“I'm building something that will outlast me.”
This is one of the clearest expressions of a life lived well. You are not just solving today's problem, you are placing something into the world that will carry your values forward. Build it with the care and intention it deserves, be clear about what it stands for and make sure every choice reflects that.
Your Practice
Write one paragraph describing what you are building and what value it will carry forward after you are gone. Be specific, not "I want to help people" but what people, in what way, and why that matters. Keep this paragraph somewhere visible and return to it when the work gets hard.
The Architects
“We must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us.”