Robert Greene, in his book of The 48 laws of power wrote, “By planning to the end you will not be defeated by circumstances, and you will know when to stop. Gently guide fortune and help determine the future by thinking far ahead.”  The second thing is in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People begin with an end mind. Having an end in mind is no guarantee that you will succeed — no one would tolerate it practically — but not having an end in mind is a guarantee you won’t. Some false conceptions which may be bias and arbitrary are responsible not just for disturbances in the soul but for confused and dysfunctional lives and progress. How will you notice what to do day in and out when your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose?  How will you realise that you have reached your goal, what made you go off your track if you don’t specify what those things are?  The answer is that you cannot. And so you are driven into failure — or worse, into madness by the oblivion of directionless.