To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Knowing exactly what you are trying to do changes how the world looks. Obstacles turn into material, chance meetings turn into openings, and half the choices that used to be agonising answer themselves. Nothing external has altered; what changed is that there is now a criterion.

Most drift comes from carrying several purposes of roughly equal weight and refusing to rank them. Write down what this season is for, in a sentence you could say to a stranger. Then use it the next time somebody asks for your time.