Before you continue, sit down and write a letter to your future self—ten years from now, five years from now, three years from now, whatever.

The answers are within you—you just haven’t found the right questions yet. I was as dumb, arrogant, and insecure as they come when I wrote those words in 2014, but the letter reveals a wisdom and clarity that I had yet to act on. I knew there was a brighter path ahead. I just had to start asking the right questions to begin walking it.

At the end of each quarter, add these four questions to your regular ritual: What is creating energy right now? Review your calendars from the prior quarter. What activities, people, or projects consistently created energy in your life? Did you spend ample time on these energy creators, or did they get neglected? Recalibrate to spend more time on

Tiny deviations from the optimal course can be catastrophic. You need a process for real-time course recalibration—constant evaluation, correction, and adjustment on your journey. At the end of each month, ask yourself three tactical questions: What really matters right now in my life, and are my goals still aligned with this? Assess the quality of

Commenting on his strategy, he once quipped, “The trick in investing is just to sit there and watch pitch after pitch go by and wait for the one right in your sweet spot.”[3]

In his bestselling book Atomic Habits, author James Clear famously wrote, “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn’t know where to go. —Seneca

Hitchens’s razor, created by and named for the late author Christopher Hitchens, states that anything asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. A useful rule that will save you from wasting time on pointless arguments.

Social Wealth is the connection to others in your personal and professional worlds—the depth and breadth of your connection to those around you. It is the network you can rely on for love and friendship but also for help in times of need. It provides the texture that allows you to appreciate the other types of wealth. What good is the freedom to