the next exercise might be to rank the wants from most to least important, & consider if some of those wants are things you are willing to defer if they're not

the next exercise might be to rank the wants from most to least important, & consider if some of those wants are things you are willing to defer if they're not immediately available now, and what your longer-term paths to attaining them could be. e.g. for myself, i want autonomy, and my strategy for getting that autonomy (perhaps sub optimal) is building wealth. the wealth in itself isn't really an end in itself, just fuel. but the path to build the wealth is grinding away at a high-paying job that happens to have relatively low autonomy and status -- so my path to achieve my longer-term goal is to roughly do the opposite of what i want in the short run.