Fellow single dudes over 30 – what is important to you?

There was a time when a lot of different things were important to me:

– My education
– My career
– The projects I worked on at work
– My art
– My music
– My stuff (things, possessions)
– …etc

But now, as I’m getting older, I’m starting to realize that the things that “should” be important to me simply aren’t. My career used to be important to me, and now it isn’t. The projects and tasks that I do in my job are important to other people, but they aren’t important to me. Even my hobbies – mainly music – have lost their importance to me. And my stuff is just stuff – today’s things are tomorrow’s trash. Sometimes I think about letting it all go, since it requires time, space, and energy that I’d rather use elsewhere. I’ve started to realize that the only things that are really important to me in my life are:

– My relationships with my family
– My relationships with other people I care about – my friends
– My finances (because I don’t have another twenty-four years of work left in me – I don’t even know if I’ve got four – I need a way out of the rat race)
– Being free of obligations

As you guys get older and your priorities change, what has become important to you? What used to be important to you and now simply isn’t? And most importantly, have you structured (or restructured) your life around what is important to you?

Edit: I scoped the question to single men because I think the answers are fairly obvious for people who are married (especially if they have children), especially in regards to restructuring one’s life around what’s important to them.