Fix the lifestyle you want. Then work back­wards from there.

A novel take on the typ­i­cal inspi­ra­tional grad­u­a­tion speech. It’s not about fol­low­ing your pas­sion or not tak­ing your­self too seri­ously. They’re impor­tant, but this is dif­fer­ent.

The idea is to not think of your ideal job, but to think of your ideal lifestyle. To think of it in detail down to minute details of how you want to live your life. Only from there can you begin to con­struct your career goals — aim­ing not for that ideal job but aim­ing for that ideal lifestyle.

After all, isn’t that what you’re really after?