When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.
A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.
If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
With goals you can create the future in advance.