2008 Woodie Awards
Goals, Keys to Success, How Would You Define Them? Follow Three Easy Steps
Jean Bernard Chery
Issue date: 4/21/06 Section: Holt News
- Page 1 of 2 next >
As a security officer working for Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, one of my duties is to check the building in my assigned zone for security hazards.
This requirement allows me to walk buildings' hallways at will with one goal in mind, finding something out of ordinary to fix or report if it's required the attention of an expert.
But this past weekend was exceptional in what I discovered at work. There is one building that I love to inspect many times during my shift for the lovely framed-photographs and art works decorating its walls but never paid any attention to the writing under these works.
And this past Saturday, one of them that reads "Keys to Success" caught my eyes. When I went to the next one, I saw "Goals," the next, "Vision," then "Change," and finally "Persistence." I read them all and decided to share them with the world.
I am going to develop a few of them in this article and the rest in the next week issue.
I want to start with the definition allocated to "Goals" in that photograph. It goes: "Goals-Destiny is not a matter of Chance[;] it's a matter of Choice."
Now, how many of you out there agree with a definition of goals that tell us what destiny is and what it is not.
Based on my own skepticism, I think it does not matter at all if you and I agree or disagree with the definition; what matters is that it makes us think of our goals for the future and perhaps reexamine them.
Although this definition of "goals" might hit the right note for many of you, for me it is not totally the case. I do believe that destiny is a combination of both chance and choice. However, in my estimate the percentage of choice over chance is about ninety to ten.
Why? It is understandable that not everyone always have the right to choose their own destiny in life. Hence, I am one of those people.
I choose myself as an example because I consider myself to be a bit lucky to make it to the United States alive. Thus, that was my 10 percent chance, but as soon as I got here a couple years ago with little knowledge of English I took my destiny in hands by choosing education over everything else. And today, I am closer to reaching my goals.
This requirement allows me to walk buildings' hallways at will with one goal in mind, finding something out of ordinary to fix or report if it's required the attention of an expert.
But this past weekend was exceptional in what I discovered at work. There is one building that I love to inspect many times during my shift for the lovely framed-photographs and art works decorating its walls but never paid any attention to the writing under these works.
And this past Saturday, one of them that reads "Keys to Success" caught my eyes. When I went to the next one, I saw "Goals," the next, "Vision," then "Change," and finally "Persistence." I read them all and decided to share them with the world.
I am going to develop a few of them in this article and the rest in the next week issue.
I want to start with the definition allocated to "Goals" in that photograph. It goes: "Goals-Destiny is not a matter of Chance[;] it's a matter of Choice."
Now, how many of you out there agree with a definition of goals that tell us what destiny is and what it is not.
Based on my own skepticism, I think it does not matter at all if you and I agree or disagree with the definition; what matters is that it makes us think of our goals for the future and perhaps reexamine them.
Although this definition of "goals" might hit the right note for many of you, for me it is not totally the case. I do believe that destiny is a combination of both chance and choice. However, in my estimate the percentage of choice over chance is about ninety to ten.
Why? It is understandable that not everyone always have the right to choose their own destiny in life. Hence, I am one of those people.
I choose myself as an example because I consider myself to be a bit lucky to make it to the United States alive. Thus, that was my 10 percent chance, but as soon as I got here a couple years ago with little knowledge of English I took my destiny in hands by choosing education over everything else. And today, I am closer to reaching my goals.
Be the first to comment on this story