In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records . . . Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured. . . .
Goals are good.
Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.