Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Prelude: Persistence xv
Chapter 1 Mentors in Persistence 1
Chapter 2 Deadly Paradigm 11
Chapter 3 True Grit 15
Chapter 4 "Get Your Affairs in Order" 22
Chapter 5 Buried Alive 27
Chapter 6 Walk On 33
Chapter 7 Burn the Ships! 39
Chapter 8 In This Flying or Dying? 53
Chapter 9 Dream and Become 56
Chapter 10 Be Found Ready 63
Chapter 11 Fight or Flight 75
Chapter 12 Homeless Once More 77
Chapter 13 Guerrilla Television 88
Chapter 14 My Worst Nightmare 99
Chapter 15 ET Phones Home 101
Chapter 16 "Roundball Rock" 108
Chapter 17 Helen of Troy Riding a Bicycle 117
Chapter 18 Pity Party 129
Chapter 19 Match Points 134
Chapter 20 The Whirlwind 147
Chapter 21 Newtonian Physics 150
Chapter 22 "How Dumb Can You Be and Still Breathe?" 155
Chapter 23 The Multiple Miracles of Red Rocks 159
Chapter 24 John Tesh: Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony 169
Chapter 25 Obstacles 175
Chapter 26 And Then This Happened 182
Chapter 27 Intelligence for Your Life 188
Chapter 28 Mark 11:23 196
Chapter 29 Get Uncomfortable 200
Chapter 30 Instant Dad 207
Chapter 31 The Crack Den 209
Chapter 32 To Live and to Fight Under the Word 225
Acknowledgments 231
Notes 235
About the Author 239
