Why are Goals Important? - Must read

On the best sunny day, the most powerful
magnifying glass will not light paper if you keep
moving the glass. But if you focus and hold it,
the paper will light up. That is the power of
concentration.
A man was traveling and stopped at an
intersection. He asked an elderly man, "Where
does this road take me?" The elderly person
asked, "Where do you want to go?" The man
replied, "I don't know." The elderly person said,
"Then take any road. What difference does it
make?"
How true. When we don't know where
we are going, any road will take us there.
Suppose you have all the football eleven
players, enthusiastically ready to play the game,
all charged up, and then someone took the goal
post away. What would happen to the game?
There is nothing left. How do you keep score?
How do you know you have arrived?
Enthusiasm without direction is like
wildfire and leads to frustration . Goals give a
sense of direction. Would you sit in a train or a
plane without knowing where it was going? The
obvious answer is no. Then why do people go
through life without having any goals?