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The Tale of Maggie the Cat
Maggie isn’t my cat; I’m just taking care of her until she dies. For you to understand what I mean by this statement and to know why Maggie is such a special creature I must tell you another story.
During the summer of 2009 I joined a Mastermind group led by Pat O’Bryan and frequented by Marlon Sanders, Joe Vitale, and others who were close friends with Pat. He had written a book two summers earlier, entitled Your Portable Empire: How to Make Money Anywhere While Doing What You Love. Today this does not seem like such a novel idea; in 2009 it was a revolutionary concept that reached the masses (I was one of them), shifted our mindset, and gave us hope and direction for our future.
In Pat’s Mastermind had weekly webinars and several of us had already achieved at least a modicum of success. Pat generously invited me and others to share what we were doing with those who were brand new to the world of online marketing and authorship. One of the people who was finding his way but obviously had tremendous knowledge and abilities was the late Geoff Hoff.
Regularly Geoff would share stories with the group, which had now grown in size and interest, and they would be around experiences in his life leading up to where he was at the current moment. Each week we would hear sounds obviously made by an adult cat, followed by Geoff excusing himself whilst he…
