Alejandra Ruvalcaba
General Education
12/13/14
Pete Medina “Continuing Education Success”, personally I never even thought about this nor about setting educational goals for myself, like obtaining a bachelors in criminal justice to achieve a good paying job. In this class I learned how important it is to make my education a priority so I do not get sidetracked by other things that are also important in my life. Setting educational goals for my academic success is a very important part of education because you have more motivation. Goals can motivate you every day by reminding your mind that you have some sort of a contract with yourself that you have to meet. Goals help us keep focused on what we need to do in order to make this goals a reality. Planning the steps to meet long term or short term will help you organize the steps you will take to reach your goals. Learning to use your time more productively will help you accomplish the steps that are necessary in your day to accomplish your goal when setting time frames. It does not matter if your goals are long term or short term goals, you will get to them. Setting this goals will help me move forward with my educational success in many more ways we learn with time. My educational long term goal is to get my bachelors in criminal justice at any cost. I have set high standards and nothing can get in my way to achieve my goal. I am ready to be a full time student and mother of three kids that need to see more family members getting an education. As soon as I am done with this I will seek my career goal which is to have a better paying job and a fun place to call work. I really want a job that I will enjoy not think I hate Mondays. Another thing that will help me advance in my education is writing. Writing is the key to success, we need to know how to write because this is what school is all about. Sometimes I have a difficult time writing essays like the one I am currently writing but
References: Continuing Academic Success In order to be successful academically there are some things we need to know, goal setting is one of them and maybe not a lot of us know how to meet educational goals without getting side tracked by other things that are going on in our life. I had no idea how much I needed to think about how I would help myself continuing my academic success until this general education class I had to take opened my mind to new ideas. Setting educational goals is an important part of your academic success, this will help us stay on track on what our educational goal is. A goal will not let me sidetrack if I keep repeating to myself what my goal is. Educational goals will also assist me in planning a good strategy to make my goals move forward and become a reality not just thoughts. I may write down my goal and follow the steps towards reaching it by reading it daily. My educational goal is to finish my criminal justice bachelor in 3 years and no more than that. I am also looking forward to an academic success goal which is getting a job that I enjoy and that pays me a lot more than what they pay me right now. In the universities wedsite offers you the writing process