If you have already obtained financial freedom and then lost motivation, perhaps it is a sign that you should now concentrate on something else you enjoy rather spending most of your time and energy going for a lot more money. Not that there is anything wrong with that, if you still really enjoy it way more than anything else. Like Warren Buffet does.
So you want more, but you are not really motivated for it. Sounds kinda ridiculous to me. If you are not motivated, and you don't have to, then don't do it! Do things because you think they make you happy (and obviously making more money is not it, otherwise you would be motivated), not do things just because you think you ought to do them.
Yeah there are enough people in the world who feel forced to work jobs they don't really want to do, just for the extra money. I did it for many years myself. Was a miserable time for most of my waking hours when i had to do that.
How much money are we talking here? I never ask anybody this question in the real world but since this is an anonymous online forum....
Haha, How much? This is a question a lot of people never ask. "When someone says if I had a million I would... " it is a clue. The first thing you do is pay the IRS! Make 10 mil ST gains (bitcoin included) you pay about 350-400K in tax in Fed. Then you pay your state tax. You are maxed for FICA after something like 175K, so that is "good news". Sitting on 6mil, your SO and you split, and you have 3 mil left. You do some reasonably -expensive things like 20K vacations, 60K boat, 200K in a yearly expense etc. because after all you are a "millionaire", all of a sudden you are at 2 mil in short order. Sure you made some but is it sustainable for the next 20 years? if not, time to get back to work! It all depends upon your expenses. I got a friend, and his wife always wants 2 mil, 3500-4000 sq ft houses. Lunch with me and his family of 4 at a taco joint in Bellevue Seattle, was $165, and that was 15 years ago. He has never stopped working despite being in 3 successful startups. Alternative, I live in 1600sq ft and live well. My regular taco lunch is $12 including tip. Like I said, spend less, use less is the easiest way to "make it". It is the life equivalent of no commissions or spreads in trading! Not trying to be a braggart either way. Just passing on some notes on what happens. Runs is done, back to the code for me.... PS: LT compounding gains from investments are golden! Right up there with low overhead.
If my wife splits with half my trading capital, i would hunker down for a couple of years and grow the account back before going on any expensive spending spree.
Ditto! But it happens. Wealth changes people expectations, and view of what they should have, do, or be. Most of it is a projection from other people's thinking. I guess that is the point. A lot of people on this forum seem to be working out someone else idea, which they have adopted, on what it means to be successful. And the rub is, most of those projections are armchair pontifications. I.e. comments from people with no skin in the game or actual experience on what it takes to get there.
We all know it gets harder the more you have. Turning 20K to 200K is not as hard as 2M to 20M. Personally if i had 2M to trade with i wouldn't bother setting a target like 10x in Y years. I would just take whatever the market gave me in PnL each month/year and be happy with it. Try and limit the downside obviously. Which is pretty much what i do now but with a smaller account.