My Personal Goals

In high school, I never imagined attending the nation's number one public research institution. It was something that no one from my community had done, and the lack of representation from others in my community seemed to disencourage me from even applying. It was not until my senior year of high school that I began applying to colleges, when my older sister encouraged me to apply to the University of Michigan. She saw potential in the things that I could accomplish, but even her encouragement lacked to make me understand how I could be admitted into this predominately white institution. However, I applied early action and was ecstatic when I was accepted.

My long-term goal with my college education is to complete my Bachelor's degree and eventually continue on to receive my Master’s degree in criminal justice. The first step to complete my long-term goal is receiving my Associate’s degree in criminal justice by May 2017. This goal is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely.

As we are in a New Year, I have set many personal goals that I would like to accomplish to become a better individual. I have always been a person who set goals, whether they are long-term or short term, I always have them. I like to set goals for myself because goals give me guidance throughout life. Now that a new year has approached, I am focusing on three main goals that I would like to achieve at this time. Those three goals include managing my time better, to keep maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and to continue to remain focus this upcoming semester.

Life is all about choices, what do you want to eat, who do you want to hang out with and where do you want to attend college? These choices shape and create who we are. However, as important as choices are they do not guide us. The goals we set for ourselves are our guides. Goals can determine whether a person succeeds or fails (Hyatt). Goals give us a sense of direction, a sense of self worth and a sense of excitement (Locke & Lathem 2002). In my classroom I ask students to create goals every year. I ask them for two academic goals and one personal goal. I enjoy doing this activity because it gives my students guidance and something to shoot for. I create goals in every aspect of my life. Some of my goals include professional goals with coaching and teaching, some goals are personal goals and lastly some are goals are family related. Throughout this paper I will be talking about goals. This paper will discuss advantages of goal, S.M.A.R.T. goals and types of goals.

A big goal I have for myself is to continue growing and developing as a musician. I want to gain as much experience as I can as a music educator as well as a private teacher. I believe in order to be a successful teacher whether it is in a classroom or private studio setting, the more techniques and strategies you have to teach with the more successful you will be. Working with Crystal Malinski at Foundation Music School has been such an amazing and eye opening experience for me. I have observed and learned so many techniques and strategies as well as having the opportunity to interact with students. Something I really want to improve up is reaching out to schools around Fort Collins and asking to observe their music classes in order to get

Over the past few weeks, I've been striving to reach a personal goal to help or get better in my social wellness. My goal was to be more talkative and less shy, but more specifically to try to hold (or start a conversation that lasts up to 20-30 minutes long by the time week five roles around. I wanted to reach this goal because I tend to find myself to be a little awkward and uncomfortable when I'm in a large group of people I don't know or talking to someone I don't know or usually talk to, so I wanted to fix that.

I will be exploring and distinguishing two personal goals and two professional goals in relation to developing a strong and resilient mind. We will find methods that would help achieve these goals. We will be creating scenarios that for each personal goal established and what method used to achieve that goal.

I am a single mom, full-time student, and substitute teacher. I made a positive choice in my life to return to college as a degree-seeking, non-traditional student; as it has always been a childhood dream of mine to be the first person in my family to attend and graduate from college! I am close to my short-term goal accomplishment of earning my Bachelors of Arts Degree in Psychology. One of my long-term goals is to become a psychologist in order to make a better life for me and my children, as well as helping others and giving back to my community. I value my education, and in addition to being very ambitious, I focus on my studies to maintain higher grades which will help to open up opportunities for employment in the field of Psychology.

My short term goals include graduating from high school and beginning college in the fall. I am continuing to research different fields of business to help narrow down what I would like to pursue in the future. I also plan to get a part-time job to help fund my college education, allowing me to graduate with as little debt as possible. This will help me achieve my long term goals more easily.

Many people exercise, climb mountains, compete in extreme sports, and the list could go on all to better one’s self. While one may compete against others, the main goal is best personal goals. To me, that is what going to college and gaining a higher education is about. I do not have a family that has forced me to go, or who even will known when I have accomplished my goals. What I have is the experience of exercising my brain, overcoming financial mountains, and pushing myself to what many times feels like extreme limits. A higher education not only allows one to push beyond what one believes they can do, it allows one to be an example of what the next student can accomplish. College and higher education is about the paving of paths

ITT Technical Institute, Arlington TX campus is where I chose to gain my Associates Degree. I enrolled in 2007 with the dream of being successful it the IT industry. I knew a career working with computers would always be in demand and with experience, the industry would allow me to become highly successful. Graduating in 2010, after completing my associate’s degree, I then decided to pursuit the job market. I found, in the field of technology there are, what I like to call, “a series of projects”. My professional experiences consists of about six years working for privately owned companies as a technical support person, application support specialist, scrum master and trainer.

Who am I? Who do I hope to be? What are my goals for life? These were all questions I was asked in fifth grade during a project. My answer was, when I am older I want to play in the WNBA, own a big house, and be super rich. Of course, as times have changed I have gotten older my hopes, dreams, and goals have quite a bit.

My paper will be about my life/goals and what I hope for in my future. I am hoping to be a successful person in life and accomplish some things that will leave a mark on my generation. I am a very stubborn person so if someone says I can’t do something it fuels me to prove them wrong. I have a successful family and good influences that surround me. My late great grandfather was a well known doctor and served in our armed forces. My great aunt is a successful paralegal and works at a well established law firm in Phoenix, Arizona. My dad along with my grandfather are very talented welders that both work in management at ESP in Bessemer, Alabama. I currently participate in baseball and football at Jemison High School. My occupation that has been given to me is a aircraft technician. I have researched this career and have come to the conclusion that I am going to try and see if this occupation works out for me. I love to working on things to be able to see how they work. Therefore, my future career will adhere to my interests.

I am a female who was named after a telenovela, “Abigail” born in Pomona CA and raised in San Bernardino CA. I was named by the name Abigail because my dad thought it was a beautiful name from the telenovela and it was also in the bible. I thought it was pretty hilarious when he told me. I turned 18 on September 20th, and was born on the year 1998. I currently attend Cal State San Bernardino and I’m a freshman majoring in Nutrition and Food Sciences. My future goals consist of graduating and continuing my learnings into my life in the future. Where I am at this point of my life is just school and my business. I will mention later on what this business consists of. Also, in this point of my life I also do stuff beside school and my business. For example, I like to hangout with my cousins and family on weekends and spend quality time with my family during the week. We take family trips out of state every year and also do fun activities around the city.

Yes, I did. My personal goals align with our group project objectives, which include fulfilling the University of Mary Benedictine values, gaining a better understanding of the effect of socioeconomic has on children’s development, and attaining a better perception of the barrier that under-privileged children face in the acquirement of basic necessities. I provided the service to both the children and adults (food pantry) with my classmates, during which I implemented the Benedictine values and APTA core values. Throughout the interacting with different children, I noticed that how important the family and social support are to early childhood development. There was one single father who brought his son and daughter (both around 3-5 y.o) who could not even say a word at the beginning. After we taught them the games and played with them, they started to talk. I also learned some American games after this project, such as the “cat pull”, water balloon, capture the flag, etc, which will be helpful for me to treat pediatric patients in the future.