Patti Vancil

Early in my marriage I realized a very important fact. If something should happen to my husband or my marriage I could not raise my kids on the minimum wages I was making as a deli manager. That was a very sobering and frightening thought. I took a self inventory. My options were limited. Go back to school or face the reality of welfare and food stamps to support my children. Somewhere along the way I had told myself that I couldn’t make it in college. Only smart people go to school and I knew my grades from high school weren’t that wonderful. After many false starts, I finally made the move to go back to school. I worked full-time, raised a husband, two kids and attended school full time. I was not a 5 year senior. I graduated with honors in 4 years with my Bachelors of Science in Nursing. I soon realized that I had just traded a lower paying job for a higher paying one. I still wasn’t home with my kids as much as I wanted. I had to work weekends and evenings, holidays and birthdays. I had to pull teeth to get people to trade shifts so I could make it to my kids’ events. Through it all I lost my own personal quest for growth and my health was declining. My life appeared on the surface to be just fine but inside I was spinning out of control. And to top it all off, I came to an understanding that trading time for dollars was not going to be my ticket to financial security, let alone freedom. I had a V-8 moment when 2 things happened almost simultaneously in my life. 1) My husband joined a network marketing company & 2) I began to learn about the Law of Attraction. In college, I learned to compare and contrast and the use of a Venn diagram to visually see the differences and similarities between 2 ideas or objects. Trust me; it didn’t take someone with a Bachelors degree to soon realize that the two have way more in common than in difference. • All things are possible • You have to believe to see • What you think about you bring about • Y