My Future Goals
Define My Successful Life
Harumi Aini
Beswan Djarum 27
RSO Jakarta
There are so many decisions to take, and there are also so
many changes in this life. However,
the choices that we make and the way we run this life will establish our
future. Setting an obvious goal in our life is one way to reach success. A
person needs to achieve certain goals in one’s life before you can call them
successful. Success is to achieve goals
that we have set. Goals motivate us to achieve our dreams and hopes. I consider myself as a dreamer. I dream not
just in my sleep, but I try to make all of my dreams become true. Once I dream
about something, it becomes my desire. Then I wrote it down, and it becomes my
future goals. Those future goals become my motivation for the accomplishment of
my goals, to finally become an achievement.
A meaningful
statement that usually motivates me is “World will step aside to give way for
those who know their goals. And be sure that they will reach their goals
because they have prepared it.” Stated by David Starr Jordan. I am still in the
process of making my dreams come true. I try to fill my days with meaningful
activities, so I can live a useful life and be useful for others. I live my life with dynamics, it makes life
not boring and more interesting. I like to explore new different things that
can open up my minds. I’m not afraid of trying something and failed because I
believe that success doesn’t belong to those who never fall, but those who
could get up from their failure. I usually categorize my goals into immediate
goals and long term goals.
Immediate goals are the goals that I have
planned to be achieved in a short period. After I list the goals I want to
accomplished, then I plot out the steps to get there, then figuring out
which ones must be taken first and keep
updating my goals after I successfully accomplished one of the goals. My
current immediate goal is enrich myself with proper education and additional
skills also experiences during my college time. We need to have descent
education to compete in this global era. The future global competition will
require me to go through education and self-development programs. I plan on
gaining additional skills, like leadership and cooperation, by my involvement in
a variety of associations or organizations. I develop my potentials on public
speaking and debating by joining several competitions. I also believe that
communication and networking are very important skills that I need for a
professional development. That is why I will continue my professional
development by participating in conferences, attending seminars, taking some
courses and workshops, then hopefully can continue my post-graduate education
abroad one day. I believe that we have to enhance global partnership throughout
the world. That is the reason why I like to be involved in some international
events like Asia-Africa Youth Forum or Model United Nations. I experienced the
benefits from joining those events like sharpen my diplomacy skill, expand my
network, gain new information and knowledge, widen my way of thinking
perspective, and many more. International events are also a good way to be
Indonesia’s ambassador. We can promote and represent our country to the world
as a part of young generation’s responsibility.
One of my long term goals
is to be an entrepreneur. ‘To be a job creator, not a job seeker’; that
is my future goal. Indonesia is currently in a lack condition of job fields.
Entrepreneurship is indeed one of the driving motors that can be a solution to
the economic problems in Indonesia. I have a desire to be an entrepreneur since
a very young age, but I also realize the process of being a good entrepreneur
is not easy. To achieve my dream for being an entrepreneur, I have been through
several steps. I started to sell some products to my friends when I was in
junior high school, then in senior high school I joined a student company to
improve my capability in entrepreneurship. Now in college, together with my
friends I am currently running a culinary business which is Fish Kebab. We
already have one outlet located in our campus and we are still in the process
to develop this business.
I also have another plan in developing a business. Together with
my mother, I have planned to open a chocolate shop business. I believe that
Indonesia is the third largest producer of cocoa but we still don’t have many
processed chocolate industry. We still export raw cocoa bean, while actually we
have the potentials on increasing the added value of cocoa itself. To prepare
myself on the business, I had taken lesson at a chocolate school to learn the
techniques of chocolate processing and to gain knowledge about chocolate
industry. We have already invested the equipments which are needed in the business
and we already made some surveys also other preparations. We plan to open the
chocolate shop in these following months and hopefully this could be the right
path for the accomplishment of my dream.
Another
future goal of mine is always be a useful person who can give good influences to my surroundings, that is what I
always wanted to be. I like to spend my spare times to be involved in several social
and community development activities. Through those activities, I hope I can be
a useful person. I believe we live in this world not just for our own happiness
but we should also aware and care for others. I really wanted to give real
contribution regarding social problems happen around us. Until this day, I have
participated in some volunteering projects on education and entrepreneurship in
villages. It gives me great experiences and motivation to do and give more to
my beloved country. My future goal is
one day if I become a successful entrepreneur, I will have my own foundation as
a Corporate Social Responsibility so I can give good impacts to my society and
surroundings.
My
happiness in what I do is also a goal for me in my life. There is no way
someone can become successful if they are not happy with what they are doing.
If their job is going to make them miserable, they will never show 100% efforts
in their work. I am happy on what I am doing now, I am so thankful for this
life and I hope happiness, hard work, and prayer can lead me to accomplish my
dreams, goals, and reach a successful life.
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