PACE 100 Assignment 1

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Feb 20, 2024

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Assignment, Week 1 What Are Your Motivations? Name: __Olawale Oguntoye_ PACE100 Section: __6980 This assignment is about understanding your motivations for coming to the university and what drives you to accomplish milestones in your life. Your goals and motivations are driven by your underlying values—the reasons you desire to achieve certain things. Values inform our thoughts, words, and actions, and they help us to grow, develop, and envision and create the future we want to experience. Assignment Part 1: The first step in better understanding your values is by writing three to five goals for yourself in the table below. These could be personal or professional goals, and they could be short-term or long-term goals. You should aim to make them SMART goals. Your Goals Goal 1: Example: Finish my undergraduate degree in Marketing by December 2022. Goal 2: Complete my undergraduate degree in Information System Management by May 2023 Goal 3: Acquire professional certification as Certified Information Security Auditor by December 2022 Goal 4: Get a high paying job in Information technology field by June 2023 Goal 5: Buy a house in DMV area by 2024 Assignment Part 2: Once you’ve established your goals, think about what is motivating you to achieve those specific goals. Is it to get to a certain level in your career? Is it to achieve something you’ve always wanted to for personal reasons? Is it to set a good example for your family or friends? The second piece of this assignment is to establish two or three motivations for each goal you’ve identified and write these in the table below. Copy your goals into the area below from part 1 of the assignment. Your Motivations Goal 1: Finish my undergraduate degree in Marketing by December 2022 Motivations: Promotion at work; higher salary; accomplishment Goal 2: Complete my undergraduate Motivations: 1

Assignment, Week 1 What Are Your Motivations? degree in Information System Management by May 2023 Getting a good job as Information system manager Goal 3: Acquire professional certification as Certified Information Security Auditor by December 2022 Motivations: Career advancement and accomplishments Goal 4: Get a high paying job in Information technology field by June 2023 Motivations: Higher salary and financial independent Goal 5: Buy a house in DMV area by 2024 Motivations: Living in my own house Your motivation for doing anything generally stems from your values. Motivating forces could be values instilled in you from a young age, or values you hold because of what you’ve learned or been exposed to. Your core values are those that drive your behaviors, actions, and words. They are the reasons we dedicate our time and energy to most things in our lives. They are our guiding principles. Assignment Part 3: Now that you’ve established goals and acknowledged your motivations, consider what motivates you, and write the underlying reason for each goal. These are your values. There could be one or several values for each goal that you have, and the values might be the same or similar for different goals. In the table below, copy your goals from part 1 of the assignment and enter your values. There are no wrong answers for this exercise. The purpose is to establish your values and to recognize what drives you to accomplish milestones in your life. Your Values Goal 1: Finish my undergraduate degree in Marketing by December 2022 Values: Integrity and work ethic; reaching my potential through education Goal 2: Complete my undergraduate degree in Information System Management by May 2023 Values: Hardworking, integrity and self- discipline to reach my educational goals Goal 3: Acquire professional certification as Certified Information Security Auditor by December 2022 Values: Opportunity to grow and increase my potential through training Goal 4: Get a high paying job in Information technology field by June 2023 Values: Hardworking and integrity Goal 5: Buy a house in DMV area by 2024 Values: Financial responsibility 2

Assignment, Week 1 What Are Your Motivations? Assignment Part 4: Now that you’ve established goals, acknowledged your motivations, and reflected on your values, it’s time to consider how to go about achieving your goals. There are likely several steps you’d need to take in order to reach your ultimate goals, but writing down the first step that you can (and will) take can help you to form a plan of action. For each of your goals, list the next step you plan to take in order to achieve it. Your Action Steps Goal 1: Finish my undergraduate degree in Marketing by December 2022 Next Step: Register for my first major class next semester. Goal 2: Complete my undergraduate degree in Information System Management by May 2023 Next Step: Register for my class next semester Goal 3 Acquire professional certification as Certified Information Security Auditor by December 2022 Next Step: Begin studying for my CISA certification by May 2022 Goal 4: Get a high paying job in Information technology field by June 2023 Next Step: Building my resume and apply for job after my graduation Goal 5: Buy a house in DMV area by 2024 Next Step: Contact my bank for mortgage advice Assignment Part 5: Write a sentence or two about what you learned about your goals, motivations, and values from completing this assignment. What I’ve learned I have learned in this assignment that goals, motivations and values are very important in life. It helps us established and list what we aim to achieved in a distant future drives by our motivation in line with our values. 3

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