We're often surrounded by all of these ideas of who or what we should be. #Goals goes around like the plague, and we often try to hit these #goals.

But what if we stopped and truly looked at these so-called goals. Is having a family really your goal or do you just want a family because society tells us it's the right thing to do?

Do you actually want to be the CEO of a big corporation or is your goal to be an artist who captures the complexities in life on a daily basis through abstract ideas painted out on a canvas?

It could even be simpler than that, too. Do you really like Starbucks or do you just like Starbucks because it has been deemed the #goals of the coffee world?

So often we get caught in this cycle, whether we realize it or not, where we replace our goals with the goals of the world. The world expects everyone to want to fall in love, have a family and work the perfect little stable job for their entire life.

That's not the life that everyone does want or should want. If your idea of #goals is to be single for the rest of your life, live in an apartment by yourself in the middle of a city somewhere working for a small company in graphic design — then go for it.

The only real #goals out there are your own. The goals that are truly and completely your own — not someone else's goals or the world's goals for you. Sometimes it's hard to separate those from one another, but stop looking at everyone else with envy and start looking at yourself with pride.

Look back at yourself in the mirror and be proud of yourself for making your own goals and becoming your own definition of the word #goals. Why try to be like everyone else when you have your own unique talents and abilities?

I'm sick of seeing this couple is #goals or this person is #goals. Sure, they may have a healthy relationship or that person may be successful in his or her career, but they aren't you and you aren't them.

Stop holding yourself to goals that you don't actually want, and start holding yourself to the #goals you need, deserve and truly want to go after.