Body — health, movement, Conan
Craft — hands, cooking, making
Table — relationships, community
House — career, finances, structure
Roots — language, culture, origin
Interior — philosophy, inner life
Forge
Intention
How I want to feel this week
Weekly focus
Grateful for
Focus Goals
Habits to Prioritize
Nourishment
Wins
Focus Goals
Notes
Theme
Focus Goals
Notes
Reference — Four Scenarios
Institutions keep existing but stop working well. Healthcare gets worse and more expensive. Rent keeps climbing. Social safety net thins. Your dollar buys less every year. Consulting demand shifts — clients cut advisory budgets first.
What this looks like for you: Protiviti/Cap One comp stagnates against inflation. $173K feels like $140K in 5 years. NYC becomes harder to justify on one W-2. Andrea's restaurant industry gets squeezed. Conan's vet bills climb. The $500K NW target buys less optionality than it does today.
Requires: Diversified income (not just salary), physical skills you can trade for money or favors, geographic optionality so you're not locked into one cost structure
Your position: Weak. Single income, no side revenue, no physical trade skills enrolled yet. CUNY Building Super is the right direction but not started. AI skills are strong but correlated to the same economy that's declining.
Something breaks fast. Another pandemic, a supply chain collapse, a regional conflict that disrupts shipping or energy. Grocery shelves thin out for weeks. Hospitals overwhelmed. Markets lock. Lasts months, not years — but the months are brutal.
What this looks like for you: Manhattan is a bad place to be when supply chains break — 8 million people, no farmland, dependent on trucks. Conan needs heart medication that comes through a pharmacy supply chain. Andrea's restaurant closes immediately. Your apartment has no garden, no storage, no backup heat. You know nobody with medical training or a truck.
Requires: 6-12 months liquid cash runway, basic medical/first aid knowledge, local food resilience (even minimal — preservation, not farming), a community of 5-10 people with complementary skills
Your position: Weakest scenario. Runway unclear, no medical training, no food resilience, community unnamed. The biggest gap is the people — you're preparing alone. Alberto (Aruba SpA infra) is a potential tech node but he's in Italy.
The US stops being the obvious best place to build a career and raise a family. Power centers shift. The dollar weakens against other currencies. Where you live, what passport you hold, and what languages you speak become strategic assets instead of lifestyle choices.
What this looks like for you: Your AI mastery + audit expertise is globally portable. Italian fluency opens the EU. Mandarin opens China. Andrea's family in Pontassieve is a real geographic anchor — not just a visit destination, a fallback. The sabbatical is your recon mission for exactly this scenario.
Requires: Italian or Mandarin fluency, globally portable skills (AI + audit is strong), geographic optionality — a place you could actually land, not just visit
Your position: Strongest scenario. AI mastery is real. Italian is active (Duolingo + Language Transfer). Mandarin is paused but heritage gives you a head start. Sabbatical is designed as S3 reconnaissance. The main gap: language depth — conversational isn't fluent.
Grid goes down. Civic order breaks. Extended — not a hurricane week, but months or longer without the systems we assume. This is the one most people over-prepare for because it's dramatic. But it's the least likely, and preparing for S1-S2 covers most of what S4 would require anyway.
What this looks like for you: Everything about your current life assumes infrastructure — apartment, electricity, water, pharmacy, internet, banking. All of it stops. The skills that matter are the ones nobody around you has: plumbing, medical, food production, repair. The people who survive this well are the ones who built community before it happened.
Requires: Everything — but don't let it dominate the portfolio. If you're solid on S1-S2, you're 80% prepared for S4.
Your position: Not the priority. Build for S1-S2 first — that covers most of this. The physical skills you want (welding, plumbing, building) are exactly what S4 demands, and they also pay in S1.
The pattern: S1-S2 preparation (physical skills, community, runway) is the gap. S3 preparation (AI, language, geographic curiosity) is the strength. Almost everything that closes the S1-S2 gap also helps in S3-S4. Start there.
Cassandra
Tap "check drift" to see what she sees.
How do I want to feel this year?
What am I moving toward?
Grateful for last year
Habits
Bad habits to break
Good habits to build
Compass
Fears to let go
Quote for the year
Goals
Long-term goals (3–5 years)
Short-term goals (this year)
IN / OUT
IN
OUT
Together
Couple goals
Core
Core values
Strengths
Purpose
How I define success
Obligations
Non-negotiable obligations
Toolkit
Partners & collaborators
Dream team (mentors, advisors)
Inspiration sources
Happy places
Rate Your Life
Focus areas
Vision Board
Words & images that represent my year
Letter to Future Self
Projections
Where I'll be in 3 months
Where I'll be in 12 months
Where I'll be in 3 years
Where I'll be in 5 years
What did I achieve?
Proudest wins
Biggest misses
Lessons I learned
How I grew as a person
What will I focus on this year?
What am I most excited about?
Year Rating
Q1 Reflection
Top three accomplishments
How do I feel about my progress?
Goals for next quarter
Major challenges & how to overcome
Character review
Q2 Reflection
Top three accomplishments
How do I feel about my progress?
Goals for next quarter
Major challenges & how to overcome
Character review
Q3 Reflection
Top three accomplishments
How do I feel about my progress?
Goals for next quarter
Major challenges & how to overcome
Character review
Q4 Reflection
Top three accomplishments
How do I feel about my progress?
Goals for next quarter
Major challenges & how to overcome
Character review
Earn
Annual income target
Sources
Invest
Annual amount
Save
Annual amount
Spend
Annual expenses
Financial goals
Couple / shared goals
Net Worth
Current
Target
Target date
Runway
Liquid cash
Monthly burn
Months of runway: —
Sabbatical Fund
Budget
Notes
Wishlist
Long-term investments
Habit