At the insistence of a child, we did something called The Billionaire’s Morning.

Wake at 6, remember dreams, make bed, water, meditate, cold shower, 2 mins intense exercise, coffee or tea, journal, breakfast.
Our exercise was dancing around a stone singing about being rich.

Suddenly she wondered if this is just what people who are already billionaires do, or if the routine MAKES you a billionaire. Great question.
I figured the latter.

We did the whole thing to the LETTER. 20 mins of meditation. 4 min cold shower.
Jordan Peterson factor. Toughed it out. It was pretty terrible, esp the early rising and the shower.
Finally finished breakfast and started a normal morning.

She is collapsed with nausea and I am literally overdrawn.
We do way better when we start at 10 in bed with TikTok, PopTarts and the NYT Spelling Bee.

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