Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Meditations, 6:51.
I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing when I approve of my own actions.
That’s the objective.
Today I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing if I spend time shopping for cars with my daughter because she asks me to. I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing when I spend time with my wife performing a business task that she needs help with.
Even if my brain tells me to do something else.