How Women Succeed – Inspiring women to create their own success
Carolin Zeitler
Author Bio
In everything she does, Carolin believes that meaningful sustainable growth fulfils the true needs of the individual and the greater good.
This belief is reflected in all her work; be it as an Executive Coach, an author, a women’s empowerment activist in the Middle Eastern emirate of Qatar or the founder of the How Women Work Community.
Carolin specialises in empowering people with aspirations and ambitions to liberate their potential, fully leverage their strengths and to become the leaders and change-makers they were put on this earth to be.
Carolin’s contagious enthusiasm and thirst for learning ensure that she not only stays on a path of continuous growth herself but inspires those around her to grow and succeed too.
She is the author of How Women Succeed – inspiring women to create their own success, a practical guide to creating more success in your life with 21 powerful exercises and 21 inspiring women’s success stories, available on Amazon in e-book format.
To engage with Carolin and her work directly, please go to her LinkedIN profile https://qa.linkedin.com/pub/carolin-zeitler/1a/244/976 or hwwqatar.com
Out of a passion for making a difference and the wish to reach women who cannot be reached with the regular How Women Work offers, Carolin put together and published the How Women Succeed book. From the proceeds, she has funded some free coaching offers for women in remote areas of Qatar and cancer survivors in Qatar. She hopes to touch the lives of many more women in the future.
An Arabic translation of the book is available in PDF format. Please send an email to info@hwwqatar.com if you would like to get it. Thank you.
Description
How Women Succeed inspires through a collection of women’s success stories that allowed each contributing author to define success in her own unique way and empowers through self-coaching exercises that enable the reader to create her own success by working through the book.
The 21 success stories come from a wide variety of women. Some are quite famous, like Barbara Stanny, who is widely known as ‘The Leading Authority on Women & Money’, others are ‘women like you and I’ who have created their own version of success in their lives. Others again are women that give many of us an insight into a world that we’re maybe not so familiar with, like the two Qatari women that wrote for the book, or the black South African author who grew up during the apartheid.
Despite the wide variety of success definitions, there are two factors that all the success stories seemed to incorporate in one way or another: authenticity and continuous growth. So these make up the two sections of the book.
This book was inspired by the How Women Work (HWW) community in Qatar, Middle East, to give you the opportunity to feel just as inspired and enlightened as we do every day by all the amazing women around us, to feel the same sense of belonging, to know ‘I am not alone’.
So this book fulfils three main purposes:
To share stories of amazing women from around the world and how they have defined and created success in their lives and to thus inspire amazing women like you to keep growing, thriving and pursuing those dreams of yours.
To empower you to move forward and progress in life by working through the questions and exercises in this book that are designed to guide you towards your true, authentic self and to encourage you to keep on growing and stretching yourself.
To use the proceeds of this book to provide coaching to women who cannot be reached through our regular offers because of cultural, financial or geographical reasons and to keep building the How Women Work community, so more and more women can be inspired and empowered to grow and succeed!
Book excerpt
Be the change, be proud to be the change
By Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
People often ask me, “Did you always want to be a writer?” and I answer that I didn’t know that I was a writer. I went to school, struggling with the questions of my identity and the meaning of my life.
I was confused about how I fit into life – I was Asian, Muslim, woman at a very typically British school in England. I lived three very separate lives, and was three separate people. I went to study at Oxford University and it was there that I learnt to be confident in myself as one person, to live all my lives in balance, sometimes more as one, sometimes more as another. It was on reaching this balance that I felt truly happy and could engage more directly with the world. I had a clearer picture of who I was and I had a clearer picture of the world that I wanted to create.
When I went away to live at Oxford, I was the first woman amongst my Muslim community to do so. My parents were criticised a great deal for it, and people would say things like, “Why does your daughter have to live away from home? She will get spoiled” or they would say, “Why does she need to go to Oxford? She is only going to stay at home and get married.”
My father always taught us that education is the most important thing. He would repeat the saying to us: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.” Although the saying speaks of men, my father directed his words to me as a young woman. I also learnt something else from this experience. After I finished my university education, all the young men and women in our Muslim community started going to Oxford, and living away at the university. [….]
Activity
You need: Your journal and a pen
Time: 15 – 20 minutes
Description: Inviting change
Step 1 – about 3 to 5 minutes
Think of a change you have been trying to make in your life but have so far not managed.
What is your attitude towards this change? What is the good thing about this change? Which of your beliefs can you hear clamouring for attention, telling you it can’t be done, you don’t have the means, the time, the expertise, etc?
Make a note of your answers
Step 2 – about 10 minutes
Then think about your conversations with others on any topics related to this change.
How do you typically comment when others go through a similar change in their lives? What are your thoughts and doubts about as you watch them make the change? What do you typically say about your own situation?
For example
Say you want to find the perfect partner and get married. When your friends meet someone, get engaged or talk about their marriage, what kind of comments do you usually offer?
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