The act of purposefully instructing your mind to genuinely pursue a goal (take aim) does a strange thing... it literally changes your perception of the world... it reconfigures itself around that aim*. Positive or negative, it follows your aim... So,

. Consider where you are in life, problems you can observe, how much of your situation is due to the wrong aim, or the lack of an aim? Likely a decent amount if you're being honest with yourself. True, life is hard, situations outside of our control do have a dramatic influence on your direction. But it's worth considering, out of the things you can control, are you aiming at the things you genuinely want?