What's Next? by Taynara Goncalves

1. What’s next?
By Taynara Goncalves
The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s
15th Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development
June 22-28, 2019 • Newport, RI

2. It’s okay to feel this way, but by the end of
today I promise you’ll have an answer

3. How do you set goals the right way?
1) First you must answer the question WHY?
• Combine your ambitions to your passion and to your purpose
2) What do you love doing?
• Do your dreams incorporate that?

4. Let’s back track..my life 5 years ago
• I was a junior in high school
• Knew I wanted to attend college and eventually go to med school= too
much money
• My main focus was to get good grades

5. What have I done since?
• Shadowed many doctors through job shadow day (MVYLI)
• Got into college
• Currently an upcoming senior at Gordon College
• Participated in associations such as: Alzheimer’s buddies, Beyond Benign
• Research
• Been waitressing every summer
• Recently got an internship at the hospital (MVYLI)

6. What is my dream for my life?
Professionally
• Work in the medical field- Nurse practitioner
• Be able to give back in countries that aren’t as fortunate as us through medicine
Personally
• Stay healthy and be happy
• Love my job
• One day get married and have my family
• Be able to give back to my parents

7. Dream for my community and world
Community
• To be completely green
• Lower drug use/ overdose rate
• Eliminate racism
World
• To be completely green
• End violence/war
• Water and food for everyone
• End poverty
• Equal rights for everyone – no racism
• Equal access to healthcare

8. How do my dreams complement each other?
• Through medicine I can help others and better our world
• I can incorporate greener practices
• I want to one day travel and do volunteer work in places in the world that
don’t have the healthcare system we do

9. My action steps to realize these dreams:
6 months
• Take GRE (graduate record examinations)
• Apply to graduate schools
• Continue getting good grades
• Internships
1 year
• Be accepted into graduate school
5 years
• Hopefully have graduated and have a job in the hospital
This summer
• Internship at the hospital
• Waitressing

10. Instrumental/Supportive People in My Life:
• My family
• Marianne (MVYLI)
• The Lorings
• Dr. Wolff

11. Advice
• It’s important to shadow fields you are interested in
• Set realistic goals- one step at a time
• Start NOW- don’t keep pushing it back

12. To end keep this in mind…
“It’s not how much you have its what you do with what you have and we all
have different gifts- use it and share it. Dreams without goals are just dreams.
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and
consistency."