To be rich is:

• to own a comfortable home, just the right size for us, a bub and Bo, and a guest. Three bedrooms would do it. Chris reckons two will be enough.
• for that home to be connected to water and nature. That could be a pond in a small garden, a creek running through a forest, or even a beautiful view and a park nearby.
• to eat out a couple of nights a week with Chris. Nothing fancy, but we connect well over meals others have cooked.
• fresh, high-quality produce at home, because we like to cook.
• an international trip a year while we still can. 3–4 weeks to make the most of the travel time and cost.
• Sunday dinners with our family. Roast lamb preferred.
• rowing on the weekend. Yoga and weights in the morning during the week.
• time spent out of the city in deep quiet. I feel like I’ll want more and more of this.
• bringing together good people to share ideas and build community.
• swimming in the ocean, and lying on the sand in the sun.
• celebrating and sharing the qualities of good design and maintaining a reverence for its history.
• sharing my ideas and perspectives with the world to stimulate conversation.
• being debt-free (and I include mortgages in that).
• being paid a fair sum for the value that I bring to the people I work with.
• working with good people, not for indifferent ones.
• being free to chose whom I work with, when I work, on what I work, and how.
• having the time to dedicate to my most important relationships.
• supporting others as they open up to life.
• dedicating time to my own opening to life.

This post was inspired by Paul Millerd’s most recent newsletter. Go check it out.