To be rich....

Saying today from my daily sayings desk reminder is.... "Are you rich?  'To know when you have enough is to be rich.' -Lao-Tze  That's rich!"  Money is always something that I have struggled to have a good relationship with.  When I was working full time in New York in management, I did pretty well.  I figured out a way to make enough money to pay my bills and still be able to put some money into my savings, as well.  At the same time, I learned that doing a job like this where I was spending most of my time working was not very fulfilling.  But I was rich.  I had a wonderful group of friends going on and I was really enjoying my social life in New York at the time.  I had wonderful people to use as my support network and lived in a wonderful city.  But I wasn't able to contribute as much time to my music as I wanted to.  Now I'm in a position to do that and need to remind myself to make sure I put in enough time.  It's easy to get busy doing a bunch of other things and forget about the reason I left my big-boy job in the first place.  I feel very rich in many ways, yes, but just because it's hard to have a comfortable life in the US without maintaining a certain level of income, it kind of makes it a necessary evil to have some cash flow happening regularly.