Until now I have never been asked to write about my personal goals in a paper. So, as I
sat down to brainstorm, I discovered that I did not have very many goals. I found that I listed
more reasons to achieve my goals than actual goals. This made writing this paper a great deal
harder than I thought. Although, the results were very interesting since I had to think about what
I wanted out of life and why. I realized I have educational, personal and career goals that I
want to achieve.
My educational goals are learning how to gather, retain, plan and use the information
that I am learning. I must relearn how to be a student. I must read, …show more content…
If not, it was not meant to be.
My career goal is quite simple. I would like advance in the accounting field maybe go
into finance. To reach these goals I must do several things. I need learn to trust people.
Dealing with the public, I am told many lies and excuses which tends to make me not trust
people. As each day goes by, I am starting to regain trust because of the peers. I see they work
hard and try to help each other. This gives me a little more faith in people. So, once I complete
my degree, it will show my employer that I am a dedicated and hard working employee. The most important goals to me are my personal goals. I must learn to handle day-to-
day issues. Now that I am back in school I must change my life. What I mean is I must make
decisions about my everyday life. I have to learn to balance my personal life, my job and my
studies. To do this I have set up a calendar and blocked off times for each one. My biggest
block is work, then school, then personal things. It is very hard trying to balance everything. I
think it is even harder trying to retain the new information. Now that I am older, I find my