Live your life forwards

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." ~Margaret Young *

It's essentially the same philosophy behind The Mexican Fisherman story.

* I don't know where this quote came from, but I ran across it yesterday in an email I sent to myself from last October. (I do that a lot when I find something really interesting when I'm at work.)