Goals For The Year

As I’ve come upon my sophomore year of high school, I have realized that making goals are surprisingly helpful and can motivate you to reach destinations you’ve only dreamed of meeting. Analyzing your past, present and future can truly aid you in creating or modifying your goals for the year. Encountering these realizations facilitated the making my three goals for my sophomore year.



1. Planning the future. As a teen, I try as much as possible to deny the fact that college is just around the corner. Currently with not much of an idea for a career path in mind, parents and teachers vex my mind with college information. Since I only have three more years until I move out for college, I really need to start finalizing what I’d like to be when I grow up. There are so many questions to ask, such as; although I love photography, will be get me anywhere in life? And what classes should I take if I want to major is Architecture? Collecting information about plans for the future is a big priority for this year, and I intend on paying attention in guidance seminars because I know how helpful they are to students.


2. Balance my life. As many times as I’ve been told how important it is to find a balance in your life, I have never understood that more than I do right now. With a part time job scooping ice cream, tennis lessons three days a week and no studies due to photography class, I need to find time to do homework, study, and also I believe it’s important to have a social life on top of that as well. To do so, I'm going to attempt to plan out my time better, determining how much time should be spent working, studying and socializing. Also, priotizing will help me specify what the most important element in my life is.

3. Avoid stress. As you know, I have a job, tennis lessons, no studies in school, and homework. My situation can actually be very stressful. To keep from being stressed out, I'm going to prioritize and put everything in order, from most to least important, and when there is too much on my plate, I'll cut back on the less important things in my life so that I can relax, but still focus on the important things.

If I start trying to slowly map out my future, balance my life, and avoid stress, I should be on track to have a successful sophomore year.