Two weeks after being elected to state office, I had my first 'training'. This was State Leadership Conference for District Officers. Being the state vice president automatically makes me the NW district president (if you didn't understand how that works). This conference was run by the 'Has-Been' state officers, in other words- last years officers. This was extremely fun and filled with many learning opportunities! One of my favorite things was getting to meet so many new people. We all worked together on the ropes course to achieve one common goal. This showed us the importance of teamwork, leadership, and compensation. For the two days we were going at it, we all hung up paper-bag mailboxes for anyone to put a personal message in. After the conference, I enjoyed reading every one of these and I filled my cubicle with them!
After SLCDO, I was introduced to the state officer suite! This is a place in the FFA Enrichment Center where there is a cubicle office space for every state officer. There are also housing quarters with nice little 'army-cot' beds that are about 3 inches thick (yet surprisingly comfy). I decorated my cubicle with sticky notes (I love sticky notes), motivational quotes and other various items to make it 'home'.
The very next day, all of us state officers started our BLAST Off Training with Ryan, Becky and Shane! We started on the first afternoon with various workshops that went late into the night. This first day was a bit overwhelming, but I enjoyed learning so many new things! As the week went on, it was hard to get a grasp on how much we had actually learned, but looking back in review, all of it is extremely important and essential to serve our state. We created our own life mission statements to build our life off of. We also developed personal leadership statements, which defined what we believe leadership to be. Another major thing we did was set personal SMART goals. These will be very beneficial to help us grow throughout the year (One of my SMART goals was to actually start a blog!). Throughout this entire week of high-impact intensive training, we learned how to build influence by how we carry ourselves and represent our state through the FFA. This entire week, I believe we, as a state officer team, grew to know each other better than anyone who had only known each other for a short amount of time. Because of the work of Ryan, Becky, and Shane, we have started to unlock our potential to make a difference in the lives of others. Other human beings. Other FFA members. As advocates for agriculture, we need to use our passion, heart, care, integrity, hard work, and desire to SERVE the members and advance agriculture and the FFA. Peace out FFA! BELIEVE.
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