You Become What You Want To Be.

Hi Mike Mc Bride,
The truth is in a nutshell: I have been born in what most people would call an extremely poor environment. Being of a single parent relationship my two sisters and I watched our mother work her fingernails to the bone for years just to make ends meet and to ensure that there was food on the table at least.

I had to drop out of school without a college education and do odd jobs to assist my mother who spent what ever little time she had teaching us christian principles and instilling in us the importance self improvement and motivation.

As a child I would observe my mother being taken advantage of in many ways, mostly by employers, but was too small to do anything about it. I made up my mind that I was not going to live that way.

Sometimes with envy I would gaze on other families with both parents taking their children shopping, on vacations and all the other caring family stuff and would cry inside when I looked at kind of insults and long hours of work that my mother had to endure just to pay the rent and feed us. Our father was never around and we knew no other.

Having to work at an early age I too was exploited and got the rest of my education on the streets the hard way. My desire was to help my mother, own my own home and have a family, being able to give my children the things I never had as a child. The struggle continued for a number of years and I was employed in a printing establishment as a bookbinder not earning very much my self. My two younger sisters found employment eventually and was holding their own, so my mother did not have to work that hard anymore.

I got married and moved out, six kids came out of that relationship four girls two boys. I even delivered our second daughter at home because medical help was too long in coming. Ironically my wife passed away suddenly when our first born son was just fifteen and the last daughter three years of age, leaving us devastated.

I started to realize that I was not being able to do what I wanted by giving my children and myself the things I desired. I Began to wander and even doubt the stuff I was reading about positive thinking and the science of getting rich, (although I was following the advice to the letter) because of the series of so called negative events which were taking place in my life.


Either by accident or design I met this wonderful lady at a friend's house six months after my wife's passing, who eventually accepted me with six kids. We got married after a short "getting to know each other period" and if by magic my life dramatically turned around.

She assisted me in furthering my education enabling me to get a high paying job in the Telecommunications Industry and I have never looked back since. I may not be a Bill Gates or Donald Trump but I consider myself to be comfortably wealthy still Learning and Growing.

I was able to give my children most of the luxuries that I was never able to enjoy as a child. My source of inspiration over the years came from authors:Lobsang Rampa, Norman Vincent Peale, Dr Venice J Bloodsworth,Wallace D. Wattles.

I always make it a point of duty to have some practical knowledge and working experience about the ideas and philosophies that I support before I mention one word of them and have successfully assisted many close friends and relatives by way of advice and support with personal problems.
My goal is to pass on as much practical information and advice as I possibly can so forgive me if I may sound like any of the authors above, or any where else, this is certainly not my intention because I have a wealth of practical experience and knowledge to share.

I am just what I wanted to be, it took a little time but I am grateful for all my experiences.

Thanks for your comment I really do appreciate it.

Regards,
rouse9.

The idea that everyone has the same potential in every area is just crazy.

I guess I'll plan on breaking Michael Phelps' records at the next Olympics.

Visualization of the desired end result + Inspired Action in my opinion