Why Goal Setting Is Important

I believe that to be successful in life you need to have a purpose. You don’t have to follow anybody else’s rubric, but you can create yourself a standard of what you think will make you successful, and that could be either being rich, or being happy or being famous it is up to you to define it. You define what you think you need to achieve in order to be successful, and this is, basically, creating a goal. So in shorter terms I believe that goal setting is important because it gives us purpose. Goals can go from really big life goals that will take decades of work to achieve, to really small goals within our daily life that will help us reach for the big goals. However, how do we know if the smaller goals that we set for ourselves are really beneficial to the overall big goal we have in life? Well, we have to really think them through, we have to be SMART, about them, and that’s where S.M.A.R.T. goals come in. S.M.A.R.T goals stand for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time specific. They’re specific, in being detailed in how to achieve them, a SMART goal is not vague at all. They are measurable, which means …show more content…
To answer this question I go back to my reasoning on why goal setting is important; a purpose. I have always been a firm believer that true success is being able to reach someone’s full potential in whatever field or aspect they are the most talented. If you believe you are a good singer then you should push yourself the farthest to become the best singer that you can be, and once you are able to reach your maximum potential and reap the benefits of your hard work, you will be able to feel successful. So I work hard, study hard, and dedicate my all to giving a one hundred percent of my effort into everything that I do. The fear of failure motivates me a lot, it is a really grim thought but it is the honest truth. Fear of failing at the things I decided to put my effort in is what always gives me that extra push to do