Goals for My Sophomore Year

Highschool, though it is only the beginning of my Sophomore year, is flying by. Everything seems to be occuring at once, which can make it very difficult to focus and really have a grip on my everyday life happenings. I've come to realize that it is extremely crucial to my personal success that I establish goals for myself, and agree to do whatever it realistically takes to accomplish them.

Goal number one: Prioritize.
As a teenager, it is hard not to view my friends as my top priority. But I am aware, in reality, that that is and should not be the case. In the real world, it is my education that will get me to the places I want to go and make me successful. So, this year I would like to start prioritizing my life with the effect of doing better in school. I am willing to decline my friend's invitations if I have a lot of schoolwork to do, or to catch up on. I will definitely try to study every night, so that information learned in class will stay in my memory.

Goal number two: Try to mainain an honor roll status.
Being on the honor roll each quarter is really important not only to my parents, but to me also. In middle school, I didn't put a great amount of effort into my schoolwork, and  I never studied, but I did pay very good attention in class. Strangely enough, I made High Honors each quarter. But in my Freshman year, it was suddenly extremely hard to stay on top of things. I wasn't used to all the studying I had to do, and I ended up not making the Honor Roll the fourth quarter. I was very disapointed in myself, and decided that day that I would try as hard as I could to make it every quarter of my Sophomore year. I am willing to go to study sessions, do all of my homework, and again, choose schoolwork over my friends. I will always ask the teachers for help in understanding material if I need it.

Goal number three: Make varsity again.
Last year, I joined the tennis team with some of my friends. I'd been playing tennis for a few years, but I wouldn't have said that I was good at it at all. The team needed 3 people from the JV team to try out for varsity, and since I had been playing, the coach told me to try out. I made the varsity team, but it was only because they were desperate for three more players. This year, I want to make varsity because I am actually a good tennis player, and I am willing to practice as many times a week as I can until the season starts, and I will definitely take lessons to improve.

I believe that setting goals in life is what makes people successful. And I hope that by setting these three simple goals for myself, that I am successful too.