Visualize Your Goals

Fall 2010 is over and I've managed to earn 3 A's and 1 B in my senior level courses. I have registered for 5 classes in the upcoming Spring 2011 semester leaving me with a single Exit-Strategies course to take in the Summer 2011 semester. I would love to have marched in the Spring 2011 semester, but Columbus State University is no longer allowing students to graduate ahead of their last class. As a result, my only opportunity to march would be in the Fall 2011 semester even though technically I will graduate in August 2011.

I am already looking ahead to taking the GMAT, and ultimately entering graduate school hopefully back in Miami, Florida. Having a visual relationship with my goals set the dynamics for my career even at this golden age of 51.

When I applied to three colleges back in early 2009, my goal was to transfer existing college credits and work hard to obtain my bachelor's degree in management with some type of cum laude (honors) status. I visualized earning at least 3.0 GPAs in each semester, and have managed to do so thus far. With only two semesters remaining the visual is becoming clearer with each day. The excitement is brewing within my spirit, and hopes of having an opportunity to attend the Master's program of my choice is looming.

It is imperative that we set goals that are:

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Quarterly
• Yearly

Set goals that are SMART:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Related
• Time Bound

Motivate Yourself: As long as you have goals despite where you are in life, you will have a visual of where you are going. In applying the SMART technique, goals will come with recognizable and achievable benchmarks. Enjoy living life on a daily basis in the comfort of simple outcomes. Celebrate life on a daily basis with deliverable expectations.

Don't let anybody have the power over you to tell you that you are too old to do anything. I am in a University with young people on a daily basis that forgets worst than me. Memory loss affects us all despite age; so don't think that you are the only one that gets up to walk into a room at something but forget what you went for once you enter the room. Young people have the same issue.

Choose Life, Choose Love...