How do I find my true goals?

Question

I am 24 years old and very confused about what to do with my life. I have two areas of interest - 1. Social Research 2. Start a charity foundation.
In my family, my parents have very little confidence in me. Mainly because I have gone through various 'phases' without accomplishing anything. My mom's nature is such that she tends to get excited about things ( different types of food, clothes, exercise etc etc) in the early stages, then just get bored with it and quit. And she thinks that I'm like that too( which is not entirely wrong). So whenever I make a decision she just thinks that I'll get bored with it and quit after sometime. I want to help people. That’s what I absolutely love to do. I love to be there for people who need help. That’s why I like to start the charity foundation, but I'm worried - that if I tell my mom about this she will just discourage me or that after sometime I'll get bored with and quit adding more to my list of failures!.

Doing research is also something that I enjoy, but I don’t know whether I’ll be doing it just to please every one else and in return give up my true dream.

How do I get over this habit of ‘giving up and getting bored with things’?.
I’m worried to tell people about my plans for the future because I keep changing them and looking really foolish and unstable.

How do I find my true goals?

Answer 1

What do YOU WANT TO DO. Than do it. If you want to change after a few years than you can. It's not like you have to do one thing all your life. Do what you know you have to do now. PS you are only a failure if you don't try.

Answer 2

Have an F'IN purpose in life your willing to die for. NO BS!!! Its the truth, without some INTENSE reason why you do the things in your life, other then, well it feels right. IS GOING TO BE HELL ON YOU!!!!!! Its the truth, were humans, were animals, WE LOVE TO FIGHT FOR SOMETHING MEANINGFUL!!!!!!!! Anything short of that is a hell of running between different things, never truly in love with them, because in the end it was HOPE that drives you to love it, but when your HOPES are crushed that this will be the thing to give you some purpose, you move on. Its a dysfuncion of purpose really, use to be religion help us with this, but alas it wasn't good enough, science demands more then puppets out of its people, it demands Shepard's not sheep. Which is funny because religion was suppose to do that?!!? go figure, instead most religious people are sheep, doing good only because they perceive it to be good. Like you making a Charity, you perceive its a good idea, but in all actuality unless you fix the social problems that cause the need for your charity your not really helping people as much as your distracting them from the fact there is no help because their is no cure...... see some reflect, self-discovery, and understanding of a purpose would help you alot, so go watch brave-heart or 300 I know their guys but we should all live our lives that intensely if not, its our fault its so purposeless..... maybe seeing so people die for a simple purpose will help you see how well thinking it thru is a good idea with a more complex one. The point is that without purpose you have no compass to base your life on, therefor your lost..... no matter how good your intentions, but congrulations your competely and utterly normal for our society.....