Life Plan

In this essay   I am suppose to explain what the plans for my life are, how I plan on achieving them and the problems I might face.   If you have a goal it gives you a clear focus on things.   It also helps you to organize your plans by letting you set time limits and boundaries.   I think if you plan on achieving things in life then you have to set goals.   After high school there are many things I want to do and accomplish in my life.   My goals probably aren’t different from most kids, but it will take a lot of hard work to get where I want to be.   I have many goals, but to accomplish these goals I will probably have many things that could get in the way.
The reason I need to set goals is to make sure that I don’t fall behind in life and not achieve my dreams.   Last summer I was into some bad things that really messed up my life.   Luckily, I was assigned to Youth Court to help me through this.   Youth Court is helping teach me the importance of goals because of the way it is set up.   I have a 6 month sentence.   During this time I have to complete certain goals. Writing this life plan is one goal, an apology letter due the 1st month, a shoplifting class the 2nd month, and a jail tour another month. I have jury duty the first Thursday of every month, I have to phone in weekly, I have to attend school regularly, stay out of trouble, obey my parents, obey 10:00 pm curfew, and complete 40 hours of community service by the end of the 6 month period.   If all of this is not complete then I will not reach my goal of having my offense taken off my records.  
The way Youth Court is set up is to do a little each month until you can complete your goal.   If I do the required stuff every month then by the time the 6 months is over I will have completed everything I needed to do in order in graduate from Youth Court and have my offense taken off my record.
Even though I haven’t finished setting my goals, I already have some.   Two of the most important are to be happy and... [continues]

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