Life Goals

When I was a high school student, I wanted nothing more than to put my schooling experience behind me. The day that I graduated, I thought to myself, “finally! I am done!” After everything settled down after graduation, I got a job as a shift supervisor at a Boston Market in Littleton, Colorado. After about a year of working there, I realized that I wanted a better life for myself. So what does one do when they want a better life and their parents can’t talk them into going to college? They join the Military. So, in August of 2006, that is exactly what I did. Just about four years later, I finally realized that to get anywhere in this world now a days, you need to have some form of a college education.

The main reason why I am attending college is to make a better life for myself. Now, I realize that this is a very vague thing to explain, so let’s look into this a little further. For starters, I want to be able to always support myself without the support of a man, or anyone else for that matter. I have done a pretty good job of that thus far, and I would like to keep it that way. One day I would like to get married and have children. I want to be able to give my children a good life growing up like I had. I believe that a good way to accomplish this is to go to school and get a good job to be able to give them what they need and deserve out of life at a young age. I also want to have a purpose for my life. I guess that this is my long term goal, you could say. I want to be able to tell people “this is what I do for a living, this is my purpose and I plan on doing this for the rest of my life.”

By going to college, I want to learn more about myself. Everything that I do in my life, I push myself to the extreme, and basically t...

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...s, a Greek Stoic philosopher. This quote means a lot to me as an individual because it basically sums life up in one sentence. You can do anything that you want to do as long as you set your mind to it. Although I am attending college for many different reasons, I am doing it to accomplish a long term goal in my life: to be successful. It is just a piece of the puzzle that we call life. There is much work to be done, and there will be many failures and successes along the way. I will face many challenges in the next few years. As long as I stick to my plan and work hard towards what I want, I will become what I want to be. In closing, Theodore Roosevelt once said, “With self-discipline most anything is possible”. This is something that should be taken to heart by everyone. I can be anything that I want to be. Do anything that I want to do, and that is the greatest fee