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Lesson 1 Assignment:

Setting Goals

Madison Arbuckle-Burns

INTS 3301-Texas Tech University

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1. My long term career goal is something I have been dreaming about for a few years now.

My whole life I knew I wanted to do something for under privileged children, I didn’t

always know how I was going to but I knew that was my passion. Then about three years

ago I found my second passion which was nutrition and exercise and then I figured out

how to combine both of my passions to create something incredible. So my long term

goal is to open a non-profit afterschool program for children in low income families. At

this after school program kids will have a safe place to go while getting good nutrition

provided to them. Also I want to teach them good nutrition habits to use at home and

teach them about live a healthy active lifestyle that is fun. I want to do this by the time I

am 40 years old. I planned this as my goal year because I am hoping by that time to have

children of my own that will be old enough to help out and actually experience what it is

like to make a difference in a life. I grew up being involved in all sorts of community

service activities and groups with my family and I think it is a big reason of why I am

how I am today. So I want my kids to be old enough when I open this so they can take a

sense of ownership in it. Resources I am going to need are things such as a building to

use that has some land around it for activities to be done outside. I will also need some

funding with it being a non-profit at least to help me get it going, another thing I will

need is equipment for the activities such as basketballs, footballs, jump ropes etc. Lastly

the reason this is so meaningful to me is I have grown up very privileged but I have had

many friends who weren’t and seeing them have to grow up that way with feeling like no

one cared broke my heart. I also have worked with kids all my life so I have seen kids of

all backgrounds come in and I have seen many who just      

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2. So some short term goals I have to reach my long term goal are become certified trainer

and become certified in some things life zumba and stuff, to open my own gym and do

some work out classes that involve children and maybe even have a summer camp and to

make enough money to be able to buy a spot. To be certified in training and other things

will help me learn how to work with people and learn different things to get people

active. I think this will be helpful for many reasons, one it will give me some credentials

also it will give me a variety I can bring to the program. I think owning my own place

and doing classes that will involve children is very important. I think this because first off

it will help me learn how to run my own business and give me some experience in that

area. Also involving children in the activities I have will one get my name out there and

two will give me some more experience working with children. Lastly saving enough

money to buy a place is very important because without the place there is no program. I

am planning to start getting certified in different areas this year and hopefully after I

graduate do my trainer certification. I then plan on opening my own gym by the time I am

26 year old giving me 5 years to get that established and then giving me 14 years to save

up money to buy a place. My plan for evaluating these goals is by doing yearly checks of

where I am and where my finances are at. I am supposed to be meeting with a family

friend of mine that is an entrepreneur and he is supposed to be helping me get a true

business plan together and breaking down how much money I need to save each year.

3. So my 3 areas of concentration are media strategies, organizational leadership and

exercise sports science. So first off exercise sports science is pretty obvious but it will be

used to help me learn about nutrition and exercise. I am also currently taking a PE

teaching course where I am learning a lot about coaching kids in a way that is fun but yet

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productive and helpful for the children. I am learning games that help kids get active that

are fun and that don’t make kids who maybe aren’t in shape feel uncomfortable. I am also

taking classes to help me learn about exercising and doing it right to where people aren’t

injured. And since I will want to work with children I will for sure want to make sure I

am doing things properly so that no one gets hurt. The way I plan on using my

organizational leadership concentration is to learn more of the business side of it and how

to run a business. I also am taking classes on leadership and communication which I will

use to help me build a team to help in the after school program that are all on the same

page with the same goals in mind. I to a business leadership class last year that thought

me how to be a good leader that isn’t just a dictator and yet still is respected. It was really

insightful on how to properly run a business. Lastly I will use my media strategies

concentration as a way to promote. I will use things such as social media to get the

program out there to the community, I will use advertising, promotional events and other

ads using media to get our name out there. Through my years at Tech I have taken many

media classes from advertising to public relations so I feel pretty educated on how to best

use media today to my advantage.

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