Service Day #3: Front Step

(7) Kouzes and Posner suggest exemplary leaders should “treat every job as an adventure.” What have you learned about how to do this on this trip?:
By the third day of the trip, by the third day of service work, everyone on the Leadership team was exhausted. We had traveled far, worked hard and experienced a lot of Philadelphia in a short amount of time. Yet, we had a whole new story, a new organization to discover and work on. Going into the day we were all too tired to move, however, once we began to hear Wes discussing the issues that were occurring in his neighborhood we were all intrigued. It is the adventure of being able to do something new, help someone else, and the prospect of learning something that had us all on edge, even after two full days of service work. If you treat a job as an adventure, then will not seem like such hard work. If you enjoy what it is that you are doing and if you are passionate about whatever issue it is that you are helping with, that job will seem less like work and more like an adventure. The excitement of the day and of the trip we were on was reason enough for us all to feel adventurous. The prospect of working with Front Step and being able to try new food in a new neighborhood, being able to meet new people of Philadelphia was exciting and new. If you treat all jobs like you would if you were going into an adventure you will look find the new and surprising things in all situations. It was a new adventure every day we spent in Philadelphia whether that was doing service work or touring a new museum.Read more