Life is not a list.

It’s a tree — and every tree bears fruit after its own kind.

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Life Is Not a List is books and tools for a life in balance: your hours, your money, your whole life. Two books teach the way of seeing; a five-minute tree shows the life you believe you live; the aim app grows the one you actually do — and helps you close the gap.

Find your starting pointSee the whole house

A short walk

Where should you begin?

Two questions — no email, no account.

What’s weighing on you most right now?

The house

One idea, every door.

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Life Is Not A List

Why a life kept as a list always feels behind.

About the book
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The first book: you don't have a discipline problem, you have a seeing problem. A life is not a queue of tasks — it's a living whole, and every part of it bears fruit after its own kind. Paperback, ebook, and a nine-hour audiobook read for the ear.

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Time-Broke

A budget for your hours. Read the opening free.

Read the opening
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The second book: you would never spend money without a budget, and you spend time with no budget at all. An honest two-week accounting, seven envelopes, and a weekly meeting with yourself. The opening chapters are free to read online.

Hear it

The audiobook

Nine hours, read like a letter.

Hear a sample
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Life Is Not A List, complete on the web — sixteen chapters, yours for one payment, playable anywhere with your place kept across devices. A sample is free.

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Grow your tree

Five minutes. The life you believe you live, drawn.

Start the tree
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Answer a handful of questions and watch the life you believe you're living take shape as a tree — roots, branches, fruit, and the places nothing is growing. Free, no account. It ends with its name: which of eight shapes your life is in right now.

Live it

aim · life is not a list

Track money and time. What we measure we improve.

Meet the app
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The daily practice: hours and dollars in one envelope system, mornings that arrive drafted, a todo pool that never nags, and a tree grown from how you actually live — beside the one you believed. No streaks, no red, nothing required.

Keep it

The letters

The ideas in plain words, a few minutes a week.

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One short letter at a time — the ideas from the books without the books, and first word when something new grows in the house. No noise, easy out, one list for the whole family.

The letters

One short letter at a time.

The ideas from the books, in plain words — and first word when something new grows in the house. No noise, easy out.