Choices at sixteen don’t feel like much. At twenty-six you’ll hear them echo.

Decisions made young are hard to weigh because the distance between the choice and the result is long enough that the connection gets lost. Nothing feels consequential at the time, and then ten years later a set of options is narrower or wider than it might have been. That is less a warning than a description of how time handles small things.

Ask which of your current habits you would like to have been doing for a decade. Start the one with the longest lead time, since that is the one that cannot be started later.