Open your eyes.
I’m a mole - really, I am. I won every contest of “who has the worse eyesight” in my life. So my glasses are almost hard-wired to my face (my eyes are too dry for contact lenses), and when I started swimming again last year, I always kept them on.
Now I’ve got wonderful and still inexpensive goggles with almost-fitting diopters. With them, I can dive and see everything under water super sharp.
And then I just took them off today and did some lines of breaststroking without any glasses or goggles. And not only didn’t I get lost or ran into anyone else - I also found that in front of my body, every stroke evoked a beautiful wave pattern on the water. The more regular the strokes, the stronger the pattern. I had never seen how my own energetic movements changed the water in front of me, because I had always been so occupied with staring at the end of the pool in the distance.
So if you keep your eyes too much trained on the goal, you may lose the sight of what’s right in front of you. I’m not saying the path is the goal, as I think that’s often a perfect method of forgetting where are you heading to. But the process is part of reaching the goal, and you may miss many things if you only stare at the peak at the horizon.