One goal I had set for myself was that, once I broke the $800K barrier, I was going to start paying down the mortgage a bit more aggressively. Well, I broke it back in January.
Back in September, I had my mortgage paid down to about $143,700. But then, I bought a new truck, and used home equity for $18,000 of that. Mortgage peaked at around $161,500. However, I now have it down to around $132K.
And, my portfolio is still (barely) over $800K!
Another thing I'm doing this year is using money from my wages to fund my Roth IRA. Last year, I simply used money from an after-tax account to fund it, so that really didn't add to my overall portfolio, but simply shifted money.
And, with the 401k limit rising to $17,500 this year, I made sure to adjust things so I hit that max. This may be the last year I max out my 401k though. I'll still do at least enough to do the company match, but I think I'm getting to the point that I have too much in retirement accounts (401Ks, Rollover IRAs, Roth IRA) but not enough in after-tax accounts. And if I want to retire before I'm 50 (I'm about to turn 43, but and shooting for 46-47, depending on how the market does), I might want to boost after-tax a bit.