Northwestern Kellogg - Struggling with Leadership essay

From last 3 hours, I'm trying to frame a paragraph of my leadership essay, but yet not able to do so. My head is spinning now. I started this essay 4 days back because I thought it would be quite simpler than others as I have the content with examples ready.

I drafted the below mentioned outline (your comments are invited and needed):

1. A personal life experience long back in 2002 and my leadership learning from that - 200 words - drafted this for ISB essay.

2. How I evolved as a leader since then and a professional leadership experience - 200 words - drafted this for one essay last year.

3. What leadership skills I still lack, and how Kellogg would help me in gaining them - 200 words - have to draft this fresh, but had bullet points ready for what I feel I lack to be an effective leader.

So, my first draft was almost ready the very first day and as usual I sent it for review to my first reviewer mukaam. She was already aware of these examples, so she but obvious liked the content. But suggested to work on presentation, as it was not in a form of compelling stories, and we are targeting Kellogg. Actually she is reading '65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays', and when I read a few essays from that book, I was bound to agree with her.

So, since then I'm trying to transform my personal life experience content into a compelling story, but trust me guys it is the toughest job. I'm working from last 3 days and 3 nights, writing, deleting, writing again and deleting again, and I've completed just opening paragraph. The second para is making my head spin, but will get back to it after this post. Planning to write all night tonight, and hopefully before I crash on bed in the morning, I'll be done with the story of my personal experience. 

Anyways, my blog has completed 6 months and by the time I login again, it would touch 5K hits. It's a great feeling to see so many people visiting the blog and hopefully finding it useful in a way or other.

Keep visiting guys!!

A

Imagine, get Inspired, and Imagine...

It’s not been days or weeks but months of me thinking to read (read study, for books like) Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan M. Nilekani. Sometimes the thickness of its 750 pages and other times the weight of its heavy and deep content pushed me away.

While working on my Reliance-Stanford essay on how to improve the future of India, I was reading stuff and watching videos, when I came across this amazing video and got hooked. It is kind of a synopsis of Imagining India by the author himself. A bit lengthy but very enlightening and for me a motivation to know more and read the entire book.

As I always knew, I am going to read it one day or other, that day is not far. After finishing Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga, I’ve decided to imagine renewed India with Imagining India :)

Cheers,

A