A Wish For Leaders

Ok, this poem was given to me by my Hall Director when I was an RA. I read it anytime I am feeling especially pleased with myself.

A Wish For Leaders

I sincerely wish you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, planning it, organizing it, and following it to completion, and then have it be magnificently successful. I hope you'll go through the same process and have some "bomb out."

I wish you could know how it feels to "run" with all your heart and lose...horribly!

I wish that you could achieve some great good for humankind, but have nobody know about it except you.

I wish you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of investing your life within it.

I hope you become frustrated and challenged enough to push back the barriers of your own personal limitation.

I hope you make stupid mistakes and get caught red-handed and are big enough to say those magic words: "I was wrong."

I hope you give so much of yourself that some days you wonder if it's worth all the effort.

I wish for you a magnificent obsession that will give you reason for living and purpose and direction and life.

I wish for you the worst kind of criticism for everything you do, because that makes you fight to achieve beyond what you normally would.

I wish for you the experience of leadership.