“The ought is the ethical directive, how our personal conscience tells us to act in response to the meaning of the moment, to make us aware that what we feel deep within us is most meaningful.  If the “want” is the result of our will to meaning, it is in accord with the ought because both are oriented toward meaning, and no bad consequences will follow.  But if the want is the result of another will (such as the will to pleasure or the will to power), or the ought is superimposed on us by outside influences (parents, peers, society) and does not lead us to respond to the meaning of the moment as we see it, then there is a gap between the ought and the want that may cause considerable psychological conflict.  Therefore, the task of the therapist is to bring the ought and the want together.

Logotherapy deals with both the want and the ought, and tries to harmonize them toward an objective meaning.  In this manner, logotherapy stand in contrast to most schools of psychotherapy, which focus attention on what is wanted, especially in the intrapsychic area of human drives, and less in the area of trans-subjective meaning.”

– Elisabeth Lukas, Understanding Man’s Search for Meaning: Reflections on Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy

Do your “want” and your “ought” align to help you discover meaning, or are they in conflict causing psychological distress?  If they are in alignment, what new discoveries or realizations have you found?  If they are in conflict, is it unique to this moment, this time of year, or is it long-standing?  What are you willing to do to mediate that conflict?