*** The Balancing Act Of A Working Mom's Life (Tips those work for me) ***

I am a full time working mother and my son is now 5. With my husband's tremendous support, I was able to resume my work post-delivery despite there were many challenges. However, the first two years were really tough for us as a family. We all know that nurturing a small baby is testing work. A person's full-day get consumed in keeping the baby sane and happy. And as the primary caregiver, the mother is supposed to give her full attention to the baby with carrying her other usual duties. In my case, I was answerable to my still-small baby, a challenging new work at the office, my house and the society who was there to judge me every second. Howbeit, I kept on learning and kept on improving.

I love both my family and my job. Thus work-life balance is such an important word in my life. Though I feel "Balance" is such a subjective term. Its meaning says "an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady". In my 5 years of motherhood survival, I found one can never evenly distribute weight among different things in hand. The only way to sail through multitasking and concentrating amid distractions is deciding the priority of each and every need. It is not that easy but practice makes one perfect.

Let me put a situation when deciding priority gets really tough. A day when it is really important to be in office but on the same day your child gets sick with a high fever. However, as I said it is continuous learning that needs to keep changing the priority of requirements based on their urgency and importance and finding alternate ways to manage the plot.

Here I am sharing some of the tips that work for me. Hope they would also help you in mastering the balancing act:

1. Make a schedule for your daily routine and give first priority to good sleep. When your body feels capable, everything is achievable.

2. Don't try to be a perfectionist. Go easy on you and on others. Plot some personal time and take breaks whenever possible to spend with family.

3. Start noting down your dues and duties in a diary. This helps in setting priority.

4. Delegate work. Hire household and share responsibilities among family members. Count your kids also when sharing the load.

5. Prioritize your time in these buckets: Urgent and important, Important but not urgent, urgent but not important, Neither urgent nor important. Execute accordingly.

6. Always keep your spouse aware of your worries and low points. If he is ready to share responsibilities with you, life becomes a lot easier.

7. Plan your day and weeks if possible. Decide the kitchen menu, kid lunch box items, your attire for the office, etc for the whole week on every Sunday.

8. Keep your boss/manager aware that some days you may need to work from home. Have a good internet connection at home so that you can resume work from home based on need.

9. Also, discuss and take your boss/manager's consent on coming early and leaving timely (based on office working hour policy) plan. This will give you time to spend with family in the evening.

10. Have a good phone and all productivity apps in that. You should be able to take office calls from the phone with being able to order grocery from the phone itself.

11. Self assess your day. Ask yourself what worked today, what did not, what went wrong and how the issue can be fixed.

Do let me know if you connect with points above.
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