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THE BIG LIE: "Success in business will make me happy!" Success came easily. A “large” personality enabled him to recruit, train and motivate many sales types. He transformed his simple home-based business into a multi-million dollar system. “Although I had achieved the success nobody in my family ever had, I still felt empty, unsatisfied, and unfulfilled." “In no time at all, I owned the finest cars, a beautiful home, a lake-front cottage, boats, motorcycles, snowmobiles and office buildings. I entered the land of Rolex watches, mink coats, extensive and expensive travel." "I liked it. But the confusing thing was that I was still unsatisfied. All the toys -- all the material things that I was so sure would satisfy my soul -- just came up short." "At age 34, I had become trapped in a self-made cycle of work hard -- earn money -- and pay bills.” "My friend Pat calls it: Success Sickness...and I had it bad. I would buy things I couldn’t afford with the money I didn’t really have to impress the people I actually didn’t like.” “As I became more intolerant and short tempered with my wife and children, I began to appear to them as unpredictable and volatile. I never really understood or took the time to ask myself why." “One day, it became obvious that Joanne and the kids were not only afraid of me…they were actually beginning to dislike me." "The problem was, they weren’t the only ones. There was really no balance in my life and certainly no joy. I forgotten how to laugh and how my intentions and journey had begun." My greatest disappointment was realized. I had actually become very much like my dad. It was at a couple’s house in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the fall of 1980 that Puleo finally surrendered to God. “We hardly knew this young couple; Peter and Nancy McFarlane,” says Puleo, “but they possessed something I really wanted. They had peace of mind and some sense of inner joy which I had never experienced." Dennis was actually transformed after a simple prayer. “Many of my bad habits fell away, and my heart was supernaturally changed. I felt as if a huge burden was lifted off my back. I was set free. For the first time, I understood the difference between praying and begging; and the difference between religion and a personal relationship.” When traveling across the country on business after the White Mountain experience, his daughter Vanessa would hide her Smurf in his luggage and include a note. As she kissed him goodbye, she would say to her new Christian dad, “Don't forget who you are!” Eventually he would.
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Business success leads
His home-based business
turns into
Continued success leads to awards
Jewelry, mink coats, and more 
Peter McFarlane
