My hypothesis is that we can barely hold 1 thing in focus. We have many ambitions, but some are more important than others. I'd say that most people have THE GOAL, which is more important than everything else, whether they realize it or not. Let's see an example, a personal one. Since 2024 my top goal is to lose weight. I NEED to accomplish it. For perception of my own self, objective beauty standards and health. Without excessive weight, I'd sleep better, run longer, get less tired. Be able to climb mountains not hills without gasping for air. Nothing beats this goal, it is beyond everything else for me right now. It's better to live a higher quality life than lower. It's better to live longer and stronger. However, we are animals and our instincts rule us, for the most part. See food, eat food; or be hungry and die. So it's hard to keep on track and adding other goals would only distract me. We can, however, reach THE goal but also do fun things. Let me explain. Losing weight means eating less, and spending more calories. We can workout to spend more calories. Working out gives us muscle. Muscles are good for longevity, self image, etc. Muscle eats more calories. Even if we don't lose weight, at least we get leaner and stronger, which is good even on its own. Power that we reach stays with us for quite some time even after we stop exercising completely. Duh, that's obvious! Read on... Try new exercises. Pistol squat, pull ups, push ups. Learn new skills. Take a dancing class, learn to ride bicycle. It is a challenge on its own, and it gets interesting. And when you accomplish it, you'll likely get more muscular and/or lean. And then you'll want to set a new goal. From 0 to 1 to 2 push ups, and so on. We can travel. Preferably travel to places where you'll have to and want to walk a lot. Walking a lot helps to lose weight, keeps us active. Hopefully the places we visit are so interesting, we forget to eat. Travel to the mountains, it will be hell of a workout and you'll enjoy it! We can take photography as a hobby. For me, there isn't much to take photos of at home. I need to get out to shoot. You can even get into analog photography so you'll have to ALSO go to the lab to give them negatives to develop and then take them back. Each such "side" skill can branch off new skills. Taking film photography made me master manual focus and black and white film development at home. It doesn't contribute to the top goal much, but it's still cool. But it still kinda does though: I've had to run errands for home photo lab supplies: chemistry, reels, a development tank. Learn cooking. I think it most likely will lead to cheaper, tastier and healthier meals. And since I'm a lazy ass, I started to eat less since cooking takes my time and effort instead of a 1 click of a button instant food delivery from an app in smartphone right to my doorstep. You'll have to keep reminding yourself of your top goal, though. In my case, the arrow must move down. If it's not moving down, it's moving up. If it's moving up, I'll be a miserable, depressed, heavy breathing, pacing and suffering piece of fat.