What is your leadership style? Don't know?.. find out.
What are some of the strengths and weaknesses that really make you YOU?
What is unique about your personality and how you handle problems?
One of the most important qualities of a true leader is that the leader knows himself much better than those who follow him.
Like Sun Tzu said,
"If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles"
So before you even put pen to paper (metaphorically) to write down an essay, you better know everything about yourself.
Of course, you can use the old technique of keeping a journal with you and noting down qualities, examples and anecdotes about you. This technique of course is time consuming, although extremely helpful.
A better way to do things would be to simply take a few personality tests and see what they say about you! That will not cover the "examples and anecdotes" part, but it will certainly give you a clear sense of who you are as a person and as a leader.
Start with the Myers Briggs test, or the multiple free adaptations of the test available online. Don't ask which one, anyone would do! If one doesn't satisfy your intellectual taste buds, take another one.
Then, move on to leadership tests that give you more insight into your leadership style. Take a few tests that tell you about what kind of a team mate you are too.
Finally, BE HONEST about what you find out and if you can, discuss with your peers or those who know you best.
Once all that is done, then you can move on to the next step- which is thinking about all the different life stories that you would want to utilize while writing your essays.
Even if you don't completely agree with what the tests say, at least now you have something better to work with.
Leadership is not always quantifiable, but certain traits are easily identifiable. So find out who you are as a leader, as a team mate and as a person, and use that knowledge to choose schools, write essays and get into a school that is a REAL fit for you.
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