How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream: A Guide to Transforming Your Career [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Once upon a time I resigned my position as tenured professor of comparative literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles to pursue a new, full-time..." (more)
Key Phrases: career transit, comfort horizon, operating plan, Los Angeles, New York, Kansas City (more...)

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Product Description

For the Type C, or creative, personalities who want their work to "fill" 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. Individuals learn how to 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, and turn creative goals and objectives into an effective life plan.

About the Author

Kenneth Atchity is the author of numerous books, including A Writer's Times (0-393-31263-1). He lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Allworth Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581153856
• ISBN-13: 978-1581153859
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #688,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational Masterpiece, March 31, 2005

By	Dana Holyfield "D Holyfield" (Slidell, LA United States) - See all my reviews

I want to thank Kenneth Atchity, a creative genius for sharing his brilliant mind and writing an inspirational masterpiece that made me realize it is normal to be crazy enough to pursue my dreams for as long as I have been pursuing them and even though I sometimes feel that I have gotten nowhere, it is safe to believe that someday I will reach that place that I need to be and the true success is that I keep going until I get there, because no other place will do.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars he did it and you can too, January 5, 2005

By	Kris P. in NYC - See all my reviews

Kenneth Atchity has an amazing personal story. He was a tenured professor in literature when he gave up literal lifetime security to follow his dream to produce movies in Hollywood. And he succeeded! So you don't feel he's asking you to do anything he wouldn't do himself. It's almost as if he is on a hero's journey and you just want to join him.

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Saver, August 24, 2009

By	KL Fogg (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews

If you feel like it's time to give up on your dream and become a responsible adult--read this first! Ken Atchity offers wit and wisdom for those of us who are Type C (creative) personalities and can't figure out how to balance doing what we love with what we think we should be doing.

I laughed out loud at Atchity's Mark Twain-like humor in analyzing the creative entrepreneur's thought process and said "been there, done that" a dozen times. He explains how to reconcile the two competing mind forces: the Visionary and the Accountant. You can feed the Visionary by endulging in your creative passion, but will starve the Accountant from lack of funding and security. Likewise, if you feed the Accountant by doing what is fiscally safe, there will be no time or energy to feed the Visionary, and depression is inevitable. So what's a Type C to do?

Read the book. It's a dream saver!