The speaker designs their daily life to avoid working until retirement by setting strict boundaries: computer stays in one room only, never in the bedroom or family spaces. Scheduling trips and leisure throughout the year, and physically separating work from relaxation, makes work something you don't need to escape from.
But I want to build a life that I don't want to retire from. So I want to take trips along the way, have parameters of what I do and what I don't do and when I do things and when I don't do things. And so that I have time, like the computer doesn't leave this room unless it's on the kitchen counter when I want to watch a sunrise when I'm writing. It doesn't ever go to the bedroom. It doesn't go to the family room because those are the places, even at my cabin, we have a special place where work happens and then everything else is leisure and fun. Hanging out. So I've just created those kind of structures so that the addiction to work doesn't overcome the ability to have peace.
