You see, my life wasn’t always the success it is today. In fact, back in 1981, I hit a life-altering financial rock bottom. That’s when I discovered the truth about why we struggle to create abundance – even when we’re familiar with the spiritual laws of abundance.
For close to a year, my children’s father and I had been exploring the United States with our four children (who were all under the age of 13 at the time) while I spoke at 100 different churches around the country. We bought an old Checker Marathon to drive around in, and a 28-foot travel trailer to tow behind for all of us to cook, eat and sleep in.
It was a magical time for us as a family, and incredibly fulfilling for me. I was living my calling, and it filled me with untold joy and satisfaction.
But the longer our journey stretched, the more our bank account shrunk. One day, I went to make dinner and realized my kitchen cupboards were bare – and I had only $3.31 in my wallet. All I could afford were two bags of dried peas to make split pea soup… and my kids didn’t even like split pea soup!
I felt like a failure as a mother – and frustrated and confused. I had been studying the universal laws of abundance for a few years by then. I knew in my heart that we live in an abundant universe… so what was I doing wrong? How I could still be stuck in a position of scraping by and worrying constantly about how I’d provide for my family?
I made the best of the situation in the moment, buying two flavors of peas to make the meal more enticing for my kids. And while the soup simmered, I had a conversation with myself and God. I vowed that I would do whatever it took to take the ideas of abundance and the prosperity principles I had studied, and translate them into real, measurable, freedom-making results in my own life.
I promised myself that I would go wherever I needed to go so that I could finally learn from the individuals who not only knew about abundance, but who successfully turned the laws of abundance into real-world results.
And once I had real-world results of my own, I was going to make it my mission to share it with others.
Now, that decision wasn’t easy. And it wasn’t convenient… because great opportunities rarely are. I invested the next ten years of researching, studying and travelling to learn from the world’s greatest prosperity teachers.