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I bet you’ve asked that question before. It’s that thought that time is flying by and you don’t seem to have achieved what you wanted to. I worry sometimes that the days seem to blend into each other because of busyness. Then another week has gone by and before I know it, another year has gone by and there I am, not having done …
You know that feeling of HAVING to do everything around the place? It’s that thought that if you don’t do it, it won’t get done. The feeling that you are responsible for every aspect of home life as well as work and everything in between. My husband says to me all the time: “You don’t have to do everything.” To which I will typically …
Working mums are a conflicted bunch. On one hand, we’re overwhelmed and stressed from the daily juggle but we’re also fulfilled and find the stress worth it. Last year I asked the question: what is life really like for working mums?, and ran a survey to find out. More than 200 women responded to the Business Babies & Balance survey (thank you!) and …
I’m a little tired of the ‘having it all’ conversation. Because the ‘can we or can we not have it all?’ question misses the whole point entirely. It’s the wrong question. The question should be: what needs to change to support women to have the life that they choose? The sticking point isn’t can women have it or not, because that …
Well, some days, it’s like this: you reach for the clothes you had on yesterday because your entire wardrobe is in the dirty clothes basket in a backlog of washing. You wonder if the kids have clean undies on, or any undies at all, and you vow (again) to get some washing done today; the fridge offers up half an avocado, a …
Do you believe you can have it all? Do you think that having it all is the same thing as working yourself to the bone, of taking on more, of juggling extra fast and hard, or always being busy? Maybe you think you do have it all, because you have kids and you work long hours in a position you’ve …
