The Woman Code: 20 Powerful Keys to Unlock Your Life - Softcover

Nelson, Sophia A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800723880 ISBN 13: 9780800723880

Verlag: REVEL FLEMING H, 2014

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Popular TV commentator, former White House correspondent, and motivational speaker reveals principles that will help women achieve their dreams, purpose, and destiny.

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Sophia A. Nelson is an award-winning author and journalist, a former White House reporter, former Congressional Committee counsel, and an attorney. She is a sought-after motivational speaker and leadership trainer in Fortune 500 companies and at universities, and she contributes regularly to MSNBC, NBC, CNN, and FOX News. She writes for The Huffington Post Healthy Living and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Nelson has also appeared on the BBC, World News with Diane Sawyer, and The Today Show. She has also contributed to USA Today, Essence, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She makes her home in Virginia.

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Your Key to Unlocking a More Fulfilling Life

Every woman lives by a Code, whether she realizes it or not. The Code is as old as time. It has been practiced for thousands of years, quietly, among the sisterhood of women. This Code is her road map to living, a guidepost residing deep within her spirit. It governs her romantic relationships, friendships, family ties, career choices, and personal sense of well-being and value. And when her Code is out of balance, her life is out of balance.

Drawing from her personal faith and from her experience in the business world, Sophia Nelson explores 20 keys to unlocking the life you want, such as:

· Knowing your innate value and worth
· Teaching people how to treat you
· Making peace with your past
· Learning to lead from within
· Lifting other women as you climb

The Woman Code helps women to honor themselves while navigating the demands of work, home, family, and friendship. It not only calls on women to practice purpose in their lives, it shows them how to do it with grace.

"The Woman Code is a book for our time. Nelson shares the ways women can understand that a truly successful life is shaped from the inside out."--Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of The Huffington Post; author of New York Times bestseller Thrive

"The Woman Code is a life compass that holds to timeless principles of faith, family, friendship, and sisterhood, all in one inspiring book."--Serita Ann Jakes, bestselling author, director of Women's Ministries, The Potter's House

"Nelson's passionate mission is to see other women empowered with these 20 keys for becoming unstuck to finally fly free."--Sheila Walsh, bestselling author; speaker at Women of Faith conferences

"Sophia Nelson is a powerful and poignant voice for women of our time. By challenging us to unlock our inner greatness or Code, she is calling women to live higher, to live on purpose, and to succeed first from a deep place within."--Sunny Hostin, CNN legal analyst, attorney, and journalist

"We all encounter chapters in our lives that test us to our core. Sophia has put together a remarkable Code for living life that will enable modern women to face those tests and not just survive them but thrive despite them."--Sherri Shepherd, cohost of ABC's The View

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The Woman Code

20 Powerful Keys to Unlock Your Life

By Sophia A. Nelson

Revell

Copyright © 2014 Sophia A. Nelson
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8007-2388-0

Contents

Acknowledgments, 17, 
Introduction: Unlocking Your Inner Woman Code, 21, 
Section I The Personal Codes, 
Code 1 Know Your Value, 31, 
Code 2 Make Peace with Your Past, 41, 
Code 3 Teach People How to Treat You, 51, 
Code 4 Live Authentically, 63, 
Section II The Emotional Codes, 
Code 5 Be Accountable for Your Life, 75, 
Code 6 Guard Your Heart, 85, 
Code 7 Be Resilient, 97, 
Code 8 Age Gracefully, 107, 
Section III The Spiritual Codes, 
Code 9 Do Not Gossip, 119, 
Code 10 Apologize Quickly, 131, 
Code 11 Choose Your Thoughts and Words Wisely, 141, 
Code 12 Never Cut What You Can Untie, 151, 
Section IV The Professional Codes, 
Code 13 Don't Think Like a Man, 165, 
Code 14 Lead from Within, 175, 
Code 15 Be Brave, 185, 
Code 16 Lift Other Women as You Climb, 195, 
Section V The Relational Codes, 
Code 17 Know Your Front Row, 209, 
Code 18 Practice Love, Laughter, Loyalty, 221, 
Code 19 Have Courageous Conversations, 233, 
Code 20 Reconnect with Your Life, 245, 
Study Guide, 257, 
Notes, 263, 

CHAPTER 1

Code 1

Know Your Value

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You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.

• C. JoyBell C., from Wolves of the Sapphire Sun: This One's for the Wild Ones

It is life changing to know your value. One of the most timeless and challenging issues for women of every generation is the struggle to know our value, to know our worth, and to claim what we deserve in the workplace and in our relationships.

Knowing your value means not only knowing who you are but who you are not. I know that some of you may not feel very valuable right now, or very loved. That is okay. That is why you picked up this book. Many women look good on the outside but are badly wounded on the inside. They may seem successful, but they are hiding their hurts inside. Believe it or not, they feel valueless too. So I need you to stop thinking you are alone. You are not. Every single one of us at some point has doubted her value.

Women today are educated, talented, connected, financially secure, gifted, well traveled, and more, yet we still do not know our value. We shrink from saying what needs to be said for fear we will be called the "B" word or worse. We fear outshining men lest we make them feel less than. We worry that we are not pretty enough, smart enough, talented enough, or powerful enough. We envy other women who are thinner, more beautiful, smarter, or happier. We fail to see the amazing gifts we are to the world.

It is time for that to change.

All of our doubts, fears, and limitations come from within our own minds. Envy starts out as admiration. We want what other women have because we don't see our own intrinsic value. We are so good at advocating for and empowering other people but not ourselves. We know how to negotiate a fierce deal for a client, and we will go to the mat for a family member or friend when we feel someone is not treating them as they deserve. Yet we will diminish our own value; we do not stand up for ourselves and honor our worth.

We can possess an Ivy League degree and an amazing work history, and yet when it comes time to negotiate for that salary at the new job we just landed, we let someone else decide our value. Men never do this. From the time they are boys, men are empowered by their families, their culture, their communities, and even the sports teams they play on to know their value. Men are taught almost from birth that they are to be hunters, protectors, providers, and winners. In other words, they have value.

This is not the case for us.

Women are taught almost from birth that we are to be nurturers, supporters, encouragers, peacekeepers, and ladies. While these are all great virtues, these traits play into what we call "soft skills." Soft skills, which most women possess in abundance, are important; however, they do not often get you what you want when it comes to the corporate boardroom, business, or life. How you value yourself has a direct impact on how well you live out your Code.

In a nutshell: your life "Code" is formed from the time you are a small girl. It is shaped by the influence of your parents and your nuclear family And after the family, it is shaped by your community, by the friendships you form, and by the faith (or spiritual value system or lack thereof) your parents impart to you. Your Code either propels you to greatness or keeps you stuck in the challenges and obstacles of your life. If you grow up in a family of people who are nurturing, loving, and kind you are more likely as an adult to be nurturing, loving, and kind. On the other hand, if you grow up in a family where people are angry all the time, argumentative, and demeaning to one another, you are likely to handle conflict as an adult by arguing, demeaning, and yelling at people.

All women struggle with self-esteem, self-worth, and self-value issues. Women have been taught for centuries that we are second-class citizens. It is not easy to undo centuries of programming. But we are going to consider three keys to unlock how to know and honor your value as a woman.

1. Erase the negative tapes in your head—don't let your history define your destiny.

2. Realize that what you think about you is what others will think about you.

3. Shift your thinking to put you at the top of your list.

Erase the Negative Tapes in Your Head Don't Let Your History Define Your Destiny

Words have power. Words define, shape, and mold us beyond what we can ever imagine. You have value. You are born and created as a person of value. How you perceive your worth and self-value is shaped by your experiences. And once certain words and images have been placed in our spirit, it becomes almost impossible to redefine ourselves so that we can truly embrace our value.

One of the most fundamental factors that determines your happiness, success, and joy in life is how well you value yourself. It sounds simple, but far too many women and girls do not know their value. You must be defined first and foremost by your Creator and yourself.

The bottom line is this: if you let others define you and tell you your value, your journey in life will be hard, passionless, and unfulfilling. We are defined early on by our families, the first place we learn how to be, who to be, and what we can be. It does not matter whether we were raised by two loving parents, a grandparent, a beloved aunt, or even in foster care. What matters is what these loved ones or caretakers spoke into our being. The power of words spoken over us, about us, and into us can last a lifetime. Words have the power to inspire, propel, or diminish us.

All women, regardless of our geographical region, nationality, religion, or socioeconomic status, grew up being defined by labels. How you value yourself was determined by how your nuclear...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: REVEL FLEMING H
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0800723880
• ISBN 13: 9780800723880
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 267
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