If I am able to declare FI within the next couple of years, my goal would be to spend loads of time with my two boys, helping to better guide them into becoming good men. My older son will leave for college in 5 years, and my younger son in 8 years, so I'm hoping not to completely miss that window.
Apart from and after that, I'd envision some kind of work to keep mentally stimulated and growing--but it would likely be individual projects and never all-consuming, with plenty of breaks in between and overall the choice to say no and walk away from bad work or people. Otherwise I have a lot of interests:
- Spend lots of quality time with my wife, strengthening our marriage
- Spend lots of quality time with my parents while they are still alive
- Spend lots of time outside--camping, hiking, biking, skiing, etc. etc.
- Read about 1,000 books--the list of books I'd like to read keeps getting longer
- Take care of the cooking/cleaning/etc. so that my wife can pursue graduate degrees and career goals
- Spend time volunteering / doing charity work
- Learn to play guitar competently
- Learn a second language--and live in a country that speaks it for a while
- Develop more and better friendships within my local community
- Help my kids establish themselves as adults
- Learn more hands on skills, building things
- Expand gardening, and maybe even experiment with some animals like bees or chickens
Really the list could go on and on, I could probably fill several pages with ideas, and never have enough time to do them all.