It covers two important life questions: (1) How do you define success? (2) Are your actions aligned with that definition? And included in the post is the author's "ideal end state", which is a list that includes things like "control 80% of my schedule", "be top 0.1% fit for my age group", and "thriving marriage with regular 1-on-1 time."

Some of his list has checkmarks, and some of it -- things like "small, beautifully designed home with an epic view" -- is still a work in progress.

After I got the message, I immediately responded with: "This is great. I'm going to do this for myself." I then sent it to my family.

Now, in some ways, I'm already doing this. I like lists and I have a lot of them. Some of them are "disciplines" that tell me to do things like write every day (that's what this blog is), lift weights, and continuously practice my French. And some of them deal with aspirational goals like, build a creative retreat in the mountains because you love snowboarding.

But I think there's a lot of room for me to be even more intentional, and aspirational, about what success means to me. And so that's what I plan to do. Maybe some of you will want to do the same after reading this post.