If you live your life thinking of what you do, why you do it, and always aiming to better your life and that of others around you, impulses fade and become less and less frequent.
It’s a life of waywardness, of misbalance, or wonky, rudderless stumbling that leads to constant distraction and detour from your own path. The path of living the life you want. The life of honesty with yourself and to the people in it.