Women are often encouraged to forgo their own needs so that someone else can receive them. There is something to be said for being a little sacrificing, but when you treat everyone else better than you treat yourself, you are out of balance and suffering from something I call overcare. And it'll kill you - one way or another: physically, spiritually ...
One of the biggest mistakes women make, and one that you have total power to change, is buying into your socialization.
Women are socialized differently than men. You surely know that an ambitious, career-focused man is thought of as a go-getter and leader while a woman who has the same qualities is thought of as a bitch. And it isn’t gender-based. ...
In the last post I asked you to day dream about the changes. This time my challenge to you is to pick a daydream, “paint” a mental picture of it and put yourself in the picture. Have fun with it, but pay attention to how you have to be different to be in the picture.
This month’s theme is change, so ...
March 3, 2012
Clayton Hall Conference Center
100 David Hollowell Drive
Newark, DE 19716
This is the Conference's 28th year! It has a history of providing a day filled with stimulating session speakers, incredible networking, and an informative and inspirational keynote speaker. The DWC day invariably ends with its participants feeling strong, motivated and embraced in a cocoon of hope and inspiration that morphs ...
Too many women think it's too late to start over and be successful? You aren't, as long as you have a dream and a goal. Here are some women who proved it's true:
Grandma Moses started painting in her seventies
Babara McIlvainne Smith didn't run for the Pennsylvania Senate until she was in her fifties - she won, served two terms and ...
If you knew you couldn’t fail, and asking was all you had to do to get something that would make your life better, what would you want?
Do you dream about a promotion, being a top executive in your company, having a better job in another company or owning your own business? Or if money isn’t an issue in your daydream, ...
Last night was the first Republican Presidential Primary, the Iowa Caucus. The caucus is the first election stop for Democrats and Republicans in a presidential election year. That’s why they make such a big deal about it on every media outlet. And this year, since we President Obama is already the presumed Democratic candidate, the primaries are all about the ...
CHANGE
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've already got.
It's an old adage, but like all adages, it's the truth of it that makes it stick.
A few years ago a woman called and asked me to coach her to a goal. I asked her a few questions and her answers indicated that she'd need about ...
Priorities are set either by choice or by emergency. Unless you have never-ending dramas in your life, the first thing you need to do is create your own personal priorities and have your own agenda.
Think about it: How many times have you created a goal but don't put any of the steps to achieving that goal on your to-do list ...
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Studies have shown that two-thirds of your success depends on your emotional competence. If you are reinventing your career/business, YOU INC) so that you will be more successful in the New Year, you have to marry your experience and expertise with emotional competence.
Over the years I’ve watched so many really smart women with a wealth of experience either get passed ...
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How to Reinvent Your Career
This month we’re going to connect December’s Victorious Woman of Emotional Intelligence to your career goals for the New Year. You can read about the basics of Emotional Intelligence in my article, EI: The Missing Link (post link).
For you, the Smart Woman@Work, the emotionally intelligent way to ...
This tips article was posted last month on Daily Venus Diva.
I liked it enough to share it with you; the tips will help you with your YOU INC business planning.
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