The value of a penny
YLCC has just celebrated our annual holiday party with most of the YLCC full-time team. It’s hard to believe that we work with close to 200,000 students, educators and families every year!
I am often asked how I got started in my leadership journey. It really began when as a grade 10 student I was asked to attend a leadership conference. It was magical and I fell in love with the entire energy of students working together to reach their goals. I went on to become the organizer of that same conference a few years later.
When I was that young student leader I used to share the story of the penny.
Side note - *For all of my young readers, the penny is a form of Canadian currency no longer used.*
We used to give each delegate at the conference a single penny, often on a string so they could wear it around their neck.
The lesson was that EVERY penny was worth the same. No matter how shiny, battered, dirty, weathered, old, new, etc. they all were worth the same exact amount.
The analogy being that you as a human being, no matter where you were in life, were worth the same as anyone else. You had the ability to be whatever you wanted to be regardless of your conditions.