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RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Achievement Unlocked: Strategies to Set Goals and Manifest Them by Simone E. Morris
• The Power of Owning your career:  Winning Strategies, Tools and Tips for Creating your Desired Career by Simone E. Morris
• My Life My Way Retreat
• Women Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
• Minority Women Business Enterprises Inc. (MWBE)
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• Think and Grow Rich:  A Black Choice by Dennis Kimbro
• Think and Grow Rich for Women by Sharon Lechter
• Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers

TWEETABLES:

KEY POINTS FROM SIMONE:

• I am grateful for my daughter who is going  to be four in two weeks. I am amazingly grateful to be a mother.
• I got into coaching through the experience of finding myself and my next chapter of what’s next.
• It’s important to be in the driver’s seat of your career.
• For a very long time I had a hands-off approach to my career, allowing others to dictate what was best for me.
• I found myself tweaking and tweaking to fit the company’s objectives and more and more of me was coming out of the equation as I tweaked to be accepted.
• I was unhappy.  I was getting paid a lot of money. I had access to wonderful brands and access to events, but I didn’t feel that was my purpose.  I didn’t feel fulfilled. 
• It’s very scary to step away from certainty and step out on faith into risk.
• The driver’s seat is mine.  I claim it.  I am responsible for my career.  I am responsible for the outcomes.  No one else.
• So what is it that Simone wants to do? Let me get in the driver’s seat and start steering  towards what I really want.
• @simonemorrisent says, Stop the blame game of “it’s somebody else why I am not happy about my career.”
• Assume this position:  “I am in the driver’s seat.  This is happening to me, and what am I going to do about it?”
• What is your plan, and who are the players you need on your success team to get there?
• When people saw me they saw the organization that I worked for, but I had to find me and my brand.  Who is Simone?  Who does she represent?
• I was afraid of networking. I thought that I could get ahead just by doing my job.
• I said no to social opportunities, sat at my desk and did my job but things were happening at the social events.
• As an entrepreneur, you have to learn business development and how to market your brand.
• Want to form your success squad?  Be clear about who is on your  team, who you need to set you up for success, and be intentional about it.
• A master mind can help you to elevate your game and see business differently.
• Being in the space of other successful leaders, will help you to push yourself and elevate your thinking.
• “Whatever Happens, You can  handle it,” Susan Jeffers
• A sponsor is a champion and advocate for you, someone who is speaking on your behalf when you’re not in the room, someone who is creating opportunities and access points for you.
• Say to yourself, “My career is my responsibility!”  Affirm to yourself that you deserve to be in the driver’s seat.  Once you claim it and you affirm it, then you can take consistent action to make it a reality!

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