But as I ran my fingertips along the knotty pine, it all rose up: the indelible words that had been created here; the misery of the man who had shivered out his life in this room; and all the years I had spent charting my course by a dream.
I'll get to do it because I charted my course and got to work.
I charted my course and set out steadfastly, without a worry or concern, so certain that what I gave would yield precisely what I wanted.
Positives of self-funding Not being answerable to any funding body has given me an increased sense of personal responsibility for, and ownership of, my project, enabling me to chart my own course.
Read Dominic's story "Not being answerable to any funding body has given me an increased sense of personal responsibility for, and ownership of, my project, enabling me to chart my own course".
I believe one of the most difficult and best decisions of my professional life was to leave a thriving pharmaceutical and medical devices company I had helped to create and chart my own course.
The youngest of seven children, I had come to California to chart my own course, so at first I was reluctant to embrace what I viewed as my mom's encroachment.
I came up with this new term to describe my own goals and to chart my own course within Contemporary Art that is shared with my Brothers and Sisters-in -ART, who chart their own artistic ways out of the same impulse and toward the same goal.
"I have drawn my own map to do it, and now I'm charting my own course to where I'm going".
Choosing my own plan, charting my own course, and picking the time to do it all made me feel more alive than ever.
Most significantly, I want to be on the inside what I have for so long appeared to be on the outside: healthy, in control and charting my own course.
