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by Cindy Digulimio by Tish Mehalow by Lisa Stewart by Pamela Hayes | | |||
 In February 2001, a friend of his remarked that she could not date someone who didn't have goals. The goals didn't have to be major things, but the fellow had to have goals. Brian figured most women must think about the same way. He certainly had goals; he just did not have them "codified." In mid-Spring 2002, he took "Leadership & Interpersonal Skills" at the Frostburg University Center in downtown Hagerstown. One assignment was to come up with major goals and set target dates on them. So he made his first list of goals. In the Fall of 2003, he began to reassess his goals again. In late winter and early March of 2004, he restated his goals. By March 2008, most of the future was decidedly taken away. The goals now are simply to stay employed and run out the clock.
In 2003, his life--ever so close to The Next Step--imploded. He lost a lot, including something inside of himself. But he knows must regroup and go on. He relists his goals here, by necessity: 1) Keep the job at the developer's until he has a good job with a future. Check: He's survived over ½ a year so far.
2) Grow spiritually. That is, have a better relationship with God. He feels keeping the job is Goal #1, only in that it's easier to grow spiritually with a roof over his head and food in his tummy. He knows others would disagree.
3) Get the good job with room for advancement, where he can make a difference, and is respected.
4) Make new friends.
5) Find a new place to live away from Hagerstown.
6) Start taking junior-level courses again.
8) Get a passport. He still enters a lot of travel sweepstakes--yeah, right. If he must repeat life over, he figures why not repeat an adventure from someone else's life? He's getting his passport photo taken this summer....
9) Get the girl. And keep her. And live happily ever after. 10) Save money. This, of course, conflicts with all the above. 11) Sponsor an international child. As it looks like he's not going to have kids--where's his woman, anyway?--he would like to positively improve a child's life. He knows he has to be financially secure first.
A slightly revised list, as taken from the handed-in class assignment: 1) Keep the job at the library. Check: He stayed until the job description and the supervisior changed, and left amicably. He survived his first Fall semester, when all those students returned, and that Fall's invoicing. "Speed it up, Earl!"
2) Find a new place to live away from Hagerstown.
3) Get a car.
4) Start taking junior-level courses.
5) Have much needed oral surgery.
6) Take a few days in September 2001 to go to Lewes, Delaware and Cape May, New Jersey. (This could have been replaced by another location, as options were evaluated, but no trip was taken then.)
7) Get a passport. Entering a lot of travel sweepstakes could make this necessary. Yeah, right. 8) Get a hottie. 9) Save money. This, of course, conflicts with all the above. 10) Continue to grow spiritually.
11) Sponsor an international child. As it looks like I'm not going to have kids--where's my woman, anyway?--I would like to positively improve a child's life.
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