$100,000,000 !!!!!!! .......

A long-standing dream of mine---and most people, I suppose---is to be wealthy.  I guess the easiest way to insane wealth is to somehow win the lottery.  I mention this because the Mega Millions lottery drawing scheduled for this Friday has reached $476,000,000.

Now, let us say you won this amount of money, and you chose to take the lump-sum payout, and you ended up with $100,000,000 in your bank account.  In other words, you are now insanely rich.

What to do?  Ahhh....there's the problem.  Truly, THERE is the problem.

"But Oh!", you say, "That is a problem I could handle!"

Could you, now.......

Incredibly, it seems a very high percentage of winners go on to have miserable lives after winning a huge payout.  They somehow cannot handle it.  I think a part of that is the emotional overload that occurs when an enormous change happens in one's life.  It seems not many folks calmly secure the services of a really good investment firm and conservatively obtain strong holdings.

No, apparently folks generally go wild and make emotional mistakes that lead to ....... bankruptcy, divorce, heartache, destroyed friendships, etc.

I really don't know how I would spend/invest that money.  But I do know this---I would want to give a goodly portion of it to a favorite charity/cause.  I just am not sure what that would be.  I would really have to think about that.

And, the fact is, while I don't have near enough money in retirement (who does?), I do have all I really need.  I have love.  I have happiness.  I have health.  I have Jesus.  I don't need more than that.

Here is what I would do immediately:

---change our phone numbers
---change our internet contact information
---set up a methodology for exploring which causes to support and other investment possibilities
---Get out of town for a couple weeks to escape the hoopla surrounding our newfound status as wealthy folk.  Ha.

How would you spend your $100,000,000?