Every life reflects somebody's values — the question is whose. Many people spend decades pursuing a version of success chosen by a parent, an employer, or whoever they most wanted to impress, without ever checking whether it's still theirs. Before deciding how to build it, decide whose definition of the life you're actually constructing.
Some of your choices are small — what time you wake, how you spend an evening — and together they define your economic day. Others are large — which career, which company, which city — and they set the direction of decades before the consequences even show. Every one of them is a commitment to a strategy, whether you notice it or not.
This book is built around four questions: What's your final goal? Whose values will guide your choices? What commitments are you willing to make? And how will you pay for them? The first three decide what's worth funding. This book is about the fourth — because no goal survives misallocated resources.
Every waking moment you're spending resources. The only question is whether you're spending them in ways that get you closer to the life you want.