9 Excellent Tips To Balance Your Family Time With Work

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With wisdom, age and every successive baby, most women learn that they cannot try to do everything at the same time. There are simply too many tasks in work and home that make them feel more stressful.

While there is not any magic pill that you can take to have a work-life balance, there are a couple things I have learned over the past few years that would help you keep your sanity and enjoy the daily life of career, marriage, and motherhood. Whether you are working in the office, at home or both, the following 9 tips will help you achieve a better balance between work and family time.

Be Careful With Perfection

The most common source of pressure that women experience these days is because they want to be a perfect wife, a perfect worker and a perfect mother as well. Would not it be better if you could give yourselves and the others a break? When you need to do something, ask yourself first: is it essential that the task is done perfectly or just done? Nearly all the answers would be the latter. 

For instance, you have always done the laundry in your family and developed an effective method. However, now when you are working a full-time job, it is impossible to handle this task apart from everything else. You ignore the offer of help from your husband as you do not trust him to perform it correctly. Finally, you just let it go when it has become a serious issue. Your husband now shares housework with her. Maybe he does not do it your way, and you can still get annoyed by him, but you are learning how to turn a blind eye.

Have Your Own Balance

When it comes to marriage, career, and motherhood, there is actually no perfect balance. It is up to you to take priority, make adjustments and determine what you are planning to do. Do not tell yourself that: "I must be able to," or "I should do it because she can do it" More importantly, do not listen to anyone else who tells that you should and should not do anything! Respect your own well-being and needs. When you feel out of balance, it is the right time to take a look at what is going on and re-evaluate. Be always willing to reset your parenting as well as work duties. They would improve over time. In this regard, you would might want to find tutors if you find yourself getting hit with problems in balancing, go for suggestions with your mom or your grandmother anyone who has experience on being a mother. It would be a great session listening to other mother’s experiences.

Make A Line Between Work End Home

These days, this task is easier said than done, when we can work everywhere on our iPhones, iPads, Blackberries or laptop. Therefore, it is difficult to stay away from your duties even after getting home (or worse when you work as a freelance at home). Similarly, it is challenging not to worry about your family and children while sitting at the office. Try this simple trick. Write all important things on your mind into a paper before leaving home or work (or home) so that you can remember what to do when you come back. Always keep the focus on the fact in the end of an activity, workday or task at home. And then do the same thing for the next day.

You Are Not A Martyr

"I need to do everything around here”, “I have so many things to do". These sentences would make you feel resentful while hogging all necessary tasks at the same time. If you are addicted to martyrdom, it would push you to get more works, drain you emotionally as well as physically and raise your level of pressure.

In fact, the biggest motivation for this is that it would make you feel or look important and busy. But this is not true at all. It is infuriating and annoying for other people and also makes you look like a martyr. To deal with this problem, you just need to ask for help from other people and allow them to do a part of your tasks. And it is also important to say “no” decisively and frequently whenever you need.

Take Care Of Yourself

It means you should look after yourself before thinking about taking care of other family members, including your parents, your husband and your children. It is no selfish but necessary to spend your own time reading a book, watching TV meditating, doing exercises, or hanging out with friends. Have a night each week that you can do enjoyable and pleasant anything. Turn off your smartphone and do not check the email. Stick to your plan and do not put it off.

Just Slow Down

Sometimes, you would feel like doing so many important things at the same moment. If you could make an important call when driving your children to the school, then you time management skill is good. But you could not pay close attention to avoid any possible incidents on the road. Therefore, just throw your phone and focus on the road.

Do Not Compare

You might think that your neighbors have it all, but they do not! We all deal with our own troubles as workers, wives, and mothers. It is time to clear the wars between mommies when a working mom looks down on a stay-at-home mom, and a stay-at-home mom criticizes a working mom. It is much better to spend your time and energy helping other women, instead of judging them. This would benefit all of us in the long run.

Have Your Own Definition Of "Success"

These day, most of the women admit that the do-it-all lifestyle of the past decades make them feel depressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. Therefore, you need to re-define your own standard of success, which does not include the words supermom, superwoman or doing-it-all. Women today are literally tired and sick of the pressure in modern life.

Figure Out Your Passion

As a wife, worker, and mother, one of the most important things to being happy is to have a hobby, job or vocation that would bring joy to your daily life. It would be better if you can find a job which combines good income with your passion. If not, you should pursue that passion outside of the office. It can be writing, playing tennis, gardening, or just hanging out with your friends. You don’t need to be finding tutors for it in discovering your passion, be yourself. Be adventurous but most of all, be happy.

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