True goals spring from a desire and an inspiration to create or acquire or accomplish something new to have a child, to start a business, etc. Much of what people think are goals are actually maintenance. They arise from the need to take care of what they already have to solve problems in the existing situation and to keep things going just as they are to feed the baby, to manage the business, etc. These activities, though very important, are not really goals. The distinction may be subtle, but it is very important in how we use our time.
Life involves both goals and maintenance.
Every successfully accomplished goal will normally create an on going maintenance responsibility. Starting something new is exciting. Finishing it may be very difficult. But taking care of what we have finished may be never ending. That is why we must be so careful to invest our time in doing only what is truly pleasing to God.