How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream: A Guide to Transforming Your Career
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. - Introduces the catchy buzzword "Type C" Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1581153856
ISBN13:9781581153859
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Allworth
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Dream Saver
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
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!
Help when it's needed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I read a lot and most self-help books are all the same. Not this one. Atchity has created a fantastic book. He doesn't sugar-coat the process you have to go through to pursue your dream, instead he provides answers on how to work through the hard times. He also delivers page after page of inspiration. This is overall one of the most valuable books on doing what you love, on making life an adventure, on following what others might view as an impossible dream. I continue to reread sections and find more helpful instruction.
Practical and Motivating!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I've reviewed many How-To, motivational and inspirational books and I've noticed patterns and examples that generate warm and fuzzy feelings but are more philosophical than offer practical applications. I only learned about Ken Atchity because he was a keynote speaker at a conference I was attending. Listening to him speak, I knew this book would be a new slant and flavor to check out and I was very impressed as I read it. The examples of the Accountant, Visionary and Creative personality types are great. Ken adds charts to achieve your dream with an agenda, time scheduling and word transformations. He uses his experience operating as both the accountant and a visionary to truly show the creative objectives. Then he adds a little yoga, seaweed greens, exercise and fun advice about balancing personal, professional and inspirational aspects of living life to the full, every moment. I'm recommending this books to many. This book is more practical and motivating than many books I've read.
Inspirational Masterpiece
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
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.
he did it and you can too
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
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.
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