Work Backward. Live Forward. My wife, Jamie, is a master of backward planning. If she needs to be somewhere at 8:00 a.m., she doesn’t just think, “I’ll leave at 7:30.” She works it all the way back. She thinks through parking. The walk from the car. Traffic. When she needs to get in the car. When she needs to be ready. When she needs to wake up. She’ll pull out her phone or a piece of paper and literally map it backward step by step until she knows exactly what time the alarm needs to go off....