I just had the opportunity to write for Forbes about what you need to think about if you believe it's time to leave your job in Corporate America.  This is an issue many women have faced as they begin to hit the glass ceiling and are frustrated that their job is not giving them everything it should.   In fact, that's why many women leave the corporate world to start their own businesses.  But surprisingly enough, I heard today from an engineer who said he had learned something from the article as well, claiming " Excellent advice, even for those of us among the weaker sex."

The article is called, "Time to Start a Startup?"  and it deals with how you make the decision to leave the relative safety of a job to do your life's work, whatever that may be--start a business, write a novel, start a school in Zimbabwe.  It doesn't matter.  The important thing is that you're doing something you love.  You're getting up every day excited to start your work because it doesn't feel like work.  I believe that I've been successful because I've created the life I always wanted to have.  Success is not measured in numbers or money or publicity.  To me, success is freedom--freedom to do the work I want to do when I want to do it.  Check out the article and let me know what you think.  How do you measure success?