Enough tomorrows can turn into a year.
A short, practical book about the small things you can do today so future-you is better off. Your health, your money, your habits, your time, and the people around you.
15 short chapters · 96 pages · Kindle, paperback, hardcover
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Present-you does something. Future-you gets the benefit.
Put the bill on autopay so you do not forget it. Set up an automatic investment so you do not have to make the same decision every paycheck. Make your lunch tonight.
Little things stack. More importantly, they build the habit of not constantly handing work to a later version of yourself.
Chapter 1 · Tomorrow is usually something smallPick one ordinary thing you know tomorrow-you will appreciate. The task itself almost does not matter. The point is practicing the handoff.
Fifteen short conversations
Each chapter is one idea, a story from Antonio's own life, and something you can do tomorrow morning. Read one. Sit with it for a minute. Ask whether any of it applies to you.
- Where you are now
- 1
Help Yourself Tomorrow
The ideas are simple. Actually doing something with them is the harder part.
- 2
Get Your Life Together
Planning is useful. Planning forever is another way to avoid starting.
- 3
Take Care of Yourself
You just need to start taking care of the person you already are.
- 4
Build a Body That Takes Care of You
What once looked impossible can become your baseline.
- 5
Eat Like You Give a Damn
I am not giving up pasta. I am paying attention to the rest of the picture.
- 6
Money Is a Tool
More income should buy at least some more freedom, not only more obligations.
- 7
Start Investing Before You're Ready
You can earn more money later. You cannot go back and buy another ten years.
- 8
Build Something You Own
Not everything you build has to make money. It should make your life worth something to you.
- 9
Learn How to Figure It Out
"I don't know" is not the answer. It is the starting point.
- 10
Your Time Is Your Life
The ordinary stuff becomes the years.
- 11
Choose Your People Carefully
You do not always need a villain. Sometimes two lives stop fitting the same way.
- 12
Prepare Before You Need To
Preparation does not make you lucky. It gives bad luck less room to wreck everything around it.
- 13
Make the Good Choice Easier
Your best decisions are not always made when your energy is lowest.
- 14
Don't Optimize the Fun Out of Life
At some point close the spreadsheet and go golfing.
- 15
I Need to Help Myself Tomorrow
I have spent this whole book telling you to help yourself tomorrow. Now I have to live it too.
- Tomorrow
Antonio Brank
Antonio is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he wrote Help Yourself Tomorrow at twenty-five. The idea came from looking back at a year of goals he had written down and not gone after the way he meant to.
He likes writing things down, making plans, and figuring things out for himself. Those habits pushed him to think harder about health, money, investing, relationships, time, and preparation. Along the way he went from a first 5K to the Pittsburgh Half Marathon, without ever calling himself a runner.
Outside of writing he enjoys lifting, golf, cooking, traveling, Pittsburgh sports, video games, and time with the people closest to him.
He is still working on everything in this book too.
Pick one thing.
You do not need to feel transformed. You need a first move.