STOCKTON–The new year has just begun and, as most people do, they set goals for themselves to pursue higher education and complete whatever is needed by the end of the year or in the future.  Knowing the concept of goals can help you understand the idea of how you want your future to look and help motivate yourself to strive after it.  If you are willing to do so, it also helps keep your life more organized like setting due dates for certain things, creating steps to complete goals, and reasons that’ll push you to do so.  This is important because it guides you into the right direction you need to go in.  Without setting goals, you would just end up wasting your time, money, and energy, which leads to you feeling overwhelmed and not prepared for opportunities that may come your way.

Dennis Hopkins is a senior at Lincoln High School and plans on going to school after he graduates to pursue higher education.  The goals he looks forward to achieving this year are to graduate and survive throughout the whole year.  He plans to accomplish this by doing all of his homework and turning it in on time.  He stays home almost everyday and the only motivation he really has is money.  In regards to college, Dennis doesn’t know exactly where he wants to go, but he just hopes for the best to get into somewhere he is interested in.

Abrianna  Catanzarite is a junior at Lincoln High School and plans to get straight A’s for the rest of the school year and going into her senior year.  She also wants to prepare herself  for senior year and college because of how much work and time she will have to put  into it.  She plans to write more, something like journaling, and wants to get out more and go places.  When she isn’t doing anything and has free time, she pushes herself to complete her assignments or anything else she has to do even if she doesn’t feel motivated enough to do them. Once she finishes school, she wants to go to college and plans to hopefully get into Chico State, which is one of her college picks as of right now.

In conclusion, setting and pursuing goals is necessary for personal growth and success.  By imagining our wishes, making a plan, and staying determined can help us overcome obstacles and achieve better things in life.  Continue to dream big, work hard, and never stop finishing your goals so that you can succeed in them all in the end. If you don’t have any motivation to push yourself past your limits, then you should keep trying because it’s a big accomplishment that’ll eventually be completed and is something that you don’t want to  give up on. This idea helped me in many different ways, and I’m sure it’ll help others too.