Confidence:

I recently saw a meme on facebook that said "True leaders don't create followers; they create more leaders."  I started to contemplate this statement and see its accuracy in relation to the leaders I look up to.  I think I realized that the leaders I revere and respect are the ones that inspired others to not only do something in life, but to take charge in life.  A plain example of this is present in the civil rights revolution of the sixties.  Rosa Parks set fire to the civil rights revolution with MLK and the Freedom Riders to follow her.  She was a true leader because she inspired other leaders.  Christ was the same way in His mortal ministry; training His apostles and disciples to carry on after He left.

In one of the least eloquent ways, this makes me think of the statement "You can do anything you set your mind to."  My mind is only drawn to this statement after the last train of thought because that is what we tell people we want to see become leaders.  We tell the young that they can achieve anything they want so long as they have their minds made up.  Ironically, we say this ---typically ---to the children who already have their minds made up.

It makes me wonder what the world would be like if we directed this message to those who aren't confident.  How much farther down the road would we be if instead of just building up those who have their minds made up, we built up the unsteady and gave them something to hold onto.  As a goal of mine, I wish to give a boost to those who need it, rather than those I just feel comfortable boosting up.