Money is no longer a source of stress and worry (out of bad debt)
I still worry, but I am here already kind of. That said, we were a lot more close to this definition before the pandemic and hopefully can get back there, this is why I have to focus on blogging and programming to hopefully grow my Hive rather than just buy it :)
The need for more money does not make you work a less desirable job
I'm really fortunate here that I don't need to work a job I literally hate, though there are things I would love to do instead of work for someone else even though I did have my own business and took full-time employment due to anxiety.
You don’t need an income to sustain your current way of life
The money in our bank account has halved from our peak when we could have taken literally years off and lived off the money in there, but as yet we don't have the dividends or other passive income sources to keep it topped up versus our outgoings (having an adult child living with us, a mortgage, car payments, taxes etc)
When you can do anything that you can think of without considering the prices of goods and services.
Again, we do well so don't have nearly the worries we used to, and have all the toys I need with no burning desire for more, but there are a lot of expenditures that we do have to worry about. We need new windows (as was driven home to us in the -45c weather), a new kitchen+flooring (had our fridge flood), so we keep plugging away at projects :)