Your thoughts, actions, and experiences affect your emotions, and your emotions affect your thoughts, actions, and experiences. To the best of your ability, choose your emotions as often as you can so that you can live a happier, more fulfilling life overall.
https://yourmeaninginlife.com/blog/the-three-relationships-between-you-and-your-emotions
You decide what meaning the events in your life have to you.
https://yourmeaninginlife.com/blog/you-can-find-meaning-in-whatever-happens-to-you
Asking where you see yourself in five years is a good exercise to determine both where you're going and what you want to be doing today to reach your desired future state.
https://yourmeaninginlife.com/blog/where-do-you-see-yourself-in-five-years