By identifying what is out of our control and letting go, we can reclaim our attention and reinvest it into the things that are. Focus on doing everything within your control to help something succeed. There is nothing more that can be asked of us. More importantly, there is nothing more that we can ask of ourselves.

“Your ikigai is at the intersection of what you are good at and what you love doing,”

Appropriating other peoples’ goals is another common pitfall.

we’re solving the right problems,

Set the bar so low that you’ll actually do it, and log it as a Task in your Bullet Journal.

We compare our lives to these largely artificial constructs and structure our plans accordingly, hoping to eventually afford a golden ticket to these misleading fantasies.

Chances are the answer is no—or not for long, anyway.

hedonic adaptation.

Once you do, be sure to mark the entry as scheduled “<” in your Daily Log.