My husband Steve comes from a line of Greek immigrants that had just come out of a war. All they knew in their life was poverty.
Being from a low-income, farming community, there was always a lack and they always had to save everything. They were extremely careful to not waste anything.
It got so bad that I remember Steve’s parents going through our garbage on multiple occasions finding odds and ends to relentlessly interrogate me about. “Why did you throw that out. It’s still useful!”, they would say holding up an empty pasta jar.
Subconsciously, my husband internalized those lifestyle behaviours to the point that his entire goal was just to save money.
When we were dating, he was a brick layer. And he would always tell me how much things cost in ‘bricks laid’. If I wanted to buy a chocolate bar, he would say, “well, that chocolate bar, it costs me forty bricks”.
It’s too expensive.
But I’m not judging, my background was similar.
My mom was a single parent and had to work hard for every penny. She would buy me clothing from what she called the Sally Ann. I learned later that Sally’s was simply the Salvation Army Thrift store.
When someone spent money on something she wouldn’t buy, she’d sharply say, “he has more money than brains!”
As an adult, I would buy her something really special for Mother’s Day, like a special chocolate. She would simply say that it was just a waste of money.
That was the background my husband and I came out of.
How this poverty mindset had as ‘flipping’
Fast-forward many years later, my husband was unemployed and I had become unexpectedly pregnant again with my fourth child. Obviously, this meant I too wasn’t working.
We put our heads together and decided that we were going to try our luck house flipping. Well, pretty soon it wasn’t the house that was flipping, it was us!! We were flipping out because it was just so stressful living in a house that was always under construction.
I remember we had just bought a brand new table when Steve discovered there was a big scratch on it.
My husband said, “Well, we’re not meant to have nice things.”
It hit me then, something is wrong with our mindset. That was just plain wrong and I needed to say something.
I instinctively said to him, “That’s not true. I don’t believe that. I reject that.”
I remember that moment very clearly because I felt like that was something that we needed to break off of our lives.
The Day I Said No To Poverty
At the time, I was learning to be careful about what we speak out loud and why we need to declare truth over our lives. I had been mediating on this Bible verse that said, “Decree a thing and it shall be established”. So I knew it was important to make a positive, true statement.
I clearly remember saying no to poverty and lack. I started to open my heart and my mind to the idea that we would be wealthy, that we could steward large amounts of wealth and that we could do it well.
I knew I had that capacity within me, even though I didn’t have any experience with it.
And so, I started to change my actions to create wealth.
Shortly after that, that I started my doTERRA business and now I’m supporting over 100,000 customers across more than 40 countries and earning well into the 6-figures, all from my home.
It’s possible to create the life of your dreams. I’m not special. If I can do it with my background, 100% you can do it too.
I hope this message inspires you to create abundance in your life!
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