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Show anuary ~9 2041 Page 3.1 The Garfield Cou!n!ty Insider the lAuGhiNg 44. Are Leader, '? There are many leaders out there. Perhaps you are one. Actually, everyone is one. That's right, you, a leader. Even if you are a parent, child, neighbor, friend, teacher, employer, employee, unemployed, church member, civic member, volunteer, etc. That being said, I'd like to ask you a series of questions to make you think of what kind of leader you are. And, if your answer to a question falls short in the leadership arena, I want you to step it up a notch (i.e. for the better. After all, people are counting on you. In fact, so are you. If you are a leader, are you loyal to me in my presence and absence? If you are a leader, do you find my strengths or only my weaknesses? And if you are only looking for my weaknesses, why is that and then what does that say about you? If you are a leader, when you tell me everything's alright, how come your body language is telling the opposite? If you are a leader, why are you telling someone else about me (which is not good, by the way) even where I can overhear you? If you are a leader, why do you curse, storm off, roll your eyes, huff and puff, spread rumors about, assume the worst, and treat me differently just because I made a mistake? And when you do this, what are you saying to your internal and external customers? Did I really just observe you having a tantrum? If you are a leader, why are you short with me in hove You I took a couple of minutes from work to give my wife a call. She put my two-year-old son on, and we chatted a while before he ended it with an enthusiastic "I love you!" "I love you too," I said, with a dopey grin plastered conversation? If you are a leader, are If you are a leader, why you a letter or spirit of the do you bully me? law one? If you are a leader, why If you are a leader, why do you laugh at instead of do you only love me when with me? I do things right? Why is If you are a leader, when your love conditional? I ask if I can sit in for a If you are a leader, teaching moment, why do shouldn't you be a Christ you say no? like one? If you are a leader, why Hopefully, these quesdo you smear my name tions got you thinking about –and it's not good or pret- what kind of a leader you ty—to anyone who can are. Choose to be a better hear? Why do you spread leader. Start today. Turn a and engage in gossip in the new leaf. And think about first place? how one anonymous auIf you are a leader, why thor described a leader, "A do you overlook the same leader leads by example, things in others that you whether he intends to or find fault in me? not." That is right, whether If you are a leader, why you like it or not, you are do you lose your temper? teaching, good, bad or ugly. If you are a leader, why Therefore, let you teaching do you tell me I'm going to be for good, where it makes mess up? a difference, inspires, and is If you are a leader, why positive since I don't think does your tone of voice be- you want to be like the leadcome negative and short ers we are told about in the when you talk to me, but Old Testament, most specifically in Isaiah 9:16, "For not others? If you are a leader, why the leaders of this people do you say my dreams and cause them to err; and they goals are stupid? that are led of them are deIf you are a leader, why stroyed." Cynthia Kimball is a do you have favorites? If you are a leader, why professional speaker and do you make digs? Really, trainer through her comis that even good or useful? pany EverylCounts, LLC. If you are a leader, why She writes a column for do you work on your com- weeklies in southern Utah puter, read the paper and and is a southern Utah corlook at your watch when respondent for the Deseret I'm trying to have a conver- News. Her column, "EverylCounts," appears on sation with you? If you are a leader, why deseretnews. corn. E-mail: do you publically humiliate kimball@every 1 counts .net. me? If you are a leader, why ADVERTISE IN don't you ask me what I desire to become in life? If you are a leader, why isn't everyone included? If you are a leader, why do you cut me down? Traffic Circle Ditzy friend to another: "I failed the driving test. I entered the traffic circle and the sign said '30' so I drove 30 times around." The other one says sympathetically, "You probably counted wrong." Properties Waterproofing Chemistry Professor: When water becomes ice, which of its properties increases? Student: Its price Dyslexia Conference I'm dyslexic, and attended a conference about the disorder with a friend. The speakers asked us to share a personal experience with the group. I told them stress aggravates my condition, in which I reverse words and letters when I'm tense. When I finished speaking, my friend leaned over and whispered to me, "Now I know why you named your daughter Hannah." The telephone solicitor selling basement waterproofing must have thought she'd died and gone to heaven when she got my very patient son on the phone. At the end of her very long sales pitch, she asked, "Do you mind if we send someone out to give you an estimate?" "Not at all," my son said. "When would be a good time?" "As soon as I dig a basement," he replied. 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I suppose the gamblers in Los Vegas know this rule a bit better than the rest of us. But how do you get people to change unless you douse them in fear? I wondered. What would the world be like if people didn't fear going to hell or being born back as a dung beetle or something? What if no one feared prison or the death penalty? I shudder to think. But, on the other hand, what would it be like if we didn't spend so much time fearing and just concentrated on the good we could do in the now moment? Does it make sense to stop listening to the people who tell us we will get cancer or get fat or have kids with autism or loose our reasoning ability because of this or that? It sure seems to spoil the moment. But sometimes listening and doing something about it, does make sense....like listening to those who say smoking is bad. Look how long it took for that fact to get established in the group consciousness. What other enviornmental hazards should we be paying attention to? I recently was with a environmentally-challenged woman who asked me to wash off my perfume before we got in the car. "Good Grief!" I thought, as I complied. "What a boob". But then I heard her story and what she has suffered. Should I, too, be afraid of what is out there in the environment ready to pull me down as soon as a critical mass builds up in my body? Yikes! I don't want to live that way. So I'm listening to both sides and trying to find a livable middle. I have decided, if I don't have to, not to use things with chemicals in them, like fabric softeners or bug spray, which doesn't make all that much difference in my life. But I will still evaluate the situation. I can't live with, for instance, earwigs, which at one time in my life was a challenge, nor can I live with the geese I got to get rid of them. Geese did a good job, but then I had the mess they left in front of the door, which is where they insisted on bedding down. So an exterminator might seem like the lesser of the evils. I could always use my good sense and stay away from home for a while. Too much water, too much vitamin A, too much broccoli, etc. etc., and too much fear beyond what I can do anything about, I'm going to try this year to put in perspective. Send suggestions to Veda Hale Box 956 Panguitch, Utah, 84759 or email vedahale@ hotmail corn THE INSIDER Call 67612621 tiFplads. Jill Westwood Camp recently had to have surgery to remove a mass that was located in her head, near her brain. They had to crack her skull and remove the mass. Jill has been working at Panguitch Drug as a Pharmacy Technician and loves her job very much. Because of this surgery, she is unable to work at this time. She is married and has 3 children, whom she loves to spend time with. They are currently living in Circleville. Her husband is laid-off and doesn't have a job at this time. 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