My Goals After High School

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Not many people think about what they are going to be in life and the many steps they are going to take to achieve that goal. As a freshman in high school, I already started thinking about my life ten years prior from now and my goals in life. That goal is; by being proactive with my school work and graduating with a 3.5 or higher GPA, I will then attend law school and become a lawyer. These strengths will allow me to become successful not only in my career but also in my life.
My strengths in focusing on the facts, being proactive and getting A’s and B’s in my classes will get me to where I want to be in high school which is getting into AP classes and eventually law school. By focusing on the facts in classes such as social studies, I will then know truthful information that will help me on classwork and tests which will help
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Graduating from law school will look considerable on a job application to a law firm because it will show that I have integrity. I plan on achieving this goal by performing well now (in high school) and by showing great potential in my school work also, during my first year in regular college I want to do an internship at a firm on the island that way I will have a sense of how things will work when I become a lawyer.
In conclusion, my goals in high school and after high school shows the commitment of me trying to live a better life by planning ahead of time. I would like to say that planning ahead or even taking action in situations are also a strength of mines beside the points of sticking to the facts, being proactive and getting good grades. Having goals aren’t always a bad thing, most of the time it’s a good thing because it helps with a person's life but also due to the fact that it shows self independence, now that is an astonishing way of

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