Personal Goals

My Personal Goals

For most of my younger years one question was often on my mind. What do I want to be when I grow up? A doctor? An actress? A lawyer? A homemaker? This question became even stronger when it was time to decide my major in college and that is when I stopped and looked at my whole life, searching deep inside myself to find an answer.

First, I tried looking at what my interests were as a child, what classes I liked the most in school and what were my dreams then. Since I was a little girl my dream was to become a successful businesswoman. I never really thought about The Perfect Wedding or the number of kids I was going to have. No, I wasn’t interested in that. I had a passion – a passion for numbers and papers. Many times I caught myself wishing my mom would come home with a rim of paper so I could play a secretary or that my dad would take me to work so I could use his calculator. Then, I remembered that my family couldn’t understand why a ten years-old girl...