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Ashley Viera

Dr. Smith

ENGL 101 F15H

09-06-19

Obtaining success

Success to most people is achieving a goal. What goal? What does that mean? Success

comes in many forms. It can be happiness for one person and wealth for another. Success is what

you make it to be. Success doesn’t always have to be a long term goal. Doing one good deed a

day could be success to someone whereas just being able to love yourself could be success to

another. Success for myself means being able to help my mother. I define success as a challenge.

A challenge that I am taking on and working towards achieving. My mother is the only working

member in a household of five. Struggling to pay rent and buy food for us to eat every day is

something I want her to stop struggling with. When I am able to hand her money and see her

smile and say that she doesn’t have overdue bills I will feel like I obtained success. In order to

achieve this goal, I need steps.

Being able to obtain this goal is something that I think about a lot. To help my mother feel at

ease for once and have money for herself instead of having to give her money away is my

version of success. When I complete this goal I will feel at ease and content with myself for

once. Steps are an important part of achieving any goal. Without steps you can’t hope to achieve

your dream/challenge or goal. The first step to achieving success is knowing what you want to
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achieve. You can’t hope to be successful if you don’t know what you want to be successful in. In

my case, my goal is to help my mother financially. This is the thing I want to do the most right

now. That is the first step to my plan. Knowing what I want to achieve.

The second step to achieving my goal is to know that I need steps. I can’t just wish for money

to make everything better. No. I need to realize that this goal won’t happen on its own. Being

aware that you need a plan and steps to make something happen is very important. Most people

do not realize this. They think of a goal and then expect it to happen overnight because they

prayed very hard. Life doesn’t work that way. If you do not have a plan or realize you need steps

to achieve or just flat out do something, the world will swallow you up whole and you will be

lost. I know that in order to achieve my goal I need a plan. The first step to achieving my goal is

finishing school. I finished high school and now I need to finish college so I can get a good

paying job.

My third step to achieving my goal is similar to my second step. I want to finish college but I

need to take in account that I need to pass my classes to finish college. I can’t rush my time here.

If I hope to be able to get a good job after college I will need to make sure I can graduate. When

I get tests I need to study and not slack off. When there are opportunities for study sessions I will

attend them. Jobs today want to hire people who can speak properly. Act accordingly. Are well

educated. So I know that in order to get that good job to help my mom I need to do well in

college and be able to show that I am ready to take on that job and will give it my all.

These steps are important to me because without them I do not see how I can hope to achieve

my version of success. It isn’t possible to me.

In summary, obtaining this “success” that everyone talks about is not an easy one. I know It

will take me some time. A few years in fact, but I do know I am ready. Some people now, claim
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they have these goals and want success but then when you explain how long that dream can take

they suddenly aren’t ready at all. I understand how long I will have to wait to achieve this goal of

mines. This is a task I am willing to take on if it means I get to help my mother be happy.
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