Recently, I have been reflecting on the things that are important to me. The realization that I have is that we tend to confuse things that are hard to get with things that are worthwhile to have. When I was young, I always looked up to people that had senior leadership roles in companies with large organizations reporting to them. Then, when I finally grew into a role with 200+ people in my organization, I realized that managing such organizations is extremely time and energy consuming and that, although I can do it and believe to be reasonably good at it, it is not really what I want to do with my life. Similarly, I aspired to own a large house, an expensive car and fun toys. Now that I have at least some of those things, I realize that a large house comes with a lot of effort to keep it clean, maintained and decorated. I owned a motorcycle for a while and realized that the effort associated with it outweighs the joy of riding it. And even if I could easily buy a quite expensive car right now, I know that it won’t be worth it. Instead, I focus now much more on experiences and very often those of the mundane kind. For example, I am already now looking forward to my kids coming home for Christmas and us having time together. So, as a reflection for today: what do you want and how do you know that it is worth having?