If you're entering your twenties and trying to figure out how to live your life…
…I made something that might help.
Picture this:
You're standing in the middle. Around you, five loud voices are all shouting at once:
"Focus on your mental health."
"Travel while you're young—enjoy your twenties."
"Get fit, eat clean, optimize your body."
"Make money. Build your career. Get that degree."
"Find love. Start a family. Don't wait too long."
No wonder you feel paralyzed. Everyone's yelling, and you don't know which direction to walk.
So here's what I've learned.
When you're young, you only have two real assets: Time and Energy.
You don't have money yet. That comes later.
So the question becomes: How do you unlock money without sacrificing all your time and all your energy?
Hold that thought — we'll come back to it.
But before you even touch money…
Start with mental and physical health.
Because if your inner world or health is chaos? Nothing else will save you.
You can travel for a month… but you'll come home to the same emptiness. You can find someone perfect… but your constant mood swings will bring you down. You can grind 80-hour weeks… but you'll hate yourself at the end of every day.
So the real move is pretty simple:
Fix your baseline.
Make your default state "OK" instead of "barely surviving."
How?
Sleep before midnight. Wake with the sun. Find a few minutes a day to run or go to the gym. Meditate for 10 minutes. Walk outside without your phone. Sit in silence. Journal without editing. Learn who you are when no one's watching.
You already know these habits. You just haven't started them yet.
Move to money.
And here's where most people lose themselves.
They try to brute-force wealth by trading all their time for it. 50-100 hour weeks. No rest, no joy and no life.
For what? A maybe-reward 10 years from now?
But here's the better frame:
How do you maximize money AND time?
What's the middle path where you're not burning your twenties away in an office… …but you're also not broke at 30?
Maybe you work smarter, not longer.
Maybe you build something scalable.
Maybe you create once and sell forever.
Maybe you learn leverage and make your time worth 10x more.
Or maybe (the real cheat code) you just find something so energizing that work stops feeling like work.
When money + fun align → suddenly the game becomes easy.
Relationships and fun are the final layer.
Because they hit different depending on your foundation.
If your mind is calm, your money is handled, and your schedule has is sorted…these things become energizing and not an escape. And they’ll be a net positive on top of your already positive life.
But if you're chaotic, exhausted, broke, stressed?
You’ll keep trying to fill a void inside of you. And that never works long-term.
There’s a lot more to say. Maybe this topic deserves its own full breakdown.
(Part 2 coming some day.)