Current And Future Goals: Current, And Future Goals

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Current and Future Goals Growing up, goals change dramatically. A five-year olds goal is to get the coloring page done. As people go through school, goals obviously change. A freshman’s goal may be to learn the school so he or she doesn’t get lost. Seniors goals grow to finding where they will spend the next four years or what kind of career they will grow upon. Then, of course goals continue to change as people get older and enter into different stages of life. In this essay, I am going to talk about how my goals in different aspects of my life and how they have transformed, what they are currently, and what they may turn into in the future.

Personal Goals The main personal goal I have is to be healthy. I know that this is a very large …show more content…

Having a more positive attitude has been a goal for me my entire life. Many of my family are extremely negative people, so I have strived to be a positive person as often as I can. Most of the time, I am able to be positive, but I do catch myself having a negative attitude sometimes and I have to remind myself to be positive. As I get older, I know my goals will change and new ones will be added such as family goals, debt relief, and upgrading my assets. Currently, the only debt I have is student loans so that will be a major goal for me upon graduating. I have a paid off house currently, but I know that in a few years I will want to upgrade my house because it isn’t the size I would prefer when I have kids. Most college students haven’t had a lot of the personal goals that we may find to have after we graduate, so I know there will be plenty to add to the …show more content…

However, my sophomore year of college, I was at DePauw University in a pre-med fraternity. I went to a conference in Orlando for my fraternity and I listened to a speaker who went to law school and found out he absolutely hated being a lawyer. He had no time with his family, he was overloaded with work, and he was missing out on a lot of life. I got to thinking about my goals and realized I had been too involved in my goals of being a doctor to think of the rest of my future. Family is important to me. I want to go to my kid’s games and be able to have dinner with them every night even if that means I won’t make as big of a check. I talked to my pre-med advisor about my concerns and she suggested that I should look into the route of being a nurse or physician

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