Personal Goals: My Goals And Goals In Life

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Goals are set and met every day. Some people 's goal is to make as money as they can, while others ' prefer to make as much friends as possible, and some people 's goal is just to be happy. My goal in life is pretty simple, I just want to make my mother proud. I want to be able to make it to where all of her sacrifices in life for my sibling and me to be appreciated. I want to look forward 10 years and have her see that she made the right choice by coming to this country. I want to make enough money for the both of us so she don 't have to work again. I want to her to know that her son has made it in this country.
My mother has always told me that she just wants me to get an education and make enough money where I don 't have to struggle
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We went from getting government assistance to not needing help at all. Still that is not enough, people will still look at you a certain way. People will still judge you behind close doors. There is even people in the same situation we were in that will still look down on us because my job isn 't this or that. I personally don 't care about what people say, but having people say it to my mother really do anger me. That 's why I need to finish school and get a good paying job. I need to prove to people that my single mother raised someone that made it. Just having a job isn 't enough, how much one makes or the position their in is what defines people. I need to achieve the most I can to shut all the naysayers up.
In life, some dreams are meant to be achieved, while other 's are meant to be broken. I personally can 't see any option but to achieve my goals. I can 't live with the failure of not realizing my goal in life. How can I be happy knowing that I was not able to do something that I set out to do. I have to see my goal of making my mother proud to the end. There are no alternative that will make my life a success other than proving everyone wrong. I know that she would never be unhappy with what I do as long as it 's in the realm of being a good human being, but I know deep down inside I can 't accept
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One way of achieving my goal is to finish school and get a high paying job. Another way is to find another job and move my way up within the company. Both are viable options, but will take a lot of hard work to make it possible. Hard work is one part of the equation, but opening myself is another part that would also help. The term "networking" is something is used quite often around people who are able to talk themselves into position that others ' deserve. I just have to open myself to the opportunities that are waiting for me. I must seek help from others ' that I usually wouldn 't seek help from. Open myself to people that could help me in the future instead of shutting myself off from everyone else. I find myself to be an introvert and that certainly doesn 't help my situation much.
Achieving ones goal will make people do or act in a way that is not themselves. I can 't allow myself to get suck into the same tactics as everyone else. I was brought up to be a respectable person with values and shouldn 't stray away from them. I don 't believe on stepping on people to get ahead in life. I have strong belief in myself of the type of person I am, and should not allow success to change who I am. There 's no satisfaction in achieving a goal when you are cutting corners. I just have to put in the hard work that I know I have deep down inside of me to make

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