10 Effective Tips For Working Moms To Achieve Work-Life Balance
To have a successful career while maintaining a social life is what we all strive for. Being a working mom adds to the challenges that already exists. It is often exhausting to fulfil both responsibilities—as a caring mother and as a professional who performs her work with dedication. Whether a mom works out of choice or necessity, it is understandable that there are a lot of activities that need to be juggledsimultaneouslyand that too without losing focus in any of those. This article will help working moms to adjust their home life according to the necessities at the workplace and vice versa.
Working moms who
are successful in their career should be appreciated for their ability to
maintain the composure needed to work everything out in the right direction.
All successful working moms have the same story to tell about the hardships they
faced and how with their indomitable spirit, they have come out victorious. Here
are some of the common pieces of advice and tips often shared by them.
1.
Stay organised
The best way to be
efficient is to have a plan; a plan that is going to be helpful in the long run
and not just provide temporary solutions. Use of a good planner is sine qua non
of an organised professional life, which in turn will make your personal life
comfortable.
Schedule all your work and plan yourmeetings well ahead of time. Also, make sure that you let others understand
that you need to be intimated on any meetings one or two days ahead so that you
can plan your time with your kid/s accordingly.
2.
Create a schedule on how to spend time with your kid/s
As a mother, you need to spend a considerable amount of time with
your kid/s and it is one of your responsibilities as well. You need to bring
the same organised attitude to home by creating a schedule on how you are going
to give time to your kid/s and the family. Fix a routine for the work at home
like laundry, grocery shopping, etc. and make sure that you have enough time to
rest as well. You cannot be running around doing only chores like a machine.
3.
Have a discussion with your husband/partner
As mentioned above, you should not be the only one doing all the
chores at home. Have a discussion with your partner on how he could help you
with some of the work that you usually took care of before. Any reasonable
partner will understand your concerns.
4.
Make the most out of your lunch breaks
Lunch
breaks are generally for an hour at most of the workplaces and having your lunch
won’t take more than half an hour normally. You can do a lot in that extra half
an hour. You can schedule your work at home, make a to-do list for the evening
shopping, or even buy necessary things for your kid/s if you have a supermarket
nearby. Running out of baby food? Get it from the nearest supermarket. This
way, you will get a lot of things done and save a lot of time for you to spend
with your kid/s.
5.
Learn to delegate work
There will be
circumstances when you might have to delegate some of your work in order to
reduce the work pressure or to meet a deadline. You will need to stop being too
worried about getting your project jeopardized. It might be true that it is
your pet project and do not want to let anyone near it, but it will do more
harm to you. You need to sometimes relax, cut yourself some slack and delegate
some areasof responsibility, which you think have little chance of changing the
outcome, to others.
6.
Be realistic about your goals
There is
no need to go overboard with your career goals and ignore your kid/s. Make sure
that you set your goals in a realistic manner. If you do not have the
bandwidth, do not take extra work to impress your superiors. That’s the whole
thing about work-life balance.
7.
Search for a job that offers you the required flexibility
Flexibility is necessary for all working moms. If your company
offers flexible working hours, you are lucky. Otherwise, you can always look
for an organisation that offers you the flexibility you want. There are a lot
of jobs out there if you have the skills. Most job
portals nowadays offer easy job search and you can
know a lot about the company before joining.
8.
Hire a help if needed and have backups
It
is good to be a supermom, handling all responsibilities at home. However, we
all have our limits and we should be wise to understand it for the better of
you and your family. Are you feeling too tired to do the cleaning or looking
after your kids during the weekends? Hire someone who can help you with those
chores.
Apart from that, you should always
talk to your friends, neighbours, or relatives; whom you trust to be backups if
you have any trouble. Your kids can stay over for a night or two so that you
can have the much-needed rest you are looking forward to.
9.
Take the help of other moms
Experienced working moms are a good source of tips on how to take care of your
kid/s and still maintain your career. They can reveal their secrets of work-lifebalance or even inspire you to do so with their stories.
10.
There will be some sacrifices
Sometimes
you may need to adjust your lifestyle or even make minor sacrifices to be a
successful mom and a career person. That means skipping those evening parties
or even cutting down TV time. Create memories instead with your loved ones.
Wrapping it up
During the first
few days as a working mom, you might feel frustrated and a bit low, but as time
passes and with the help of the above tips, you can get out of the slump to
enjoy what life has provided you. You will learn slowly how to be more
efficient and impresspeople both at home and at the office, and show that
working moms truly have superpowers.
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