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How I Almost Didn’t Succeed
I’ve shared the story of how I left teaching and real estate in 2006 and came online to become an online entrepreneur and achieved great success, many times over the past year. But I’ve omitted a part of my story that I am finally going to tell here. It’s a story of hopes and dreams and goals not yet achieved, and a person who was wide-eyed with wonder at the thought of being able to create a business that could be run from home or from wherever in the world one might be, with only a laptop, an internet connection, and an idea.
The person is me, of course. I almost did not succeed, and that would have been a terrible shame. Instead, I used the experience I’m going to share with you here as my “reason why” I had to work hard, stay the course, and not let anyone keep me from achieving my goals and dreams. And these days I pay it forward by helping others in their quest for entrepreneurial success.
The year was 2005. I was weary from long days as a classroom teacher in the inner city of Los Angeles. I loved my students and their families, but the system left much to be desired. Test scores were down and the school district took away everything we engaged in as joyous and character building so that we could only teach to the standardized tests that were given twice each school year.
