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Overcoming My Lack of Belief in Myself
You would think that believing in yourself would come naturally, but that isn’t the case for most of us. My lack of belief goes back to my childhood, while I was growing up in poverty. I didn’t know that word — poverty — until President Lyndon Johnson made it the focus of his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. He called it the “War on Poverty” and my fourth grade class had to write a one page essay about it. I learned that one out of five people didn’t have enough money for the basic necessities of life while I was writing that essay. My mother whispered to me that we were two of them. I wondered who else we knew who were also a part of this war.
I’m writing this on what I now refer to as “U.S. Thanksgiving,” celebrated in the States on the fourth Thursday of November each year. It’s apropos that I would choose this day to share what I have been able to overcome to build my online business that gives me the time freedom and financial freedom to live the lifestyle I have wanted for so long. Why? Because it was on Thanksgiving Day each year as I was growing up that I was able to imagine a life much more satisfying than the one I was living.
It was just my mother and I. My parents had divorced and we had few relatives, and none of them lived even remotely close to us. Mom did the best she could but there were too many times when we didn’t have…
