How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream: A Guide to Transforming Your Career

For the "Type C" - creative - personalities who want their work to fit their deepest creative urges, this is the frontline guide to making the transition from a secure and soulless job to a life built around a creative dream. Written by a tenured professor who pursued his impossible dream to become a successful literary entrepreneur and film producer, this book will show readers how to identify their warring inner voices; follow the mind's eye to construct a life that conforms to personal vision; steal time to make creative dreams come true; use as assets the resources around them such as people, money, and mind and body; and turn creative goals and objectives into an effective life plan. This volume also offers steps to redefine success, face negative peer pressure, and take risks. Also included are interviews with creative professionals who share the challenges and rewards they experienced on the road to a more exciting and fulfilling work life. For those ready to fall in love with their future, this is a must-have!