Lucas Wilhelm Hedenbäck argues that goals don't happen by themselves. You get what you deserve, not what you want, and the gap between where you are and where you want to be should drive you to act.
My mindset. I used to assume that because I had goals on certain things in life that I wanted, I used to think that they would just fall into place. And that is probably the worst mindset you can possibly have, because we know for a fact that for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. So if you want something in life, you have to work for it. You will never just get what you want, you will always get what you deserve. Assuming that something is gonna happen for the sole reason that you want it, that's wrong. And the fact that you don't have that thing, that you're not where you want to be yet, should be the only motivation you need. Don't you run and hide.
