. When we stand for those things, our values, we are heroes. The choices we make each and every day are those positions that we stand for. The world is not changed by extraordinary people. The world is changed by ordinary people who choose not to accept the status quo. The world is changed by ordinary people who choose to do something out of the ordinary. The world is changed by ordinary people who do something extraordinary.
• #12: What is the role of a mentor in the first year student’s journey? Who are your mentors? Why? What do your mentors “do”? Write two-three things. (Option: Write “why,” then call/email that person what you wrote.)
• #13: What if they don’t choose the adventure?
• #18: 1/7
• #23: Call your mentor Do scary stuff Be a cow
• #27: Hundreds of years ago, there was a statue of the Buddha constructed entirely from gold. Word came to the community where it stood that they soon would be invaded. In order to protect the statue, the people of the community covered it in plaster. The enemies invaded and occupied the community, but did not plunder the seemingly worthless statue. More than 200 years passed by, and the people of the community forgot the true nature of the statue. In fact, the statue spent more than 20 years under a simple tin roof. Eventually, a piece of the plaster broke off, revealing the true nature of the statue, and the people of the community restored the statue to its brilliant self. We all are born with our own brilliant potential, but we are besieged by outside forces, convincing us to hide our true nature from those that could hurt, judge, or otherwise wound us. After some time, we forget the potency that each and every one of us has within us; we look at ourselves in the mirror, seeing only what others see on the outside. We’re too fat, too thin, too dumb, too smart, too outspoken, too shy, too mild, or too wild, and the list goes on and on. Then, something happens, and we catch a glimpse of the person we already are, beneath the muck, and instinctively we begin chipping, clawing, ripping, and tearing away the facade that has obscured our true selves. Once we discover and reveal our own brilliant potential, we wield the power to change our communities, our world, and ourselves.