One of the biggest barriers to happiness and success is a lack of support from within the environment that surrounds us. Often times we find ourselves feeling unsupported and unheard. Whether you come from a wealthy lifestyle or a modest lifestyle, the need for support from those around us doesn't seem to disappear . Then, we sometimes see others with wealth and success and think they must have a perfect background or environment to get to where they are. We also tend to generalize that people with not so steller financial status or negative environment can not be successful.

​The need for support and positivity is a human need in all of us, and the status of our lives doesn't interfere with this. I often talk with very wealthy and successful people that are lacking support and emotional connection from those around them. And while working in psychiatric hospitals and doing casework in poor homes when I was younger, the issues were often exactly the same as the wealthy people coming to me today. So I have found that my work for the last 15 years in helping others find happiness, has shown that the ability to find happiness and success is not a direct correlation to where we come from or how much support we have. We in fact can tap into our potential regardless of support or resources. We don't need a supportive environment or positive people to help lift us up to live a life of our dreams.

Our true ability to tap into success and happiness comes from being able to find strength and resilience through failures and lack of support. Many times the people with the most success and happiness actually have very little around them to help them to get to where they are today. Success and happiness, instead comes from an inner willpower to live a better life and to have a purpose filled life. Without support and a positive background, happiness is always still an option. Although a lack of support or feeling like others don't care about you, can make life more difficult it doesn't need to stop you from being happy or successful. Many people are held back or depressed in life because they don't have people that believe in them or make them feel genuinely loved. But, true strength and power will come to us in life by learning to love yourself and believe in yourself fully so that you can see that anything is possible if you step in your own power.

Once you learn to lean on yourself and empower yourself fully, your potential is unlimited. You can create a life that you truly love and feel good about if you believe you are worthy of it. Even if others deem you unworthy of happiness or your dreams that doesn't mean you can’t make them happen. Trust that you can make anything happen and lack of support or a toxic environment around doesn't need to stop you from living your best life.