With the recent global situation, including the financial crisis, becoming ever more volatile and unstable, people are beginning to understand how important it is that there be no wasted effort in achieving one's personal and professional goals. Maybe there was a time when someone could drift from high school into college and take a year or two to figure out goals and declare a major. Not anymore. These days it's best to go into the first year of university with a roadmap and destination in mind. That destination may change, but in the meantime, information has been discovered and goals accomplished. In this essay I will outline my personal and professional goals and how I plan to achieve them, discussing goal development, time management, motivation, and innovation, or thinking outside the box.
I plan to go into the family business and so have decided on Business Administration as my major. In order to achieve that one large goal at the end, I plan on setting up landmarks along the way for me to work towards and achieve. According to the Education Association Services, goals are the foundation for figuring out where you're headed. "They tell you why there is a need to plan" ("Developing Goals" para. 1). So, in defining my goal, going for a degree in Business Administration, I now know what kind of research I need to do, what kind of questions I need to ask. For example, my first year I will probably be taking general university requirements. In looking at those requirements I should consider which classes might be considered good background for upper level classes in Business Administration. If I need to take a math course, should I look into beginning accounting to satisfy that requirement?
The temptation of anyone starting out towards a goal is to either put off all the tasks until the end, or try to do it all at the beginning. Since I will be at university at least four years, I need to use my time mana...