What Do I Want In My Life?

As I approach 40, I ask myself, what do I want in my life?

Is this the way I want to live my only life? The most productive years of my life.

Thinking about money [Don't have a job that is solely focused on money or spend all my time thinking about money]

Chasing sex [Aim to get married long term]

Reading news [Limit reading news to once a day]

Never at ease [Do an activity to relax and take it easy once a week]

Limited social life [Connect with old friends and meet new friends]

No

Where do I want to be?

Do I want to be in the cold? [Don't live in Australia during the winter]

With little social life/dates? [Aim to get married long term]

Always concerned about a tight budget [Boost savings for a while with a job for 4 months if trading doesn't work out]

No

Do I want to be travelling to places that I don't enjoy? [Don't just try to tick off every region when I don't enjoy it]

Getting envious watching other travellers? [Don't follow other travellers so much as it is not my purpose]

Always checking dating apps trying for another lay? [Aim to get married long term]

No

I need to learn to be really grateful for what I do have, and try to live each day like it might be my last.

In December 2023 I set myself some goals

- Cruises to Greenland/Antarctica

- Buy a house for my mum with less cleaning involved (updated from having a cleaner at home)

- Pay off my mortgages

- Make it in trading

These goals require money. If I achieve my goal of making it in trading then I would be able to achieve the other goals. I would also be able to return to around 10m networth that I would have had if I didn't lose it all and kept developing property.

However, at the same time I don't want to be consumed by money. It is so easy for people to think only about money and lose sight of life.

- Find myself a girl to love

I wrote that my long term goal is to have a girl to love in Settling Down.