You know, it's funny;

A year ago, I would have said that life was cruel. Today I always say that life is spectacular!

It always seems that life has it's way of messing with you when you are already down. You find yourself struggling and something else comes along to make the circumstances worse. Trust me, I do know what that feels like.

About ten years ago, I had a successful off-line business and I was completely happy. I worked in landscaping and in construction, was going to school for advertising, played in a rock band, and was competing and teaching in martial arts tournaments. One day, when I was on a job site, I blacked out and was rushed to the hospital. When I woke up I had doctors staring at me and the first thing one of them said was, "Son, this isn't easy to tell you, but we found a tumor lodged between your rib cage and your lung.

I was nineteen years old when they told me this. My response was how are we going to get rid of it? The doctor said that it wasn't possible and the cancer that has developed was going to consume me within the next 7 months to 1 year. My heart sank to the pit of my stomach. I told the doctor that this wasn't possible, I'm in control of me and my body wasn't going to decide whether I lived or died! He told me that I may want to make some arrangements and start spending time with my family.

Just then the reality hit me — this could literally kill me! What did I do to cause this? What did I do to deserve this? Well, I got out of that hospital quick. I figured enough time was being wasted sitting there with the doctors who said I didn't have a chance. The odd thing was, even though they said there was nothing they could do, the wanted to do radiation therapy on me! It seemed they figured I was going to die any way, so why not soak up some money!

On my way home from the hospital, I stopped at a funeral home. I was actually looking at caskets and planning for my own burial. As I was facing this reality I thought to myself, 'What could I do to change this?' I had spent so many years taking care of myself, working out and meditating, Why was this happening?

From there, I went home and drank down a bottle of vodka and a case of beer. I went to my bed and didn't move from it for 7 days straight. Then, one Tuesday morning, I opened my eyes and saw the view of downtown Pittsburgh from my bedroom window. The city had a golden glow to it. This is probably the reason they called it the golden triangle! The sun was setting in the evening and the water at the Point fountain was golden as well.

Everything around me seemed to be so beautiful. Then I thought to myself, 'If I weren't around anymore, who's going to be left to describe these beautiful things to my family?' I had always put it on myself to believe that I was going to show my family a world of beauty and find a way that they could achieve their dreams. My mom and dad had always worked so hard and had nothing to show for it. Who would be there to find a better way for them. At that moment I knew what I had to do.

Within the end of that week I sold my business, I sold the house I lived in and my rental property, I sold two of my three vehicles and I sold all of my stocks. I stockpiled the money into a bank account and decided to live in my truck for a while. It may seem like an odd thing to do, but I knew that surviving was going to mean having a lot of money to pay doctors.

For two years I lived in that truck and things were getting worse and better all at once. My body was beginning to fail me at the end of those two years, but my mind was as sharp as it had ever been. It's funny to think back to those doctors that told me I had seven months to live. I think if I had believed them then I would have died. I went from doctor to doctor and I had finally found one that would take my challenge. He said, "It's going to take some time, but we're going to make this happen if you're up to the challenge!"

To this day, I am very grateful to that man. To make a very long story short, about 6 and a half years later, the tumor and cancer were no longer a part of me. I wasn't out of the water yet, I had surgeries for injuries in my knees and hands I had to take care of, and I had to put on the 87lbs of weight that I had lost when I was sick. I thought to myself...

"Everyone around me is so negative, I really need to be around people that are more like me." The problem was, the more I searched for these types of people, the more I found there were none. I was talking about cancer survivors or people that had battled terminal illness. I was talking about people that believed that anything in this life is possible, if you believe in yourself and your own capabilities. At this point, I was on welfare and barely scraping by. I had used the last of my money to buy an old, run down farmhouse outside the city. I was living at the bare minimum. Then I decided, "If I'm going to be stuck in this house all the time, the least I could do is get some internet service.

I got the internet, which I had never used before, and my girlfriend showed me how to do a search. The first thing I did was search for people like myself. I found a man named Bob Dignard-Fung and he was holding some sort of online conference. It cost $1 at the time, so I paid a buck and joined in. This man was talking about all the things that I had known were true. He was quoting Bob Proctor and Napolean Hill. He was talking about the law of attraction and the state of mind you had to be in to attract wealth. I was seriously enthralled in this guy. The next day I decided to do some research and my computer crashed. I found that my hard drive was corrupt and had no money to fix it.

It would be two years before I got that computer fixed, still not much better off financially. The first thing I did when I got back online, was to look up Bob Dignard-Fung. Not only did I find him, I found that he teamed up with Leslie Fieger, the creator of the Delfin Knowledge System. They formed an online global community of spiritual entrepreneurs!

It was called the Magnetic Freedom Global Communities. It came to be exactly what I had needed. Later I had realized, if my computer wouldn't have crashed, I would never get the chance to be part of this. You see, around that time, I was searching for answers but wasn't dedicated to achieving success! Think about, are you craving success but can't seem to grab hold of it? I mean, I was hearing about all of these business ideas, but they all had so much hype attached to them! How many times have you heard about an online business opportunity that could make you rich? It's truly a shame that there are so many people out there stealing from others. That's how they're getting rich quick!

Well, I joined this online community and it came into me as a breath of fresh air. Have you ever joined up with a group of people that just made you feel that you could achieve anything? I never had, before this. The nice thing was, though, they didn't sugar coat things for me. If they saw that I wasn't putting out my potential, Bob would take me "lovingly by the ear" and tell me that I wasn't letting everything, that I had learned, work!

I count my blessings for what that man has done for me, what that community has done. Now look at me; I have my own online talk show, I am mentoring and hosting a mastermind meeting in the community, and I am preparing a sales training seminar for the end of September (FREE for MEMBERS). I've begun affiliate and network marketing. I have an Internet marketing campaign launched...The list goes on forever.

Look, it comes down to this;

If you could find a way to change your life, to make a difference in yourself, to take control of your own freedom...could you use that type of information? I takes an action to begin the journey toward a dream. Aren't you craving a little more out of life; a lot more? We all deserve it and the world/universe is filled with an abundance of financial and personal wealth. I chose to live and to survive. I chose to create a life that my family could live their dreams through. I got married to the woman of my dreams and we had the daughter of my dreams. My life is very simple and very exciting at the same time.

I hope you have gained some insight from this article. It sometimes takes a lot for me to share that story, I'm not one that looks back too often. But, I do feel that there are people out there who can use this type of information. People who may have walked the same path I did, but haven't found their way to where I've landed. Well, I'm here for you and you are more than welcome to come back to my column whenever you choose. I thank you for reading my story and come back often to read new articles. I welcome all visitors and comments!

I truly do hope to meet with you some day out here in cyberspace,

Take Care

Bob Yeager