Personal Narrative : Leadership Journey

Imagine being at the peak of your high school career, personally, academically, and athletically. For me, that was my sophomore year. I was selected to be on the homecoming court, I won a free class ring, and a free corsage and boutonniere for prom. I was on my way to a 4.0 grade point average. I was pulled up to Varsity basketball, I became the 100 meter hurdle regional champion, and I qualified for two events at the Division 4 State meet for track and field. In one split second, a clip of a hurdle, that was over. My first race of the day was the preliminary 100 meter hurdles. Once the race started, I was calm, focused, and determined. I was starting to make my way up to the front of the pack when I clipped my trail leg on the eighth hurdle.

Leadership is defined as the power or ability to lead other people. Historically, I have strived to be a person that my peers would call a leader. I want to be a part of the Florida Leadership Academy so that I can learn new leadership skills from other proven leaders, as well as spread some of the skills that I have honed over the years. Throughout my life, I have pursued numerous leadership roles such as assistant captain of my high school’s varsity ice hockey team, Lead Volunteer at Young At Art, and currently, the secretary of the University of Florida Student Investment club. In addition, as a sophomore in high school, I took the initiative to apply and enroll at the College Academy at Broward College. This decision was a unique opportunity

I believe that leaders must accept the crucibles and acid test so that they can identify their value, and accomplish their great dream and tough missions. As the author of the “Crucibles of leadership” mentioned that leaders should equip with the following essential skills, namely, “engage others in shared meaning, a distinctive, compelling voice, integrity, and adaptive capacity.1 We know how these essentials important, however, we don’t understand how to obtain these elements as well as how to employ them, because the overconfidence always blind us. Thus, people who desire to become the leaders need to go through the crucible test.

Many people have left legacies from when they were alive. Some are good, and some are bad. Those people may not agree with what they have left behind, and some may be perfectly okay with theirs. For me, I would like to leave behind a legacy that shows my family that I was a good person. I would want them to know that I had good intentions for my life and that I wanted to do good for myself and others. In this essay, I will explain what I would like my legacy to be like.

It was a humid August morning in Fork Union, Virginia when I, along with 42 of the finest cadets Fork Union Military Academy had to offer, boarded buses for a trip to our final training exercise of the 10-day leadership training course. This course was open only to cadets who had performed admirably in the prior school year. I was told the night before to be prepared for an orienteering course and to wear my battle dress uniform, which consisted of a pair of heavy, olive drab green cargo pants, a black polo shirt embroidered with the academy name, and a pair of carefully shined leather combat boots, the perfect uniform for a day of taxing exertion. When I arrived at Terry Farms, a school-owned plot of land that would serve as the orienteering course for that day, I surveyed my surroundings and saw acres of open fields bordered by dense forests filled with

This day was busy, but I was able to help out more by checking patients in and checking them out this time around. Felt a lot more comfortable with the system and interacting with the clients and their pets. This was my last day working in the front, I enjoyed working with Leonore and the rest of the staff in the front but, I am very excited to work in the back to get hands on experience working with the technician’s and the doctor’s.

My leadership Mythology and influence originates from military training, reading and mimicking others using some but not all prominent biography’s relevant to people’s traits or actions, as well as proven doctoral guide develop by the us government. I would suggest that leadership and also the understanding of this process via written words continues to be overlooked. Over time I have gravitated to resembling other past great leader’s self-concepts that they might have lead, which telling the existence story or areas of leadership behavior. To illustrate the existence-story approach, in this short paper I offer my own personal leadership

She worked 40+ hours a week at a $9/hr job and never asked anyone for help. She managed to pay the rent, utilities, food, clothes etc and my sisters and I never felt as if we went without. My mom led our family with her heart and still does. Her family is everything to her. What I learned from my mom has a direct impact on how I am today as a leader. I learned to work hard, fight for what you want, and fight with your heart. I learned to be Independent and take charge of my future. If you want something, work hard for it and don’t let anything get in your way. I learned to not just accept what has happened to you in your life, that you can still change it. We went through some very tough years, but my mother’s love for us never faltered and it always got us through the rainiest of

After reading the list of 34 strengths on page 101 in Strengths based Leadership; I decided to try and pick out the top 5 that I felt applied the most to me. Choosing; Analytical, Developer, Futuristic, Input and Relator I found consistently the top 5 had to do with research, learning, the bigger picture, and relationships. I always pride myself in my ability to really see both sides of a situation as well as reading a person or in other words it does not take me long to figure out what type of person someone is and I would guess 8 out of 10 times; I am usually dead on with what I discover in the first 15 minutes with a person.

I have gone through many experiences that have tried to tear me down. Life will never seize to throw obstacles my way. These obstacles, however, have proven to be positives that fuel me to be the person I never knew before. They teach me to stand out while taking a stand and be the powerful, independent woman that I am meant to be.

During my Educational leadership Program I have gain so much new knowledge about school administration, laws, and situations that I have kept myself looking for additional information which helps me on a daily base in y work as an aspiring leader in my worksite. I have learn to ask the necessary questions and to make suggestions about daily challenges that could be overcome with a different approach.

’m the first one to be born And it’s my responsibility To leave traces For others to follow I have to be cautious Or I might step into The wrong ground Letting the roots swallow me up There’s so much pressure in me

Sure. I am working on a detail with Eastern States Office as a part of my Emerging Leader Program 2016. I am looking to be in DC this summer. I am also open in moving to DC office for political, legislative and overall DC experiences. I am interested in mineral focused areas especially in areas of mining.

Starting a new school in a new state is already stressful enough; now add being rushed to the hospital for the first time and you have a very terrified 9 year old. It was my first asthma attack, and at the time I did not know what was going on besides the fact that I felt like someone was sitting on my chest. Between being loaded into the ambulance, and wondering if I was going to die, this is one of my strongest childhood memories, but not for the reasons you think. Once I got to the hospital, I was checked into a room, and a physician came in and sat with me as we waited for my parents. The one thing I remember most from that experience wasn’t the treatment, or how smart he was, but the compassion he showed to me. This is what made that experience

Muscles engaged and eye’s wide, the intensity flowing through my veins. About face on one, hands down on two, lift my leg to a needle elevating to place on her shoulder. While she swiftly pulls, a voice in my head counts five, six, seven, and on eight it snapped… and suddenly, my stomach became a sinking pit, and a wave of nausea hit.