Gail McMeekin

“Reading The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women, you gradually discover the one real secret of a successful life: it is yours—and yours alone. You get to find and define it. You get to create it.

Oh, that's not for me, I'm not creative at all

the definition of creativity is “to make or invent something new”—

creativity goes underground. Or we follow a creative path but we don't treat our work as a profession and end up living on the margin, and we don't get the recognition or financial rewards that we deserve.

Then there are women who actively choose to pursue their creative interest (or interests, very often), and become highly creative women

prey to bad advice, low self-esteem, not marketing themselves actively, and the terror of being seen.

You can also write yourself a note requesting an answer and put it in a drawer and let go for a while.

Other innovators try techniques like turning a project upside down or sideways, miniaturizing it, making it into a story, photographing it, or discussing it with a child.

create the life that defines success for YOU.”

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint—and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of a service, working hard, and allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

—Oprah Winfrey