bossy vs leadership

WOD: 12 min CAP
            12 KB swings- 12 DB slams- 12 SU

            TABATA
            Handstand Hold/ max DU

If you have paid any attention to the media lately, you have probably heard about this campaign to ban the word "bossy". As you can probably imagine, I have been called "bossy" a time or two in my life.

For example, my family is made up of a bunch of indecisive people. My mother is the typical "pleaser". She will go with the flow and will never made a wave. My step-dad is the "go ahead and figure it out, I'm up for whatever". He will wait to be told where or what we are doing. Not because he doesn't have an opinion or doesn't care- most of the time if he does speak up, someone else in the family will shout out something else. And my dad... well, even if you tell him something he will forget 5 minutes later, so it's best just to make the decision and then tell him right before. My sister and I are often the ones gathering all of the input, managing our families and young children and making a decision that is typically best for the younger kids. If you were an outsider looking in to a scenario that involves all of us, one could say my sister and I are bossy. In reality, we know what the task is that needs to be done and we do it.

I'm sure I was doing the same thing on the playground, with my social circle, and I certainly do this at work.

I don't take offense to the word "bossy". It's a compliment given by people who don't know that what I am doing is really my leadership style preference. We don't need to ban the word in our schools. We need to educate our children, especially girls, what leadership looks like and equip them with a more robust vocabulary to help them explain to someone what they see happening. It's all about awareness.

Now....GO DO IT. (just kidding)