Gail McMeekin

Even if you choose to spend some time working for someone else, you need to keep your eye on the door, your skills and your About Page updated, and a strong network going

“Go where the action is. You can't stay home and expect your work to be seen or heard. You have to make the effort.”

“Reading The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women, you gradually discover the one real secret of a successful life: it is yours—and yours alone. You get to find and define it. You get to create it.

Oh, that's not for me, I'm not creative at all

the definition of creativity is “to make or invent something new”—

creativity goes underground. Or we follow a creative path but we don't treat our work as a profession and end up living on the margin, and we don't get the recognition or financial rewards that we deserve.

Then there are women who actively choose to pursue their creative interest (or interests, very often), and become highly creative women

prey to bad advice, low self-esteem, not marketing themselves actively, and the terror of being seen.

Express Your Creative Gifts and Life Purpose

You are creative—own it!
You have the potential to become highly successful.
Your creativity is an essential ingredient to building a successful career, business, and personal life.
You can learn to be successful creatively by following the advice in this book.
You can potentially change your entire life and lifestyle to honor your creative gifts and finally feel free, fulfilled, and prosperous.
You have an inner brilliance that allows you to solve problems with novel and innovative solutions, help others, and profit from it.