Secrets of Six-Figure Women

by Barbara Stanny (now Huson)

To a woman, power means independence, influence, and impact, or as a friend put it, “to effect what I want in my life.” This is the power we’re seeking, real power, the ability to choose how we live, to be in control of our journey.

Successful High Earners empower themselves by living life on their own terms, finding pleasure in their work, their relationships, and the opportunity to serve.

goal is to be your best, not the best;

executing the fourth rule before mastering the first three is like planting crops without preparing the field. The results won’t be as bountiful. Giving generously without sufficient savings diminishes the extent of your impact, jeopardizes the quality of your life, and compromises your future security.

entrepreneur Gun Denhart colorfully phrased it, “Money is like manure. If you pile it up it stinks. But if you spread it around, it does a lot of good.”

Judith Wicks, who owns the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, routinely takes customers and employees to Nicaragua, Vietnam, Russia, Cuba, even the ghettos of her own city, because, she said, “If we want world peace, we need real relationships with real people.” She nicknamed the program Eating with the Enemy. “I think the problems of the world could be solved if people understood we’re all connected. They’d take better care of each other,” she told me. “People are literally transformed on these tours.”

The poet Mark Nepo tells us that within each of us the extraordinary is quietly waiting beneath the skin of all that’s ordinary.