Welcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business.
This week we welcomed Shelmina Abji to Intentional Conversations!
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- This one exchange changed her whole career. Where do I want to go and being driven by that definition of success every single day.
- "When you see a turtle on the ledge, you know it had help getting there."
- When you show up every day to show your worth, you will achieve success.
- Success is not about overnight, it is about our daily habits and that can look different from person to person.
- Intentional Value Creation - When you’re intentional about creating value, the value you create will far exceed anything that is expected of you. And that’s where you begin to have transformational success instead of incremental success.
- Aim high and get outside your comfort zone! To shoot for something you don’t believe you can actually achieve.
- When you start by defining what 5-year success means, then you define a 6-month or 12-month definition of success and that becomes a stepping stone.
- Gratitude and ambition co-exist.
- The value you are creating is based on your current competencies. If you intentionally grow competencies you will continue to move toward incremental success.
- Take on projects that scare you!
- For transformational growth, you have to step outside your comfort zone. When you step outside of your comfort zone, there is no such thing as failure!
- The world takes you at your own estimate. If you won’t take a chance on yourself, you cannot expect someone else to take a change on you. We have to own it.
- Power quotient - it is your ability to intentionally pick an empowering response to a disempowering stimulus. Whether it is internal or external.
- People will not always be the way you want them to be, but they don’t define you! Your response to that circumstance defines you.
- Every challenge is an opportunity.
- To show your worth, you must first know and internalize your worth. Once you know it, you will never become a victim of anyone else.
- Ask for help! No one ever has achieved success without someone’s help.
- Your career is a long game, not about one project. The experiences do not matter, but who you become will stay with you forever.
- If we look for easy, we achieve incremental success.
- As you achieve success, please bring others with you.
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