Your "One Thing"

In the movie, "City Slickers," a group of male buddies take a vacation at a dude ranch. Curley (Jack Palance) is a hard, crusty old cowboy full of wisdom. He gives advice to Mitch (Billy Crystal), who is facing a mid-life crisis.

Here is the scene:

Curley: You all come out here about the same age. Same problems. Spend fifty weeks a year getting knots in your rope – then you think two weeks up here will untie them for you. None of you get it. (Pause.) Do you know what the secret of life is?


Mitch: No, what?


Curley: It’s this. (Holds up his index finger.)


Mitch: Your finger?


Curley: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean [BLEEP].


Mitch: That’s great, but what’s that one thing?


Curley: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.


What is YOUR one thing? Have you figured it out yet?