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Today, I would really like for us to talk about goals. It's really easy to say that in a few years we would like to have these things while doing those things and that the combination of those things would make us the happiest folks around. I definitely see myself in fifteen years (I'll be 35, just so you know) married with maybe two kids, working at a college while writing a novel and taking regular summer trips around the world. Will these things happen? Who knows, but I'm banking on them.

Goals are defined as "an aim or desired result" and from the moment you turn sixteen will be the main thing that people will to know about you. Goals are mixed in with your wants, but they are the end of your wants. In interviews, you will almost always be asked about your goals and that's why it is so important to have some. If you say, "Oh, well I don't have any goals" then no one will want you on their team. People who have somewhat of an end that they are trying to reach are the people that others often find quite inspiring. Of course, not having certain ends is okay as well. The thing about goals is that they don't always have to be exactly what happens in ten years. 

A lot of things can happen in ten years -- heck, your whole life can change in one minute -- and if your goals at sixteen are different than your goals at thirty, then that is perfectly normal. The picture explains setting goals, fairly accurately. Whether your goals are short- or long-term, you should always make a plan for them and then actively work at them until you meet your goals. Goals are really just basic outlines for how you plan your life out. They can be quite in depth or so vague that even you can't quite figure out what you want. I had a teacher that taught us to use sentence outlines and then later said we could just use word outlines if we wanted. I guess goals are somewhat like that. You can plan them out very thoroughly, so that you only have to put them into action. Or you can leave room for imagination and chance to play a part later on. 

It doesn't really matter how thoroughly you plan your goals. You should just have them.

catch you later,

Karleigh

"Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow." // unknown