Should we really define goals?

Doesn't matter the perspective you are looking at, life, work, relationships, sports, study… We’ll all face someone saying that we must pursue our goals, clean up our minds in order to achieve our goals, never give up on our dreams, and many motivation phrases like these (we can find an enormous quantity of books, videos, speeches, and articles about it).

I’ve been spoken to a lot of people around me, folks in many “success categories” from different areas, I just wanted to understand how they keep their dreams alive and pulsing inside of their brains.

Well, and then I’ve got particularly confused about it I could realize that is not a majority of them really have made a plan based on a clear and dreamed goal.

In many cases, it just hasn’t happened. In best cases, people just follow some principles or let’s say follow some general guidance (usually based on cultural values) trying to go somewhere without actually knowing exactly where. And then, somehow, it has become quite funny comparing it to that famous phrase from Cheshire Cat on Alice in Wonderland “if you don’t know where you want to go, it doesn’t matter which path you take”.

But against facts, there are no arguments, right? How those people got well-succeded without actually planning a clear goal? Is it simply fate’s work? Is the “goal” a fake fantasy trying to sell more books? Or we just don’t need to spend so much time trying to define a goal, because 3 weeks later this goal could just do not make any sense since life has just changed?

I’ve got personally upset (unfortunately quite often) because I just don’t have all of those clear, specific, and dreamable goals, so what? I (and many others) am lost in the world, like Alice? Just taking any path and seeing what is going to happen at the end?

Aiming to avoid this situation, I’ve been trying to define goals, and yes, it’s useful and helps me on maintaining my actions guided for which apparently is the right and decent direction.

So, in my humble opinion, it is useful to try to define a goal, as I already said before, doesn’t matter the life perspective it could be very helpful. Maybe, the pure exercise of establishing a goal will give us better results than the goal itself.

It is an exercise, in order to define your goals, you must think about everything around it, and those thoughts will clear up your mind, it will seed your brain with needed and more accurate inputs to handle the obstacles and challenges, allowing you to hit your goal more efficiently, after that someone will probably say that you were “lucky”.