life goals

What you're pursuing

Life goals are the significant achievements or outcomes a person hopes to accomplish over time—career milestones, relationships, experiences, or personal growth.

The phrase often appears in earnest self-improvement contexts: What are your life goals?

It can also be used admiringly or aspirationally about someone else's situation: She has a beach house and a golden retriever. Life goals.

Opposites
temporal scope

life goalsshort-term goals

Aims for soon

errands · daily routine · chores · instant gratification · to-do lists

purposefulness

life goalsaimlessness

Lack of direction

directionlessness · purposelessness · drifting · going through the motions · wandering

significance

life goalstrivialities

Insignificant matters

minutiae · small stuff · distractions · time-wasters · busywork

Family

life, goals, lifetime, lifestyle, lifelong, lifeline, lifespan

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G