Intended Audiences of this Work
How to Use this Textbook in Educational,
Organizational, Home, and Personal Settings.
All human beings are personal leaders (leaders of self), whether they know it, like it, and care about it, or not. Moreover, all personal leaders have the potential to become self-action leaders if they desire and choose to do—and be—so.
This comprehensive Life Leadership textbook has therefore been written with a UNIVERSAL audience in mind; that is—anyone and everyone on the planet who is interested in self-improvement, individual growth, and personal change.
There are, however, seven (7) specific audiences for which this book may have particular appeal.
AUDIENCE #1: Formal EDUCATORS, including: administrators, teachers, coaches, and support staff.
AUDIENCE #2: STUDENTS of all ages in formal educational settings (classroom curriculum).
AUDIENCE #3: INDIVIDUALS outside of formal educational settings (self-help manual).
AUDIENCE #4: LEADERS, MANAGERS, and WORKERS of all kinds in all settings.
AUDIENCE #5: PARENTS and FAMILIES
AUDIENCE #6: PERSONS coping with mental, emotional, and social ILLNESSES.
AUDIENCE #7: ELECTED OFFICIALS and other high profile LEADERS and ROLE MODELS.
This Life Leadership textbook has been designed as a comprehensive toolbox of principles and practices that these (and other) audiences can flexibly utilize as a resource to facilitate educational initiatives aimed at the self-improvement, character development, and personal growth of individuals, homes, schools, organizations, communities, states, and nations around the globe.
Individual sections below provide useful suggestions on how the material might best serve the seven (7) audiences listed above.
AUDIENCE #1: Formal EDUCATORS, including: administrators, teachers, coaches, and support staff.
BOOK the SEVENTH of this Life Leadership textbook provides a template curriculum for implementing leadership, character, and life-skill education into public and private schools. SAL-oriented principles can and should be flexibly and continually taught to children, teenagers, and adults of all ages and educational levels.
This particular textbook is best suited for highly literate high school and college-aged students and above. However, high-functioning and self-motivated middle schoolers—and even children—may also enjoy and thrive on the material.
The textbook itself is designed for use as either a seminal (primary) text in classes specifically tailored to Self-Action Leadership, leadership, or character development. However, it may also be flexibly utilized as an ancillary (secondary) text in a variety of other courses (e.g. English, history, psychology, health, philosophy, etc.).
Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in Schools and Other Educational Settings
- Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
- Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
- Hold team, group, and organizational "Constitutional Conventions" and then draft a DoI and Constitution for the unit involved.
- Initiate conversations, conduct lunch & learn discussions, and provide other educational opportunities focused on the SAL philosophy, theory, and model in conjunction with other, related and relevant material.
- Incorporate SAL material into monthly, weekly, or even daily leadership initiatives, trainings, and communications.
- Display SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, and imagery in prominent locales throughout campus, classrooms, and offices.
- Integrate SAL principles and practices into any and all curriculum (wherever relevant) through classroom discussions and application-based assignments.
- Reference SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, books, essays, speeches, et cetera, whenever and wherever relevant.
- Practice what you preach by continually striving to exemplify SAL principles and practices in your own personal and professional walk and life.
AUDIENCE #2 and #3: STUDENTS and INDIVIDUALS of all ages inside (and outside) formal educational settings.
Of all seven audiences covered in this appendix, none is more preeminent and primal than STUDENTS (individuals) of all ages. This is, after all, a TEXTBOOK and/or a self-help manual or guide.
- Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
- Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
- Re-read, re-study, review, and continually return to and reference the text throughout your life.
- Teach the material to others and encourage them to read, study, and complete the SAL Master Challenge themselves.
- Place SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, and images in prominent places in your home and work spaces.
- Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
- Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
- After completing one's self-DoI and self-constitution, hold "Constitutional Conventions" for one's team, group, and/or the organization at-large.
- Initiate conversations, conduct lunch and learn discussions, and provide other educational and training opportunities whereby the SAL philosophy, theory, and model, are taught, reviewed, and championed in team, group, and/or organizational settings.
- Flexibly incorporate SAL principles and practices into group, team, department, and company-wide communications and cultures.
- Display SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, and images in prominent locations throughout your personal office and other organizational areas (as appropriate and approved).
- Strive to exemplify SAL principles and practices at work—and make restitution when and where you fall short.
- Continually return to the textbook to review, renew, and refresh your memory on SAL principles and practices.
AUDIENCE #5: PARENTS and FAMILIES.
If individuals are the building blocks of society, families are the mortar and steel reinforcers that solidify those blocks into place. At Freedom Focused, we hold that there are no greater leadership or management positions than that of Father and Mother. And there is no greater duty and honor than that of bearing and raising another human being to full stature and maturity.
Sadly, poor—or even absent—parenting has become a pandemic throughout the USA and world, resulting in weakened nations, communities, organizations, schools, etc. Self-Action Leadership was developed in large part as a potential panacea to this perplexing problem. SAL by itself, of course, cannot parent anybody. However, parents who learn about, apply, and then teach SAL to their children can wield an incredibly positive and productive influence in a young person's life.
Governments and organizations themselves will never be able to effectively legislate good parenting. However, effective and loving parenting can and should be taught and modeled whenever and wherever possible. The SAL philosophy, theory, and model are worthy resources for this worthiest of all causes.
There are few things that parents and families can do that will more positively affect, influence, and impact their home lives than to learn, practice, and teach Self-Action Leadership. We therefore invite parents everywhere to read this comprehensive Life Leadership textbook, apply the principles and practices into their own lives, and then model and teach the material continually to their children.
We promise parents that by so doing, YOU will reap rich dividends of character development and relationship building in yourselves and your children.
Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in Homes
- Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
- Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
- Regularly (weekly) gather for a "Family Hour" or "Family Night" to read from and discuss SAL principles and practices, using the book as a primary text.
- Compose personal and family Declaration of Independences and Constitutions.
- Hold regular (weekly) family council meetings to plan, schedule, communicate openly, and troubleshoot relationship issues and other challenges.
- Invite other families and friends to read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook and join with you on occasion for "Family Hour" or "Family Night" for both learning devotionals and fun activities.
- Strive to exemplify SAL principles and practices at home and make restitution when and where you fall short.
- Engage in service projects together as a family, both at home, in the yard, and beyond at church, school, or in the community.
AUDIENCE #6: PERSONS coping with mental, emotional, and social ILLNESSES.
Having struggled mightily with mental, emotional, and social illness himself, this audience is near and dear to Dr. JJ's heart. As such, an explicit aim of this work has always been to provide aid, comfort, and hope to those struggling with mental illness or cognitive distortions of any kind, which, to one degree or another affects all of us at various points of our lives.
Self-Action Leadership was developed in part out of the many useful tools Dr. JJ used to combat his own neurosis and cognitive distortions involved with his OCD, anxiety, and depression. As such, they are proven strategies that really can help!
This Life Leadership textbook can serve as an inspiring message and useful guidebook for effectively combatting mental illness in conjunction with other therapies approved by your mental healthcare provider, thus empowering your ascent to the desirable, honorable, and attainable goal of mental health and hygiene. Dr. JJ—and all of us at Freedom Focused—sincerely hope and pray that this comprehensive Life Leadership textbook will prove helpful and hopeful to any and all who suffer with mental illness and are willing to read and study its pages.
As you peruse the ideas below for using this text within a mental health construct, remember to work closely with your mental healthcare provider to tailor an individual approach that is right for YOU. This includes tailoring your usage of the SAL textbook to your unique healthcare needs.
Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook as a Mental Healthcare Tool
- Share the SAL Life Leadership textbook with your mental healthcare professional and ask his or her counsel on how to best use it within a framework of your unique and individual mental health issues and needs.
- Share with your mental healthcare provider how you would personally like to use the material as part of your mental healthcare plan.
- Working together with your mental healthcare provider, develop a plan for using the SAL Life Leadership textbook that harmonizes with your shared mental health goals.
AUDIENCE #7: ELECTED OFFICIALS and other high profile LEADERS and ROLE MODELS.
Few persons hold more personal power and influence in our world than elected officials and other officers of secular governments. These persons wield an enormous impact on the vast majority other other, non-elected officials who reside within their dominions. Other, non-elected, but high profile persons of influence similarly wield much power in our world.
Sadly, far too many wield this power and influence in hurtful, negative, and deleterious ways—leaving a wash of cultural havoc in their wake.
At Freedom Focused, we call upon political leaders and all other high profile persons of authority, influence, and power to choose to become persons of principle—complete with a conscience and moral scruples—who play their parts as honorable and noble statesmen and women by consistently exhibiting the highest levels of personal character and professional integrity.
We invite all such persons to read and study this comprehensive Life Leadership textbook in a good-faith effort to discover how you can utilize the SAL philosophy, theory, and model to be the best leader you can be—an authentic and genuine role model of circumspect character and integrity. Doing so will inspire and assist you as you serve your constituents, seek to achieve personal transcendence, and leave a lasting legacy of positive, world-changing contributions.
Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in Society-at-Large
- Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
- Complete the SAL Master Challenge
- Encourage your colleagues, subordinates, constituents, and/or other followers to follow your lead and do likewise.
- Incorporate SAL principles and practices into your interpersonal associations and media appearances.
- Use the bully pulpit to promote SAL and other Pedagogies of Personal Leadership and Character Development (PPLCDs).
- Practice what you preach, and make restitution when and where you fall short.
- Strive to become a humble, teachable, and inspirational self-action leader and SERVANT leader of the public.
—Dr. JJ
Author's Note: This is the 520th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 306th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.
Click HERE for a compete listing of the other 519 FF Blog Articles
Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL QUOTES
Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL POEMS
Click HERE to access the FULL TEXT of Dr. JJ's Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection
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—Dr. JJ
Author's Note: This is the 524th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 307th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.
Click HERE for a compete listing of the other 523 FF Blog Articles
Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL QUOTES
Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL POEMS
Click HERE to access the FULL TEXT of Dr. JJ's Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection
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Tune in NEXT Wednesday for another article on a Self-Action Leadership related topic.
If you liked this blog post, please share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and students—and encourage them to bookmark this blog to access a new FREE article every Wednesday.
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