My basic rules for success

Fourteen rules she credits for her own path.

Emma Grede's framework, from Start With Yourself, pp. 238 to 243.

Own your life
Shift from blaming circumstances to taking complete responsibility.
Work hard in your twenties
Treat the decade as defining.
Plan the details
Include how, when, where and what, mostly focusing on how it should feel.
Find a supportive partner
Pick someone who is a real partner.
Establish your career before babies
Build the base first.
Make selfish professional decisions
Leave when the time is right for you.
Leverage every job and contact
Use each to do the next thing.
Move away from people who don't serve you
Create distance.
Call BS, including on yourself
Be honest.
Fail up
Step into jobs bigger than your experience.
Get up after failing
Learn each time.
Use crisis
Treat suffering as a chance for transformation.
Put what you care about at the centre
Do it without making it about marketing.
Refuse to be afraid of anyone
Then always start with yourself.

From chapter: Part Four: Action!, pp. 238–243

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