Secrets of Six-Figure Women

These women demonstrated an indispensable secret for living a prosperous life of genuine wealth: Appreciate Abundance.

Working Hard Doesn’t Mean Working All the Time.

“It may sound New Age, but high-powered women want work that allows them to realize their full selves.” That’s precisely what I heard from six-figure women. Their pursuit of greater profit triggered a personal evolution. Some even referred to it as a spiritual quest of recapturing (or discovering) their dreams, living fuller lives.

Here was a woman who taught early-morning aerobics, cut hair by day, waited tables at night, and in her spare time freelanced as a bookkeeper and took courses at a local college. She was putting in more hours than many of the women I interviewed. But in her mind, if she had to work this hard for so little, what would it take to earn more? She could

Focus on Fulfilling Your Values Rather Than Financial Gain.

defines underearning this way: “to repeatedly gain less income than you need, or than would be beneficial, usually for no apparent reason and despite your desire to do otherwise.”

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life’s possibilities. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL

How boring, I thought. And, yes, intimidating. I pictured these high-earning women as cold, tough, aloof, hard-driven, designer-dressed people I could never relate to, leagues above me.

But for all the M.B.A.’s and Ph.D.’s I spoke to, I also talked to scores of women whose only credential was a bachelor of arts or a two-year associate’s degree. And, surprisingly, there were a number who had no college degree at all, some of whom were high school dropouts. What’s more, the lack of credentials didn’t seem to hurt them one bit.