I'm only 15, but should i be worrying about this?

Question

this is kind of hard to explain. i have always wanted to be someone famous and admired for great things. i have tried so many times to motivate myself to go for my goals. i have many goals, and i write them out and i plan them. but, since i have lots of goals, i have to make a plan for all of them. just doing that wears me out. i have written my goals and how to achieve them so many times now that it's annoying. the main reason i believe i cannot achieve goals now is because i have school. i go to the 73rd best high school in america and the homework load is very time consuming; plus, i have to study for the SAT's. i don't really have any time on weekdays to work on my goals and over a couple of days i lose hope and this cycle keeps repeating. what should i do? any advice?

Answer 1

sounds to me like your making a bunch of excuses for why you are only planning on your goals and not executing them. If your 15 do your best in school as that will make most of your goals that much more achievable then focus on one or two of them. stop using 'not enough time' as an excuse. You also seem to quite to easily. Perseverance, hard work and good judgement will be what gets you to most of your goals. Stick with your strong points.

Also if you ever watched "the Secret"  please forget you ever saw it. Sounds like since you write down  your goals obsessively you might have watched that BS show for losers. Just go out and make it happen and stop talking about it.

Answer 2

You sound like a stereotypical teenager. In 30-40 years you can decide what you can or have accomplished.

Answer 3

WHOAWHOAWHOA...

I'm 17 and I've never taken a SAT test.

Just calm down a bit.

You seem incredibly smart and strong just by what I'm reading.

Look. There are some real dumbasses at my school, and our college acceptance rate is 99%...so there's only like 15 kids at my high school each year that don't get into college.

My school's #400 sumthing best...

Anyway. You have goals/dreams, and you have a head start on pretty much everything. You're WAY more prepared than the average high school kid. You're seriously going to go far in life.

It is also said that 97% of people that write down their goals at an early age get what they want in life later on.

So good for you! I respect you hun.

Answer 4

You have to prioritize which goals are most important to you. Now I think you need to worry about school and your grades. Then develop a plan of goal #1, then #2 you got an idea. Stop and achive  one simple goal first and you will feel better. Learn how to prioritize them.

Answer 5

prioritize your goals, work on one at a time.

Answer 6

You are 15 and already you have overwhelmed yourself with all these goals.  You have your whole life before you.  Give yourself one goal to work on for the next month.  Then begin on the steps toward that.  What you need is to see success for once.  All you see right now is endless planning.

What is a long term goal?  College?  Okay.  Figure out your time line.  2-3 more yrs till graduation.  You are taking the SAT's.  Look at the colleges you are interested in.  Do they even require them anymore?  Many don't.  Write your steps to this goal and set it aside for now.  You can't do anything about it in the next month anyway.  Take your SAT's.  Pick a few schools to send applications to and write your letters or call for apps.  Take things in smaller steps like that.  

After you have finished your first short term goal, put all your papers, cards, scraps of paper, pads, sticky notes, everything, Put it all down.  Go to the pizza parlor with your friends and celebrate.  Heft a glass of coke in the air and congratulate yourself for being successful.  Tell them about your accomplishment.  Tell them that day is your day off from being goal oriented.  You are just going to be a fun guy that day.  Go bowling, play tennis, play tiddley winks, whatever.  And, share it with mom and dad.  This shows them that you are working things out in adult fashion.  They may give advice.  Accept it graciously, say thank you, tell them you love them, get mushy.  They will see that you are becoming a young adult and this may result in more priviledges.

Pick out a second short term goal after you accomplish the first short term goal.  Don't carry all those things around with you.  It's like having your mom and dad beating on your back nag, nag, naging.  Only you are doing that to yourself.  You'll never accomplish anything if you keep paralyzing yourself with so much.  Keep doing that and you'll end up in the booby hatch.

Which goals are realistic?  Making a fortune at 18 is unrealistic for most people.  Bring your goal out of the rafters and make it more reachable.  What do you need such a goal for anyway?  Isn't a more realistic goal to complete HS then College, get as good a job as you can get then begin to plan for your future.  I'll bet you have so many goals that aren't even realistically attainable right now.  Make your priorities.  Will there be time for a relationship?  Will you be wanting to be married, have children, buy a home, couple cars?  This is planning that can come later.  If you make your life plans so tight you'll squeeze out all the fun and sponteneity out of life.  You will be a brainy, boring slob that nobody will want to be around.  Learn to have fun.

Just a few thoughts to jog you from your serious side.

Answer 7

work on it in the summer.

Answer 8

Try to take one goal at a time, and make it a long term goal, give yourself at least 1 year to complete your goal. Try time management, sometimes we do things that use up a lot of our time, not leaveing us time for the important things. Once you complete your long term, then you can set some short term goals.

Answer 9

I think it's great that you are making goals and trying to achieve them!  When I was 15, I wasn't even thinking about things like that.  I think it shows great maturity on your part.  It sounds to me like you are being too hard on yourself.  It's great to make goals but when you overwhelm yourself with them, it really defeats the purpose.  Pick one or two that you really want to focus on and put the others on hold for the time being.  Don't get frustrated because you feel like you're not accomplishing as much as you would like.  You have plenty of time to achieve all that you want and much more. 

Answer 10

It the best you can in High School so you can go to college. Goals are great but you must be realistic. You don't say what your goals are so we don't really know how possible they are. Just remember that you are 15 and still have a long time to do what you want. You might want to simplify your goals into steps. For instance if you want to fly a plane. Find out how much lessons are and where you can get them. Be proactive but realistic. If you want to be an astronaut for example you need to score high in high school and college. So the best advice I can give you is study hard and do well and be realistic in your goals. Look for books on people that have succeeded in what you want to do. Good luck and God bless.

Answer 11

So you go to Walt Whitman HS in Maryland...anyway public schools are ranked according to a ratio based on the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2006 divided by the number of graduating seniors, which means absolutley nothing...you can fail those AP classes and still have enough credits and required courses based on state minimums to graduate.

Homework is designed to consume your time...sorry it is what it is...if you want less homework convince your parents to home school you.

Sounds like you have too many things you are striving for at one time, I'm not saying to give up your goals, I'm saying to focus on one at a time and as you achieve them move on to the next. Stop obsessing over too many things at once, and break the cycle.

Answer 12

You need to learn to be a mutli-tasking person.  In high school I purposely took what was called X period class.  There were certain classes that started before the regular days classes.  It got me out of school 1 period early.  With that time, I did most of my homework.  Then it would be after school sports for me(I lettered in 3 sports).  After practice I would rush home and finish my homework so I could indulge in my passion at that time.  That passion was playing the organ in my church.  They gave me a key to the church so I could practice at any time.  Finally, I learned enough to play for church services and become the choir director.  As time went on, I earned a scholarship in music without knowing how to read music which wasnt necessary as I could hear a song 1 or 2 times and it was in my head.  I played in bands.  Finally, I was asked by a local musician to play with his band.  Lo and behold, the next thing I knew we were cutting a disc and the disc did well.  We started touring as an opening act for big name groups.  That was pretty cool.  My fame, for me, came when I was invited to a jazz festival and I was able to sit in with some very famous jazz groups.  From there I became a studio musician in LA, Calif and I have played and recorded with many top selling jazz groups.  I guess what I am telling you is that if you want something hard enough you will find a way and the most important thing is not to obess about it.  I had no idea where my teaching myself to play keyboards would take me.  And one more thing, just take on 1 goal at a time or you will find yourself spreading too thin.

Answer 13

you are still young so focus first on your studies and in little spare-time start making priorities,like try to make only a top 5 of important things you would like to fulfill or atleast try BEFORE turning adolescence.....Im almost 40 and my list is still not done.....

Answer 14

Peoples like you makes the world better! I was like you too...Except writing my goals.

Answer 15

you should'nt really strain yourself espeacially at 15....as you grow older, you'll kinda narrow your goals down to a few. then u can really set your mind to it and go all the way. but for right now, just go live the last years of your teenage life before u wake up one day and realise your an adult working minimum wage at a dead end job.

Answer 16

For the time being...do well with your high school obligations. If there's a way of including some of your goals while doing this...like taking a course, or courses, which lead toward a goal...then take it/them. You're young...you have lots of time. You write you have SO many goals...the chances of achieving all of them is going to be problematic...and nigh on impossible...unless they are linked in some fashion. Is it possible to bring these goals into some kind of perspective? Can you link some of them together..so that there is a plausible chronology...time frame...in which you can set these goals. Completion of one leads to another...and so on...

OR....if I get this accomplished...THEN...I can move on to this goal...and then the next.....

Perhaps throwing a sort of 'stoyboard' of you goals together so you can visulaize the path you're going to take can help you. You'll probably need to ditch some in favor of others, but life is like that for everyone. You can't have it all.....

Answer 17

You poor ambitious materialistic little soul you....

Keep working at it who knows what you'll achieve unless you keep dreaming.

Answer 18

Drop the homework and chase your dreams.

At the end of your road my friend your homework will just be a waste of time.

Just work hard in school instead, dont bring it home.

Answer 19

It pleases me to see a young person with goals! However, it seems that you have burdened yourself with too many goals. Set one or two goals at a time, plan your course of action, and then achieve them. You have a long life ahead of you so don't rush things.

Answer 20

you go to the 73rd best school in america !

Answer 21

Well, I'm an actor, and was in a movie....

Focus on things that mean more to your life....

Trust me, getting a good education is more inportant....

But I agree with the guy above me....

s***w homework! Haha...

Just some, lol....

Have fun while you're young!

=)

All my best!

-Max

Answer 22

how do you know its the 73rd best school?

i think it sounds like you are worrying about too much

maybe you have too many goals if you don't have time to fit them all in

Answer 23

Well, first things first. Congratulate yourself for being goal-oriented; many fifteen- year- olds aren't. Now, take things one at a time. School comes first. Your goals will change as you get older so in order to be best prepared, get good grades. That way, if your goals include becoming a famous artist, painter or musician etc you'll have something to "fall back on". And of course, if you plan on being a Nobel Prize laureate or discovering that elusive cure for the common cold, well,of course you'll need your education for that. It's all gravy. Meanwhile, please try to not stress. Just take it one step at a time. Education first, then a job to support yourself, then...?

Answer 24

Successful decision-makers realize victory is only achieved by taking a series of actions. Their common goal is to create a path that is most likely to produce the desired results. They continue to learn, adjust their goals and move forward no matter what challenges they encounter.

Answer 25

It's great that you have goals, however you should try to limit them by prioritizing which goal you want to achieve first. Your first goal on your mind should be to do the best you can in school and on the SATs. Afterall, your grades and SAT score can drastically effect how good of a college you'll go to. (So that's a major goal for your age!) For most people your age, you aren't falling behind or anything like that, so you don't need to worry about it quite yet. (Just worry about school.) Once you're out of high school, you'll go to college, and college is where you'll either A) have more time, or B) have what you need to achieve even bigger goals. Many people become great AFTER high school.

Answer 26

Do what you want to do.  See what you want to do most and work towards that.  As for being famous, don't worry too much about that- it is better to be yourself, happy and doing what you love than another celebrity with a miserable life because.  If you aren't motivated, you should know that Albert Einstien was called incredibly stupid and Nelson Mandella was jailed for 27 years, and came out as some of the most intelligent and famous people of all time because they, while still being human, decided to deny their fate.  If you aren;t motivated beacause you don't want that kind of life, don't do it.

Answer 27

with out knowing what your goals are I'd say put your education first and then worry about your goals, because a good education will more than likely help you achieve some of those goals.  At your age you have plenty of time to work on your goals.