Modern Gen X Woman

What's Luck Got to Do with It?

March 20, 2020 Make Your Life Magnificent with Jackie + Mimi
Modern Gen X Woman
What's Luck Got to Do with It?
Show Notes

Ask 20 successful men about how they got to where they are today in their careers and they will confidently clamor on about all their skills and accomplishments.

Ask the same question to 20 successful women, and by and large, they will attribute their success to being lucky. “I got lucky landing that role.” “I was in the right place at the right time.” “I was lucky to be introduced to the hiring manager.” 

Today, we want to pull apart the ideas around why women claim luck is the backbone for their success, the emotional tug-of-war that happens when we need to own our worth and share examples of ways to get comfortable bragging about your work and worth. 

How to Stop Attributing our Success to Luck:

Stop giving away your success:
As women, we tend to be highly focused on our team, boasting about their successes and ensuring the higher-ups all know what a wonderful job they are doing.  This is absolutely fabulous and should be part of the strategy. This also needs to be coupled with you owning and vocalizing your own contributions to the team, how you lead them and what your role was as well.  You can’t give credit away completely without hurting yourself.

Success isn’t the Norm:Know what you’re good at and acknowledge it.  We assume that what we do right is what we are ‘supposed to do’ or that ‘everyone does this’ but that isn’t the case. Your skills are your own, they aren’t the norm, so don’t brush them off as if it’s no big deal. Don’t take for granted the everyday tasks that make you successful.

Confidently brag:
There’s no place for 1920’s modesty in 2020. Talk about what your successes are with confidence and boldness.

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Dominique Mas has an incredible article,  The Art of Bragging.

LinkedIn Study on Bragging:




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