Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Why This Revision? -- Since the First Edition -- This Book Asks -- My Hope -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION Burning the Grass -- Who's the Boss? -- Who's the Boss? You Are. -- Why Read This Book? -- What's New -- How This Book is Organized -- DEEPEN YOUR "SELF-EMPLOYED" ATTITUDE Ready yourself for a new era -- Personal Readiness Questions -- How You Work and Live -- 1. I Will Begin the Process of Change with Myself -- 2. I Will Face the Dragon-My Work Fears -- 3. I Will Integrate Independence and Interdependence -- 4. I Will Work With, Not Work For, My Organization and Customers -- 5. I Will Commit to Continuous Learning -- Job Description Worklife, Inc. -- 6. I Will Create Meaningful Work -- We Are All Self-Employed A Worklife Creed -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Deepen Your "Self-Employed" Attitude -- BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF CHANGE WITH YOURSELF: Start with your own personal growth -- Honor your Picasso. You are unique. -- Are You Ready to Listen? -- The Simplest Gestures -- Declare Your Studio -- Change Begins at Home -- The Changing Work World -- Personal Renewal -- 1. What do you really want? -- 2. What do you want less of in your worklife? -- 3. What do you have to bring to others? -- 4. What will others buy? -- Wild Horses -- Realigning the Wild Horses -- Reframing as a Harnessing Tool -- Reframing "Career" -- Reframing Your Career Mobility -- There is No One to Blame -- Don't Blame, Reframe -- Up is Not the Only Way: Reframing the Career Ladder -- Career Ladder -- Career Lattice -- Multiple Roles -- A False Security -- The Career Lattice at Work -- Brandon's Life Circles -- Brandon's Plan -- Seeing Your Freedom -- Do You Think it's too Late? -- Go Beyond the Ordinary, Do Your Magic -- Expectation versus Reality -- A New Direction -- Living Your Dream: A Career that is True to Yourself.

A Self-Employed Reality Check -- Self-Employed Inventory -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Beginning the Process of Change with Yourself -- FACING THE DRAGON- YOUR WORK FEARS Replace fear with passion and purpose -- Naming Fear -- Permission to Live Your Passion -- Permission to Live Your Purpose -- Purpose Liberates -- Purpose Liberates -- To What Degree is Your Work an Expression of Your Purpose? -- How Do You Keep Your Purpose Alive? -- Face to Face with the Dragon -- You Can Choose How You Live -- What It Takes to Express Your Passion and Purpose -- Choose Courage and Recognize Your Freedom -- Suspending Fear: Passion in Process -- Walter's Agenda: -- Benefits of Expressing Your Passion and Purpose -- An Agenda for Unchallenged Workers -- Agenda for Developing a "Self-Employed" Attitude -- Your Present Situation -- You and Your Job: Then and Now -- When the Organization Changes -- Replace Fear with Passion -- There is a Price for Ignoring Your Passion -- Lunch with a Colleague -- Luca's Golden Template: -- Patience is an Active Process -- Patience Can Lead to Passion -- Stepping Beyond Fear: Caring and Respecting -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Facing the Dragon--Your Work Fears -- INTEGRATING INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE: Be yourself and collaborate with, and contribute to, others -- Dependent on the System -- Dependence is Not Support -- Dependence is as Impure as Support Can be Pure -- Independence -- If We Take Care of Them (Do Our Job) They Will Take Care of Us -- You Can Change Your Beliefs -- Don't Swim with a Full Stomach -- Interdependence -- More than One Boss or Customer -- Dependence or Independence and Interdependence -- Barney's Action Steps: -- Serve Yourself to Serve Your Clients and Yourself -- The Yogurt Man was a Self-Leader -- Be Aware of the Great Jackass Fallacy -- You No Longer Work For, You Work With -- Internal Hierarchies.

Self-Control -- Lemons into Lemonade: One Person Makes a Difference -- Career/Job Enhancement, Not Only Advancement -- Self-Respect: A Case Study -- Reframing Changes Behavior -- Signs that You are Integrating Independence and Interdependence -- Move Closer to Your Independence and Interdependence -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Integrating Independence and Interdependence -- WORKING WITH, NOT FOR, YOUR ORGANIZATION AND CUSTOMERS Do work and build relationships based on respect, equality, and competence. -- Peer Work -- Reframing the Way You Work -- Sometimes, You Grapple -- Are You Working For or With? -- Work With Others--Join In--for Individual Mobility and Organizational Productivity -- Work is Personal -- Peer Work--Worklife Development Review -- Worklife Action Plan Self-Leadership and Management -- When You Work With, Know Your Customers -- Peer Work Requires Relevancy -- You Can Meet Your Needs and Your Customers' Needs -- Identify Your Customers -- Face Your Customers -- Ten Commandments for Winning Interviews -- Actively Working With Others -- Mobilizing Workers: Retaining Them Won't Work -- Retaining is Impersonal, Receiving is Personal -- Organizational Commitment to Worker Satisfaction -- Handling the Transition -- Find a Mentor -- Clarify Your Values -- An In and an Out -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Working With, Not For, Your Organization and Customers -- COMMITTING TO CONTINUOUS LEARNING View your worklife as an ongoing journey -- From Words to Working Two Jobs -- Witnessing Your Life and Learning from It -- You Can Commit to Continuous Learning -- Glued to Your Title? -- The Action-Results Statement: A Definition -- The Action-Results Statement: A Guide to Writing Your Own -- The Action-Results Statement: Examples -- A Case Study -- The Struggle to Move from the Box to the Triangle -- Zero Debt--A Runway for Meaningful Worklife -- Risk.

Using Paradox -- Paradox 1: Risk is Safety -- Paradox 2: Self-employment is Employability -- Paradox 3: Winter is a Time of Growth -- Paradox 4: Your Growth is a Contribution to Others -- The Evolutionary Rule of Transition -- Learning and Transition Guidelines -- Respect Your Inner Voice -- Gracefully Bold -- Learning from and Reframing Your Mistakes -- Honor Your Style -- Your Success and Survival Kit -- Loaning Yourself to the Organization -- What Value Do I Add to Your Worklife? -- Inspiration -- The Struggle is Part of the Action -- Advancing Your Worklife Goals -- Inviting Myself In -- Conscious Loneliness is Part of the Journey -- Unconscious Loneliness -- Getting Paid: No Guarantees -- To Learn, Learn Something New -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Beginning the Process of Change with Yourself -- CREATING A MEANINGFUL WORKLIFE Work and live, believing that the world needs you and that you can make a contribution -- Meaningful Work--a Marathon--and an Occasional Sprint -- Run Your Own Race -- Defer gratification, and incrementally work toward your goal. -- Praise your efforts and take in the praise that others offer you. -- Meaningful Work Steps Review -- Meaningful Work and Making a Living -- Make a Choice -- Who's the Boss? Check-In: Creating Meaningful Work -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.