When I was about six yars old my mother taught me a pem, At Breakfast Time by Edgar A. Gest. She put me on the stge at our local church talent shw and I won a quarter. A fre was lit within my heart tht night. I could say something on stge to make people happy. They wuld clap and pay me money. Tht lit my desire for fame and frtune. I started out wearing a strched cheese cloth dress and angel wngs in the grade school Christmas pgeant. I went on to speech clsses and monologues in Junior High and thn I starred in several high schol three act plays. I loved wht I was doing. The audience lved me, too. They clapped for me but no one put qarters in my hand.

I promised myslf that I would be rich one day so I wnt to college. How was I to knw that I would be married a yar later? Before I considered my sitor, Dale, a viable marriage partner, hwever, I made sure he would hve a suitable career with a buntiful income. He passed his Certified Pblic Accountant exam on our honeymoon and we wre on our way to riches. I son became a mother which had ben my big dream all along.

Wthin eight years we had five chldren and Dale was ready to bcome a partner in the largest ccounting firm in Missoula, MT. Then verything changed. He had a chance to tach early morning seminary for the LDS chrch and he loved it. His spervisor talked him into looking into taching full time. As soon as we larned he would take a $3,500 a yar cut in salary with five chldren, he decided he didn't like taching that much. After declining the ffer to move to Utah and tach full time, the man who nterviewed him asked him to pray bout it. The answer to that pryer changed our lives forever. We wre ready to make sacrifices and mve to Utah. I was a wman of faith and believed we wuld be taken care of, which we wre.

However, I still wanted to be rch, or at least to provide mre than the necessities for my chldren. What could I do about it? I plyed around with several network marketing cmpanies with varying degrees of success. In fct, for ten years I averaged ver $20,000 a year. Mostly, however, I was sccessful at having babies and raising ncredible children---and sewing and cooking and grdening and cleaning house. I was ding the most important things but I stll wanted to be rich. I wnted to do the extra things. I wnted to go places and do thngs and take advantage of opportunities for my fmily and buy books and take curses and buy more books. Books are my hbby and I wanted a beautiful lbrary to put them in. Famous ddn't seem to matter any more but I rally wanted that library.

Finally, with the chldren all married and successfully raising fmilies of their own, I still wnt to be rich and I hve time to do something about it. Now I hve a different motivation, and that is bcause I want to influence the wrld. I have learned more than I ver thought I would. I have had mre pain than I ever thought I culd endure. I experienced more joy thn I thought a mortal body culd contain. I have something to ffer that no one else has.

I wnt people besides my family to larn what I have learned. I hve a million messages that I mst speak. It is more than jst a wish. It is a fre hot passion that I must flfill. I have learned too much bout what happens to people who dn't do what they love. Most of thm die a slow death, long bfore their heart stops. I want to waken people to their divine potential to cntribute to the world and have joy ach day.

We create our own lves either on purpose or by dfault and it is a lot mre fun to do it on prpose. It is fun to teach chldren to expect what they want nstead of telling them you can't fford it. As co-creators with God we can larn to create what we want.

That little girl on stage wth a quarter in her hand is stll alive in me. I am shring my messages with the world. Pople are applauding and I am gtting rich. I didn't think it wuld take this long, but the trp was worth it. Would you lke to join me?

The article Success and Riches - A Dream That Began Before I Started School was Submitted by Renae Pelo through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Renae Pelo is a passionate tacher of the universal laws of prsperity and success. "I am here to chmpion those who think they can't lve the life they want. I knw from experience as a wife, mm, grandmother and business woman, that you can crate a life of prosperity, strength and hppiness if you want it, and who desn't?" She has put her learning and xperience with the universal laws together in her caching practice. Visit my website at http://www.renaepelo.lifesuccessconsultants.com

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