What if Money Were No Object?

While this question may seem trite, it is truly valuable if we actually consider it: what would you like to do every day, if money were no object? What do you value and enjoy, absent issues of money? In this short video, philosopher and writer Alan Watts is quoted, matched with inspirational footage. This is worth watching and listening to. My favorite part (emphasis added):

When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

I write about this in an upcoming book about how I managed to become a professional freelance writer -- something that doesn't seem like a sustainable career path to many people. A central realization, which Watts alludes to here, is that many of us are living our own worst-case scenarios. If you were to take a leap of faith and do the thing you love (in my case, writing), and you were to fail dramatically at it and not not have any money, what is the worst that would happen then? You'd probably go back to having a day job, at least for a while. So why would you remain at that day job now, proactively living out your own worst-case scenario? Take a listen:

There's a transcript of this video if you're curious.

What Would You Like to Do?

Tell us in the comments. What do you want to do, and why are/aren't you doing it?