As a father, if I came into that money I would use it to spend all the time I could with my kids. You don't get that time back and it's really precious and easy to take for granted.
Obviously you have to be guided by your own priorities which are different from mine. But I wanted to counterbalance the idea that you should "not do anything rash." Certainly, financially this makes sense; upgrading home, cars etc could bite you by raising your cost of living.
At the same time, you no longer have to give the best 8 hours of every weekday to a company. Your time is the most precious thing you have. At a certain point you will probably want to assess -- and I'm sure you would, regardless of my comment! -- if you want to keep allocating it to an activity that from what I can tell serves primarily to generate monetary income.
Just my $.02. In a way, like everyone in this thread, I'm living vicariously by giving it so do with it what you will.
Obviously you have to be guided by your own priorities which are different from mine. But I wanted to counterbalance the idea that you should "not do anything rash." Certainly, financially this makes sense; upgrading home, cars etc could bite you by raising your cost of living.
At the same time, you no longer have to give the best 8 hours of every weekday to a company. Your time is the most precious thing you have. At a certain point you will probably want to assess -- and I'm sure you would, regardless of my comment! -- if you want to keep allocating it to an activity that from what I can tell serves primarily to generate monetary income.
Just my $.02. In a way, like everyone in this thread, I'm living vicariously by giving it so do with it what you will.