From Eviction to Abundance: My Personal Journey with Bob Proctor

Three years before I was introduced to Bob Proctor's teaching, my family and I were evicted from our home with just 48 hours to find another place to live. The following year, the last automobile we owned was repossessed. I earned just $14,027 for the entire year — qualifying my family of five below the U.S. Poverty level. I wasn't lazy. I wasn't uneducated. I was working hard and going nowhere, and I had no idea why.

The Turnaround Nobody Saw Coming

Barely a year after studying and applying Bob's strategies, I was earning more than $14,027 in a single month. A couple of years after that, I was earning it in a day. I can't count the times I've earned that amount in an hour. 

What was the secret to my turnaround? Not tactics. Not a new business model. A handful of ages-old principles that Bob taught me how to use and leverage.

Bob's Own Story: From Broke Firefighter to Global Icon

These were the same principles Bob himself had applied in 1961 when he was a high school dropout earning $4,000 a year, $6,000 in debt, working as a firefighter in Toronto with no clear future. Within twelve months of being handed a single book by his mentor Ray Stanford, Bob's income jumped to $175,000. A few years after that, it crossed a million. He spent the next sixty years trying to understand exactly how that happened — and teaching it to anyone willing to listen.

The Principle That Changed Everything

The chief principle came from a book Bob read every single day for over 60 years: Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. The principle is deceptively simple: you become what you think about. It is not a coincidence that it is also the primary principle of the classic As A Man Thinketh by James Allen — the very book that inspired this site and everything we've built here — and the book Bob named to his top three all time . 

Bob didn't discover this principle in isolation. He learned it first through Hill's work, and it was later reinforced by one of the most influential figures in the history of personal development — Earl Nightingale, the man who gave Bob his first real opportunity and became one of his most important mentors. Nightingale had distilled the same idea into what became The Strangest Secret — a recording so powerful it became the first spoken-word recording in history to sell over a million copies and earn a Gold Record. Bob absorbed that message, lived it, and spent a lifetime teaching others to do the same.

The Man Who Reached Millions

In 2006, Bob reached a global audience of millions when he appeared in the film The Secret, introducing an entirely new generation to the principles he had quietly taught for four decades. By the time of his passing on February 3, 2022, at the age of 87, Bob Proctor had become what many consider the godfather of the modern personal development movement — a man who had directly influenced tens of millions of lives across more than 100 countries.

My Personal Journey with Bob

Several years after the big change in my own life, I had the opportunity to begin working personally with Bob Proctor. What followed was a collaboration I will never stop being grateful for. My life — and the lives of countless people in our community — has not been the same since.

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