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What tricks do you have for balancing work life and home life?

What struggles do you face?


Turning Off Work When You Are At Home

I love the idea of setting a timer and actually stopping when it goes off, but I still have a hard time stopping something when I am in the middle of it or responding to the needs of my children when I am trying to get something done.

Hi Lisa,

I love this article. You gave a lot of good tips for moms to use when they are struggling with both work and home life. I had a quiz posted in my forum area regarding balance in your life, with you having such great tips, I would love to see how you score. I would also like to get some additional tips from you on your own personal balance. Thanks for sharing!

Great article Lisa. My biggest struggle is stopping because I love what I do. I've tried setting work hours and the timer and reminders on outlook to take breaks. None of it works very well for me. The only thing that seems to work lately is my son pestering me to go to the pool. He's the reason I stop. I've also been saving my workout until the end of the day so I have to stop by a certain hour or that means I don't get to workout before dinner. Get to being the key words. I love exercise so for me not working out is not an option.

That's actually a great motivator, Monica. I never thought of that - saving the workout until the end of the day. I have to wake up at 4:30 or 5:00am to workout or I won't get it in. My children are home before dinner and that's crush time. After dinner? I'm way too tired to do anything.

But, saving something to "reward" yourself with is a good motivator to stop "working", however that's defined.


Tuculia -
I was an 11 on the work/balance quiz. I saw that quiz, thought I took it before, guess I didn't. I'm weeks ahead in my writing so I thought it was funny that you posted that quiz and then my article came out.
What's funny is - I don't "really work". I was thinking about my writing and my volunteer positions at the boys' school as my "work".

I work very hard to stay balanced in all areas of my life but realize that we don't stay in balance for very long. If you're completely balanced, then you're done. There is always something to work on. I guess it's more like a pendulum and being aware of what side you need to be leaning toward at any given moment.