I am attempting to get into a week-long program that is focused on management, innovation, and general business. I am to draft a shower personal statement (<250 word) explaining why my experience will be good for the program and also how it will help align with my goals. I know this is a personal essay but I need help structuring it, especially because it is so short. My undergraduate degree is in Applied Management.

I have managed a bar and restaurant, taught fitness, and have taught snowboarding and (very informally) nunchucks. I learned nunchucks (ultimately) on youtube. I was thinking that a punchy intro about how when friends casually taught me these passions, they didn't understand their impact and did so quite casually. I feel like a story would be a great way to peak interest but I am stuck on how to do so.

Here's what I have so far....

"The best advice my friends gave me the first time I went snowboarding was to hug myself I don't break my arms when I fell or when my friend insisted could use pair of wooden nun chucks and as long as I "start off going really slow" I wouldn't break my teeth.

After a lot of frustration, a few injuries, and learning to teach both of these hobbies on a more formal level, hindsight has shown me that professional lessons would have certainly been less dangerous than learning from my friends. My friends were fellow amateurs in these... but their levels of encouragement were at a masters level."

Then I was thinking about my background and how I have taught things professionally but the commonality being motivation and my passion for empowering others. High-quality motivation allows us to thrive, while its deficit causes us to flounder.

Societal benefits of increased motivation are visible in greater student engagement, better job satisfaction in employees, flourishing relationships, and institutions.

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Big component of service andthere is no greater measure of a person's success than how they can help others succeed. Pursuing a higher level of academia can help me build on the skills and science to learn more.... This will bring me success in anything that I do from here on out.

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Here are more notes and what I am trying to convey in my outline...

(sorry, they are poorly structured) I believe I can change the world by making people feel like they are a part of something, like they are powerful, showing them that they can learn new things and expand themselves into.... People who feel a part of something, who empowered empower others. In fitness in all of these things that are shown to be good for our mental health, due to flow state, to oxytocin, to all these things that humans need to thrive, the commonality is that someone believed in them. Someone showed them that they were worth believing in. Someone showed them that they belong. Most of the people who taught me things and left an impact did it quite casually.

My friend playing with nunchucks, some friends allowing me to come to the mountain and giving me their best advice not to fall, the barista who thought I was nice and chose to hire me to make coffee. That impact. The impact in the everyday that changed the quality abs how I approach life... What if more people knew how to motivate people in business better?

What if those people were in management positions at companies or in places where they could really change someone's day. Instead of monotonous and ..., a sole provider comes back home with enough spring in his step after being told good job, so they have enough energy to help their kid with homework, with more enthusiasm. In the bigger scope im hopeful for a more peaceful and productive society. -Finding ways to increase motivation is crucial because it allows us to change behavior, develop competencies, be creative, set goals, grow interests, make plans, develop talents, and boost engagement. Applying motivational science to everyday life helps us to motivate employees, coach athletes, raise children, counsel clients, and engage students.