Truth is, filling your buckets, living a good life, is constantly a moving target. There is no single day when you get to say, “I’ve made it; I don’t have to do anything more.”

As you move from these first 30 days out into the rest of your life, revisit the activities in the book. Find the ones that made the biggest difference and, if you feel inclined, incorporate as many as you can into your days. Continue to build your mindfulness practice, continue to give, to align your actions with your now deeper understanding of

Focus your energy on filling the bucket that is either emptiest or seems to be causing you the most immediate pain. If all buckets seem equally in need, then rotate around, filling a different one a little bit each day. Your quest is to come to a place where your buckets are all bubbling over.

baseline okay.

Money, then, becomes a really slippery and often illusory measure of a life well lived. It’s not well correlated with happiness, vitality, and connection once you have enough to be

Real happiness comes not when you choose to be happy, but when you discover the things that will make you happy and then do them.

Think about the kind of work that sparks you. How might you pursue that work in a way that leads to meaningful outcomes but minimal complexity?

Complexity is a leech on my soul. I want to do epic things. I want to “go big.” I want to matter. But I also want to be able to breathe. And sleep. And allow as often as I incite. That’s where the ripple comes in. It gives me a way of thinking about making meaning (and money—hey, I’m a realist) on the scale that supports my good life while keeping

complexity. I tend to have this recurring delusion of grandeur. I see friends building big businesses and think, “Dude, I want to make that!” Which really translates to “I want to get all the glory of having created something big and cool.” Then I remember, or more likely my wife gently guides me back to reality.