Girls Just Wanna Have Fusion...
by Laurie Shirley

A review of Inside Every Woman, Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now, by Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD.

Gals, if you have ever been to an all-girls Tupperware party, you already may realize that the fun is not in buying all that plastic stuff to preserve our food, but it is the companionship and time we spend with the other women. We turn the party into a confessional of sorts, saying things to each other we might never say in mixed company. We build each other up and congratulate each other on small things, but it means so much to us. The fun is in preserving our self-worth (okay, and maybe our sanity), and it can only be done with other women who intuitively understand how to do that. You may not realize it, but if you recognize this experience, you are already in tune with Female Fusion, one of the 10 strengths you will find inside this book.

 "Inside Every Woman" is a realistic, doable, no-nonsense approach to improving your life or your career. It is not some new age, idealistic, find-your-higher-self-and-other-senses mumbo jumbo. It is a look at the 10 empowering and marvelous strengths EVERY woman has within herself, and Ms. Milazzo helps you find them. Fire, intuitive vision, engagement, agility, genius, integrity, endurance, enterprise, renewal and fusion — a chapter is devoted to each of these 10 strengths.  They are laid out in a well-thought-out, intelligent and comprehensible way and some terrific examples of how to garner these strengths are given as well. By the end of each chapter you will already feel ready to get up and go. By the end of the book, you may feel fired up enough to write your own book!

With each strength, you will also make the 5 Promises to yourself. The promises are the same, but applied differently to each strength. Each chapter has a place to write down your own ideas, which are prompted by some insightful questions given by Ms. Milazzo. For example, Promise 1 is "I will live and work a passionate life." For your intuitive vision strength, you will describe an important goal you want to achieve.

In Promise 3 you state what action you will take toward accomplishing that goal each day. You will also find some personal stories from women who have found these inner strengths.

 In the last chapter, the Fusion section, you will learn how to plan a well-structured meeting. Fahgettabout that Tupperware party. At this Fusion party women get to share their uninterrupted thoughts (no competition from burping plastic products) and get positive feedback, which will be much more meaningful in their lives. And...if you plan to do this, Ms. Milazzo explains the benefit of inviting other women to the group who you feel are incredible and inspiring.

 I found this to be one of the most inspiring and motivating self-improvement books I have ever read. I found myself nodding my head with recognition, and anxious to get to the promise section at the end of each chapter.

Vickie Milazzo is a self-accomplished woman who runs her own multi-million dollar company. She is a go-getter with vision. She knows how to get things done but is also aware that relaxation plays a big part in success as well. She is kind enough to impart all these words of wisdom to us. Read them and just try not to be motivated by them. I think the strengths she helps us find within us may be applied to any part of lives, personal as well as career — any area you want to improve.

 I was fortunate enough to receive an advance copy of this book, and I can hardly restrain myself from telling all the women I know about it. If you have a dream, a vision of something you want to accomplish or change for the better, I highly recommend "Inside Every Woman." It will light that fire you have glowing inside of you.

 Enjoy the read!

About the book's author: Inc. Top 10 Entrepreneur Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD is the founder and president of Vickie Milazzo Institute. She is credited by The New York Times with creating the legal nurse consulting profession in 1982. She is the recipient of the Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing the Profession and the Stevie Award (business's Oscar®) as Mentor of the Year. Vickie has revolutionized the careers of thousands of RNs. She is the author of Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now, coming March 2006 from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Preorder this anticipated bestseller now at www.amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com.

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