Books Books on Success for Women BagongPinay says: Even in the "liberated West" of the United States women are still learning and working to outgrow childhood and social gender stereotypes. Many Filipinas at home and abroad have also been wanting or have also begun to want more out of their lives. In addition to or other than being a wife-and-mother many Filipinas are also finding satisfaction in their careers and in the fruits of their works as writers, artists, office workers, executives, nurses/doctors, lawyers, social workers, teachers, etc. They are finding fulfillment in affecting other peoples lives in ways beyond the extended family and are loving it. The following books essentially tell us that: “...just because it's never been done before, doesn't mean you can't do it” and “just because someone says you shouldn't, doesn't mean you can't”- - - Something that means alot to women all around the world no matter what their family, social or cultural background. Don't Ever Tell Me You Can't by Celia Ruiz Tomlinson Book Description/Reviews: Book Description Don't Ever Tell Me You Can't! is an inspiring true story of grit and resilience of an immigrant Asian woman who battles absolute poverty, language barriers, racial and gender discrimination and succeeds in a male-dominated field. During the VietNam war, Celia Ruiz, already an established civil engineer in the Philippines, responds to the United Statesâ announcement of engineer shortage. She comes alone, confident that $300 and her civil engineerâs diploma are enough to find a new life in the land of opportunity, or so she thinks. When she sets out to look for work, she is told she can never find a job as a civil engineer. She braces herself for a hard fight that she is determined to win. Celia traces her strength to her upbringing and experience in the late 50s when females were openly harassed in engineering school. For two decades, Celia formulates strategies and stays the course. Finally, before age becomes yet another hurdle, Celia finds the way to clear the path to the American Dream ö for her, owning an engineering company! The book closes with pointers on how to pursue a dream to fruition. About the Author Celia Tomlinson, PE, is the President & CEO of Rhombus P. A., Inc., a rare professional engineering company founded, owned and operated by a minority female engineer. Since its founding in 1983, Rhombus has completed projects in AZ, AK, NM, NY, TX, WA, and WY. Ms. Tomlinson was named 1992 Minority Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Park Service. The recipient of New Mexicoâs Outstanding Woman and Trailblazer Awards, Ms. Tomlinson speaks four languages including American Sign Language.... read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page 9 Secrets of Women Who Get Everything They Want by Kate White Amazon.com Review excerpts What do you want more than anything else in the world? What is it that will fulfill your dreams? And once you know what you want, how do you go about getting it? [This book] combines common sense and insider's savvy to provide women with a practical guide for realizing what they truly desire from life, setting their goals, and fulfilling their dreams. This is smart, how-to advice for women looking for inspiration, information, and motivation in their personal and professional lives. The vast majority of accomplished women use a certain set of strategies to achieve success in all areas of their lives. In 9 Secrets, Kate White reveals what they are and tells instructive, entertaining anecdotes of her and other women's experiences of getting what they want. White's 9 secrets are neither mysterious, nor are they eccentric. But they are unconventional. She suggests that the key to getting what you want is thinking "out of the box," and the best thing about the book is that she offers real success stories from women who've done it. --Mara Friedman Read an excerpt from this title. read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page In My Wildest Dreams : Living the Life You Long for by Gail Blanke BagongPinay says: Filipinas wake up! If a successful, workaholic, middle-aged woman executive can decide, later in life, to simplify her lifestyle and finally have children... if a housewife/mother finally sets her heart on going back to college and becoming a counselor to oncology patients... then it is a message to all of us that it doesn't matter how old you are or where you are, you can still pursue your dreams if you realize and decide to make it happen, and then work on making it happen for yourself. Here is a positive book that talks about gender and race stereotypes and even about those who try to convince you that you are dreaming impossible dreams. The exercises, both written and physical, will start firstly with identifying and writing down what your biggest life dream is and then help you work on fulfilling the life you are longing for. --- P.P. Daly Message from the author, Gail Blanke GBLD97@aol.com , October 21, 1998: My own commitment, in fact my destiny, is to enable women to uncover their purpose, their passion and begin today to live the life of their dreams. I'd love to hear from you, to hear your dream and to hear how "In My Wildest Dreams" is helping you give yourself permission to dream. E-mail me or visit our website today. Ranks 127th in the top 150 selling books at Amazon.com. read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self When There's Got to Be Something More by Sarah Ban Breathnach Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance and modern-day Thoreau, is back with Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self, a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love. No matter how spectacular their lives may be, women today are plagued by the nagging feeling that there must be something more to happiness. And they're right. In this insightful and eloquent book, Sarah Ban Breathnach explores the nine stages necessary to living authentically: Sensing, Surviving, Settling, Stumbling, Selling Out, Starting Over, Searching, Striving, and finally, SOMETHING MORE. Through storytelling and interpretations, she leads women on a path to becoming "Archaeologists of Themselves" and helps them discover that that "something more" was deep within them all along. Within these pages lie powerful truths that can change your life...and inspire you to settle for nothing less than SOMETHING MORE. By providing women with this knowledge, author Breathnach offers readers a way to profoundly change their lives - forever. Read an excerpt at Amazon.com. read more or order this book from Amazon.com top of page Games Mother Never Taught You by Betty Lehan Harrigan Synopsis This classic guide to making it in a man's world offers "the definitive, hard-nosed manual on corporate politics for the career woman" (Womanpower Newsletter). "One of the best books written on organizational dynamics."--Wall Street Journal.MASS MARKET PAPER read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page Hardball for Women : Winning at the Game of Business by Pat, Ph.D. Heim, Susan K. Golant (Contributor) Synopsis The corporate woman still has a long way to go before the business playing field is fair to both sexes. Rather than advising women to act more like men in order to get ahead, this fascinating book helps them understand men's rules and use them to meet their own goals. This guide to professional success for women explains how to be assertive, how to use verbal and non-verbal cues, how to engage in smart self-promotion, and other tips on getting ahead. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. Tour. LJ. read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page How Men Think : The Seven Essential Rules for Making It in a Man's World by Adrienne Mendell Synopsis Reveals the strategies men use against women in the workplace, targets self-defeating female behaviors and shows how to overcome them, exposes the emotionless attitude men take to management, and shows women how to exploit their unique strengths. Men at work do it all the time: They brag, cover up their mistakes, pretend to know what they don't, start fights. And they still get ahead! Why? As psychologist Adrienne Mendell learned after she interviewed one hundred male executives, women have learned to suppress the very qualities that men value most in the world of work. And since men are still in the power positions, if you don't play it their way, you don't play at all. Based on Mendell's interviews and her experience of counseling hundreds of frustrated career women, How Men Think identifies the seven rules that men learned by playing sports as children - in games that excluded girls. These rules may seem simple on the surface, but understanding them as men do is anything but easy. You may have fallen into many of these traps yourself: you're mad because you want your male boss to let you control your projects. But you've got to take control - that's the only way you'll get it; you're steamed because a male colleague consistently takes credit for your work. Do you make a point of touting your accomplishments?; when you make a mistake you apologize. But the man you apologize to doesn't think you're polite - he thinks you're admitting incompetence; and a fight with a male colleague leaves you shaken. But the men in your office shout at each other for an hour and then go out for a beer. These are the times that try women's souls! The strategies, insights, and eye-opening advice in How Men Think will help you get along better with the boys and propel you to the top where you belong. read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... but Gutsy Girls Do : 9 Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know by Kate White BagongPinay says: I like the way “gutsy” is used to describe girls who want to succeed as working women. Because how many of us women have been made to feel bad about ourselves if we dared to dream beyond what was expected of us? How many of us women were made to feel that there was something wrong to want more out of life instead of or in addition to being housewives and mothers? This book tells us all what we already knew deep down inside of us but were afraid to admit because our family members or boyfriends or husbands might have made us think the opposite: We aren't being “bad” when we dream of OUR OWN success, but rather we are being gutsy to dare dream those dreams! Find out how you can get ahead in a man's world by identifying "good girl" and other female traits that hold you back such as taking criticism too personally, and the "people pleaser attitude" and not being able to say no when you need to for you own good . The book also talks about being "all woman" even while trying to get ahead like our male counterparts. At the same time, the book is also great for men because there are many points that are outside of gender and because men who read this book will learn more about women and how to apply the best that women have to offer to his own team, workplace or career. --- P.P. Daly Synopsis 1 Career women looking to get ahead will find straight answers and nine proven strategies in this guide from one of the most savvy, successful, powerful women in American business. Top magazine executive Kate White shares the systematic plan that took her from being a "good girl" to a "gutsy girl." Synopsis 2 Presents a nine-step systematic plan that encompasses creating a dynamic image, adopting behaviors of successful women, and knowing when and how to take risks. Reprint. PW. read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules It resonates with the truths that nobody told you--but you wish they had. BagongPinay says: Just love this book! A treasure trove of ways to dealing honestly with self, others and life. You will wish that someone had shared these "rules" with you earlier on in life. After reading this book I felt that many of my friends and relatives should know these life rules, too---so I bought five more to just give away. The treasure others will find in this book is worth more than any CD, piece of jewelry, wardrobe addition or any other material gift. ---P.P.Daly Synopsis: Ms. Carter-Scott wrote these rules as a handout for a workshop she was teaching. The "rules" sparked so much interest that, unbeknownst to the author, many people made copies and distributed them to friends. Within a few years, the rules were being quoted by other lecturers. They later appeared anonymously in the huge bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul. This book, "a basic spiritual primer for what it means to be a human," discusses each of the 10 rules with kindness, eloquence, and wisdom. For example, rule 1 is, "You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth." Carter-Scott discusses the challenge of making peace with the body we've been given, and the lessons of acceptance (appreciating it as it is), self-esteem (viewing yourself as worthy, despite how your body looks or performs), respect (treating it like a "valuable and irreplaceable object"), and pleasure (indulging in the five senses to "unlock the joy stored within you"). Similarly, each of the rules has four "lessons." You'll read this inspirational book more than once, and mark quotes to tell friends. Ranks 67th in the top 100 selling books at Amazon.com. Amazon.com has excerpted "Rule Eight: What You Make of Your Life Is Up to You." Read an excerpt read more about or order this book from Amazon.com top of page _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | Home | Site Map | E-Mail us | All rights reserved. ©1998 ©1999 NewFilipina ©1998 ©1999 BagongPinay.