If you never set any goals for yourself, then you can't get let down by failing to achieve them.

However, if you never get around to establishing any goals for yourself to try and reach, you're sacrificing the potential for growth and you might never find out what you are truly capable of.

Researchers who have previously investigated the effect of regret in the past, suggest that failing to explore missed opportunities can be one of the most pressing regrets that many hold at the end of their lives.

You don't want to get decades down the road, having allowed many years pass, filling you with regret because you only wish that you had branched out in some new way, tried something new, or explored a different approach.

If we take a chance at trying something new and we make a fool of ourselves, the regret potentially associated with that is less profound then that which is associated to regrets over chances we never found the courage to explore.

Research suggests that people overwhelmingly regret the things that they didn't do, as opposed to feeling regret for the things that they did.

You might have jumped to explore some new opportunity at one point in your life, only to feel like you've crashed and failed. But sometimes failure can be an invaluable learning experience.

When we set out to establish goals for ourselves to try and reach, there is a certain amount of risk involved and the fear that comes along with that is different for everyone. For some who have a poor self image, they might not feel like they deserve to have certain things in their life, and this might keep them from trying to set higher goals for themselves to achieve. If we fail to keep trying to move forward with setting goals for our lives however, it can stunt the probability of us achieving a higher potential.

By setting small or large goals for our lives we can effectively transform it for the better, changing our lives drastically and enabling ourselves to accomplish more. You might even surprise yourself at what you are truly capable of.

You might feel like you don't have the time to try and achieve your goals, whatever they may be, but we all have the same amount of time in a day. The time will pass anyways and why not make the most of it by trying to invest it toward trying to achieve better for yourself, your loved ones, and others.

A fear of the time that it might take to achieve the goal shouldn't be enough to sway us from getting started, it's never too late to begin working toward a better life or toward a new vision that we might want to see realized.

An important step toward achieving any goal in our lives is to have a clear vision for what it is that we want. Do you want to see yourself get out of debt? Do you want to start your own company? Get rid of 20lbs? Get a new job? Make new friends? Travel worldwide? Volunteer for a cause that's important to you? Research indicates that setting goals for ourselves has the potential to drastically improve our chances of success and by setting both small and large goals to work toward, it helps provide a clear direction, helps facilitate planning, can help to inspire, and guide our performance in trying to reach the overall objective.

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