The new motivational business book from AsphaltPro Magazine editor Sandy Lender with its “Dragon Score” teaches entrepreneurs how to stack real-world goals while pursuing a dream beyond the necessary 9-5.
As debates rage on social media regarding the ethics of generative AI and what number of hours an employee should work to be considered valuable to a company, award-winning author Sandy Lender has released her twenty-first book, “CAPTURE YOUR DREAM: Stack Real-World Goals, Develop Your Dragons, Thrive Beyond the 9 to 5.”
In this inspirational and motivational business book, Lender discusses more than the merits of blocking your time to keep your day job and side hustle in balance. She offers fellow entrepreneurs a roadmap for going for bonus with anecdotes, lessons, inspiration and her Dragon Score assessment.
“This content would make a great keynote address or TED Talk,” said James M. Winford Jr., Ph.D. and CEO of Prairie Contractors, LLC, Opelousas, Louisiana. “[It’s] an excellent work for both the new career entrant and the seasoned professional who wants to make their dreams a reality!”
“I have over three decades of experience in the magazine and news publishing trade for my ‘day job’ career and over two decades of book publishing experience for my passion project on the side,” Lender said. “From that, I’ve offered in ‘CAPTURE YOUR DREAM’ my own and colleagues’ inspiring stories from the trenches. I haven’t shied away from sharing a few of my utter failures, too, so readers can learn from my mistakes.”
“CAPTURE YOUR DREAM” includes a foreword from award-winning children’s author and Cummins employee Kimberly S. Hoffman; interactive lessons and exercises to help the audience recover a dream, set and stack goals, and discover and nurture skills and traits they possess to achieve an end goal; discussion of the ethical use of artificial intelligence in market analysis; and the copyrighted Dragon Score assessment.
The non-fiction, inspirational, motivational business book is written to help the entrepreneur who holds the necessary job to survive while nurturing a side hustle to thrive beyond the 9 to 5. Lender speaks with clear, concise language like a colleague, not a CEO from on high, to bring the reader along their journey to success in CAPTURE YOUR DREAM.
CAPTURE YOUR DREAM is available in print at multiple online booksellers, including Amazon (https://amzn.to/4h21h4M) and Lulu (https://bit.ly/CYD_on_Lulu) and in electronic formats via Draft2Digital (https://books2read.com/u/bPdWzd). The print version includes additional sidebars and features that are not included in the electronic version.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandy Lender is an international bestselling poet and award-winning author of fantasy, literary fiction, poetry and short story work. She’s the editor of AsphaltPro Magazine by day and author of #GirlPower fantasy novels by night, living in Florida to help with sea turtle conservation and parrot rescue. With a four-year degree in English and thirty-year career in publishing, Lender’s successes include traditionally and self-published novels, hundreds of magazine and literary articles, multiple short stories in competitive anthologies, a handful of technical writing awards, a handful of creative writing awards, a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2020, and the 2023 Michael Knost Wings award.
Lender’s been writing stories since she was knee-high to a grasshopper when her great-grandmother shared her odd little tales of squeaky ghost-spiders around an apartment complex in Southern Illinois. The stories have developed to include strong young ladies working with dragons to save worlds from terrible fates, but those pesky spiders still show up from time to time. There’s always something brewing at Sandy Lender Ink headquarters where some days, you just want the dragon to win.
You can follow her author page on Amazon, check her website at SandyLenderInk.com, or subscribe to her newsletter at https://bit.ly/SSReNews.