Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

What you wanted before you knew what was practical usually tells you something accurate about what you are for. Life then teaches you compromise, and much of that compromise is honest and necessary. The risk is that the original wish quietly gets filed as childish, and you stop consulting it at all. Keeping faith with it does not mean the same plan; it means not losing the thing the plan was reaching for.

Think back to what you were drawn to at fifteen, before anyone asked how it would pay. Find the smallest present-day version of that and put an hour of this week into it.