Tonight I went over to a friend's house and helped her with her little Girl Scouts. I was a G.S. leader for many years, and I had a BLAST playing with her troop. They are in 3rd grade, which I had forgotten how much fun that was!
I presented the "Drive Your Own Bus" concept to them. I first heard of this concept at a Women's Leadership Conference about 14 years ago. My buddy Rosanna and I went together and it was an amazing day for both of us!
So... To Drive Your Own Bus, you have to... make bus noises of course! (The girls really liked this part). Then you drive these four ways:
Normally
Trying to read a far away sign
Looking backward or through your rear-view mirror
Someone else drives your bus.
They thought driving their buses around crazy was lots of fun. Then we talked about how you need a map (goals) to get to where you want to go and you don't get lost! You then need to break these goals down into immediate action steps so that they don't get lost or forgotten (trying to read a far away sign).
We talked about how if you are always thinking about the past, and the mistakes that you made, then you can't look forward and drive your bus.
We talked about how you don't want to let someone else drive your bus, be pressured into doing things you don't really want to do, or giving up your control or your own voice. If someone else is driving, then you might end up somewhere you didn't want to go.
It was LOTS of fun and I think they really GOT it.
