I recently re-read “Make a Name for Yourself: 8 Steps Every Woman Needs To Create A Personal Brand Strategy For Success” by Robin Fisher Roffer (Broadway Books, 2000) as part of the Entrepreneurial Superstars Business Book Club for Women (www.entrepreneurialsuperstars.com) and right near the beginning of the book is a paragraph that succinctly states how women view success differently than men. Here it is:
“Women desire success as much as any man-just not at the expense of our unique emotional value systems or our spiritual selves-not in business, not in life. Most women I know in the corporate world are about cooperation and balance. It’s in our nature to seek consensus, to promote peace, and yet we often end up trading personal fulfillment, joy, or generosity for prosperity. And we shouldn’t have to.
Today’s working women are waking up to their spiritual needs to live authentically, to be true to their heart’s desires and their moral sensibilities, to feel a sense of purpose and fulfillment, and to feel right with their path and how they navigate that path.”
Robin Roffer goes on to write a very clear and powerfully practical book on personal branding and I highly recommend it!
What really resonates for me about the above quote are three things that validate what I have been saying for a long time: women do business differently than men, women “give away” prosperity and women are desiring to bring more spirituality into all areas of their lives, both work and personal.
As part of my deep calling, I devote my coaching to supporting women in the above three areas (among others). I am passionate about supporting women to bring a sense of greater spirituality, prosperity, fulfillment of deep desires and success into their lives.
I would love to connect hear what you think about this quote. Please comment as you are drawn to.
namaste,
Zoey
Zoey Ryan, PCC
coach . catalyst . shakti sage
spiritual life & business coach for women
“Coaching for your heart & soul”Â
www.positivelyoutrageouswomen.com
I am going into my second year in business. I started at home (while at home with my two kids), deciding to change career paths and get a new one going while I had a couple years to build. What I have learned is that not having any experience hasn’t hurt me one bit. I have no business experience and on top of that, I am self taught in my creative endeavors. As a woman who is almost 40 I am unable…simply unable…to ignore that I have a ‘feeling’ about how I want to do business and that controls what I do and who I do it with. I try things that others say ‘Oh, well, that’s not the way it’s usually done’. I don’t care! For the first time in my life I’ve found something that gives me emotional energy as a woman and as a person (separate from all the labels we take on, wife, mother, daugther).
I’m not exactly sure if it’s that I see success differently or if I see failure differently. There is no failure in front of me. It’s behind me now, it was seeing a dream and not reaching for it, regardless of the outcome.
I don’t separate business and personal aspects of life…my business is personal…it’s parts of me spilling out into the world!
Gail,
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. It sounds like you are developing your own unique style and process of being in business and have a powerful dream!
namaste,
Zoey
http://www.positivelyoutrageouswomen.com