My rule for my kids is that they can have anything else, but what they need to have at all times is a plan.

I don’t care if their long term plan is to be a NASA scientist or a desk jockey or a farmer, they just gotta always have the next step for how they’re making that happen at the very least conceptualized, and if they can’t figure that out, they gotta look for something they can make a plan out of.

I want my kids to grow up happy, but they also gotta have a roof over their heads and I won’t always be around for them to provide that.