Guess what Mom and Dad? I won the Power Ball Lottery and it is over 180 Million Dollars.  It sounds like a wonderful dream and in most cases it is a dream except for those few lucky people that might have gotten those numbers leading them in to a life of either destruction, stability, or having a giving heart.

There are many stories out there about how lottery winners usually die poor in some type of horrible death.  If this is true how can a person who wins the lottery do things to make their life better?  Should they give away most of it? Should they take care of their family members and friends, then set up their future and then start to give to all those great causes to make the world a better place?  Should they start their own agency?

I often sit and wonder what would I do?

What would Sean Cononie do if he won the power ball worth 200 million dollars?  In most cases my mind is so busy trying to figure out what to do and in some cases I get lost in a world of believing that I won and now things are going to be different for our agency and for the causes I want to help each and every day.  Those of you who actually know me know that I work 7 days a week almost 18 to 20 hours a day.  So now I sit here and wonder how many hours would I actually work if this came true and would I take my job more serious and make myself work more hours or what about less hours?  To tell you the truth I think I would work the same amount of hours but I would make those hours more functional and finally get rid of the filing system to the left side of my desk chair on the floor.  I can’t tell you how many times my mail gets stepped on throughout the day as it adds up daily because I have no time to sort and read my mail.

You know I really want to win the lottery so I can do whatever I want to do as far as helping as many people as I can.  I wonder if I will be the one who just feeds the people or will I be the one who figures out a way for the poor to have food so it ends starvation? Putting a band aide over a problem is not the way to go but putting a “permaide,” (Oh no I just created another word) over a situation therefore fixing it for many years to come is the best plan.  So if one day I win the lottery I want you all to send me emails telling me to slow down and remember to permanently fix the problems and not just fix it for today.  I must tell myself to not just buy a few tons of rice but rather come up with a plan that the poor of the world will be able to grow millions of tons of rice where we can finally come up with a cure to end starvation forever.  One last thought.....

Every day in the world over 30,000 people, mostly children die of starvation or from the lack of medication. Did you know it took you about four minutes to read this story and if we used the “starvation clock”; which means that for the time it took you to read this story 84 people just died.  Did you hear me? This means that 84 little ones just died because they could not get the leftover food I threw out after one complete day of eating.