The Declaration of Independence gets used here as a writing prompt rather than as a patriotic gesture. Have you looked at what is wrong with your situation and complained about it? So did they. Did the complaining reach anybody? It did not, until somebody wrote the case down. Roger Sessions builds a whole post on that sequence and it works better than it sounds.
His leadership post stands out because he actually cites a definition from an academic source and then admits hundreds of others exist, which beats picking one and asserting it.
The practical writing covers making a list of people you might talk to, and it is realistic about the mistakes involved and about what those people want from you, which is competence rather than enthusiasm.
There are posts on home party businesses, on discipleship, and on a stadium power failure during a championship game.
Read the list of names post if you have been avoiding that step because it feels like begging.