Have u ever thought of a life without a goal or mission? It can be really a very boring life . Goals or missions are need to be set up in life. A life of a person with goals may be very interesting as one always think about achieving it or tries various different ways to achieve it. A life of a person without a goal may be very boring or depressive.

A goal or a mission in life is very important as it gives a person large number of reward or achievements when a goal is achieved. A determination to achieve a goal can lead a person to get up early in morning or work hard the entire day.  Setting a goal in life can help a person to fight against the challenges in life and never give up in life.When a goal is achieve a person thinks positively and life and gets lots of happiness. Goal setting is very important for a person who wants to live a new life from what he is living now . Goals can be anything it may be something very small to something very big or challenging . Its all upon a individual what he want to achieve upon in his life. It may be a small goal to stay fit or may be a challenging goal to become a doctor or any other thing.

Achieving goals in life forms a important part of life . Goals should not be very easy to achieve or very hard so that it can never be attained. A goal can be made at any age but achieving it is what which makes a goal different. Some goals may never be achieved if a person is not focused. A person needs to plan the goals he wants to achieve properly. He may make goals in his mind or write them down . When a person writes down goals on a piece of paper a look towards them may always encourage to work hard towards its achievement. Dreams of achieving goals only come true when hard work is done it cannot be achieved just by mere thinking or writing down of them. Achievement of goals may require lot of efforts.

Thus setting up a goal or mission in life is very important . "A life without mission is like a well without water".

The New Year may be a significant event for many people.SO LET'S TRY TO
UND WHAT NEW YEAR IS?
Mark Twain
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to
anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and
humbug resolutions.

Brooks Atkinson
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was
imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Bill Vaughan
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age
is when you're forced to.

P. J. O'Rourke
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This
drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss
the person you're married to.

Jay Leno
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people.
So overweight people are now average which means, you have met your New
Year's resolution.

Eric Zorn
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance
that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility.
Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Bill Vaughan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist
stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Mark Twain
New Year's Day now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good
resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.


Anais Nin
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of
criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event
for me.

In the past, there haven been people of Great Spirit and intelligence. They have served all their lives, in thought, word and action. They lived to serve the poor and the needy and spread the world of love and brotherhood. The world and their countries remember them and honor them.

In August 1854, a child was born in a pretty little village near Thiruvanthapuram in Kerala. This child would one day become Sri Narayana Guru, the greatest social reformer of Kerala.

Like every little boy, `Nanu’ was mischievous. He used to go into the puja room and eat up the sweets and plantains before they had been offered to the family god. When his mother scolded him he said, `I am sure God will be pleased if little children are happy.’

Even as a boy, Narayana lived a very simple life. At the age of twenty-three, he left family. He lived by collecting alms from all sorts of people. After this, he spent a long time in the caves of southern Kerala thinking about God. After many months, he came out began to speak about the problems in the society.

In those days, people of the lower castes were treated very badly. They were not allowed to enter temples or to go to schools and universities. Sri Narayana decided to do something about this.

He set up temples all over Kerala. The Sri Narayana temples were different from the others. Here, everybody could go and pray to God. It did not matter whether you were rich or poor or high or low. Even a person who was not a Hindu was welcome to pray at these temples.

Sri Narayana went around the country spreading his message of love. He believed that there was only `one caste, on religion, one god for Mankind’. He believed that all people are equal.

The great Sri Narayana Guru left this world on 20 September 1928. But e lives forever in the minds and hearts of people.

• Social reformers: a person who works to bring about changes n the society in which he lives.

• Alms: money, cloths and food given to poor people.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Yugoslavia. She came to India and worked as a teacher in Kolkata. She felt very sad by the condition of the poor people and soon started her own order, known as the missionaries of charity. It took care of `the hungry, the sick and homeless, unwanted, unloved, uncared for people’.

`Boys, I want you to take these ten questions for home work. I will look at your answer on Monday,’ said the teacher.

One of the boys, Gopal, went home and started to do his homework. He wrote down the answers to nine questions. But he did not know the answer to the tenth question. He tried and tried did not know the answer to the tenth question. He tried and tried but it was no use- he could not do it.

Then Gopal had an idea. He knew a boy who was in a higher class. So he went to him and asked for help. The older boy helped him.

On Monday, the teacher corrected the homework. Only one boy had all ten answer co0rrect –Gopal. The teacher was very happy. `You are a very good boy. Here is a prize for you excellent work.’

`But, sir,’ said Gopal, ` I don’t deserve the prize.’

`Why?’ the teacher was puzzled.

`Sir,’ continued Gopal, ` did not do it all myself. I asked a friend to help me with the last question’. His face was pale and is voice trembled.

The teacher looked t Gopal for a minute without speaking. Then he smiled broadly. He patted the boy on the shoulder and said, `The prize is still yours, Gopal. Only, now it is a prize for honesty. I am very proud of you, my boy.’

The boy was Gopal Krishna Gokhale. He grew up to be a very wise man, a great leader and a freedom fighter. Everybody respected him- the Indian people as well as the British who ruled ndia at that time. Even Mahatma Gandhi asked Gokhale or advice.

*justice Ranade was an advocate of Hindu –Muslim unity and said that could not progress until the Hindus and the Muslims united. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, whom Mahatma Gandhi regarded as his guru, was also a member of the Samaj. He founded the `servants of India society’.

*deserve: to deserve something is to get something because you have acted in a particular way

• The world has many great leaders who are great in their own special ways.

• Some leaders used the wonders of science to improve our daily lives.

• Some leaders spoke of quality of all men, goodness and love for others.

• Others were against cruel social customs and unkind practices against women.

• We remember great personalities with respect and honor.