Count Me Out: The Courage to Live Without the Next VERSE
There are days when I know I am exactly where I am supposed to be. I am teaching at a university, building Masterpiece in Progress Learning, writing books, creating programs, and doing work that feels more like me than anything I have done before. Then there are days when I wonder whether I fell and bumped my head. But I always say "God takes care of fools and babies, and well, I guess I'm not a baby anymore. That is the part of betting on yourself that you don't usually see on the glamorous LinkedIn feeds. The dream can be working, and you can still be afraid of it. For more than two decades, I had the security of a steady paycheck. I understood the demands of corporate life, even when those demands exhausted me. There was comfort in knowing what would happen every other Friday. And there certainly was comfort in having a title, a team, and being part of an organization. I also know what it feels like to have that security taken away. I've been laid off during my ...
