Now, go and choose three big goals for 2019 Goals that you know you can achieve if you focus fully on them. You see one year is just an arbitrary target. You can have a lifetime goal if that's what you want or even your goals for the next decade. But focusing on 2019 can help you start achieving goals regularly, which is the core of success. So choose one, two or three big goals to achieve next year, and then you will quickly learn to recognize what success is like.