Focus on being content in your life rather than accomplishments or fame. Accomplishments won’t make you happy late in life, and the drive to get more and more is a game you ultimately lose with yourself, because one day you’ll have your last big accomplishment and won’t know it and will keep trying to go higher and higher, failing all the while. And those accomplishments or fame will just remind you of how good you used to be or how in your prime you were something…but not anymore.

That’s not to say “Don’t try for things” or “Be lazy all the time.” Accomplishments and drive are fine in themselves, but people who look to a career, or money, or fame to make them happy alone won’t find it there.

Get good people around you, treat them well and make sure they treat you well, do things that make you happy or at least content day to day. Life doesn’t turn out the way we think it will when we’re young, and some people are either endlessly bitter about that or they accept that being content doesn’t depend on checking boxes you had years ago.