The new year is filled with new beginnings, hopes, and dreams. People make their resolutions and eventually forget they ever made them. This idea of making New Year's resolutions has become a reminder of all the things we set out to do but never accomplish. So is "New year, New me" overrated?

Making goals for yourself is something that I am a firm believer in, but making goals just for the sake of saying you made a New Year's resolution shouldn't be the reason you make a goal.

Goals should be something that drives you or something that you want to do. Whether it's losing 10 pounds or getting all A's in your classes, you should want to keep those goals long term, not just for the year. The drive to do better for yourself seems to last only for a few weeks after the new year starts, so what's the point of making resolutions anyway?

You should want to push yourself to do greater things because you want them and then once you reach them, keep pushing. Make that goal last a month and then another month. Tell yourself that if you ran that extra mile, then you can do anything.

So start with a small goal, something you know you can achieve in a reasonable time span. Then once you reach that goal, reach for more. Extend yourself further because your capabilities expand further than the goals you set can reach. Goals are just general outlines of your accomplishments waiting to happen.

You are still the same person you were a year previously and the new year doesn't make you into a different person. The only thing that can change you well enough to affect you throughout the years is your passion and drive to be the best you that there is.

Always make goals for yourself, no matter what time of year it is. Let the past of 2016 stay in 2016 and welcome 2017 with open arms. Anything can happen if you want it to happen, so enjoy the new year.