Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1602862680
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it—both professionally and personally.
Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her readers to define the “professional value” that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the “inner value” made up of their core beliefs and goals.
Women can stop feeling overwhelmed, overscheduled, frantic, and forever guilty—but only if they choose their objectives confidently and unapologetically, and focus their efforts accordingly. Mika encourages women to stop seeking the unobtainable “work-life balance,” and instead pursue a life of honesty and authenticity, where career and home life combine rather than collide.
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more) years, it’s a good time to regroup and plot out your career strategy. Keep track of what you enjoy and strategize how to do more of it. You can even ask your kids to help you make a PowerPoint presentation. I don’t care how you do it; just give your work and life journey real thought. Make the connections between how one move or observation led to the next, positive or negative, and where it took you. It’s time to start mapping out your professional value: the amalgamation of all your
who can be fully in the mainstream. Which I think is the quagmire of Latina women in America, just like many different women around the world—Middle Eastern women, Indian women, Chinese women—who come from traditional cultures,” she said, talking about her own professional value from her home in Venice Beach, California. “We seem to always be in the crossroads of fully being authentic to our traditions, but we want to be part of the mainstream too. So I think I built a profession in the first
career successes as well as the challenges or frustrations I’ve faced,” she said. “[Reading] Knowing Your Value gave me permission to not be perfect and to better appreciate all that my varied experience brings to the table. That’s pretty powerful. So when I was in my job discussions with Chevron, I had more confidence articulating my experience and value and asking for the salary commensurate with that. I’m now in a position I love and in a place in which I feel extremely respected and
Mika are and encouraging them to be friends is not a chore for me—it’s what I want to do. It’s my most favorite thing to do. Even better, my girls are getting involved with this movement I’m trying to build, and I am getting involved with their lives in a very real way. As they wander into adulthood, I am finding that they think their mom is useful, possibly even cool. This feels really good. It is helping them question early on what the substance of their inner value and burgeoning professional
hospital bed and hold my mother’s hand. I have learned about the preciousness of closeness, of honesty, of time itself. I have begun to learn to stop saying “Yes!” to every invitation to grow my professional brand. And I have begun to say “Yes!” to growing my heart and soul. And—surprise! All of my relationships have improved for the first time in years. Instead of seeing an empty dinner table with cold takeout waiting for me as I get home too late again, I now see light and hope at the end of
