#habits

I dreamed of waking without an alarm. I can't, not yet. So I built one rule to stop the snooze button from stealing my week — and moved every choice to after I'm awake.

I charted two kids from age 11 to 100. One plants a $3,000 seed and never touches it. The other keeps watering it, then lives off the fruit. Both end up rich. The chart is the whole lesson.

FIRE tells you when you can stop selling your hours. But you only know when to stop if you know what you'd do instead. So I wrote down one ideal day, hour by hour.