Goal Setting Essay
Tyler Cissell
English 302 – G3
Mr. Sysol
15 January 2014
Goals Setting Essay
Achievable Ambitions We are put on this Earth to strive for greatness and reach our full potential. It’s no secret we all want to be successful, but we say that not really setting a specific path to actually achieve our full potential. You have different checkpoints in life that help you with confidence and ultimately get to your long term achievement. Setting goals is the best way to motivate yourself to turn your vision of this future into a reality. I have some lifetime goals that I know if I push myself, I can achieve them. In the next ten years, I want to get an MBA in finance. I am fascinated with business – especially finance and marketing. I don’t know what occupation I want to have but by the age of 35 I want to make over $100,000 annually. I have many great qualities that could help me obtain a great job. I communicate well and am able to interact well with others. I am a firm believer that practice makes perfect. Over the summer, I worked at a country club gaining great communication experience, mainly being assertive, articulating my speech, and having great body language. A second lifetime goal (ten years from now) I would love to achieve is getting married. Finding the person I want to spend the rest of my life with actually may be the biggest goal. From there I want to start a family having children and getting them involved in sports like I was when I was little. Also, by the age of 28 I want to have no education debt at all so I can start investing in my children’s college funds. My father paid his way through college which left him with a decent chunk of debt that I know had to have stressed him out raising kids. It’s nearly impossible to have a stress-free life, but being financially prepared helps tremendously. My first five-month goal will be to have three college visits done so I can find what best fits for me in majoring in Finance. I already have in mind where I
English 302 – G3
Mr. Sysol
15 January 2014
Goals Setting Essay
Achievable Ambitions We are put on this Earth to strive for greatness and reach our full potential. It’s no secret we all want to be successful, but we say that not really setting a specific path to actually achieve our full potential. You have different checkpoints in life that help you with confidence and ultimately get to your long term achievement. Setting goals is the best way to motivate yourself to turn your vision of this future into a reality. I have some lifetime goals that I know if I push myself, I can achieve them. In the next ten years, I want to get an MBA in finance. I am fascinated with business – especially finance and marketing. I don’t know what occupation I want to have but by the age of 35 I want to make over $100,000 annually. I have many great qualities that could help me obtain a great job. I communicate well and am able to interact well with others. I am a firm believer that practice makes perfect. Over the summer, I worked at a country club gaining great communication experience, mainly being assertive, articulating my speech, and having great body language. A second lifetime goal (ten years from now) I would love to achieve is getting married. Finding the person I want to spend the rest of my life with actually may be the biggest goal. From there I want to start a family having children and getting them involved in sports like I was when I was little. Also, by the age of 28 I want to have no education debt at all so I can start investing in my children’s college funds. My father paid his way through college which left him with a decent chunk of debt that I know had to have stressed him out raising kids. It’s nearly impossible to have a stress-free life, but being financially prepared helps tremendously. My first five-month goal will be to have three college visits done so I can find what best fits for me in majoring in Finance. I already have in mind where I