Money makes the world go around?

This is a quick post today because I have decided to really attack my book writing with a purpose. I am dedicating 4 hours a day to it and it's almost time for me to go to work. Tomorrow I have to get up earlier so I can get my "other jobs" done before 10 am which is to be my starting time for writing.

So here goes....

"If you could be guaranteed one thing in life, BESIDES MONEY, what would it be?"

Now, really think about this question. I know at first thought you might say, health or love. But think about all the possibilities! I guess your choice will, very much, depend on your circumstances which leads me to this quote from my daily calendar...

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other with us in our minds wherever we go." - Martha Washington

So with that in mind, I pick "contentment." I would love to always have contentment in my life and never a yearning for something more or different or easier....that's, of course, since I can't have buckets of money!!!!

I wish you all a "contented" day!

Who am I???

Another interesting Oprah and Eckart class. I had a "wow" moment tonight. The class was about the "roles" we all have and how they don't define who we are.

It got me to thinking that I have always been labeled and that I've always felt defined by those labels. I started out being Gus's daughter (everybody know my father in our community), then I became Dot's sister (my next older sister, Dorothea, was very popular...at least that's what it said in all the boys' bathroom stalls.....just kidding...she's a saint!), next I was Scott's wife, followed by Courtney's and Steven's mother. In the middle of those I help many other roles which labeled me...Service Unit manager for Girl Scouts, Vice President of the church council, Chairman of the church poperty committee, secretary of the board of directors for our town house community and on and on.

I think that is why I'm searching for something now. I have no label. Even though I'll always be Scott's wife and Courtney and Steven's mom, those labels no longer say who I am or I no longer allow them to. I learned tonight that they never really did define me but that I defined myself through those labels and that molded who I was and how I acted.

So my question is, what do you think you are defined by and is it an accurate definintion of who you really are?