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Highly creative women often have special aptitudes that give rise to creative intelligence, a superior ability for innovative thinking and application. In today's marketplace, our ability to think differently about problems and solve them with original and novel solutions is a key to success. Highly creative women can have problems if they don't see themselves or their abilities clearly. In my experience, some of the strengths and necessary talents of highly creative women can also be their downfall if not managed well. This book is meant to be a guide to help you to leverage your abilities and counter these potential pitfalls. These would include:

 Being overly sensitive and therefore too thin-skinned to be out in the world much

 Ambivalence about money and therefore being afraid or uncomfortable charging what they deserve

 Intuitive—getting wrapped up too much in other people's life decisions, which distracts the highly creative woman from her own life

 Divergent thinking—going from project to project—too many ideas at the same time can be overwhelming and make it difficult to focus

 Independence—being afraid/disinclined to ask for emotional support and business help when they need it

 Severely critical—perfectionism can be paralyzing and prevent highly creative women from ever releasing their completed work into the world or finishing projects at all

 Non-conforming—being scapegoated by others for being too far “out there” and not following enough protocol to successfully do business in this world—can lead to isolation and loneliness

 Not completely confident—having damaged self-esteem or lack of expertise in certain skill areas that they may need to learn or to delegate to others

 Can be workaholics and ignore their own needs for self—nurturance, serenity and relaxation

 Need for solitude—the highly successful woman must honor this and negotiate with partners and family

 Can make simple things complex due to a long list of internal comfort criteria

 Sad—often feel that they haven't met their potential or realized their dreams for this life

 Fear of being who they really are and telling the truth about it and risking disapproval

 Feeling guilty about not having chosen a traditional career path with job security, a pension, and securing people's understanding of what they do

 Feeling confused by having too many interests and not knowing what to specialize in

 Fear of rejection as being unbearable and something from which they won't recover

 Fear that pursuing their creative work will hurt the ones they love

 Being labeled by others as a risk taker or being hesitant to take the necessary risks to succeed

Fortunately, there are remedies for all of these issues, and this book is your guide to creative success and peace of mind. Most of these creative liabilities are also strengths, but you must learn how to capitalize on them and redesign your strategies of being in the world.

This is a book of hope and know-how. Let's start by looking at what inspires you.