Personal Goals

Personal Goals

One of the best decisions I have made in my life was returning to school after a year. Even though I was only one year, many things have changed in my life. I am no longer the traditional because I have work and a family to balance. If I want to be a successful student at the University of Phoenix, I will need to set some personal goals. Not only will personal goals help me be successful at school, think it will also help me get to where I want to be in life. I have had failure at some of the goals I have set in the past, so I had to truly think about what I want to do. I thought all my set backs, which falls under: my personality, time management, family and health, education and finance. If I focus on those five categories it will help me set my true personal goals.

I take my education serious and take pride in getting good grades. When it comes to college work I have one major set back. Besides the fact that I am a nice and caring person, I am also shy. When I have to do an oral presentation, being shy is not a good asset. Talking in the front of unfamiliar people makes me nervous and doubts myself. So a personal goal for my personality would be, to build my self-confidence. The self -confidence will help motivate me to reach other goals also. It will also help me in the long run, once I get into my career and have to give presentations, give reports, and work with others.

According to the personality spectrum, everyone is an organizer in some way. My poor organization falls under planning. I know that I will be able to accomplish much more if I keep from getting side tracked. Now that I have to balance work, family, class and personal time, mastering time management will be a major personal goal. One way to work towards that goal is to start using my, to-do- list on my cell phone and computer. It will help me to see exactly what I have to do and what I have already done for the day and week. Another thing I can do is also start using a daily schedule to see exactly where my time is being wasted. I already know that time is money, because it shows when I am late for work or have to leave early. Hopefully, with the time management goal, I will not have the problem too often in my career.

Now that I have a family, health and family plays an important role in my life. As a student one of my goals, would be to set an example