New Squidoo Lens: Required Reading for Ambitious Women

Looking for something to inspire you to make your next move? Check out the new lens I've created! It highlights 7 titles that I have personally used to help shape, map, and focus my professional pursuits. The list has something for everyone whether you want to launch your own business or are looking for your next big promotion.

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Power Lunch: Advocating for Better Working Family Policy

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Move #1: Dump the Excuses, Purpose to Make it Happen

I’ve always been able to get pretty good jobs: I interview well, I have a strong work ethic, take initiative and am a pretty good problem solver. Despite the hard work I put in, I still found myself in a job that was unfulfilling and that failed to provide the challenge and opportunity I sought after. It was a pretty good job, but I was just bored. I wanted more; I knew that – I just had no clue of how to get it. Have you ever been in that place? Or maybe you are there now.

As a working mother and definitely as a single mother – there is every excuse as to why our ambition gets put on pause: We are doing everything by ourselves, there’s not enough time, money, support, _______ you fill in the blank. But the excuses don’t stop our heart from wanting. There’s a verse in the Bible that says “a heart deferred makes the heart sick.” It is unhealthy to put off and dismiss the things your heart wants – regardless of the reason. I’ve often wondered if the reason so many of us are depressed or tired is because of the energy it takes to mask and bury our true desires so we can get through the day to day grind that requires less and less of our true brilliance.

Here’s the first move I made once I reconnected with my own ambition: I read (or should I say studied) Barbara Stanny’s Secrets of Successful Six-Figure Women. One of the first ideas from this book that caught my attention was the reason why most women don’t earn six figures. It wasn’t education, lack of role models, or lack of skills. According to Stanny, most women don’t earn six figures because they don’t think they can. It simply never crosses their minds.

Three years after I first read Secrets of Successful Six-Figure Women, I am just shy of reaching my target. This book changed my mind, and once I began to think differently I began to do differently. And wouldn’t you know it – I got different and better results. It’s been a while since I read the book that started me on this journey. I’ll be re-reading the book to see what new insights I find and share them here. I invite you to join me and post your comments here.

Happy Reading, Dreaming and Move Making!

Make Your Move

Welcome to Move Making Mommies! This blog is first and foremost an opportunity to share with other professional and entrepreneurial women who also wear the title of Mom. I believe that working mothers can have it all: Career, family, health, wealth, passion, financial freedom, and anything else we choose to add to the list.

The first step is truly believing that we deserve to have it all - without feeling guilty about wanting it all. Feeling guilty or selfish for wanting it all is the surest way to sabotage the opportunities that present themselves every day. We deserve to be whole and happy. Not only that, we owe it to our children and loved ones to be whole and happy.

Are you ready to acknowledge that wholeness for you includes professional accomplishment and satisfaction? If you answered yes, then you've found a place to be encouraged, inspired and celebrated. Welcome to the game - it 's time to make your move.