Around December or January of every year, I notice many people talking about the goals they wish to accomplish for the coming year or the goals they wanted to accomplish for the ending year. Many people set goals that are good for their health, like losing weight, or exercising to remain slim. Many other people set financial goals, like earning money, earning more money, or paying off debt. Still, many other people have different kinds of goals that they try to coordinate around the concept of a 365-days goal period.

One thing I would like to propose to you is to start thinking of setting up goals, instead of planning to set up achievable goals. Your goals can be sorted out in ways other than the achievable and non-achievable category. You can look at a goal and think “Can this goal be pursued easily using the exact tools, resources and character that I have at my disposal at this very moment?” That way, goals which can be achieved easily can also exist along side the goals which cannot be achieved easily. Thus, your goals will exist based on what you want your goals to be and the difficulty level of their completion or progress, instead of your goals existing based on whether or not you think they can be achieved.

5 reasons setting achievable goals is a bad stereotypical trend

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