1.4. Your Timeline Exercise

The goal of Early is not to make you immortal nor to help you live to be 150 years old. Our goal is to help you square your longevity curve and, in so doing, add as many healthy years to your life as possible.

 

Thinking about one’s life course in its entirety can be difficult due to the abstract nature of such an effort. To this end, we created a way to make these concepts more concrete: the Timeline Exercise. This exercise is meant to provide a vision of what you want so you have the motivation to do the work. It can be incredibly powerful and can help people remember why they make the sacrifices they do. Optimizing long-term health requires a long-term mindset and an ability to do hard things now—understanding that many benefits will come much later. Whether or not you have a partner, kids, family, friends, or even pets, think about who you want to be spending time with and what you want to be doing in your Marginal Decade. Use the people and things that bring you joy as your anchor, the core reason for being early. We hope you enjoy it.