Ronald Reagan Leadership Essay

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Most know Ronald Reagan best for his acting career and presidency, but not many look back to his past and sees how his leadership roles started early in life; which is where mine starts. Throughout my life, leadership has always been a part of me, I have always strained to help others and try to lead them the right way. Trying my hardest has helped me make a great impact to those around me by showing them what can be done. When I was in eighth grade, a new opportunity was given to my class to take a high school course early, and I decided to be one of the few to go through with it, knowing it would be a lot of work. I started thinking about how this could be a benefit to me. So I then started to do some research on taking college level courses …show more content…
Being a drum major has helped me become a strong leader for the band and myself. As drum major I am the leader of the band, I direct them at parades, football field shows, and pep bands. I make sure everything is in order and help organize all our events with our director. Because I am drum major I have been able to help our band achieve the best they can and show it to our community by performing for them at their events throughout the year. With being section leader, I am able to help my clarinet section succeed, learn, and have fun by answering any questions and helping them with anything that is needed.
I have also been involved with my Future Business Leaders of America chapter and am the president of the club. Being so helps me give to the community and school by starting fundraisers for the March of Dimes, running cereal drives for the food pantry, and donating time to other organizations. I lead the meetings and discuss with my chapter what they want to do and what imprint they want to leave on our school as a chapter. FBLA has helped me reach out to my community like all of my other leadership roles I play a part

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