How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream A Guide to Transforming Your Career
by Kenneth Atchity

Seeking A Life Built Around a Creative Dream Professor-Turned-Film Producer/Literary Manager Shares Career Transition Secrets

With any mention of pursuing a dream, the word "work" usually follows. Most people are thrilled to land stable work that provides safety and security. Yet for many people, especially creative personalities, the stable, safe career path can be soulless and unsatisfying. For those who long to make the transition to a life built around a creative dream, help is on the way. A tenured professor who pursued his impossible dream to become a successful "story merchant" and film producer shares the secrets to making healthy career changes. How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream by Kenneth Atchity is written for the "Type C"-creative-personalities of the world.

"It takes courage to stand apart from all the 'normal' people out there who criticize and raise their eyebrows-while they wonder, to themselves, why they can't be a little more like you," the author observes.

How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream inspires readers to stand apart from others and forge a more fulfilling work life for themselves. Through its firsthand anecdotes and practical advice, this guide shows readers how to:

  • Construct a life that conforms to their personal vision
  • Face negative peer pressure
  • Redefine success
  • Identify and control their conflicting inner voices
  • "Steal time" to make their dreams come true
  • Achieve creative goals and objectives by making the most of income and savings, maximizing the output of mind and body, and much more!
Anyone ready to fall in love with his or her future must read How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream.

How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream can be found in better bookstores, or it can be ordered directly from the publisher by calling 1-800-491-2808, or by going online to www.allworth.com where you will find a full description, a table of contents, and reviews. Distributed to the trade by Watson-Guptill Publications: 1-800-451-1741.

Kenneth Atchity is chairman and CEO of Atchity Entertainment International, Inc., a full service literary management and production company. He has produced more than 20 films, including Joe Somebody (20th Century Fox) and The Madam's Family (CBS) and is the author of fourteen books. A former professor of comparative literature, creative writing, and journalism, he gives lectures, seminars, and workshops around the United States and Europe. He lives in Los Angeles and New York.

Praise for How to Escape Lifetime Security

"Having successfully gone through the type of career transition described in this book, I can appreciate not only its masterful detailing of the process but also its thoughtful, thought-provoking challenge to all those thinking of undergoing their own transitions."
-Ira Wohl, Academy Award-winning director turned psychotherapist

"Atchity tells you how to be a 'Type C,' how to choose only the kind of stress that brings pleasure, how to squeeze every last ounce of creativity out of your being, how to live life to the fullest, how to create a niche rather than find one. Atchity's book is a guide to the pursuit of dreams."
-Howard Owen, author of Littlejohn and Fat Lightning

"A valuable guide in sorting out your choice of a right livelihood. Everyone should read it."
-James Butler, vice president of the Council for Aid to Education




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