Last week, I received this book in the mail and couldn’t wait to read it. I was right about it. I loved every minute of reading it. I am in love with my career and often felt that it was similar to a relationship. In this book the author Nicole Williams, tells it like it is, relating career advice to relationship advice, she also does it in a way that is so easy to understand. Reading this book is like having a good conversation with one of your girlfriends. LOVED IT !

Here is an excerpt from the book:

“Just like our tendency is to throw out the rule book and call, and call, and call, and call the super hot dude you can’t help but imagine is “the one,” you’re going to come across the job, the boss, the client you can’t imagine yourself living without, and it’s exactly here where you need play the game. Finding, catching, and building a relationship with a beau simply isn’t so different from finding, catching, and building a relationship with a boss… And for those of you who think you’re above playing games in love or in career, good for you… have fun in the mailroom. “

-Nicole Williams, Girl on Top

If you are a career driven woman as I am, you should definitely read this book. Nicole sheds some light on some topics I was too afraid to bring up or didn’t feel comfortable speaking to people about. She holds no bars on this one.

Here are some of my favorite parts:

• “My true love … my career”
• “Sometimes we need exposture to a lot of the wrong options before we land on the right one.”
• “As with any kind of love affair, your career development evolves in three distinct phases, each offering different opportunities and challenges”
• “It is invebitable that the thing you initially loved the most about your job is what ends up being the thing you hate”
• “When you’re so busy flying from task to task that you don’t take the time to enjoy what you do, the flame is bound to fizzle”
• “When you’re in constant “give mode”, burnout comes on full speed. If your career feels like a one-way street, take stock of what you’re getting out of the hours you’re slogging”
• “You are you alone are your biggest career asset and you need to nurture, protect and invest in yourself with a vengeance. You need to hone and trust your instincts. You need to have standards and never settle for less than what you deserve. If you don’t love you- proftect you, promote you, invest in you-your career won’t give you anything back”
• “You can’t stay current if you don’t realize you’re behind in the first place”
• “There are four key factors that affect demand: reputation, reliable quality, availability and price.”
• “The goals is to become a legend. You need to be more than the hours you work and the product your deliver if you want to affect demand”
• “If you are going to do a job, do it with everything you have in you.”
• “The more you ask for, the more they’ll believe you’re worth”
• “The moment you’re wiling to walk away from what’s wrong (guy, job, industry) , is exactly when you get what WORKS”

Those were some of my favorite parts of the book that I hope to always remember. In more than one way, this book struck a chord. As you may remember, earlier in this blog, I shared with you the feeling that I needed to move on from my job and do something else. This book sparked that fire again and makes me more confident than ever that I could do this.

Thank you Nicole for sharing these thoughts in this book, the points are so easy to grasp and so relatable.

If you want more information go to Girl On Top