With the New Year fast approaching many people are focusing on what they want to change about themselves or in their lives.

Making New Year’s resolutions to lose that extra weight, study harder in school, or quit smoking, starts with good intentions only to give way halfway through January.

Jamie Adamchuk, Certified Professional Life Coach and Internationally Licenced LP Master Practitioner, says it doesn't matter what the goal is as long as it excites you and drives you, and the reason why?

"When we are setting goals the first thing is, it has to be is juicy, It has to be big. It has to be something that absolutely motivates you. Secondly, it's understanding where that motivation comes from. What is our purpose for setting these goals? Is it because it will simply make our life easier or is it something we truly believe in."

Setting the goal may come easy but it's attaining the goal where most people fall flat.

On the way to achieving a goal, those 'Debbie Downers' may crop up to crush your dream, but Adamchuk asks, who is in charge of your life, you or someone else? 

"If we allow other people to direct our lives then we'll simply be those people who are always being directed. A goal is about something for yourself. Something to be proud of and it's your goal. It's not that other person's goal."

Another key method to attaining goals is to write them down using the present tense and then visualize attaining your goal as intensely as an Olympic athlete would on achieving a gold medal.

"Make it as though you already achieved that goal. The beauty of our minds is that it cannot tell the difference between what is real and what isn't. The mind can see that path. It's the only path it sees and because you're setting that goal in such a current status and such a current fashion there is no other outcome."

Adamchuk believes if you live it, feel it, experience it, it will become who you are.