Wednesday, December 3, 2014

January 2015 Overview

Theme: Leadership

Secondary Theme: Be a Person of Action - Being a Courageous Leader

Principles:

If I want to create a new future, then I must create a new me.

If I am a person of action, then I am energetic and I move quickly.

If I want to inspire others and be a leader, then I must be a person of action.

If I want to lead, then I must move forward.

If I am consistent, then I will instill confidence in my leadership.

If I have the ability to encourage and inspire others to greatness, then I am a leader.

If I want to achieve the things I really want, then fear can have no place in my life.

If I am a person of action, then I am courageous, I am a leader and I seize the moment.

Time Period: 

Scripture:

"Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord."
---Psalm 31:24

Memorization: 


"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

---Theodore Roosevelt



Monthly Book List:

Apprentice Book for the Month:  "Call it Courage" by Armstrong Sperry

Leadership: 

Apprentice: 
"The Young Traveler's Gift" by Andy Andrews
"21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader" by John C. Maxwell

Journeyman:
"Promises of the Constitution" by Pam Openshaw

Master:
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

History

Apprentice:
"History in an Hour: Stalin"
"History in an Hour: Mussolini"

Master:
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell

Eureka:

Master:
"Microbe Hunter" by Paul de Kruif

Imaginative Arts:

Apprentice: 
"Orbiting the Giant Hairball" by Gordon MacKenzie