In life people make many choices most of those face consequences, such as giving up on one thing to reach another. For myself one thing that I have found a great passion for are setting goals. Stated in the dictionary a goal is: a projected state of affairs that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve—a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines. I find this exactly how I experienced my goals while growing up.
Early in life I always knew I wanted to be a Hokie. I would come to the football games and see the atmosphere and knew that since Hokie blood has ran through my family it only made sense for me to continue it. When I reached high school I wasn’t make good enough grades and knew that I couldn’t get into tech with a 3.7 gpa, so I had to think of other schools. Then I found out my friend came to Tech in a 2 year agriculture program. Once I looked into it I found out I could get a landscaping degree from it and then I knew that was the route I wanted to go.
Goals for me didn’t stop there, throughout high school I ran track and cross country. Those sports required a lot of dedication and goal setting. I would always make a statement during practice to run with the top guys and that would help me reach my goal times I wanted to get for my races. I didn’t believe people that running was 90% mental and 10% physical and once I learned that if you keep positive you can achieve anything. That is the same way with setting goals in general, you have to be positive the whole time and things will take shape for you.
Some goals I have set for myself for the future aren’t hard but yet will challenge me a little bit. I want to graduate in the fall of 2011 and get into the workforce in some kind of landscaping job. Currently I have a wonderful girlfriend who is 5 hours away but is always with me mentally and hope to be with her after school. Other than those I hope to one day own a landscape company and raise a healthy family!
Once I learned that goals aren’t hard to reach as long as you keep your head forward and don’t look back at what you could have done. Instead move on and keep what you want in your life in front of you and over time those things will be reachable.
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I am really curious as to why you chose landscaping and what you love about it and what about it makes you think it'll make you happy and be a good career choice. I've never heard of anyone studying landscaping before, though I do know people who work in the field. Also, tell us about your girlfriend. Long-distance relationships are hard, and I applaud anyone who can succeed in them.
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you have goals set for a few years in your future. I can't say the same about myself. And best of luck with your relationship. I had a long distance relationship during the first semester and now we're on a break or whatever. It sucks. I hope that doesn't happen to you.
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate about wanting to be a Hokie early on in life. In fourth grade I learned about Thomas Jefferson and how he built the University of Virginia. I wanted to go there because I liked Thomas Jefferson. Then that same year I saw a Virignia Tech Magazine with the human powered sub on the cover, and immediately wanted to go there because at that time I had wanted to be an engineer and a marine biologist.
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