I Got My Dream Job and So Can You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Ideal Career After College

CHAPTER 13BE AN ENTREPRENEUR

“We need to stop looking at work as simply a means of earning a living and start realizing it is one of the elemental ingredients of making a life.”

—LUCI SWINDOLL, AUTHOR OF DOING LIFE DIFFERENTLY

9:03 p.m., March 5, 2008: at the Verizon Center (on the event level of the arena)

We were getting killed. As the fourth quarter began at the Verizon Center that night, the Orlando Magic were beating the Wizards by 22 points. With the game all but decided, I took the elevator from the event level up to my private office on the fourth floor of the arena and closed my door.

Over the last few years, I had developed a tremendous passion for personal and professional development, and I took out the book I was studying at the ...