Are leaders born or made? Let us first define a leader: Someone who is non-judgmental, brave, repentant, generous, perseverant, optimistic, and conscientious. While looking at this definition, I would say that is a very great question and the best way that I can answer is by sharing a portion of my testimony.
Leaders are born, because everyone in life is born for a specific purpose. I believe that I am a leader because since childhood, I always had that leadership presence. I was always the one regulating people although
I am the baby. My mother and sister made a song about it, they would say “She think she teacher, She think she teacher” and they would keep repeating it and dancing around and I would sit there with a face that read: “whatever”. …show more content…
Even when my siblings would not listen, I would make sure that the house was clean and that I stayed on the enroll to make my mother proud. She always told me “Education is free, get it while it’s free”, so I did that. I was very respectful to my teachers and willing to help out other students who needed help with classwork. I grew up to actually not only lead teams for assignments, but to make life decisions that a leader would make. While other students from middle school to high school were drinking, smoking, having boyfriends and girlfriends, and having sexual experiences. I would always find myself explaining to people why I chose to refrain from those activities saying: “I cannot have a boyfriend until I am sixteen”, “I need to focus on school”, “I do not smoke or drink”, and “I am still a virgin and am waiting for marriage”. Students would mock me, but their opinions did not break me, because I still moved forward to live by a mission statement that I made with my mom’s help during my freshman year in high school. It says exactly this: “To have integrity and be a good example to God, my family, and friends. To be a leader, honest, respectful, and to learn. Learning from my mistakes and others mistakes. Everyday is an opportunity to educate myself. My goal is to graduate from an Ivey league university with the highest honors.” I did my best to live by that, but I did not always from …show more content…
No matter what insecurities I had: how fast I talked, my inexperience, my going to a private college, I knew I had to be a success- there was no maybe. I would speak up and decide to do the hardest group task(s)- facing challenges in courses that were unfamiliar. I volunteered to go first in class to present, became an officer for a law fraternity, did debates, etc. I remember there were times that I was so scared to present that I would pray to God that I would not have to, now I welcome challenges and am brave enough to do things even while I have the fears, so that I beat them. While I was in college, I noticed that a lot of the girls took to my mannerisms. The girls wanted to learn to be like me. They thought I was so smart, friendly, disciplined, kind, etc. Everyone turned to me for advice, even situations I could not relate to, but I would always tell people to pray about them.
The action plan that I have to maintain my academic success is to trust in the Holy Trinity. I trusted them and that was how I got here, I will trust them and that is how I will stay here. I will also show God that I am serious and put the work in, way better than I did as an undergraduate. I will study, practice, and ask questions about what I learn. Education is something that I have taken seriously since childhood, my mother would always say to me “Education is free, get it while it’s free”. God willing, I will join this program and learn
Leaders are born, because everyone in life is born for a specific purpose. I believe that I am a leader because since childhood, I always had that leadership presence. I was always the one regulating people although
I am the baby. My mother and sister made a song about it, they would say “She think she teacher, She think she teacher” and they would keep repeating it and dancing around and I would sit there with a face that read: “whatever”. …show more content…
Even when my siblings would not listen, I would make sure that the house was clean and that I stayed on the enroll to make my mother proud. She always told me “Education is free, get it while it’s free”, so I did that. I was very respectful to my teachers and willing to help out other students who needed help with classwork. I grew up to actually not only lead teams for assignments, but to make life decisions that a leader would make. While other students from middle school to high school were drinking, smoking, having boyfriends and girlfriends, and having sexual experiences. I would always find myself explaining to people why I chose to refrain from those activities saying: “I cannot have a boyfriend until I am sixteen”, “I need to focus on school”, “I do not smoke or drink”, and “I am still a virgin and am waiting for marriage”. Students would mock me, but their opinions did not break me, because I still moved forward to live by a mission statement that I made with my mom’s help during my freshman year in high school. It says exactly this: “To have integrity and be a good example to God, my family, and friends. To be a leader, honest, respectful, and to learn. Learning from my mistakes and others mistakes. Everyday is an opportunity to educate myself. My goal is to graduate from an Ivey league university with the highest honors.” I did my best to live by that, but I did not always from …show more content…
No matter what insecurities I had: how fast I talked, my inexperience, my going to a private college, I knew I had to be a success- there was no maybe. I would speak up and decide to do the hardest group task(s)- facing challenges in courses that were unfamiliar. I volunteered to go first in class to present, became an officer for a law fraternity, did debates, etc. I remember there were times that I was so scared to present that I would pray to God that I would not have to, now I welcome challenges and am brave enough to do things even while I have the fears, so that I beat them. While I was in college, I noticed that a lot of the girls took to my mannerisms. The girls wanted to learn to be like me. They thought I was so smart, friendly, disciplined, kind, etc. Everyone turned to me for advice, even situations I could not relate to, but I would always tell people to pray about them.
The action plan that I have to maintain my academic success is to trust in the Holy Trinity. I trusted them and that was how I got here, I will trust them and that is how I will stay here. I will also show God that I am serious and put the work in, way better than I did as an undergraduate. I will study, practice, and ask questions about what I learn. Education is something that I have taken seriously since childhood, my mother would always say to me “Education is free, get it while it’s free”. God willing, I will join this program and learn