My Disneyland experience was a great adventure that helped me
grow and develop as a person and a leader. It taught me about what kind of
brand I want to have and how to achieve my goals and dreams. Having academic
and personal goals that almost all say is unattainable and that its time to be
“realistic” weigh you down and make it feel like its time to get rid of your
dreams and to think rationally, but after this trip I now have a response to
all these people, “if not me, then who?”. I now have a newfound determination
that is already helping me fight to achieve my goals.
“ If you can dream it, you can do it” - Walt Disney
Determination is a word that stood out to me during this whole
trip. The meaning of this word only affected me the moment i stepped foot back
home. It gave me the energy to start my future and to not quit no matter how
big the obstacles are because you never know how close you are to making your
dream into everyone else’s reality. My new found determination taught me to let
everyone else say what they want and do as they will because what they do
doesn't affect me at the end of the day or five years from now. My dream can
make a difference and will bring me success and happiness and all the doubts
should make me want to achieve higher success.
“ All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to
pursue them” - Walt Disney
During this trip I also learned about being a leader and a
great role model to base good leadership on is Walt Disney. One of his amazing
theory’s that really changed my perspective is the “yes, if” tactic. This
tactic is about always saying yes to new ideas but to add the “if” because that
questions the persons idea but lets them figure out all the appropriate answers
that would back up his or hers opinion without bluntly refusing others
opinions. This shows good leadership because it shows how open you are to ideas
of others and the willingness to hear the thoughts of other people beside
yourself.
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place
in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality” - Walt Disney
This trip was an adventure for me and really took me out of my
comfort zone and not only taught me many things about growing as an individual
of a community but also that you can find new friendship with people you would
least expect. I left home with an exciting thought in mind about getting to
experience the hot California sun with friends and enjoy the small vacation but
I came back with thoughts for my future, new leadership qualities and new
friends.
“We keep moving forward opening new doors, and doing new
things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps bringing us down new roads” -
Walt Disney
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