A lot of people are contrary to having goals, they see no purpose in it. I always have to hold a deep breath when I have conversations with someone like this, because I can't remember a moment in my life in which I didn't have a thing I was looking forward to - or not a moment I would like to go back to, at least.
I think having goals is important to guaranteee you are going to take something seriously in life. And often times, even more importantly, having goals help me not that anything else as serious.
Goals can look like anything, take any amount of time and money, but they will always end up, if succesful, on that extra-corporeous feeling of being alive. I have tasted that a handful of time in my life, being the biggest one thus far the wednesday holiday in which I bawled my voice out singing American Requiem on top of the bike I bought for myself. This and plenty other moments in my life were one day goals writen in a piece of document.
This and plenty others, but not all others.
Not everything in my life has happened in an organized manner. Obviously. I like to believe you can only predict as much as 5% of what happens in any give period of your life and also believe that this is what keps it fun.
So what's the point in all this organizing then? If the things can happen and wreak havoc on your plans? If a lot of good things can happen by cheer luck?
The point is both of these things are true: accidents happen, but life doesn't happen by accident. Remember that.