Wicked Success is Inside Every Woman

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AGILITY

Flex Your Agility to Grab New Opportunities

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

GAIL SHEEHY

When you stretch yourself in what you're afraid to do, the next challenge isn't nearly as scary; the ground is more familiar.

VICKIE L. MILAZZO

Women's bodies are naturally more flexible than men's. Just go to any beginner's yoga class and watch the men. Then watch the women. Men have their own strengths, but women are naturally engineered for agility.

This inherent agility extends to our thought processes. Women excel at multitasking. How many things can you do at once? How many things can your spouse or significant other do at once? Chat up any group of women with a variety of talents, emotions and intelligence and you'll find most of them are juggling a dozen different projects, a handful of important relationships and at least one pressing dilemma.

Flexible and adaptable, women handle unexpected change gracefully. We're not thrown by 10 things hitting us at once—that won't wreck our day. We're wired for agility.

In prehistoric times women and men participated almost equally in hunting and gathering. As agriculture developed, women had ...