Senior Essay 2

I believe that I try my hardest to demonstrate leadership in my everyday actions and put emphasis on furthering my leadership skills. Once in my Junior year of high school, I was assigned a geometry project to be able to create a third dimensional shape using math and equations. This assignment, in theory, seems like it would be easy, but being able to correlate our ideal shape and the equations needed was difficult. This difficulty was elevated even further due to everyone in my group being confused on the subject. After consulting with my teacher, I managed to halfway understand how to do the equations and explain them to my group mates. By delegating roles and much practice, we were able to finish the project. We presented it to the class and ended up getting an A, which was surprising since none of us fully understood the prompt. Being able to lead my group while still being a little confused made me want to express and show my leadership skills even more.

This experience made me apply for programs like Youth Lead KC and Be The Change who emphasize leadership and confidence. Specifically, Be The Change or Intro To Health Careers pushed me to show leadership in my community, specifically on the health side. Youth Lead KC showed me how to display my leadership skills in a respectful and approachable way, and I took that to help my family and community regulate their diets and health. My community has a high number of individuals who struggle with diets and health due to complications like diabetes and high blood pressure. I made meal plans with these members to explain and researched the best ways for them personally to get their health to a place where they can succeed. This was just the beginning of how they could get healthier, and they all consulted with professionals after just in case. This was just a way to combine the things I enjoyed, which were to cook and help my community. With this idea, I made the connection to following a career in nutrition and dietitian so I can show my leadership skills in a field I have shown to enjoy.

In the future, I intend to continue developing my critical thinking and communication skills to be the best leader I am. In my professional career, I wish to be someone that people look up to and treat as an example of how to lead. I will display my communication skills and my confidence. I will practice displaying these traits and qualities by doing more activities outside of my comfort zone. For example, I will try to join programs and clubs that specifically correlate to public speaking and building developmental skills. I will attempt to broaden my knowledge and speak to all kinds of people from all backgrounds to expose myself to other ways of building leadership. Overall, I try to display my leadership skills in an intelligent and careful way and continue to learn more about leadership.