I have now read a few-quite a few- ways to approach life, from philosophers and self-help gurus and many well-meaning people across the spectrum. But my mind went back to something I had read in an article, that talked of a Balanced Scorecard to measure a company's performance. Maybe this can be adapted to scoring how well we are doing on various measures of success. You can tweak this to suit your life goals, of course, but the general framework can be as follows-
Success in career. This for a working middle class person is an essential fact, for about 30 years of his/her life. You cannot wish it away. Therefore, some amount of success is required to keep you afloat. If you are a housewife, maybe you can skip this.
Success with enterprise. You may not be an entrepreneur, but you can be enterprising, and take the initiative and do things. Simple or complex things. You can go on a trek, make some meetings with family or friends happen. Or anything else. A game of Bridge or Golf, or whatever. For academics, a conference paper, leading to a visit to the conference.
Creative pursuit. A book project, or a painting, or learning a musical instrument, singing, acting, photography etc. This could become a lifelong companion.
Supporting Role in someone's life- a child, parent, spouse are obvious people that come to mind. But it could be a friend or stranger too, like your working for a cause, like pets, or disadvantaged people.
Living life without too much of planning and thought, spontaneously, enjoying it to the fullest for its own sake, apart from all the rest of it, expectations, family, society, come what may.
Hope this helps in some small way..
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