Importance Of Achieving Goals

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Setting goals is part of everyday life. When you set goals, it is a motivation to make you want to; therefore you try to achieve your goals in life. Achieving your goals helps motivate you to set more goals to achieve, and achieving goals that you set it like fuel to achieve more goals. Dictionary.com gives the definition as, “achievement toward which effort is directed”. Another word that can be used in place of goal is “intention”, “target”. An opposite meaning of goal is, “ beginning.” When you set a new goal, a whole new beginning opens up. Achieving goals is important because it makes you want to keep going because accomplishing things in life is very important. A real world example of achieving your goal is when students graduate from high …show more content…

Malala lives in a country where she is not able to get an education. Only the boys are allowed an educations. But Malala did not let that stop her. Her father was a teacher and he owned a school. She went to him and said, “I want an education.” This quote shows that she had intentions to get an education. Malala attends her father's school. In 2012, she won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts. During her acceptance speech, Malala spoke her most famous quote. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”, said Malala. She has changed the world because she was fighting for an education, not just for herself, but for all girls in her home country of Pakistan. It is not enough to just educate boys. Malala was shot by the Taliban in the head and that was what she became famous for, she took a bullet for her own education. Getting an education was her main goal because she did not think it was fair that only boys got an education that is why she made that her goal. She was the first girl to stand up and fight for an education in her country. She overcame her goal and got an education but she had to move to new country to get it because of the

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