Thought provoking question for you all. I'm stuck answering it

[WheelyCoteClaus]

So I'm looking at 'turning my life around' usual New Years stuff. I've read a book, that talks about goals.

One of the questions asks is..,

if you were financially set up for life...not rich but comfortable...your bills would be covered.....money for hobbies, adventures but as long as you stayed savvy. So money is no object.

What would you genuinely do with your time????

What would you do (I'm shamelessly trying to get ideas)

Initially I'd keep everything the same but go for a few weekends away, go out for dinner a couple of times a week and join a gym. But then we're pretty poor so that's a massive lifestyle change in itself

Grow vegetables
Travel
Be super fit
Get some animals (horses, dogs, donkeys)

If write, visit the gym every morning, go walking, meet up with friends and enjoy life.

I would travel - I would revisit all of the amazing places I have been, but with my children this time. And all of the places that I have never been but always wanted to.

If and when I got bored of that I would return home and spend some of my time volunteering (apparently my local animal shelter has volunteers whose job it is to socialise kittens by stroking and playing with them, that would do for a start). I would spend some time studying, and the rest lounging by my swimming pool with a mojito in my hand

I would open a 2nd hand book shop, with a cafe that sold really good coffee and home made cakes. I would invite all my friends all the time so that I could sit with them and chat (obviously my role in the cafe would be more of a supervisory one, and I'd have plenty of happy and willing staff).

All proceeds would, of course, go to charity, and if anyone was in need of a book that couldn't afford it, they could borrow one and bring it back when they'd finish.

Every few months, I would go on a trip somewhere - to Africa on safari, or to Sicily or Borneo or the Solomon Islands.

Not really sure where DH and the kids would be, maybe they'd accompany me for some/all of the trips.

Travel more
Study
Write a book

Write. I would work on my novels and I would stay in therapy until I was better.

Much of what I really want can't be bought.

I'd go to uni again. After pissing about half my life I can't afford an education and have had to settle for working without getting a degree.

I love to learn though so that's how I'd fill my time, maybe with volunteering too.

Actually scratch my last answer, I'd go and work in @WhoNose88 bookshop

I'd go to art school to study ceramics, and travel a lot in the holidays.

Relax for a while, sort all of the cupboards and loft out then travel with a really good camera and learn how to take really good photos.

Travel
Eat out at new places more
Volunteer (riding for the disabled, a local dog rescue)
Cook more
Exercise more
Ride my horse and probably get another two or three

Explore and walk more of the UK. Travel to all the places I want to see in the world. Tour lots of vineyards. Get my house exactly how I want it. Read more. Go more regularly to art galleries, museums, plays & restaurants in London.

Buy a nice house, with solar panels, (preferably also a stream and an established orchard) in the massive garden, then annoy all the neighbours by going full on The Good Life, modern style. With a rotovator etc to do the digging. I can't be doing with lots of digging...

Also, lifetime Audible membership.

Open an animal sanctuary
Travel

My job

I have enough money, SAHM to 1 teenager.
I sleep a lot and clean, sad really.

Nothing. Sit about and read. Stare into space and not feel as if I should be doing something else. Sounds perfect.

Learn floristry and skills that would allow me to grow veg in an allotment situation.

I really want to go back to uni. Be a student again for 4 years (Scotland).

Criminology maybe. Or Psychology.

Glasgow uni. I would love it.

I would go to work for 2 days a week because I love my job, I’d be horse riding, dog walking, cycling and doing long distance charity walks in foreign countries the rest of the time

Write a book.

I would travel a lot, with my children.

Volunteer. I have always said I can't imagine not going to work anymore (which might be why I am currently ignoring my GP's advice that I could/ should be signed off sick with stress and anxiety), so, if I didn't need to work for the money, I would probably still volunteer. Then I wouldn't have to go so often, or at the weekend/ at night/ on Christmas Day, but would still get to be part of a team doing something useful.
I would probably take some time off first though to sleep, read, catch up on TV (am watching things I recorded over a year ago).
Would also travel a bit, see new places, be able to give enough time to the volunteer role I already have but can't really commit to enough, be able to spend enough quality time with my DC.
The house would be clean, tidy and organised but I would pay someone to do that for me.

If I won the lottery (unlikely as I never play it but you never know...) or something like that I wouldn't tell anyone. I'd work a couple of days a week still and I'd spend the rest of my time travelling about doing my hobby. I'd have a houseboat and go up & down the canals and go on occasional workshop type holidays where I'd get the chance to meet others who share my hobby and learn more techniques. I'd work towards gaining qualifications and accolades in it and trying to make some money from it.

Essentially I'd live the life I'm living now but more comfortably and with more time and money for the things I actually enjoy.