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Personal Essay On Leadership And Education

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My talents of leadership and education started at a young age. My leadership and education skills started when my mother left in 9th grade. After she had left, it was my job to be head of the household and support my dad and brother. Education was always something I enjoyed; however, my teaching skills were developed as a result of helping my brother with school work after my mother left. Both of these events were hard for me to grasp at the time, however, now that I look back; if those events never happened I would not be the person I am today.
Leadership to me is a necessary value to obtain; luckily for me, I got a great deal of practice with it as a teenager. In the home setting, I did not only use my leadership with responsibility roles, such as housework, but also with participating in family activities, being a positive role model for my brother, creating good communication between family members, and helping build family relationships. As I was establishing my leadership skills in my home life, I was also practicing my leadership skills throughout my sports. Before my mother had left, I had already been a cheerleader for 8 years; after she left, I did not stop the sport I loved, I just gave it more meaning. After I looked at cheerleading as a way to guide me, it paid off. I became captain of the Varsity cheerleading squad my Freshman year of high school. I knew it was a very large role to take on, however, I knew that with everything I had already experienced in my

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