I read all too often in newspapers, stories of teenagers going to prison, the employment figures in Australia increasing and more stories of adolescent men and women throwing their life away to drugs and alcohol.
No human with a heart can read these articles and not feel anger and hopelessness as us members of the public feel powerless and unable to help stop or at least decrease the number of people affected by these stories.
I have a strong belief that if a person does not set goals in life they will go nowhere. These people in the news who have a miserable life and turn to drugs have no hope of a successful life because they don’t know where to begin.
Goal setting is a critical part of life and needs to be encouraged and taught from an early age for every child. This is where I get to the point about determination.
Setting a goal is only the very first step in a hard and often long road to success. Determination is critical in order for a goal to be achieved, thus, anything in life that one wishes to achieve must be done through determination and calculated risks.
If no one in the world ever had imagination, determination and a goal imagine what life might be like today. What marvelous inventions may not be here today?
However, determination on it’s own is not enough, people need to have a dream, something that they can be determined to do and with that comes planning. Those who are willing to work hard to achieve a dream must make calculated decisions and take calculated risks.
Determination should automatically lie within all of us, however, there are some people in this world that have never had a chance to think freely, they are trapped and forced to obey others. Imagine if they were allowed to dream, imagine the wonderful things those people could achieve.
I believe that if people who by no means other than unfortunate circumstances were given a second chance and told that they have potential to achieve great things the world would be a much better place.
People must be taught how to believe in anything and never give up on a lifelong dream that one has.
What I really want to see is a change in people’s attitudes towards life. It shatters me when I see people living on the streets or even at work that are uninspired and have no passion for life and no dreams.
If these people believed in themselves and had the determination to achieve a goal there would be a lot more people living a happy, successful life, having achieved things that they may not have even dreamt of doing.
No one can say that they do not have any dreams or goals. Everyone must have something that they want to achieve in their life and the problem that I am seeing is that there are not enough people who have a passion and who have a goal that they are willing to work for in order to achieve.
