You’ll redefine success a few times. At fifteen it’s popularity. At twenty-five it might be a full night’s sleep.

What counts as doing well is set by whatever is scarce and valued where you are standing. At fifteen that is attention and belonging; a decade later it can be sleep, quiet, a job that does not follow you home. Neither version is wrong, and the definition will move again, usually without you noticing it has.

Write down what a good year would look like right now, in plain terms. Date it and keep it. The point is not to get it right but to be able to see later what you were actually chasing.