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)

Go to museums and castles and get the audioguide and listen to every single bit, then have a cream tea.

I wouldn't get fit. I know it. If I was interested in sports I'd already be doing some.

I’d do a phd but over several years so it wasn’t stressful.

My allotment would look great!

I wouldn’t mind going on a few cruises.

This is actually my life right now. I do voluntary work related to the job I used to do, sing in a choir and study part time at university in a subject I love. I have a nice group of friends I can meet up with, I walk my dog and read books.

I also do boring stuff like housework, shopping cooking etc but I don't count that.

I have a lovely life.

Read, go for walks, knit, cook really good meals every single day, write a book, paint, yoga, volunteer a bit, spend more time with my family. Just that sort of thing.

Give up work and home Ed my ASD dd who struggles in mainstream.

Take the kids travelling.

I would stay in my career but instead of working in the advertising remit I would work for charities voluntary. Actually that’s the plan when I inherit my families properties, where I wouldn’t be very comfortable.

Our kids will likely be teenage by that point and my DH who is a sahd has said he’d like to volunteer in a retirement home.

Retired with disposable income...we just enjoy life.
We have a very interesting hobby...dowsing...that takes us to interesting places in the uk...and when we aren’t actively practicing it..we read up on subjects related to it such as health, radionics, earth energies...list is endless

We have friends and family in wales and Dorset that we love spend time with so have at least two trips away each year

I’ve recently stepped down as a trustee of a national charity to give us more flexibility with our travel

We spend 8 weeks abroad in Tenerife over the winter spread out over three trips
The rest of the time we split between our caravan in N Yorks and our home where we hook up as much as possible with my children and grandchildren.
We tend not to travel in January and February
We are quite boring really

Sleep more
Volunteer at the dog kennels
Go to the library once a week

I'm a sahm and when my youngest starts nursery this year I'll be kind of in this position (once I've cooked cleaned done laundry etc). I'm planning on writing with a goal of being published or getting a script in development. I'll also exercise more, cook more varied recipes, and do lots of decorating in the house which is hard to do with a delightful toddler around. I'll also rest so I have energy for fun when my bots finish school.

This is my dream...I wouldn't want to be super rich as much as mortgage free and comfortable in this way (although I wouldn't say no to the lottery obvs!) Tbh not too much would change for me as I'm a SAHM atm but it would be the best thing in the world if DH could also stop working and then we could have even more time as a family and share a bit more. We could both take it in turns to lie in and could each take a day to go off on our own and do whatever we wanted. I would love to have time to read again! We would take DS to the park all the time (don't live near a park atm but are planning to move soon if we can) and would take him to the football and the zoo and lots of museums and castles etc...just wander around doing lovely things. Would eat lunch out all the time and buy really nice meat, veg etc for cooking tea. Just have a really nice life. This is our long term goal really...(with both of us part time in the future rather than not working) but it's a pity it's just not feasible whilst DS is young.