Goals and Ambitions
There are a lot of things that people want to accomplish in life-the typical human response to being given life and air and brainpower seems to be to set goals for herself, to strive for things in the future. Personally, I have many secular and personal goals that I hope to attain one day…I have come near to defining myself by them in the recent few years. But deep down I know that these things do not change me; I change them by the kind of person I become. Goals and ambitions for me seem to be constantly shifting, morphing into ideas completely different than I started out with. But that’s okay, because that is how we grow, that is how we get places in life. And, more than anything, I want to go places. And I will do that.
As far as the two main divisions of goals and ambitions go, I have to say that the secular seems to be the most concentrated on by the society in which we live. Many people blend together the personal and the secular, making them into one category of dreams and ambitions, but I very deliberately separate the two. Professionally, I want to work as a massage therapist as I work toward my Associate’s Degree. Then, still working as a massage therapist, I am going to get my Bachelor’s Degree in Business. I plan on someday running a large physical therapy/chiropractic office, and I believe that a Bachelor’s in Business would help a lot in that endeavor. After attaining my Bachelor’s Degree, I plan on attending a chiropractic school somewhere in the Southeast, and after about four years of that, I will be a Doctor of Chiropractic. This title and education will help me to run a business better, will enable me to work more closely with patients and their other physicians/insurance companies, and most importantly I will be able to help more people. Although I have not honestly thought much far ahead of all the previously mentioned ambitions, I believe that those will suffice for the time being. I just described about seven years of education and work, and since I am only eighteen years old, I believe that is a significant plan for the time being.
Although important (necessary, really) to life, secular goals are not the most important thing. Personal ambition and things that we do for ourselves are important as well, because those are the building blocks for everything else in life. If we have no personal ambition, then how are we to set or attain secular goals? What drives us to attend years and years of school while working to pay for it? What drives us to work our entire lives away? My personal ambition is centered largely on family. I want someday to have a family that I can take care of, that I can support with no worries. I want to be able to do a job that enables me to help people while simultaneously making enough money to make sure my children never have to worry about how they will pay for college. I do not want the worries that are plaguing me as an eighteen-year-old now to be their worries as well. My family will always have the necessary things, and I will always be able to be there for them. That is what I want for my personal future. That is the kind of ambition I hold to be the most important in my life. The secular ambitions are a means to an end-a good career will be what enables me to support my family and that is all. That job and that career will not consume me, because that is not who I am. It is what I do, and another personal ambition of mine is to never forget that.
Overall, I believe myself to be an ambitious young person. Although many of my plans and goals may (and probably will) change over the next few years of my life as I get closer and closer to attaining them, I know that at their most basic level, they are the same. All my goals and ambitions lead me to one place, and that is a happy life as free from stress as I can possibly keep it. That is what I am striving for.
As far as the two main divisions of goals and ambitions go, I have to say that the secular seems to be the most concentrated on by the society in which we live. Many people blend together the personal and the secular, making them into one category of dreams and ambitions, but I very deliberately separate the two. Professionally, I want to work as a massage therapist as I work toward my Associate’s Degree. Then, still working as a massage therapist, I am going to get my Bachelor’s Degree in Business. I plan on someday running a large physical therapy/chiropractic office, and I believe that a Bachelor’s in Business would help a lot in that endeavor. After attaining my Bachelor’s Degree, I plan on attending a chiropractic school somewhere in the Southeast, and after about four years of that, I will be a Doctor of Chiropractic. This title and education will help me to run a business better, will enable me to work more closely with patients and their other physicians/insurance companies, and most importantly I will be able to help more people. Although I have not honestly thought much far ahead of all the previously mentioned ambitions, I believe that those will suffice for the time being. I just described about seven years of education and work, and since I am only eighteen years old, I believe that is a significant plan for the time being.
Although important (necessary, really) to life, secular goals are not the most important thing. Personal ambition and things that we do for ourselves are important as well, because those are the building blocks for everything else in life. If we have no personal ambition, then how are we to set or attain secular goals? What drives us to attend years and years of school while working to pay for it? What drives us to work our entire lives away? My personal ambition is centered largely on family. I want someday to have a family that I can take care of, that I can support with no worries. I want to be able to do a job that enables me to help people while simultaneously making enough money to make sure my children never have to worry about how they will pay for college. I do not want the worries that are plaguing me as an eighteen-year-old now to be their worries as well. My family will always have the necessary things, and I will always be able to be there for them. That is what I want for my personal future. That is the kind of ambition I hold to be the most important in my life. The secular ambitions are a means to an end-a good career will be what enables me to support my family and that is all. That job and that career will not consume me, because that is not who I am. It is what I do, and another personal ambition of mine is to never forget that.
Overall, I believe myself to be an ambitious young person. Although many of my plans and goals may (and probably will) change over the next few years of my life as I get closer and closer to attaining them, I know that at their most basic level, they are the same. All my goals and ambitions lead me to one place, and that is a happy life as free from stress as I can possibly keep it. That is what I am striving for.