Personal Goals
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Goals for me, in the past, have seemed a bit transparent. I have set goals in my mind for many things but not necessarily followed through with them. I want to investigate now what goals are important to me and my past approach to them as well as my future plans on how to achieve my goals.
When I was younger, my goals were very simple. Get good grades, move on to the next grade level, please my parents, become a fire fighter or something that dealt with a siren and lights on a car, and to have a lot of friends. As I got older my goals in life became much more complex. I realized that in order to succeed in life you had to set goals and more importantly you had to reach them and then create additional ones. I would often set goals but I would become disappointed because I didn't meet my own expectations of achieving them. Looking back I did not set realistic goals for myself or was just being too hard on myself.
My first major goal was to graduate from High School with grades that would allow me to be eligible for college scholarships...