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Greenville City Schools
Students Discover
their Potential to be Great Leaders
Chris Mortensen
On Monday, February 5, 2018, Greenville Elementary and Middle School
students and staff hosted a motivational speaker for the day. The
speaker was brought in to speak to all grade levels about their own
personal potential to be great leaders. Logan Weber was the
invited speaker and he had four presentations prepared for the
day. His discussions were divided between the Middle levels
called X-Factor and the Elementary levels called David and
Goliath. This was to allow opportunity to focus on their specific
area of need. He spent the remainder of the day meeting with
students in the cafeteria and in the classrooms.
Logan Weber co-founded the non-profit organization Dry Tears, which
constructed deep-water wells and irrigation systems in rural Africa and
South America. He discussed with students that they all possessed
what it took to be exceptional leaders and perform great feats if they
only would believe in themselves. As he spoke to the group, he
outlined four basic aspects for success. He shared that there
needed to be potential and passion, a willingness to engage, results
and thought.
Potential, he discussed, lies in all of them and they simply needed to
trust that what they desired and had set as their goal was worth the
effort. Most students stop at this stage and never move beyond
this point for themselves, as they do not believe that what they desire
is possible or that they possess what it takes to achieve it.
They do not believe in their own strength. If they desire to
achieve their dream and have faith in themselves then they can do all
that they believe. Their eye firmly focused on the goal, each
step that they take leads them closer to achieving success.
Achieving potential and following their passion leads students to
engaging others in seeing their dreams. They seek out those who
also believe in them and a similar dream and together they make steps
toward making it come true. This brings results, which can be
either what they have desired to achieve or the result that they
fail. Logan emphasized that while many will fail, the key is to
realize that this does not make them failures. We simply need to
learn from the journey and apply this to the next steps and be willing
to try again. He asked students to believe in themselves and the
abilities that lie within. They can be great leaders and overcome
unthinkable challenges if they believe in themselves.
Many thanks to the groups and organizations that helped bring our
speaker to the students and staff of Greenville K-8: Healthy
Darke County, Angie Arnold and Sharon Deschambeau. The
administration and staff realize that without your support for our
students and educational programs that our ability to touch student’s
growth would be limited. Our students grew in their understanding
of how to face the tough challenges in their lives including standing
up against drugs, peer pressure, bullying and simply pursuing their
individual dreams by believing in themselves.
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