It's great to hear that we as
moms are doing a great job! That
working moms are super human! That we are
amazing and that we as moms have
tremendous value! We sometimes forget it in the thick of things, trying to get the little one to wear that extra jacket to school... Each and every day! Blah!
I was extremely fortunate to be able to attend
Kids Emporium Bloggers Breakfast at Olives and Plates this past Saturday. Lauren and her team spoilt us and gave us so much soul food as well!
Janice Windt from Working Mothers Expo spoke to us about
the value we attach to the things we do and sometimes that can be too much! We want to believe that the more we do, the more value we have! We want to believe that the time we spent will have intrinsic value regardless of what we do. But it can be too many things that we say yes to! It can be overwhelming! One of the things that working mothers struggles the most with, is
time management!
Working Mothers Expo ran a recent survey:
They asked hundreds of working moms: “What is your biggest challenge?”
Without any leading information, 84% answered "Time Management".
In another survey, which had over 1,000 working moms respond, they found that:
- 74% of us wake up before sunrise
- 21% of us never make our beds in the morning
- 1 in 3 of us spend 9 or more hours at work, our day job, every day!
- 55% of working moms only get 5-6 hours sleep on a weeknight
- A third of us check our work email before we even get out of bed in the morning
- 56% of us never exercise
- 65% or moms are somewhat or very likely to swear at something in the morning – no judgement here!
Janice Windt also touched on the fact that we might still be craving the approval of our parents? It is necessary to figure out what still serves us, and to let go of the why? We are in a specific time-frame/season in our lives! We are doing it for our kids (or NOT!). We can let go of the exterior motives!
We are in our own season! We can decide our intrinsic value and our intrinsic purpose!
We can reap the benefits of our own perspectives!
I am enough!
Janice reminds us that balance does not exist! We need the stress and the challenge to do what we do and pursue our goals. But we also need to de-stress to be able to handle the stress!
Janice uses the following tools to help her cope:
-
Mindjet Mind Manager to organise her life!
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Audible to listen to books while on her way.
- She also tries to go
hands-free every once in a while (cellphone limits!) (Check out
Hands-free Mama blog)
Working Mothers Expo has created a two-hour
Time-Management Make-Over workshop.
Sign up here to be notified:
Time-Management Make-over
What do you do to de-stress?
Related post: Inspiring Lauren de Swardt of Kids Emporium
