Having good self-esteem is vital to harnessing the power of your intuition in business. And here’s the catch: If women business owners ask for help from their intuition and don’t listen, their intuitive awareness may go into hibernation. If you ask and listen, but don’t ACT, then you create stagnation, procrastination and all sorts of challenges. Here are quick tips, learned over years of palm reading, for women business owners to build their self-esteem and deepen their confidence in their inner guidance.

Delete all non-essential email for one week. Answer only those emails that are personal or business related. You don’t have to unsubscribe from everything or do anything drastic. Just cut out the noise for one week. Notice your discomfort in deleting your non-essential email. (I receive hundreds of emails per day. Only 50 are business emails that need responses and by responding to those emails, I actually ADD efficiency to my life.) Notice if you feel anxious that you are going to miss something. Notice if you can’t do it this week and want to put it off to next week. Who REALLY has the answers to your life? You or a message in an electronic box? Don’t do anything – and I do mean anything – that you don’t want to do. This is different from not doing something because it’s uncomfortable or because you are scared. There is a fine distinction here. If you don’t want to do something, you know it in every cell of your body. BUT you may be tempted to do it anyway in order to: avoid someone’s wrath or criticism, be pleasing, get your way, manipulate someone or get revenge. Just to name some of the many methods of self-betrayal that I see in my palmistry practice. By making commitments you can keep, you build your self-esteem, and hence, your faith in yourself and in your intuition in making business decisions.

When it comes to women and career advancement, many professional women fail to advance because they underestimate their own worth and have no idea how to take advantage of their accomplishments and skills.

Professional women working in the healthcare field with high career advancement aspirations need a plan to help them stand out from their coworkers and peers. They need their employers to recognize their talent, strengths and worth in the healthcare profession. There are several ways for women and career advancement opportunities they seek to become a reality.

Instead of focusing on their individual talents, strengths, skills, accomplishments, and own worth in specific areas, many women focus on trying to improve in areas they do not do well. For women and career advancement success, identify your strengths, talents, and focus and play on those positive strong points.

Become noticed by finding solutions to problems instead of just pointing problems out or blaming others. Think about problems in the workplace that need addressing and figure out ways your team or you can help solve them.

Effective, excellent communication skills help women and career advancement chances improve and become obtainable. Communicating effectively helps not only in career advancement opportunities but also on job interviews. Communicating effectively helps people develop effective resumes and cover letters and improves their chance of landing a job interview.

On a job interview, it helps you sell yourself in a clear, concise manner. Although effective communication helps improve women and career advancement potential, they need to add new skills continuously to keep refining and improving their communication skills.

Dressing appropriately and looking professional certainly helps women and career advancement successes go hand in hand. Dressing professionally and having a polished image could make the difference between the corporation or company offering you career advancement and them overlooking you. Women need to dress appropriately to present positive impressions in the workplace, even if the company has a casual dress code. Be sure your business attire presents the image you want visualized.

You cannot go wrong with conservative business clothes that present a professional look. You never want to appear over dressed or under dressed. Be sure that any business clothes you purchase are good quality and coordinate well with other business wardrobe items to save you both time and money. Shoes should be stylish, in good repair and most importantly, comfortable as it is very difficult to accomplish anything when your feet are hurt.

Women and career advancement success means being on time, dependable, and follow attendance policies. Management often overlooks women that continuously run late when a career advancement position becomes available.