You can talk all you want about having a strategy for your life, understanding motivation, and balancing aspirations with unanticipated opportunities. But ultimately, this means nothing if you do not align those with where you actually expend your time, money, and energy.

By a virtuous cycle, I mean being able to do work that you enjoy that naturally leads to opportunities and people that help make your life better.

Career Well-being: how you occupy your time or simply liking what you do every day Social Well-being: having strong relationships and love in your life Financial Well-being: effectively managing your economic life Physical Well-being: having good health and energy to get things done on a daily basis Community

Making the most of victories is what the flywheel principle is all about (see the previous chapter on The Map for a brief description of the flywheel concept). I’ve come to see the flywheel effect as one of the most important strategic principles to come from all of our research into why some companies become great, why some fail to become great, a