"You're the teacher Andrea"

When I was little and I did something I shouldn't, my mom would remind me that my little brother was watching me."You're the teacher, Andrea." She would say to me with that do you want your little brother to do what you're doing sort of look on her face. It was strange to think that what I was doing might influence someone else's course of actions, but quite often it did. I even my 3 year old brother telling people we met in the mall that he was in fact 5, just like his sister.

Lately, I've noticed the same effect on other people. It's much more subtle now, but it still seems to happen every once in a while. I've watched people start using words that they deemed odd before, for example. Or last night,at our skills practice, I started cheering for people as they towed Chris across the pool, then Chad (our instructor) started to as well, then a bunch of the other guards followed suit. It's that kind of stuff that's made me think.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying for a minute that I'm incredibly charismatic or a natural-born leader or anything like that, because there are often times when I'm completely ignored as well. My point in all of this is simply that you are being watched, all the time. Sometimes good things come of this, sometimes there are bad results. Let's try and minimize the bad ones. After all, that's what integrity is all about, isn't it? So in case you didn't have enough motivation to put your best foot forward, there's a little more.

And on that note, I hope that you all have a Godly and productive week. Cheers