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On the brightest sunny day, the most powerful magnifying glass will not set a piece of paper afire if you keep moving the glass. But if you focus the light and hold it on one spot, the paper will burn. This 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 relied, I do not know, the elderly person said take any road, what difference does it make?
Suppose a football team is all charged up and enthusiastically ready to play a game, when someone takes the goalposts and goal lines away. What would happen to the game? There is nothing left. How do you keep sore? 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 board a train or plane without knowing where it was going? Of course not. Then why do people go through life without knowing where they are going?