In 2–3 well-developed sentences, reflect on how you spent your Holiday Break. Then, identify four personal you would like to achieve this year and briefly explain why each goal is important to you (Copy and paste your completed response from Writable into your blog).

 Prompt Response: During the Holiday Break a lot has happened to me actually despite also contemplating my life purpose once in awhile out of every week I exist and live or just spend it on social media scrolling or watching. I guess the important events that happened during the break was that I had all my technology taken away except my Chromebook, got bad Christmas gifts and still wondered if Christmas was even worth celebrating, and spent reading a new novel I picked up on called Lord of the Mysteries the most popular web novel that I wasn't able to comprehend at the age of 16 because my reading ability or comprehension of what I was reading wasn't completely there at the time. 

1. My first goal after I graduate is to enlist in the Army for the benefits and to gain experience towards going into the Air Force. The reason this goal is important to me is that it provides me with a sense of meaning towards the life I live and how I want to live my life as a pilot soon after because my motto is 'To live is to do something every single day and moment'. I will achieve this goal first by working on my body till I graduate, talking with my peers and recruiters about this goal of mine so that I have some support and direction towards getting into the Army and saving some funds that I might need in order to get paper work or tools to study or excel in getting there beside the ASVAB since I already did it in my 11th grade year in November. 

2. My second goal for this year is to go to the gym once per week until July, when I turn 18 on July 20th, and try to enlist. This goal is important to me because it will give me the confidence to hurdle my life problems both physically and mentally and propel me to take better care of myself, setting me up for the adult life ahead where I'm alone. I will achieve this goal first by setting up a schedule for a week and consistently trying to follow it. I will buy the supplies for me to focus in on my diet for a 'bulk' to get stronger.

3. My third goal is that within a month I finish a Khan Academy course (AP Microeconomics) and fully learn it by then. The goal is important to me because within a month I want to learn to keep consistency or the ability to learn through the boring and mundane life of mine and not sit there doing nothing! (As my favorite saying goes from LOTM: "I do not want to become a curly-haired baboon" -Benson). I will achieve this goal by doing at least one lesson per unit every day, as I have learned that discipline will always lead to the accumulation of success eventually, even if you always seem to fail. As well as holding myself accountable for my own actions in a notebook, which is also my diary on what I did that day or what the current state of my mind is.

4. My final goal as of until my birthday (July 20th) is to discipline myself every day by doing something eventful or meaningful towards the future I aspire of becoming a pilot even in areas that don't seem worthwhile. The reason this goal is important to me is that throughout my life I have learned that a person's success does not come off of talent alone but discipline, wholeheartedly! If a person keeps on working towards something, it will soon turn into a boulder. In fact, looking at Sisyphus, one must imagine him being happy while pushing that boulder as he believes in the absurdity of his own actions along with every second he lives in. I will achieve my goal by setting noting myself in a diary every day until my birthday as of this year in order to look back and see how far I've come, soon I will see that all my effort was not meaningless and prove that life is worth living no matter what circumstance you're in!


Summary: Today in class we worked on creating 4 smart goals for ourselves regarding what we wanted in the short term or long term.


Reflection: When I reflected back on what SMART goals were, I learned that It is actually more simple than I thought it was. This made me feel a bit dumbfounded at how you could create a SMART Goal in 3 simple steps while including other factors and thus leading you to get a general idea on how a goal turns into a realistic start point for you. In the future I will use this to reflect back up on the four smart goals that I have created for myself as a progress bar by the time I graduate.

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