Design Your Life, Start Investing Early

Retiring Early Part 1: Designing a Life You Don’t Want to Escape From You’re 17 or 18

and already lying to yourself. “I’ll worry about money later.” That sentence is

how people end up trapped, tired, and broke at 40 pretending it’s

normal. You don’t wake up with a good life. You design it. Or you suffer in

the one you drift into. Like and follow so you don’t stay broke by choice.

Here’s the math you’re avoiding. Put $3,000 a year into the S&P 500 starting at 18.

That’s $250 a month. Forget about it. Do nothing else. At 65, that’s around $1,000,000.

Not because you’re smart. Because you showed up early. Wait until 28 to