170 | The Trouble with Timelines

Baked into a 10-, 20- or 30-year timeline is the assumption that reaching the end will somehow change things.

Once the time passes, you'll be able to adjust your level of effort or move on to the next thing.

But that's not how our relationship with money works.

There will always be trade-offs to spending money.

And your investments will never move based on your personal plans.

The skills you develop within this time horizon are the same ones you'll need for the next horizon, and the next one, and the one after that too.

It gets easier because you're getting better, not because the time is passing.