Rule 16 of 19 · Chapter IV — Keep Your Head
Decide what enough looks like
Why this rule exists
Without a definition of enough, more is the only goal, and more is a target that always retreats as you approach it. This is why raises stop feeling like raises and why people who have plenty still feel behind: the finish line keeps moving because it was never drawn. Naming enough, in actual numbers and in the shape of a life, gives you something money cannot: a place to stand. It turns money from an endless race into a tool with a job, and it lets you notice when you have already won.
In practice
Write down what a genuinely good-enough life costs you, not a fantasy and not mere survival, but the real figure for a life you would be content with. Include the things that actually make you happy and cut the ones you buy out of habit or comparison. Revisit it as life changes. When you are near that number, you are allowed to ease off the accelerator, work differently, or give more away. Enough is not a low ceiling. It is a line you drew on purpose so you would recognize it when you crossed it.
When it doesn't apply
Enough is personal and it moves. A growing family, aging parents, or a new dream can honestly raise the number, and revising it thoughtfully is fine. Letting it drift upward by default, pulled by everyone else's, is the trap this rule exists to catch.