If you want anything in life you have to work for it. You have to "press" for it. One of my role models often talks about, "pressing toward your goal." Pressing involves not merely unloading any unnecessary weight, but it also involves straining forward to attain your dreams. It involves perseverance, it involves heart, and it involves tenacity. It requires that you set your eyes on the goal that is in front of you, refusing to waver until you have reached that goal.
The point that I want to make is that your goal must precede your pressing. That means that you must have your eyes on the goal before you begin pressing in that direction.
That might sound like common sense to you, but you would be surprised at how many people are busy but don’t have any clear destination or goal in sight. They are just busy pressing without any clear direction. It is important to press toward your goal on a daily basis, or else someone else will have their own goals for you to press towards.
If you are not careful, you are going to burn out. There are so many things today that are being used to wear you out. There are people pulling you on your job; clubs asking you to do something; people pulling you to 
do this; other people pulling you to do that.If you just pay attention to what you hear and see in the media for one day, you will see that music is telling us to do one thing, television another, and internet still another.
The tragedy is that we are getting pulled in so many directions that we end up burning ourselves out. We are so busy pressing in all kinds of different directions, that we don’t realize that we are not pressing in the direction that matters.
In life, if you are not clear about your goal, then you will be running aimlessly, shadow-boxing a fake target that will wear you out.So I ask you, in love, what are you pressing towards? You ought not run aimlessly, or like someone boxing the air, without a clear target, or a clear goal. If you don’t have the right goal in mind, then you are going to end up at the wrong destination. So, my question to you is, towards what goal are you pressing today? In what direction are you headed? Are you headed toward the goal of being what you were created to be? After you are done reading this chapter, figure out what you are going to do today to move you one step closer to your goal, and DO IT! Take massive action.
From Take Matters Into Your Own Hands: Dream Now! by Manuel Scott.
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