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Impact!: What Every Woman Needs to Know to Go From Invisible to Invincible
Not your average business self-help book, Impact! is a 'total person' development guide that says 'who you are impacts everything you do’. It doesn't focus on what's wrong with you but rather what's right with you so that you can turn your potential into performance. The secret to success and fulfillment-both professionally and personally-is that you should stop trying to 'fit in' and become what others want you to be; that you can become more productive, powerful, and passionate by becoming more of who you were meant to be instead. Why? Because no longer is there any separation between who you are and what you do! With step-by-step strategies and smart insight, you will learn how to have significant positive impact in your life and in your career; you'll learn how to unlock your personal power; live your life with purpose; appreciate your family; identify your greatest gifts and talents; value your failures and learn from them; stand up for yourself; give yourself permission to stand out; and start to ask for what you want. Best of all, you will learn how to be seen, heard and celebrated for being authentic - for being exactly who you are. The key to Impact! lies in knowing yourself intimately, leading your life from the inside out, and using your strengths to become happier and more fulfilled. Impact! shows you who you are, where you're going and how to get there. It also helps you to get out of your own way!
304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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June 28, 2010
This book showed me who really had a huge roll in my life besides my parents. Many teachers that I had in my younger yrs of schooling helped me become who i am today. Nancy says,
"It is who we become as a result of the experience, not the experience itself, which is most valuable." (Impact!, 28)
People who have made an impact in my life are teachers, family, coaches, and friends. My coach taught me to speak up, voice my opinion, and not to care what others thought of me. My friends also helped me not to care of what people think of me too. My family helped and watched me grow since i was a baby, They play a major role of who I am today. Finally teachers taught and encouraged me. They helped me learn of my years of education so far in school. The teachers that really impacted my life were math, music, or art teachers. Thanks to those teachers, I am really strong/talented in those areas today. Nancy says,
"The journey of our lives is about becoming who we were meant to be. The experiences of our lives are the vehicles that get us there." (Impact!, 35 & 188)
Nancy D. Solomon is correct that nobody will ever know what impact they have left. Other people, however, will know what impact you have left behind.
For my future, I'm going to decide what choices i make and others i ignore. I'm going to pick which road I am going to take and which road I'm not going to turn on. Even though my dad wants to me become a lawyer and go to this different college, I'm going to stick with my goal. I'm going to become what I want to be and go to the college that I want to go at. For Nancy says,
"Our life is our own best testimonial." (Impact!,47)
"Get more of wahat you want to becoming more of who you are." (Impact!,95)
"It is who we become as a result of the experience, not the experience itself, which is most valuable." (Impact!, 28)
People who have made an impact in my life are teachers, family, coaches, and friends. My coach taught me to speak up, voice my opinion, and not to care what others thought of me. My friends also helped me not to care of what people think of me too. My family helped and watched me grow since i was a baby, They play a major role of who I am today. Finally teachers taught and encouraged me. They helped me learn of my years of education so far in school. The teachers that really impacted my life were math, music, or art teachers. Thanks to those teachers, I am really strong/talented in those areas today. Nancy says,
"The journey of our lives is about becoming who we were meant to be. The experiences of our lives are the vehicles that get us there." (Impact!, 35 & 188)
Nancy D. Solomon is correct that nobody will ever know what impact they have left. Other people, however, will know what impact you have left behind.
For my future, I'm going to decide what choices i make and others i ignore. I'm going to pick which road I am going to take and which road I'm not going to turn on. Even though my dad wants to me become a lawyer and go to this different college, I'm going to stick with my goal. I'm going to become what I want to be and go to the college that I want to go at. For Nancy says,
"Our life is our own best testimonial." (Impact!,47)
"Get more of wahat you want to becoming more of who you are." (Impact!,95)
December 13, 2009
Nancy D. Solomon has hit the nail on the head with this book "IMPACT"
I read this book in two days and then went on to reread it and outline everything that I feel passionate about.
If you are like the many women out there in the world who feel incomplete and need to push fear aside then you need to read this book.
IMPACT will help you in all areas of your life to discover the YOU that has always been there but needs to move forward to the number ONE spot in your life.
You have the opportunity with this book to reinvent yourself and discover the person that is inside. Too many times as women we tend to look at the out side of ourselves and that becomes our concentration. Nancy Solomon showed me how to take the time to look at the inside and to discover that the energy you give out is the energy that will come back to YOU.
It will soon be a New Year and this book will help you to be a better you for 2010.
I read this book in two days and then went on to reread it and outline everything that I feel passionate about.
If you are like the many women out there in the world who feel incomplete and need to push fear aside then you need to read this book.
IMPACT will help you in all areas of your life to discover the YOU that has always been there but needs to move forward to the number ONE spot in your life.
You have the opportunity with this book to reinvent yourself and discover the person that is inside. Too many times as women we tend to look at the out side of ourselves and that becomes our concentration. Nancy Solomon showed me how to take the time to look at the inside and to discover that the energy you give out is the energy that will come back to YOU.
It will soon be a New Year and this book will help you to be a better you for 2010.
June 15, 2010
I won this book on goodreads first reads. I really like how Nancy has the book set up where you can move around in the book without having to read it in order. Also, love the boxes of quotes and sayings. My two favorite chapters in the book were Chapters 19 & 20. Most of the book is stuff that alot of women know they should be doing or want to do, but either don't do it or don't know how to do it. Nancy will explain how to overcome those fears. She shows you how to stand up for yourself and be heard. Women are not doormats and you shouldn't act like one or let yourself become one. She has alot of questions in her book for you to ponder and refer back to. Think about what you really want in life and go for it. Give yourself permission to do what you want and sometimes you need to put yourself first.
May 20, 2010
Yay! I just won a copy of this book in the Good Reads "First Book" Giveaways!! I can't wait to receive it and read it!!
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