If you have these great personal dreams and you feel like you're failing to make any progress towards them, give it all up and just live according to great personal values.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Will Durant

In 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People', Covey shows that it's not a lack of discipline that keeps us from establishing the habits we choose to set ourselves in a better direction; it's a lack of CONVICTION.

(If you have ADHD/OCD/mitochondrial issues, bear with me, OK?)

Now, before I continue, you need to understand a bit about me to know why this thread is going to be skewed.

I am what the Myers-Briggs guys would call an ENFJ. I know, it's just a model, it's not a real thing; but it gives you an idea of how I think about people and the world.

It means, inter alia, that it is difficult for me to understand why someone would want to just be rich and have a happy family and a nice car and a fun job and that somehow is fulfilling to them.