We all know that setting goals is important.  If we are going on a trip, we need to know the destination if we expect to arrive their.  The same is true for many things in life.  If we want to get somewhere we have to decide what is important to us and what steps we need to take to achieve it.  Even when our goals are spiritual and we can expect guidance from the angels and God, we still have to make some commitment to it ourself.
    Many self-help gurus tell people they should set goals that are sky high.  Goals they are not likely to reach but, even if they fall a little short, they will still have achieved something great.  I don't agree with that philosophy.  I think if you are constantly setting goals too high and falling short, you will soon come to think of yourself as a failure and those thoughts will limit your future success.  You may even decide to stop setting goals in the future.  
    I think it is smarter to set goals you can reasonably achieve so when you do, your success will may you want to set new goals even higher.  It is ok to have one or two lofty goals but, for the most part, keep them reasonable.  You may find that after achieving several of those reasonable goals, you have actually come withing striking distance of a lofty one!  Another way to make goals reasonable is to break the goal down into small steps and treat each step as the goal.  That way, when you successfully complete the first step, you will be ready to go on to the second, then the third, until the overall goal is accomplished.
    If you're in high school and you want to become a doctor, your immediate goal should be to graduate, then to get into a good college, then medical school.  If you just start out with the goal of being a doctor, you may fall short on one of those intermediate steps that you are not thinking about.
    If your goal seems too unachievable, break it into smaller goals.  Say you want to loose 100 pounds.  That is a lot to loose and you may feel it's impossible and not even try, or give up after a week or two because you have only lost two pounds.  If you set a more reasonable goal of loosing twenty pounds, you have a better chance of achieving that goal.  Once you have, you can then set a goal to loose another twenty pounds, and so on.
    So don't be afraid to set some New Year's resolutions, just make them reasonable for you to achieve.  And I hope one of your goal will be to grow spiritually.