Share the Load

“It's not the load that breaks you down,
it's the way you carry it.”                                        
       - Lou Holtz, ret.football coach

Yep, it's all about teamwork!  It's about working together and achieving a goal.

The Gold Award Take Action Project is all about one girl. She needs to find the issue she is passionate about and then identify the root cause.  Using all that passion and interest, she needs to partner with an agency and figure out how she can address the issue.  

And even before she is approved for her Project, she must consider who the team is that she will be assembling.  Who are the peers, friends and/or school club members she can gather to help her.  This is about sharing the load:  finding the right people to help her achieve the goal.

She can't do it alone!  It just doesn't work like that!  This is an opportunity for her to use her leadership and work with others.  She needs to learn that spreading the work load can yield remarkable results: more than with just her solo effort.  What a great thing to learn!  While it's still her overall responsibility, she will have a team of support.

It's exciting times for our girls!  And everytime I have a chance to talk with a prospective Gold girl, it is so much fun to see their excitement and interest. And very fun to encourage them to pull together a great team that will work, under her leadership, to make a difference in the world.