Basketball Player
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In this essay I’m going to be talking about what my career is and why I think this is the appropriate career for me. I want to be a professional basketball player when i grow up.The reason I want to be a professional basketball player is because i’ve been playing basketball since I was in 3rd grade. What i’m going to be talking about in my essay is what the goals are for me to become a professional basketball player.
So, I want to be a professional basketball player when i grow up but I can’t do that is I don’t have any goals to accomplish. In this part of my essay I am going to talk about what my short term goal is and why I think it is a good goal. My short term goal is learning about what to do/what
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My goal for my mid-term basketball “career” is to start to get ready for advance (highschool/college) basketball. Some of the steps that I thought would help me achieve this goal is to set new records(goals) throughout the future in basketball. My next step that I think would help me is to get used to playing against other people. What that means is that I think I should play more against other people to get me used to where I have to throw the ball, where I should go on the court,and all those kind of drills. My last step is to keep practicing all the drills and plays.
The last thing i want to talk about to tell tell you what my goals are for becoming a professional basketball player is the long-term goals. The goal that I think would help is to join more trainings and association.The first step to accomplishing this goal is to get into more associations.It will help get more into what to do for basketball.The next step to accomplishing this goal is to join more travel teams to get used to traveling when playing basketball.The step that i think would help is to join new training associations.I think this would help because it would be able to be apart of more
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I used to think I was going to be a professional basketball player but I’m too slow and not t...
Each person should have their own goal to make sure that they have reasons to live. Without goals we never aim what we want to do. “if you don’t have a goal in life, you are spending your life running around and not achieving anything for yourself”- Bill Copeland. This quote wants to tell us that in life you will always be on the same stage without having the desire to improve yourself in any manners. Having a goal will motivate you to strive whatever you want to achieve instead of wasting your time do unnecessary things. In this task, I have to explain two types of goals which are personal goals and professional goals. The goals are :