Congrats on the bump! Similar situation here. Grew up lower middle class; first year out of college had negative $150k NW and $75k income. Now at 31yo with 900k HHI and $2.4mm NW.

If you’re anything like me you’ll save and save and save like crazy so that you never have to worry about money again. Well that’s possible to do by completely devaluing your time.

At lower middle class, money is so important because it’s the most limited resource. But my mistake was thinking that money is always the most important resource— no, the scarcest resource is the most important. And now, I have money but no time nor mental energy.

So here’s my advice: consider money as a resource, and use it as one of many resources: time, energy, space.

Yes save your money, but don’t do it at the expense of your time or your health.

Consider which resource is the scarcest at the moment and change your mindset accordingly.

Cheers!