Money is only a tool. With tools you need to know how to use them, and not really abuse them. There is also a safety techniques like with any other tool. Remember a lot of lottery winners end up dead and/or worse off than before the lottery. Why? Because they have no idea about using money to improve their lives. _Because they stick by the same habbits they had before winning, only throw much more money at them._

The good use of money provides freedom. Freedom to do what you consider valuable.
So a good place to start is to get your priorities together. It doesn't matter if you have money or not. Of course there are some priorities that override others, and can provide a lot of worry. Food, water, shelter, health. But after they are covered, what is important? What is fun?

Yeah, leisure activities can be fun. But they are fun for a while, and if it is only thing that you do they become tiring. I know a lot of people that say that they are not, so maybe there are people who can spend their whole life laying by the pool, but I think most of them only want that because it is something they can't have. A luxury. Luxury is primarily valuable because it is scarse, right?

Once you had your fill, what will you be up to? I think Joseph Campbel has a good idea about that. Something doing that creates "sacred space". It is different for everybody, but it is something that puts you, as the gamers say ___"in the zone".___ A lot of times if you are doing that it will also improve your financial situation. But if you are well of financially it is something that you should consider doing with your time, and stop worrying about the tools too much. I mean most people don't worry about their axes, or kitchen knives, or pencils, or computers beyond the required maintenance, or until after they break. If so much people worry about money, perhaps the money is broken? _On the bright side it is a good chance to become aware of that fact. __Crisis and change are actually the same thing. _It is only problematic if you try sticking with the old and don't get on with the times.___

This was my one coherent post for the day. For some reason I do them better in the comments. Perhaps it has something to do with the quality of posts that provoke the comment. It is something that I noticed a long time ago in other areas, that I do much better if I have someone better to bounce off. I should think a bit about doing more colaborative work, otherwise my posts come out barely coherent and are in my opinion a jumbled mess, that I keep editing through the day. At least I know what I should work on. :-)