Many times during my life, I have read the phrase "Success favors the bold", but I was never sure what that meant. Now I know. My story is all about being bold and walking away from the establishment over and over again.
As a young high school student I knew my career would be in the field of accounting. The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, and in 1970s Brooklyn, New York, when your dad is an accountant, the last thing you as his daughter would do is pursue a singing or acting career. Good for me that I had a passion for business.
So I did what was expected, lived at home and attended Pace University, NYC Campus. Certainly commuting was the way to go, no away school for me!
After, what was, in reality, a wonderful college experience; I pursued the traditional route of BIG 8" CPA firm position. I wanted what most aspiring CPAs wanted at that time, to be a partner in a big firm. As a woman in the last 70's as much gender bias as was possible existed in the accounting profession in the Wall Street environment.
In my search for a life with some new and exciting adventures, I moved west to Southern Nevada. The change for me including weather, the new city and an exciting business culture. Well, not necessarily. The big town environment masked the small town business culture. If you did not fit in the "gaming" industry, you probably didn't fit.
Fast forward 28 years to today. After working in public accounting and private industry, well, several of them, I continued to search for what was missing in my career. The answer could be found in my desire to take a leap of faith. After all, Success Favors the Bold! I left the world of fulltime employment to pursue the pieces of my career that were sorely missing: writing, speaking, mentoring, freedom from the employee status I maintained for the last 28 years.
So today, I experience a different kind of success. I am a published author. I speak on issues from financial to women breaking the glass ceiling. I own my own companies: Executive Solutions and CK Systemz. I develop patented software for small business, provide CEO training as a virtual CFO, teach at the university level and mentor women through some of my coaching programs.
All of these experiences are in their infancy, after all if you spend 28 years in Phase I of your career, spending 16 months in Phase II is still considered the infancy. I am creatively happier than I have ever been and because of this I continue to move forward in faith that all the harmonic pieces of my life, relationships, physical, spiritual, mental and financial are growing in harmony. I can't wait to write the next chapter!
There are times when we are all crying on the inside and braving the world on the outside. The journey to greatness is paved with living on the edge. If anyone would have said that I would walk away from a corporate position that paid something, not what I wanted, but something every week, I would have said they were crazy! I was all about security, planned knowledge that I knew where my next $$ were coming from! Success favors the bold, said well by James Ray who tells us about being on the brink of bankruptcy and pulling his way out through that strong belief, he knew he would be successful.
That's when we stop crying on the inside and realize that we must know without any doubt that we are worthy of all the good there is and by faith and action in alignment with that faith we will find great results.
I share this because this week I am moving in faith that what I have set in motion for my companies is here, its real and my actions will create the results. I know you can do this too. I believe in your talents and ability to overcome this current view of the world.
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