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More and more young mothers are trying to be engaged in maternity not only a child. Someone continues to work remotely for a former employer, someone turns his hobby into a business, someone’s activity grows out of motherhood.
Every woman sooner or later faces the choice of how to combine work and family. In this situation, the child often becomes either a reason or an excuse not to do something. He is constantly with his mother, demanding a lot of attention, distracting, crying… How is it possible to still work? I am of the opinion that these are excuses. I live by the principle: whoever wants to, will find opportunities. And children here only motivate us additionally, but do not hinder us in any way. I will try to show you an example of my own.
At one time I was a sales manager. Oh, those cold calls! I was endlessly procrastinating, drinking tea, chatting with colleagues, making up excuses not to pick up the phone. Then, being on maternity leave, I decided to help my spouse with his business. He gave me small tasks, and I carried out… with a squeak. I formed the opinion that work was a daily necessary abuse on myself that had to be accepted as a burden of being an adult and an independent person. That’s how I lived my life.
But one day everything changed because I found my business! I fell in love with my work, I wanted to run to business meetings like the best date of my life, the work hours flew by unnoticed. When I first came to the project I had little Jan in my arms, my mother was not there, and my husband was busy with his work. I had to manage everything with my son, help my husband, run the household. I had a lot of family responsibilities and no helpers at all. It would seem, how could I cram work into this busy schedule?
That’s when I figured it out. If you work “through no way”, you look for hundreds of excuses to postpone the moment when you need to start something, call someone, go somewhere. All this affects both your productivity and the development of your professional qualities. If you don’t like your job, you’ll never get results. But if you enjoy your job, if you have fun doing it, you will always find time for it, you will find a way to develop professionally without detriment to your family, and you will combine your work and home life.
Over time, I have formulated a few tips to help young moms adjust their work schedule.
Look for remote work
There are so many opportunities to work remotely now, and it’s a real salvation for moms. “Remote work allows you to earn money and give time to the family. For example, I solve many working questions at the time when two-year-old Aron is playing with his peers in the sandbox.
Maybe at first this work will not bring in a lot of money, but if you like it, you should not give it up because of criticism from relatives. Let’s try to look at things realistically. Who makes millions right away? Everyone starts small. Today your husband ironic about your attempt to sell a teddy bear stitched at your leisure in Instagram, and tomorrow you already own your own factory of soft toys! It would have been a desire and diligence.
Clearly define the working hours
How many hours a day do you spend on work stuff? The fact is that online work has one disadvantage. You have no one to supervise you but yourself. And this often leads to the fact that when you get to the computer, you start “lingering” in social networks or on YouTube, instead of working. Learn to prioritize – is it more important for you now to watch a TV series or to take a step toward your dreams? My workload at the moment is such that I have completely eliminated watching television from my life – I’ll watch it when I retire. In the meantime, I’d rather spend my free time on my kids, my husband, or promoting my favorite cause.
Learn to plan
Planning work tasks helps me organize my schedule. I make myself a list for the day, sift out and move those tasks that can be done later to subsequent days. And then I arrange them by importance and systematically perform, crossing out each of the items. Thus the terrible idea of “so much stuff, I have no time” get 5-10 tasks that, if not distracted by social networks and soap operas, spent less than half a day.
Delegate
When you reach a certain professional level, the ability to delegate comes to the forefront – to delegate your tasks to other people. Many people think that this is impossible, because no one will do the job better than you. But it is necessary to delegate, otherwise you will continue to dig into small tasks, instead of exploring new horizons. Yes, you will have to take helpers and pay them a salary, but in return you will have more time for yourself, for your family, for the development of your business.
