The Alchemist Research Paper

Let us wonder off to a forest for the very first time, let us try to find the beautiful scenic fall that everyone talks about but soon you grow tired frustrated and there was nothing to be found, well how do you think you can get to a fall if you have no map or any signs to lead you the way. Similarly are the objective of a goal, it is the road map of our life and its advantages of a goal as follows
To realize the importance of these

1. Increase productivity
Larry bird once said A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
~ Larry Bird Quotes
Once you put down your goal on pen and paper you have just went through your first step.
Setting goals that you desire, not what your family want, not what your friends expect, no your very own goal! Because no one knows you better than yourself. Once setting your goal with your own expectation you soon realize the need to achieve it and hence you will become more productive.
Similary to a study conducted on a company to achieve a high customer satisfaction, the manager decided to give his employees the right to set the goal not only did they have higher goals they achieved even better than expected.
2. High chance of success
In the words of the famous author Paulo Coelho once wrote When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho Quotes from The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream.
- Going back to the forest we realize that our chances of finding the beautiful fall is higher when using a map than going in without one, we might as well go in blindfolded. Which is exactly what this second advantage proves, wandering in life will get us nowhere close to our dreams which is why when we have set our goals we have a high chance of achieving It because the map will lead us the way. This map creates a sort of benchmark for us to measure our success and this goal becomes a security builder and reduces the fear of failure

3. Focus the effort in a consistent direction
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands: your own."
~ Mark Victor Hansen
Quotes
The goal is truly in your hands, Once you have set your goals there is a clear road you know your going to take, there will be no detours mainly because you finally know where your going. A goal helps you put all your useful effort into one direction making you consistently work on the target you want.

4.
Self motivators and energizers.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
~ Robert H. Schuller Quotes
Which brings us to the last point that Goals are our motivators and energizers. A goal gives your life porpuse, it helps you wake up in the morning and give you a sensation which will make your life full of porpuse. As talayah mentioned the stastics prove that 92% believe they should set goals because the majority as dissatisfied with their life, it is not late to put down your goal and work for something you truly believe in. Motivation helps us achieve higher result and makes us work more effiecently and given us the better result.
I would like to stress the importance of goals and why best seller books like the secret and Dr phill life startgeies has achived to help millions realize their goals are in their hands. That goes back to the psychology that you are acknowledging both your conscious and subconscious mind that where you are right now is not where you want to be, and you have become dissatisfied. This motivates human action and helps achieve success.
I would leave you with the words of Robert frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the
difference