Early career guy here. Thankfully, 2023 was a good year for me. And long overdue; the last few years have been rough. This year I: 1. Got married to my best fr

Early career guy here. Thankfully, 2023 was a good year for me. And long overdue; the last few years have been rough. This year I: 1. Got married to my best friend 2. Met important KPIs at work, got a good raise 3. Published a few cover stories for a magazine--as a writer, writing the front-page story for a magazine has been a dream for a long time 4. Made good headway on personal creative projects Counter-intuitively, what helped me most was narrowing my scope. Juggling wedding planning, hectic work schedules, assignment deadlines, etc. was stressful, so I just focused on what I could do each day, then every week or so I'd take a look at long-term objectives, recalibrate my objectives for the next week to align with those, and then not look at those long-term objectives again for a while. I learned a lot about breaking projects down into their constituent parts and making them manageable.