While many people resist the call to work on their own, citing potential dangers and fears, the savvy entrepreneur sets out with great clarity about the potential REWARDS.

What Stephen King, Michael Graves and William Morris knew was that creativity begets creativity. The creative spirit that resides within all of us is prolific, abundant, and flagrantly generous. It's only when we ignore our own creative impulses that they appear to go away.

Almost everyone who chooses to become self-employed faces a barrage of questions from dreambashers and skeptics. The most popular question is, "How can you give up your security?" I am tempted to say, "You mean a puny little health insurance policy and two weeks' vacation?" There are tradeoffs, of course, but the skeptics have no idea what they really are. When I traded in my job, here's what I got back.