Personal Responsibility
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As I look at my life wondering how my life would have been if I had started setting goals in my life while I was in high school. To know what I wanted out of life, I have made this my personal responsibility to set goal in my life that what personal responsibility means to me. I wish my high school had prepared us more about setting goal and knowing what we want to be as we get older, but in an article there is one school that get teenager a worksheet where they set goals and give themselves a guideline on how they will reach their goal and they set a new goal every three months (Scarborough, Lewis, & Kulkarni, 2010). I have learned from “University of Phoenix” workshop is how important it is to set goal which can make your life less stressful, which made me to think that it is very important to set goals in my life and also my education. In another article that I have read there was a sentence in the article that stood out to me which says “When personal goals are written out, other gains are achieved.” (Morisano & Shore, 2010, p. 252) to me that mean as longs you write out what goal you want to achieve you can put yourself to it and make it happen. Without setting any goals in my life I felt as if I was going nowhere in life and I knew it was a time for a change for the better so I start setting goal in my life to accomplish.
However, as I was getting older I never figured out what I really wanted out of life or even what I wanted to do. I just worked and went to school without even thinking about my life in the future.
Without thinking about what kind of career I want or even what kind of degree I want to achieve, as the year went by I began thinking about my life more, so I made a personal responsibility to myself to start setting goals and start planning my future.
To reach goals in my life I have to start setting my long-term goals, such as school, career, and my future family, and from there what I would do is to divide them into short-term goals to make it easier on me where I can focus on one goal at a time. With my first short-term goal I will find the right school that I can major in that will go with the career I want to pursuit and when I find the right college, such as University of Phoenix and graduate, I will start on to my second short-term goal where with the degree I have from my college to find the perfect job is to be a child psychologist.
When I have completed that goal my last goal is to save up money with the job to purchase my future dream house and buy a new vehicle and save even more money when I start developing my family in the near future because I want to financially to be stable when it comes to take care of my family whenever I have one and able to provide for my children, and set a good future for my children as well.
Education is very important to me to reach my career is that I want to be knowledge about my career field. I became interesting in Psychology when I was going to my local Community College and I was taking General Psychology I became so fascinated with what I was learning and so I took the second part of the psychology class is Developmental Psychology and I have really learned, which made me more interested into