There's a wealth of evidence that having goals and setting them is an important process. And that goals are best considered as performance goals rather than outcome goals - principally because a performance goal is something that the individual can be in charge, whereas an outcome is often dependent on other people and/or other things happening as well.
The alignment mode you are in can make a substantial difference to your success or otherwise of achieving your goals.
The difficulty with goal setting is not the process of setting or creating goals, it is ACTING on achieving those goals.
There are three major modes of alignment found in Mark Forster's excellent book entitled "How to make your dreams come true". These are "Push mode" , "Pull mode" and "Drift mode"- combined together as they often can be, creates a fourth type, one I call the "Pushmepullyou mode"