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Your Portable Empire Lifestyle Lives On
How to Make the “Portable Empire Lifestyle” Your Reality
Recently, during a call with someone I’ve mentored for the past couple of years, I was recounting the story of how I began building relationships online during the first couple of years after I began in 2006. I thought back to the summer of 2007 when a brand new book was released by someone named Pat O’Bryan. I was not familiar with him at that time. I requested the book, Your Portable Empire at my local Borders book store and a few days later they called me to tell me it had arrived at the store. Little did I know that this book would lead me to living the “your portable empire” lifestyle and a life I previously had not imagined.
The book’s full title was Your Portable Empire: How to Make Money Anywhere While Doing What You Love. It was a hardcover book of over two hundred pages. On that hot and humid Friday afternoon in August of 2007, I fell in love with the idea of making money with an online business, something I had been attempting to do for a full year. Pat’s thoughts and ideas resonated with me and I began approaching my daily activities with the same sense of wonder that had initiated the shift in my life almost two years earlier. My faith was renewed that I could actually be successful as an online entrepreneur and replace my previous income I’d earned as a classroom teacher and…
