Before you begin
Before dinner
Invite a partner, a family member or a friend whose perspective you value. If you are doing this alone, write your answers and consider whether there is someone you would like to discuss them with later.
Allow about forty-five minutes and choose a meal or a place where you can talk comfortably. You will need something to write with. Account logins and financial statements can wait for a later conversation.
The subject is what you would like your life to contain as new tools make some things easier to attempt. Give each person time to answer before offering advice or working out the practical details.
Use the questions that interest you and skip the others. Someone may want to begin a project while someone else wants fewer commitments. Try to understand the difference without requiring agreement tonight.
To begin, ask each person whether there is something they have wanted to try but have not yet made time for.
Conversation one
An ordinary day you would enjoy
Imagine a good ordinary Tuesday. You still have responsibilities. You may still work. What happens between waking up and going to bed that makes you glad this is your life?
Describe it in enough detail that someone else can picture it. An answer such as “breakfast without checking my phone, then three hours making something” gives you more to discuss than “more freedom.”
If children are at the table, invite them to describe a day they would enjoy with you. Their answers may surprise you, and they do not have to become financial goals.
It’s Tuesday evening. What happened today that we would like more of?
Which part of our life is already too good to trade away?
What regularly steals the time or attention we want to keep?
Original X1 Wealth publication, written and designed with AI assistance.