THE CORE OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Leadership is not just position nor title; it is action and example.

Upon filing my candidacy, I asked myself, “Why do I run, what makes me run?” I closed my eyes as I felt the burning passion in me flow in my veins and felt my heart beating for it. Images of injustice and incompetence flashed in my mind. The urge to lead, to serve and to amplify, strengthens me and makes me want to be better and do better.

Leadership is both a study field and a functional skill that includes the ability of a person, group or a team to “lead”, influence or direct other individuals, groups or entire organization. Meanwhile, servant leadership is a theory of leadership in which the leaders main aim is to serve. This is distinct from conventional leadership where the primary concern of the leader is the well-being of their business or organization. This helps me know who I want to be as a leader and that is to be a servant leader. Taking a leadership role doesn’t make you a leader but serving with a heart does.

I am humbled and honored with every opportunity given to me. It continuously allows me to do what I love the same, grow and know who I want to be and who I am.

With every chance I know that I can’t do it alone. I need my team; the council and the whole Edwardian community. We represent each other, we work as one because the government is made of the people, by the people, with the people and for the people. Therefore, I always ask the society to guide, support and give their trust to us.

With passion and dedication in our hearts, we will do our best to widen views and educate people, to amplify voices, to reach out and to serve. Challenged and inspired by our current situation, it is our goal to take action and set an example, to cast our vision into reality. Together, we will strive for excellence.

As long as it allows me, I will pursue this journey because I dream for and of change and I shall lead and serve for difference and for the community. I crusade to this for I believe in Barack Obama’s statement, “Change is not easy, but it is possible”.

I will use what I have, and I will give what I can. In my own way, I will protect and fight for the youth’s present because we are the future and the hope of this nation.

Lastly, I am a young lady who will always be a dreamer, a believer and a servant leader. Always from within, always from the heart and that is the core of servant leadership.