1. My Goal Strategies
Are you contented of what you are and who you are right now? Are you willing to change it?
Life is like a roller coaster, it goes up and down, slow and fast and sometimes it is even slower
or faster. But we have the choices, options, decision to make on what way we make. Be lazy?
Be practical? Or to live of what we want to be?
Earning college and learning more skills is the first step to start to get your crucial in life.
Better job and more opportunities to live. We just need to learn and accept the fact that we
needed motivation and self-assessment. Poverty is not the hindrance to success but our selves.
Focus on our self-esteemand beliefs. Visualize and affirmation of what we want and what we
can do to achieve our crucial in life. Be a dreamer, thinker and patience. Time management and
financial is one of my problem why I didn’t pursue my education before. We are six in the family
and I am the youngest. In our country elder siblings will finish their education first so they can
help the younger siblings to go to school but in my case, they all get married early and forgot
me. But it doesn’t mean that I cannot go back to school anymore. I tried many times but
because I am a mother and a wife now, it affects all my plans but I still have the hope that
maybe someday I will graduate and be proud.
My short term goal as of now and for other years to come is to do my responsibilities as a
mother and wife to my family and a good student. I will manage my time between my family
and my studies. Every day, I wake up early to do some home chores before the kids woke up
and hubby go to work to prepare his lunches and breakfast for my kids. Then, feed them, clean,
and cook for lunch and dinner. When they take a nap at noon, I will do my studies such as;
reviews chapters and homework. Rest for an hour or so and prepare myself to go to school as
well as preparing my family for their dinner. And in school, I only focus myself in my studies and
do my best to learn and understand how to be a good student. Listen to my awesome
instructor, read and note taking. Put myself in a crowd with my other classmates and have fun.
And after I graduated, I will try to find a job that is compatible to my time as a part time worker
just to experience new things and use my skills. Short time of work but learning more is enough
for me in the future since my kids are still young, especially if it will help me and my husband
for our daily needs. Have more understanding and patience.
But it doesn’t mean that I will stop my dream, if I have the time again after my short time
goal, I want to step up even I am not that young anymore. A real performer doesn’t matter the
ages, races and goals. I would like to get a bachelor or master degrees after I paid off my school
loan from my short term goal. Take care of my family, go to school, and work every day. We
know that if we are motivated and have a positive thinking, there is no impossible to achieve. I
would like to experience another skills or career to mold up my knowledge and get a better job

2. and more opportunities. That is why when time will come that my kids are all in school, I will
manage my time again. How to be a mother and wife? How to be a good Student? How to be a
good Worker? If I can do my responsibilities in my short time goal, I am sure that I can also do
the same thing for my longer time goal even though I know that there will be more obstacles to
overcome with but I will stay positive and believe in myself.
It is easy to think and happy to visualize and affirm the outcome of our goals but I have fears as
well. When I decide something, I don’t only think all positive, I usually do think both negative
and positive before I say or do. I always have reflection. I am weak and easy to get upset if I
cannot do things in proper but I don’t give up! I am afraid that I will fail in my studies, get
pregnant during my studies, I cannot understand English (since it is not my mother tongue
language), I am afraid of my classmates and instructors and most of all I am afraid that I cannot
do my responsibilities at home as a mother and wife to my family. Before I enrolled, I had been
thinking about all my fears. I don’t have that self –assessment nor do I have my beliefs. I need
to overcome all this fears to achieve my crucial. I need to change and be brave. I want it so I
need to be positive and face the reality that if other people can do it, and so do I! We cannot
explain or say something if we would not do it or try it. So, here I am, facing my fears with all
my heart and soul, and I do believe that God will provide me of what I need if I am not afraid
and motivated. I am confident that I will not hurt anybody or myself of my decision if I will do it
positively but to make them proud of me.
In a year or so, I am imagining myself walking to the stage with a big smile, and proud of
myself. But everything won’t happen if there are no people involved. My first gratitude is to
God. He is one of my inspiration and guidance in all my life, for better or worse. I always pray to
Him and thank Him for the life he give to me and I cannot ask more for it. Secondly, I am
thankful to my husband. He is the one who helped me to be motivated and peace of mind
financially and spiritually when I am weak and stress. He gives me strength by taking care of the
family when I am at school. He gives me a chance to shine and feel the happiness that I want
since before and holding me when I fail of my actions and words. He is my hero. Lastly, I would
like to thanks to my instructors, who build up my knowledge to get through to where I am.
Thanking for their kindness and support. My life won’t be easy without them so I will dedicate
my crucial in life to God, my husband and family and all the people at school (teachers, stuff,
classmates, and financial services).Because of you all, I can see the other side of my life in the
future and the new me now and forever. If you have a dream to have a better life, do not
hesitate to do it. Knowledge, skills, and education are worthy to achieve to put you in the right
path to go through success. Forget boredom and stress. Less worries of what you can’t do but
be positive thinker, self-assessment and motivation, then you will worry what you CAN do.