Importance Of Life Goals Essay

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Life goals are more than a plan for your future, it determines the outcome of your life. It helps set the foundation of who you are and will be. We set those goals for the purpose in helping to determine what we should be doing. Although, sometimes it can be hard for us to stay by those goals. The motivation starts with ourselves and our physical and mental state. We decide for ourselves how we will live out the rest of our life. Life goals are more than just goals which is what I am here to show.
When thinking of myself, I can see it as me being many things. Apart from the normal characteristics I usually say, I always feel like I have a certain depth that I don’t usually show or tend to talk about. I love having people to be loyal to, if there is someone I meet in my life and I feel like that is a great friend, I will make sure to be someone memorable to them as well. I enjoy it a lot more when those people I consider to be great, think the same way as me, however I’m not saying it is what I expect, friendship is just something I give my whole heart to and make sure to never
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You make sure the ground is stable before beginning to build up; and it really is like that. Along my life I’ve been setting goals, either small or big and sometimes they tend to be the ones I can complete in a day. When setting goals, it all just really depends on who is the one setting them, and what they wish to achieve. Personally I am set on graduating with my high school diploma, complete my PsyD or PhD in college. Before I think big I want to make sure I work on the smaller goals. These include becoming more responsible with not only my school work, but life in general. I also want to make sure to never forget where I’ve come from, I want to hold these relationships with my family, for them to be strong and unbreakable like a brick wall. So setting goals is pretty much thinking of you and what you will do to better

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