...Everyone should have personal goals that evolve around anything that needs to be accomplished. I set goals on a daily basis. One goal that I seem to have not truly focused on has been my college education. Considering all things, I decided I needed to focus on my college education. The first thing I needed to accomplish was to enroll in an institution for higher learning. Now that my enrollment is complete, I am an official student at the University enrolled in the undergraduate program for business management. As a student at the university, I now have to set personal goals so that I will be successful in my endeavors. My personal goals are to gain personal growth and development and graduate from my undergraduate program in business management with honors. After my completion of the undergraduate program I will then move on to a master's program. To accomplish my goal of personal growth and development, I will make sure that by the end of every course I take I will have a full understanding of the subject matter. This is where I will take advantage of the learning teams that are offered in conjunction with individual learning. The way I look at the learning teams is that they are there for me to learn and share experiences with my peers. If there is something that I do not fully understand, I can in turn go to my learning team for the answer. If I cannot get the answer from my team then I will go to the instructor. I will not stop until I have a full understanding of ...
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...personal goals is that you must realize you have to prepare for the future and not wait for it to happen. My life in retrospect has had many changes and twists; it is in a constant state of development. The process of getting ready to write this essay was very challenging. It really forced me to focus on my life and how it has changed as I have matured. Setting goals has forced me to take a look at my values. I have always wanted to have a husband I am in love with, a stable job, happy and healthy children, and a house in the suburbs. But now, after living life and surviving some defeats I realize that there are no guarantees in life except the ones we choose for ourselves. I have the stable job, happy and healthy children, and a house in the suburbs, but that does not bring happiness. The only way to improve your life is to improve yourself. I think that once you begin this journey everything else in your life will seem to balance. There are many steps I had to take on this journey of self-discovery. I needed to define and understand my values and why they are important to me. Then I started to think about my immediate and long-term future and started to set some personal goals. I realized that I was waiting for my future to just happen. My first short-term goal for the future is to become content with myself. I want to be satisfied with the decisions I make, even if the outcome is not what I had hoped. I want to be the best mother to my children...
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...2015 Achieving my Goals During my whole life , I have been setting goals to become successful in what I do. Goal setting gives you a lasting dream and limited motivation. It also gives me a target to shoot for the courage I need to achieve higher and more complicated goals. By setting goals and always reminding myself of them I am more suitable to work harder to achieve these goals. I believe that setting goals is an important direction of succeeding in life. Throughout my own lifetime I have set many goals for myself, today I will share three of these goals with you. Education is an important attribute to succeeding in life. Without any kind of education, you will not achieve the help needed in the real world. This lead me to my first goal which is to graduate high school and college . I expect college to give me with amount of challenges in which I can gain experience from. I plan to do the best I can in all the classes that are tough for me, and come through in the class that I find easy. With a diploma in my hand and a smile on my face, I believe that I can face any challenges the real world will indulge me. From the first time I getting help from a deaf adult , I dreamed of someday being a deaf teacher, which is why my second goal is to become successful in deaf studies . As a child, I was fascinated by the assistance I was getting from because when you can't hear or understand something an interpreter was there. As I get older, my interest in deaf...
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...3/17/14 My S.M.A.R.T Goal Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is important for overall health and can help you prevent and control many diseases and conditions. That is why I am using the S.M.A.R.T goal setting process to lose ten pounds in the next three months. I picked this specific fitness goal because I think it crucial to feel good about myself and keep a healthy weight. This goal is not going to be achieved on its own; it’s going to have some obstacles in the way. I am going to have to push myself every day in P.E as well as work out at home. My goal is to lose 10 pounds. I will lose weight. I want to lose 10 pounds in 3 months by eating right and exercising in the gym so I can be healthy, fit and energetic. By using the S.M.A.R.T goal setting process I am setting a realistic goal for myself to achieve so that I am healthy and can feel good about myself. My specific goal is to lose ten pounds by the summer. By doing this I can be happy with my weight and fit in my skinny jean. This goal will be measured by weighing me every day in the morning before I go to school. I will know my goal is accomplished when I step on the scale and see the number 135. Losing ten pounds will be very challenging because I’m not used to working out on a daily basis and it will take time to make it a daily routine. In order to achieve my goal I need to participate in P.E and so sort of activity daily. My goal is realistic and I am more than committed my goal. I want to...
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...Over the span of my eighteen year-long lifetime, I have set hundreds of goals for myself, from scoring goals in soccer games to getting an “A” on this next math exam. Goals are a great tool to use to focus one’s attention towards things that benefit one who needs to get something done. Back in July, I wrote a few goals that I wanted to achieve during my first semester of sophomore year in West Virginia University. My first of these goals was to earn at least a 3.5 grade point average over the semester. All throughout school back in my hometown, I had gotten one “C”, one “B”, and many “A”s. I was used to being one of the smart kids with the good grades. In college, I assumed that everything would be different, and that I would struggle a lot more than I had. Just recently, in the middle of the second half of the semester, I calculated my expected GPA. If I end with the grades that I expect to have for the semester, I will have a 3.7! When I wrote down my goal, I thought that I was setting the bar too high so that I would push myself to achieve the goal. Now I realize that I really can do better than I expected, and plan to push myself similarly in the future! I also wanted to stick out to my teachers during my first semester. I have met...
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...I’ve always treated my life like a race. Setting goals in the race to make sure I hit the marks that I need to so I can run the best race I can. I’ve learned that if you don’t set goals you want to accomplish then you settle. I’m not one to settle, instead I want to strive to be the very best I can be. I have learned I have to give at least 100 percent to reach where I want to go. Setting mini goals along the way to reach the biggest goals I have in life. As I have reached the conclusion of my highschool goals I am starting to reflect on what I have accomplished and what I would like to see myself doing in the future. I went into highschool with one main goal- keep a high grade point average while participating in athletics and keeping...
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...in a measured and predicted way. A personal goal that I have set is to try to reduce my stress and anxiety levels. A career goal that I have, is to always learn and grow every day to enhance my work experience, to further enhance my working experience into a promotion. My last goal is my academic goal and for that goal, I’m more...
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...Professional and Personal Goals December 12, 2011 Someone famous once wrote, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” That’s deep! But, in a way, it’s obvious and should go without saying. However, so many people try to just jump the whole thousand miles at once and seem to forget that careful steps and rest stops must be made along the way to successfully (the main word is successfully ) complete that journey. I’ve had my goals and aspirations for a long time but I’m not sure that I ever started out in the most organized fashion. My professional goals remain the same but I now realize that effective time management is the main way to achieve my goals in a less stressful manner. I understand that setting goals is very important so that one can determine what is important and what is not. It helps one concentrate on the big picture and gives one the freedom to spend less time on the not so important things. The goals that are set should be attainable, specific, measurable, realistic, and timely. My professional short term goal is to acquire a staff or per diem position at one of the few hospitals in the area which are willing to hire nurses with associate degrees. I was, until I started school, a traveling nurse, but, due to the course of study I am undergoing, I’ve had to stop traveling. My professional long term goal is to ultimately receive a master’s degree so that I can become a nurse practitioner or a clinical instructor. I...
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...Career Goal Setting Starting at an incredibly young age we are always asked what we want to be in life, and that thought sticks with us throughout our entire educational endeavor. When I was in the fifth grade, I became obsessed with the game of golf. Everything that I did had to revolve around golf or I would rebel against it. It became my passion around the age of 10, and it has stuck with me until this very day. Throughout my high school career I always thought that being a golf professional was the career path for me, but now a part of me has realized that at some point golf needs to end. It is time for me to find a new dream career. My goal for this academic year is to find the career path in which I would like to pursue. My strengths of adaptability, communication, competition, futuristic, and significance are going to help me find a perfect career fit as well as set goals pertaining to it in the process....
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...I got goals for just about everything in life, but for now I think I’ll stick with my school goals for now. Specifically my school goals for this year, and of course there going to be realistic so not something like straight A’s all trimester/year long. Mainly some goals for my grades, things I hope to have achieved, and possibly some sports goals as well. I’m of course going to start with grades simply because there the key to the other things, without the good grades you won’t be in many sports, and you certainly won’t get anywhere in life with low grades either. So without further a due, here, is my essay... or at least the rest of it. Grades, yes those dreaded things that our parents practically go insane over and yes it is true that we need to keep them good if we have plans on going anywhere in life. But this isn’t a paragraph about grades in general; it’s a paragraph about my grades. So let’s keep on topic here. My goal grade wise is simply a 3.0 or higher, by that math if I can keep it around a 3.2 to 3.6 it’ll be a perfect GPA for getting into most schools. Mainly MSU, Ohio State, Central,...
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...out of my friends. Time and time again I helped them with personal problems and resolve conflicts. I also am very interested in people and figuring out why they do what they do. While I have other abilities that are applicable to other career fields, this is the one I enjoy the most. I have already begun step one of my plan to become a therapist. I am currently working towards a degree in psychology which is the foundation of all the jobs in my field of interest. Once I have my undergrad I need to narrow down what specific career I want. The term therapist is a broad term used to describe the many different types of healthcare professionals who specialize in providing mental health services. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, professional counselors and psychiatric nurses can all work as therapists. I have already narrowed it down to either a psychiatrist or family therapist. I plan on joining the Air Force after getting my undergrad degree. This will serve the dual purpose of paying for my school, working with military personnel and their families. If I choose to become a psychiatrist I will need to go to the doctorate level. I could acquire my master’s degree then work as a family therapist in the air force while simultaneously earning my doctorate degree to become a psychiatrist. In conclusion, I am not yet decided on a specific career. Therefore I cannot layout a complete plan on how I will become a professional. All I can do at this point is earn my undergrad...
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...ever sit down and think about what your future is going to look like? Well probably at the age of 17, many of us do not plan what we will be doing in the future, because it may not go that way. Many of us do not know what we want for our future. Many of us set goals for our future when we are young. Some of us by the age of 35 want to have been a graduate from a certain school, live in a certain place, and own many valuable objects. Others of us don’t really set goals and just go with the flow. Some of us set realistic goals and some of us set goals that are impossible to accomplish. Many of as have a lot of goals we want to accomplish by a certain age. We want to travel and accomplish all of our goals before starting our...
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...My Career Goals I have two main reasons to set my career goals. Firstly, as I was a child, I always had had a dream that I wanted to grow up faster because I could choose what I wanted. I would like to make a decision by my own. After I grow up and to be considered as an adult, I found that making decision was not as easy as I thought because I have to give careful consideration to everything instead of only thinking about me. Secondly, everyone would go to work after he or she graduated from school because they have responsibilities to their own life. If they want a better life, they must work hard to support themselves. Based on these two reasons, I have decided three career goals of my life, including using my strengths to the work, balancing work and life and letting my family have better life. Firstly, using my strengths to the work is important to me. I studied environment science in my country. Because of my major, I worked in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as a facility engineer who is responsibility for wastewater treatment. The facility engineer use physical and chemical methods to treat wastewater to turn into clean water. I could use my professional knowledge to solve the problem in my work. However, I didn’t want to be only an engineer. Although I was happy to use my talent in my work, I want to make my career have different challenges; moreover, keeping working in the same position confines the development of my career. As...
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...computer wasn't always what I strived for but fo y future wise it's more of a realistic goal in life. This semester I would love to see how computer sciences goes for me. I Joseph Martinez have set goals during this semester that aline it self to my major. Passing all my classes is my number one priority in this semester I can’t if i'm failing my classes, failing out in my classes would mean not getting my degree for computer science. My goal, to be a successful person once i'm done with college. I’m aiming pretty high for my education. I also want a master degree and i'm willing to try hard for it. I have minors goals and skills to require my success in school. Studying , Focusing on school mainly in my life. Right now school is what’s important and only focus I need. Being well organized is another key for success. I shall never be absent less it's a dire situation, nor should I be tardy i'll try to refrain from being tardy....
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...My Life Goals Each year in December I begin to think about ways I make the next year better, but I always end up finding myself in the same place. This year I decided to use a very organized and methodical process by identifying a list of goals I want to achieve in my life, creating a plan to follow, so I can be able to stay on target and meet those goals. From the list I created, I choose the three most important goals that will shape and change my life, a personal goal, an academic goal, and a professional goal. Being healthy is very important for me and for my family. I want to enjoy my life with my kids without any pain, illness and disease of any kind. I am 5ft 1 tall, and 143 pounds. My healthy weight should be 130 pounds, so for my personal goal I decided to lose 13 pounds in two months. As a student at Ashford University, my academic goal that I want to achieve is to complete my bachelor of accounting in 2 years, because getting a degree is the first and foremost way to become successful in life . The skills I anticipate on developing through my education in the university will be the team learning, time management, and the development of better organizational skills. The development of these skills will enable me to communicate more effectively and efficiently in the world of business, and be more productive citizen in this community. As for my professional goal in life, I want to have my accounting office in the 5 years. Accountant”Likes to work with data, numbers...
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