The Cosmic Widget.

There is your Weekday Widget: The thing you're paid to do or make.

Your Boss’s Widget: The thing your boss is paid to do or make that your Widget plugs into.

Your Employer’s Widget: the thing your employer does or makes that your boss’s Widget plugs into. And so on up the hierarchy.

Your Weekend Widget: the thing you can do with the money you get paid for making your Weekday Widget

There is another Widget that, if defined, may bring clarity to the other Widgets, and thus your decision making:

Your Cosmic Widget.

If you are a person of faith, identifying your Cosmic Widget is easy. It’s the Higher Power you believe you are on earth to serve.

If you’re not, then your Cosmic Widget might be something like ‘To Leave the World a Better Place’, or ‘To Do Unto Others’, or 'To Be Useful’.

Having a Cosmic Widget that lies beyond the immediate needs and gratifications of today, or even a lifetime, can be a profound anchor and guide to reviewing and recalibrating or even entirely replacing your other Widgets. It can also help resolve Widget Conflict: What to do when two or more of your Widgets are not serving each other. Like navigators of old, you can take out your metaphorical sextant and measure your path from here, to the middle distance Widget, to the visible horizon Widget, to a far off Widget such as Eternal Life.

It may even work in reverse. You may find that your Weekday Widget ends up redefining your Cosmic Widget.