Chris Hadfield

with all the little decisions that you make, because that's the only thing you control is your little decisions.

What am I gonna do next?

That's the only thing you actually control.

What am I gonna do next?

Everything else, you can't change what you did.

The future is just a menu to choose from.

What am I gonna do next?

But if you don't have those personal overarching definitions of perfection, then I don't know how you choose what you're going to do next.

Are you just stimulating your nerve endings?

That's going to be maybe okay briefly, but it's going to be fundamentally disappointing.

And maybe the final piece of that, Whitney,

is don't allow, and this is Chris's philosophy on Life Well Lived, but don't allow those big dreams of your life to define success or failure.

Try and lower your margin of victory, your bar of victory, so that you can get over it multiple times a day.

Because nobody else really cares or understands what you're doing.

They may try, but that's really up to you.

And so,

Don't say, well, six years from now, I'm going to enjoy myself.

Instead, try and find all the little joyful and beautiful and personal things that are happening in amongst your daily work that you can take pride in, that you can smile at, that you can revel in a little bit, that you can quietly celebrate to yourself as you're

you're herding this big intractable herd of sheep that is your life towards some upper pasture that you're dreaming about.

So yeah, have those goals, make strong daily, hourly, moment by moment decisions to move yourself that way and celebrate yourself as often as you can.