“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”

-Thomas Carlyle

A rudder is the direction that the boat/ship is heading, without it the boat will just move in circles. That is the way we will move if we don’t have goals. Our goals head us into a certain direction, but without them we are lost and don’t know what to do. A ship without a rudder is lost, it is nothing and that’s how we are if we don’t have goals, we don’t have purpose. Our goals shape us and help us make the future we envision. For example, the goals that I created are all part of a bigger picture, at the end the result will be bigger than each goal. We can’t create our future if we don’t put milestones that we want to get to. The rudder is a very small piece, but a very important one as well. Without it the ship can’t survive and can’t get to it’s final place. This statement states that we can’t survive, we can’t live if we don’t have our rudder.