Keso Gagnidze – Importance of setting goals at the start of a new year

  Goals play quite an essential role in human lives. Life goals are all the things you want to accomplish in your life. They can be large and challenging or smaller and more personal.

 ”Why is it important to set goals?” The answer is that goals make your life meaningful and beautiful. It is one of the main keys to happiness, a feeling everyone is so desperate to have. Without goals in life, you have no determination, ambition or direction whatsoever. Here are 3 main reasons why goals are important: first, they help you determine what you want in life. When you know what you want to do, you try hard for your dream to come true. To make that happen, you need motivation. 

That leads us to the second reason of the importance of setting goals: it helps you stay motivated. Motivation is a pathway to change our way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Without it, there is a really low chance of achieving what you want and being happy. It is hard to get motivated, but really easy to get distracted. By the way, losing motivation is a really big problem for teenagers in the 21st century. This brings us to the third reason: setting goals keeps you focused. If you are focused on your dream and what you want to accomplish, then you are motivated and the power that motivation holds gives you strength to keep going no matter what and break all the barriers. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will”, said the American novelist and short-story writer Stephen King.

 Is it really necessary to set goals at the start of a new year? In my opinion it is. For me it is really important for each upcoming year to be productive. We don’t really know how much time we have to live and we should use and enjoy every second of our lives. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses”, said Abraham Lincoln, 16^th president of the United States of America. At the start of each new year, I write a list of what I want to achieve in that year and try my best to fulfil my goal. To stay motivated, I am always focused on what I am doing and don’t get distracted easily. When I feel that I am failing to stay motivated, I realize what a positive impact accomplishing that goal will have on my life and it keeps me going. At the end of the year, I check my list of goals that I have achieved and I am proud of. I also review the goals that I haven’t completed and identify any problems that appeared while I was completing that goal. Then I try to solve it. This makes my life more meaningful and I am happy that each year is worth it.

Author: Keso Gagnidze