Your life is not easy work out how you planned. Nothing is more simple. In the morning you will find it difficult to know from the bed that you get already behind schedule. In the evening you get home from work worn out physically and emotionally, with little energy left over for your family.
The seven dwarfs probably said it best: "Go Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Work we do." Americans log more hours on the job than any other comparable country on the planet, with the averageWorkers toiling 44 hours per week.
A study in 1998 by the Family and Work Institute in New York found that nearly 85 percent of today's workforce from day to day has family commitments, and more than three quarters of all married employees have partners that work well.
Working parents are under pressure to divide their loyalties between success at work and the care of their children at home. And their children to adapt this balancing act.
On the whole, parentsLabour still has a lot more hours to even come close to approaching the standard of living they enjoyed just a few decades to come. In families where parents work different shifts, the children can never be their mother and father together. What is more, has now penetrated the work in the home, thanks to the rapid spread of mobile phones, portable computers and e-mail.
After the financial crisis of recent years, many people finally understand that what really counts is time for family and friends,Rest and relaxation, service work and spirituality. So what can we do to give a short career and family in the circus or join foreign legion? These eight suggestions to help you, your act together:
Re-evaluate your priorities. Adopt a boot-camp mentality, which focuses on the fundamentals in the return. This means positioning your needs before your wants. So what if your kids brown-bag peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a week, and you wear the same suit two days in aLine? What is important is that everyone is fed and clean.
Lifestyle choices. Take too much? Keeping Up with the Joneses can be a full time job itself. Thus to say for the moment, no practice, requests for help in school, office and church. Remember, you are not obliged to attend any Rotary Club meeting, or register your children in various activities.
Refine your management skills. Multitask, you probably at work. Sun generalize theplanning skills to map out the next week, both for home and family. This includes meal menus. Creation of a family / work calendar. List of all appointments for each family member in the next seven days and they have to check it daily, so there are no surprises. Notify your office staff, important family responsibilities for several days in advance.
Clarify and delegate responsibilities to home and office. If all goes well, to determine what needs to be done and who should do itCommunication is essential. Decide who makes the beds and who does the laundry. Let you create your children and your spouse with his hand. Remember, the boot camp mentality? Turn your head to the quality here! If possible, the hand of routine tasks at work, an internship or assistant.
Avoid the morning rush. Pull yourself out of your bed at least 90 minutes before leaving work. A few minutes of morning preparation time can prevent skipping the need for last-minute dressing,Breakfast and forgotten tasks. Put everything you need for the day - such as keys, briefcases, purses and school bags - in the same familiar places.
Set your clocks before. It is purely psychological, but setting the clock 10 minutes before can help keep you on schedule.
For transitions. Children's top wishes for Ellen Galinsky book Ask the children are, for parents to be less tired and stressed out at the end ofWorking day. So use your journey time to think about the work and the end of the corridors. Then when you get home, you can focus on your family and your tasks.
Examining corporate policy Does your company offer. Flexible work-life programs such as telecommuting, job sharing, alternative work schedules, compressed work weeks, Employee Assistance Programs, child care or elderly care resources? If so, use it. But if not, you can give carefulRegard to participation in a more family-friendly organization.Above all remember that you can not do everything. Perfection is simply unattainable - you will never get there. But have the strategic planning and the right attitude, you can create a healthy balance between your work and your family.
