Determine Your Priorities

Women's work, always face the dilemma between career and family. Attention, time, energy, must be divided. Sometimes they are confused to set priorities, and consequently it is bad for both, stagnant career, family unkempt. Then, what should be done by working mothers? Balance, the point, May not devote 100 percent attention to your work and 100 percent for families. There should be a priority scale, career or family who became the main focus.

If you're forced to do two roles that are perfect, in fact you will suffer. Though now there are rules which family-friendly employment, working hours that can negotiable for example, but still you have to choose.

Shapiro, chairman of the department of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University, says you must be honest in determining priorities. "If you have chosen a career as number one priority and the children at the second position, you should not force children to become number one, you will actually hurt them."

You'll also be smart to position your priorities. Not a career or a child forever be a top priority at all times. At some point, you can shift the position of the two. According to Shapiro, this is the key to successful career women outside the home.

When children are young, my mother worked fine career slowed rhythm. Not that dismissed the obsession into a career peak, but a set of time management to achieve goals. Switch to the 'queen bee' instead of 'worker bees'. Delegate tasks or responsibilities can be delegated to small others. Conversely, prioritizing the important work that supports your career, by doing this, besides giving opportunity to others, can also reduce your expenses.

Get used to work on time. Not too late to work, and no work beyond office hours. Discipline in working to help lighten your workload. Do not forget to make time for yourself. Set aside some time for exercising, hanging out with friends or just a walk. Personal time is very important to refresh them-selves.


Child care
Mom works all day can’t take care of children, needed the help of others to this parenting business. Family assistance, child care, child care or services to be reliable, depending on your needs and budget you have. Quality child care a positive impact on emotional and intellectual development of children. Therefore, consider carefully before you deciding to entrust the child, that no less important, talk with your boss about the waivers in employment.

But if you place a career as a top priority, do not do compromise with the boss. Requested waivers of working hours, avoid overtime or travel, you will no longer send signals to focus on the job. As a result, will assess your boss can not be paralleled in the front row. Your career will be stuck there. Whatever your choice, make sure you are serious about living it.