Women's Careers: High Achieving Women

Are you a high achieving woman?

Check out the following traits/characteristics/behaviors:

• you have an inner and intense drive for achievement
• your achievements must be tangible - you like to see the results
• you set the bar for yourself extremely high and you continuously raise it
• following one significant achievement you move on to the next thing, seldom celebrate your success
• you often dismiss or downplay your accomplishments - it's not a big deal, anyone could do that
• you are very competent and viewed that way by others, but you may not feel confident. many achievers suffer from the Imposter Syndrome (visit impostersyndrome.com to take the quiz)
• you may be experienced as overwhelming, even intimidating by colleagues, family, friends
• you have unusually high energy and high productivity (often doing the work of 2 or 3 other people)
• achievers are at high risk for work addiction
• due to their high energy levels, achievers may take longer to reach burnout