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The Importance Of Goals In Annie Johnson's 'New Direction'

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Reach that Goal Is there anything more accomplishable when you feel like you succeed in your goal? That feeling when you feel proud of yourself. These individual accomplish their mission through effort and determination. Ernesto motive for his mission was that he wanted to learn english since he is now a person in the U.S. Farah Ahmedi wanted to cross a mountain with a prosthetic leg to get to Pakistan in search for a better life. In New Direction Annie Johnson intended to support her family of two toddling son, with very little money and with no job at first, she determined to reach that goal to have a better life for them. Individuals are driven to under to under take missions because they want to achieve their goal they set to themselves, or for their family, and to one day be happy and proud. In Barrio Boy Ernesto faces the journey of speaking english but also moving into a different country can be a big change. Learning english can sometimes be very hard to perfect. This will impact his future but overcomes it with …show more content…

Annie is an African American woman, and already living in the 1903, her working choices are very limited. She had very little money and an unfortunate marriage, Annie attempts working, but with being a domestic parent and leaving her two small boys in someone else's hands. With this mind, she describe this challenge as “There was no possibility of being hired at the town’s cotton gin or lumber mill, but maybe there was a way to make the two factories work for her.” So she quickly conquered that changallege and took no for an answers. She decided to work on selling warm food on the road for the workers. According to her, she explained “She told herself that she wasn’t a fancy cook but that she could “mix groceries well enough to scare hungry away from starving a man” As she refer it to, she cut her a new path instead of repeating the same road over

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