The good life asks for congruence.
When you back your professed values with action, you live in congruence.
And that boosts self-esteem, which feeds the good-life of openness, honesty, creativity, fulfillment, peace, security, growth, harmony, aliveness.
But on the other hand, if you shy away from the uncomfortable work to align your values and actions, you live with a constant gnawing voice of “tend to this, tend to this!”
You have one shot at this thing, so you may as well go for it.
And the sooner you start, the longer you get to live a happier existence.