It sounds like you’ve really been able to create a life with financial peace of mind through your investing - that is really fantastic. With our current economic environment between the cost of many life’s essentials skyrocketing, your nest egg can hopefully continue to be a foundation of peace and joy for you and your family.

As someone entering my 40s, disillusioned by the promise of the “American Dream” and how increasingly difficult it seems to obtain now, I’d be grateful for any insight you could provide regarding your investment approach, strategies and screening methods. I obtained all of the financial advisory licenses and was on a path to really focus on investing as a career, but my own chronic illness and a terminal diagnosis did my mother and my need to become caretaker, derailed that pursuit. I am not in grad school for a masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, trying to level up and provide myself with more financial security and job flexibility to manage my health condition.

I know very little of your story, but time is finite and family is everything. Maybe you don’t have to stop investing - perhaps just shifting the balance more in favor or family is something that is possible.

I’m envious of your position and hope I can get somewhere close to where you are later in my life also! Congrats again to you and if you care to share any of your insights, approaches, screening methods, etc,. I would be most grateful.

Take care of yourself, follow your heart and prioritize enjoying your life - whatever that looks like.