How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams: A Guide to Transforming Your Career

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Learn to let go and achieve the life you’ve always dreamed of!

Are you a creative person seeking more satisfying work? Do you want to make the transition from a job you find secure but soulless to a life built around your creative dream? Then look no further than this essential guide, written by a tenured professor who quit his job and pursued his dream as a successful “story merchant”
and film producer. This book will show you how to:

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Overview

Learn to let go and achieve the life you’ve always dreamed of!

Are you a creative person seeking more satisfying work? Do you want to make the transition from a job you find secure but soulless to a life built around your creative dream? Then look no further than this essential guide, written by a tenured professor who quit his job and pursued his dream as a successful “story merchant”
and film producer. This book will show you how to:

- Construct a life that fits your personal vision

- Stand up against negative peer pressure

- Redefine success in your own terms

- Identify and control your conflicting inner voices

- Find time to make your dreams come true

- And much more!

If you’re ready to fall in love with your future, this book can give you the inspiration you need to make that life-changing leap into a better world.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781616086862
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
  • Publication date: 7/1/2012
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 1,293,713
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Kenneth Atchity is a writer, producer, literary manager, and former professor of comparative literature. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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Table of Contents

1 "Go for it!" 1

2 Our Maddening Type C Personality 14

3 Accountant, Visionary, and the Mind's Eye 24

4 What's the Plan? 37

5 Stealing Time for Your Dream 53

6 A Day in the Type C Life 82

7 Money Mania 91

8 Your Mind/Body Asset Base 118

9 Dealing with People: Family, Spouses, Best Friends, Ex-friends, Associates, Winners, Losers, Saviors, Naysayers, White Knights, Black Knights, Clay Gods, and the Little Red Hen 150

10 Failing Forward 168

Suggested Reading 175

About the Author 181

Index 185

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