You're working hard. You're pushing yourself and your team to new heights. You're killing it in your career. But are you on the brink of work burnout? It can be tough to know for sure, but there are a few key signs that it might be time to take a step back and reevaluate your work-life balance. If you're feeling exhausted, stressed, or overwhelmed, it might be time to make a … [Read more...]
5 Tips to Disconnect from Work During the Holidays
The holidays are a time to celebrate with family and friends, but for business women, entrepreneurs, and business owners, the holidays can be a time of stress and anxiety. It's easy to get caught up in work mode and find yourself constantly checking your email or browsing your social media feeds rather than enjoying the holidays. If you want to take a real break from work … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Create a Healthy Work-Life Balance When Working from Home
At this point, we are many months into our quarantine lifestyle from COVID-19, and by now, the demands of remote work are routine. We’ve all finally figured out how to swiftly unmute on Zoom and perfected our business-on-the-top, pajama-on-the-bottom uniform. But as time goes on and our work-from-home habits solidify, we may realize that what we're doing is not necessarily … [Read more...]
5 Ways I Balance Building a Business and Being a Stay-at-Home Mom
I am one of those women who feels compelled to try and do it all. I want to build and scale a business that I am proud of, all while being home during the day and raising my toddler. It’s an unconventional set-up – probably most likely one that is popular with women in MLM circles. But in the day and age of e-commerce and social media, it seems to me it could be more and … [Read more...]
How to Restore a Healthy Work-Life Balance and Relieve Stress
Sponsored by Phen375: Having a messed up work-life balance today seems to be about as prevalent as cavities (92% of adult population). However, unlike bad teeth, bad work-life balance can literally cost your life, say the studies reported in Forbes. This means that regaining control of your life and reassessing your priorities is a must if you want to stay healthy and enjoy … [Read more...]
Work-Life Balance Tips for Women Entrepreneurs
Sponsored by Ooma: Does blending work with your personal life amount to less balance in your life and more stress? If you don’t create boundaries and instead, mix your life and work, things can easily get out of hand making you ineffective. Women entrepreneurs may find balancing family life and a home office a bigger challenge than their male counterparts simply because they … [Read more...]
The Secret to Balance
Balance!……? I reached out recently to find out what my readers were interested in learning more about or what they needed help with. “To balance healthy diet and exercise and time management” was one of the answers I received. Whoa! There’s the punch isn’t it? The thought that “I should be able to drop those pounds, get fit, eat healthy, and have time for yoga, meditation, … [Read more...]
How to Become a Stay-at-Home CEO
Life is too short to do one thing at a time. That's my motto. Perhaps that's why it seemed perfectly reasonable to adopt my first child while in college. Then to birth my second while in college. Then to get pregnant with my third while in college. My twenties were a flurry, a whirlwind of little chores and major events. Oh buddy, what a rush! But when I graduated from … [Read more...]
How Are You Balancing Things?
There are times when balancing life responsibilities can become overwhelming. Have you ever felt that setting priorities between work and life can be at odds? The balancing act can feel like you are walking on a tight rope with no safety net below. Also, deciding the best use of your time changes depending on the chapter of life you are experiencing. What matters most to you … [Read more...]
Imbalance Can Work: Stop Stressing About Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is a loaded concept, promising perfect harmony across all areas of our life. It’s an unrealistic ideal we’ve set up as a proxy for happiness, implying that “balance” is an achievable zen-like state where all our obligations — professional and personal — receive equal amounts of attention. Let’s be honest, though. Not everyone wants to achieve balance … [Read more...]