Personal Narrative: My American Paint Horse

Everyone has dreams and aspirations they want to achieve in life. Mines are to eventually earn my PhD in Health Management, write a book on the social economic conditions that plague Black Communities and to hopefully run for US Senate in the near not too distance future. All amiable and lofty aspirations, but one thing; that is all they will ever become unless I take ownership of my dreams and turn them into reality. Dreams can inspire you, but more importantly, goals can change your life. Taking your dreams and turning them into goals is no easy task, it often comes with a price; time, effort, sweat, determination, and sometimes money. Goals are focused and precise objectives based on real life values that requires action. To achieve any goals, you must make sacrifices, stay committed, overcome adversity and stick to a plan. But how do I turn these far-fetched dreams into SMART Goals?

My goals are like every other person; I go for the most outgoing ones that some people don’t even know about. One of my greatest goals is to be in a cooking competition and do my best in it even if I don’t win I want to leave everyone wanting more. Another of my goals is to be on the big screen in any sporting

1) Set goals - A goal is the end result or outcome wished for, that a person envisions, plans and commits to achieve. Setting goals is an effective way to meet work requirements in a reasonable amount of time.

Setting goals for yourself is an important aspect to help achieve success in life. Setting goals not only helps guide you to be successful, but also helps a person believe in themselves

I have goals in my life, just as the great Odysseus had his own goals; Odysseus wanted to return home and slay all of the parasitic suitors, living off his fortune. My goals, on the other hand, are not so gory or dangerous, but it is also tiresome to achieve my altitudinous goals. I want to go to a nationally ranked college in business after I graduate, that is why I am

People have put forth effort to achieve their ambitions and that is called goals. It is important to know that fantasies and dreams are easily confused for goals. “Fantasies are ideas that cannot happen and dreams are out comes that are possible.” However, motivation is connected with goals. Having the right behavior and mind set will go far with motivation and then goals will turn into achievements. Goals have four different categories. There are long term goals which are ten years or more. An example would be someone planning to own a home by then. Intermediate goals are one to ten years. Maybe someone would like to make a career change. A goal that lasts a year or less is a short term. Let’s say a couple is going to plan their wedding and it normally takes up to one year to do. The fourth one is an immediate goal which is from the time present to thirty days. A good example would be someone moving from one home to

Rachel walked Guiness down the metal, studded ramp. When I saw him I felt so many different emotions; happy that he was here, nervous as it had just hit me that I was now responsible for my first horse and also sadness as I could see that Rachel was devastated to give him up, and that she was just about holding herself together. Together, we walked him around to show him his new home and tried to settle him but I could tell that he was anxious and scared, breathing heavily and looking around, obviously sensing that something unusual was happening. Eventually he relaxed and started to munch away at this hay. I kept my distance as Rachel said her goodbye’s. We waved her off as she left with the empty horse-box, tears running down her cheeks.

A goal is defined as the desired result a person anticipates and plans to accomplish. For example the ultimate goal in college is to graduate. It is the big idea of any mission. A company may have a goal to be the best pizza service in the state. So, for Amazon, it could be reduce the cost of books, or it could be drive profit by increasing the cost of shipping. Goals can be long or short term goals. For example, a short term goal could be drink water all week. A long-term goal could be set freshman year of college which is to graduate on time. A goal is anything that an individual, company, school, or organization set to be achieved.

Goals are future plans and intentions of an individual. They are a fantastic motivational tool, not to mention that they give our lives a deeper sense of purpose. Striving for them and working hard to achieve them can give a roadmap to our actions, and by rearranging our existences around our ambitions, we run a lower risk of wandering off the metaphorical path or letting our short lives on this Earth end without completing all that we wanted to do. Modern civilization is set apart from long gone generations in this sense. While our ancestors were limited to hunting, gathering, and simply keeping the human race alive, the people of recent times are able to rely on those things to be done, and can instead focus on making their dreams a reality. I, too, have a set of goals for my own future.

For eight years now I have been working on completing an educational goal. My educational goal is to receive straight “A’s” in math class. I am working towards this academic goal by trying my very best in math class. Studying for math class comes easily to me because it’s my favorite school subject. A goal is something that you never give up on, if you give up, then you may give up on other life achievements.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been interested in horses. I believe I have inherited this interest and passion for them because my father loves them as well. My father has had horses in his life ever since he was 13 years old, and he never seems to get enough of them because he just really appreciates them. I grew up loving them because he taught my sisters and I how to care for them and how they can be a person’s best friend.

As I inhaled I could feel the fresh air running into my lungs. I could smell the horses surrounding me. I could feel the gentle, forgiving breath of my horse ever so slightly ease into my hand. It was a cold show morning at the barn. I tacked up my horse. Then I slipped the bridle over my horse’s ears and stepped out into the rising sun of the dawn. As I swung into the saddle, I could tell that the show was going to be fantastic!

Ever since I was a child I knew that I wanted to work with animals. Horses, in particular, have always fascinated me. After much begging, pleading, years of convincing, and always working hard to save up money, I convinced my parents to allow me to buy a horse. To me, Indie was the most beautiful quarter horse I could have ever dreamed of getting. Since our purchase of Indie, we have acquired another horse, Sherman, and a pony, Tucker. Although the horses have always been hard work, they were worth every sweaty hot summer evening of mucking out the stalls and frigid winter mornings of carrying water to the trough in order to avoid freezing our hoses. After all, I used to dream of being a veterinarian and helping all kinds of animals in some way.

Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come.

Everybody hopes to one day achieve some sort of goal. Being successful requires ambition and motivation. Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve a particular goal that a person has in hopes to become successful. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, once said that “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” Ambition is a good thing because people should always work hard to do their best and achieve more. If people weren’t ambitious than they wouldn’t strive to achieve and be successful in life.